"His plans and purposes for you are way beyond what you can imagine. To experience them you will need to learn to overcome in all things financial."

"Those forty days after Jesus was raised from the dead and before He ascended to heaven were very strategic days of training and preparation for the 11 apostles and all the other disciples and apostles who would help birth and lead the early church."

The love of money causes people to do awful things to others, even those close to them. But it is equally true that money and lots of it is vital to expand God’s kingdom purposes on the earth, which includes meeting the needs of your family and extended family.

I have to say this is where the secular money managers are often blind. They do not understand how the ability to make wealth is one thing; but the ability to keep it and use it appropriately is quite another.

A surprising number of Jesus’s parables have to do with our stewarding of what He has entrusted to us. His purpose for we believers is to free us from all of the things that would keep us from stewarding His money and material possessions well, and thus reaping the blessing of such.

"...God cares about our cities, and sees them as cities, and will judge them as cities; and knowing I need to have more of His heart for my city; and knowing that He calls us as His church to intercede for "...kings and all who are in authority..." (I Timothy 2:1,2) I developed a prayer tool for myself and for the folks in our congregation..."

"Paul was not afraid of Satan, but he greatly respected his power, cunningness and ability to mess with believers. He never let his guard down with the evil one."

"....Satan has plenty of bite. His hatred of us and our God, and Israel and the church is beyond what any of us can fathom. And His cunningness is the same,..."

Unless we are giving ourselves to knowing our God and His will and ways, we can easily observe the prosperity our fathers enjoyed and the apparent blessing of God financially and materially on them and deduct that God was pleased with them. When in fact He was not at all.

“The humble person is not one who thinks meanly of himself, he simply does not think of himself at all.” Andrew Murray