minds with God's Word to disconnect from
the world's fi nancial system and connect
to the kingdom-of-God system. They shout
amen on Sunday, but in their everyday life
they still think, talk and act like the world.
James 1:22 warns us not to make that
mistake. It says, "Be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving yourselves"
(NKJV). Christians who are deceived have
a false sense of security. They assume God
will take care of them—fi nancially and in
every other area—just because they're His
children, and don't realize they come under
His care by walking in His ways.
Instead of believing and declaring, as
Psalm 1:3 does, that whatever they do shall
prosper, they go around talking about how
they're "scared to death" they're not going
to make it fi nancially. "I'm afraid I'm going
to lose my job," they say. "If this economy
doesn't turn around and these prices keep
going up, we're not going to make it."
Christians like that don't have any
grounds for security in this life. They
have grounds for security in the next life.
They've received Jesus as their Savior,
so when they die they'll go to heaven. But
they're not going to experience very much
heaven on earth. To experience heaven on
earth we must operate by faith in the Word
of God. For, as 1 John 5:4 says, "This is the
victory that overcometh the world, even our
faith."
You experience victory in your fi nances
by focusing on the promises of provision
in the Bible until you're not afraid anymore
of the fi nancial storms of the world. You
uproot that fear with the Word until it's
been replaced with faith and the peace of
God, and do what He said in the Scriptures
about tithing and giving. Then, when a
fi nancial storm threatens you with lack,
you'll be able to take authority over it just as
Jesus took authority over the storm on the
Sea of Galilee.
You'll be able to say, "According to Malachi
3:10-12, the windows of heaven are open
over my fi nances and lack is rebuked for my
B V O V
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Every time you
get in your car, or
drive up to your
house, or go into
your closet, you
see His abundant
provision and say,
'Thank You, God!'
