Money's Worth #4 - Understanding Supernatural Debt Cancellation
Read the Scriptures and share around the circle the revelations God has given and how they are adjusting your life. As you answer the questions and describe your process, be as practical and down-to-earth as possible. Discuss the insights you are gaining and how you are applying them in your life; describe what is working and what remains a challenge.
Read the Scriptures and share around the circle the revelations God has given and how they are adjusting your life. As you answer the questions and describe your process, be as practical and down-to-earth as possible. Discuss the insights you are gaining and how you are applying them in your life; describe what is working and what remains a challenge.
scriptures
Luke 4:18-22; Leviticus 25:9-10; 2 Kings 4:1-7; 2 Kings 6:1-7; Matthew 17:24-27; James 2:17; Matthew 9:29; Ephesians 1:3; Colossians 2:14
• Recapping from our lesson last week, debt enslaves us. Quite often, debt comes from a lifestyle of overspending. To get out of debt we must: 1) Stop borrowing; 2) Develop a budget; 3) Work out a plan to pay back creditors; 4) Learn to trust God; 5) Exercise self-discipline as a lifestyle. In essence, curb the impulse to buy and stay within your budget.
• The sixth element to financial freedom is supernatural debt cancellation. God’s provision for our lives goes beyond the wisdom He gives us to be free. God’s character exemplified and personified in Jesus. He was anointed to proclaim the year of Jubilee. He is our Jubilee. Mortgaged land returns to its owner Debts are forgiven. And slaves of those debts are set free, supernaturally.
• We are accountable for complying with the terms and conditions of all our obligations, including taxes. There is no passivity in faith. Supernatural provision occurs even in your simple compliance with your obligations because He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Watch God provide wisdom for every area of our life to multiply provision for your home. Work to be a blessing to others and God’s faithfulness will manifest in His supernatural provision. Trust Him. Delight in Him.
• Believing God for our finances includes doing what we’re required to do, knowing that God will do what only He can do. Give God whatever little you may have and the principle of multiplication will kick-in for God to do the rest. Sow seed and ask God to multiply the seed sown. Look to God to bring change, according to your level of faith. Faith is the bridge that connects the physical realm to the spiritual realm. The resources of the Kingdom of God are stored in the spiritual realm and reserved for specifically for you.
Discussion
1. Are there areas in your finances that you have to apply your natural resources and abilities and expect God to intervene supernaturally to meet your needs?
2. Relate a time(s) in your life when you had to rely on God to move supernaturally to provide for you and your family. What did you have to do first to watch God move?
Money's Worth #3 - Breaking the Spirit of Debt
Read the Scriptures and share around the circle the revelations God has given and how they are adjusting your life. As you answer the questions and describe your process, be as practical and down-to-earth as possible. Discuss the insights you are gaining and how you are applying them in your life; describe what is working and what remains a challenge.
MONEY’S WORTH #3 – BREAKING THE SPIRIT OF DEBT
Pastor Richard West March 17, 2019
Read the Scriptures and share around the circle the revelations God has given and how they are adjusting your life. As you answer the questions and describe your process, be as practical and down-to-earth as possible. Discuss the insights you are gaining and how you are applying them in your life; describe what is working and what remains a challenge.
Read: Luke 16:11-12; Romans 13:7-8; Phil.4:11-13; Psalms 37:21; Ecc. 5:4; Lev. 25:9-10; Luke 4:18-22; Gal. 3:13,
16; Deut. 8:18; Deut. 28:1-14; Exodus 3:22.
• Money and how we use it is a major theme in the Bible – referenced 2,300 times in the Scriptures
• The Scriptures tell us that if we struggle in handling earthly resources like money how can God entrust us with spiritual or heavenly resources that are vital for His Kingdom. Therefore, we are stewards of what belongs to God. He is Lord even over our money.
• We are instructed in the Scriptures to have no debt other than the debt of loving each other in the Body of Christ.
• We live in a consumer society in which debt is considered normal and an expected part of our lives. But God wants to break the spirit of debt and its bondage on our lives.
• Savings is seen in Scripture as a “storehouse principle” that will help us break the bondage of debt in our lives and release God’s blessing. Joseph saved for 7 years to prepare for the “rainy day” of famine and as a result saved a nation. The book of Proverbs teaches us 7 ways in which to invest which shows us that having a mindset of savings is a Biblical principle.
• Credit card debt is a tool the enemy uses to keep us in the bondage of debt that often leads into aspects of poverty in which we spend and live beyond our means. “We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” We all need at some time in our lives to have “plastic surgery” – freedom from credit cards and debt.
• Like Paul, we all need to learn to be satisfied in all things, whether in lack or in abundance through the power given to us by Christ.
• In dealing with debt in our lives, Step 1 create a zero-based budget – live within your budget and don’t become a slave through borrowing. With this don’t co-sign on loans and when and if you do borrow make sure that you pay back what you owe. Step 2 – take hold of the anointing given to us by Christ to break the bondage of debt in our lives and proclaim the year of freedom (Jubilee). Seize the blessing of the Abrahamic covenant given to us and its blessings in which we can inherit all the promises of the Kingdom.
Questions
1. Are you experiencing or had experienced times in your life in which you were under the
bondage of debt?
Has God provided hope in these areas of your life in which you can experience His freedom and provision in your life?
2. Are there practical steps that you learned from the message on debt that you can immediate apply to your life and that of your family?
3. What really stood out to you in Sunday’s message? What did God reveal to you?
Money's Worth #1
Read the Scriptures and questions out loud and discuss what God has revealed to you. Talk about how this may apply to you. Give examples of what God has done specifically in your life. As you share, let the Holy Spirit renew your mind and transform you to a new way of living.
Read the Scriptures and questions out loud and discuss what God has revealed to you. Talk about how this may apply to you. Give examples of what God has done specifically in your life. As you share, let the Holy Spirit renew your mind and transform you to a new way of living.
Scriptures
Haggai 2:8; Matthew 6:24, 25-26, 28, 32-34 and 5:45; lTim. 6:6-10, 25-34; Genesis 8:22; Mark 11:12-25; Romans 1:19-20
• Money is the currency of the world's system. It is how buying and selling works in the world we live. Most cultures in the world have a currency that enables them to make an exchange for goods and services. Money is a tool and the good and evil that comes from money is dependent on the heart of the one who uses it and the purpose one uses it for.
• As believers, we need to understand the value of money and use it according to God's standard. Otherwise, we will fail to see money's true biblical worth. Jesus taught a lot regarding money's worth and the benefits that we will reap when we use money for His Kingdom. In 16 of the 38 parables, Jesus teaches us how to handle money and possessions. This is not because Jesus needed other people's money because the truth is He already owns it all!
• Jesus said you cannot serve God and money. According to the scripture, God knows that you need food and shelter. He provides these necessities to both the just and the unjust. Notice He says that the gentiles seek after these things not the believer.
• As a church, we have taken the principle of sowing and reaping as the only source of God's provision. Yet, the Lord shows us that He is able to supply the believer far beyond the law of sowing and reaping, if we have faith to believe. Now that does not mean we get away from the law of sowing and reaping because this law governs the earth. Jesus is teaching us that a higher law is available for the believer.
• Jesus is Lord over the Sabbath. The law of the Sabbath applied to every Jew; but, Jesus brought higher laws. Specifically, His Lordship brings Kingdom reign. He is Lord of the Sabbath and also Lord of the harvest. He could demand a harvest at any time and it had to happen. Jesus is introducing us to the rule and reign of His Kingdom.
• Jesus commands us to seek first the Kingdom of God above everything else. The moment the Kingdom of God becomes first place in our heart, then God Himself provides His supernatural provision. When we take care of the Kingdom God, He will take care of us above and beyond. This is the reason why this type of believing and thinking is higher than the law of seed, time, and harvest.
Discussion
1) What really stood out to you from Sunday's message? What did God reveal to you?
2) How can we take what God says about provision and put it into our daily practice in life?