Saturday January 07th, 2023
Memorize: 1 Timothy 6:6 GOD’S WORD® Translation
« A godly life brings huge profits to people who are content with what they have. »
Read: 2 Kings 4:8-17 Good News Translation (GNT)
8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.
9 She said to her husband, “I am sure that this man who comes here so often is a holy man.
10 Let’s build a small room on the roof, put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it, and he can stay there whenever he visits us.”
11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem and went up to his room to rest.
12 He told his servant Gehazi to go and call the woman. When she came,
13 he said to Gehazi, “Ask her what I can do for her in return for all the trouble she has had in providing for our needs. Maybe she would like me to go to the king or the army commander and put in a good word for her.”
“I have all I need here among my own people,” she answered.
14 Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her then?”
He answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is an old man.”
15 “Tell her to come here,” Elisha ordered. She came and stood in the doorway,
16 and Elisha said to her, “By this time next year you will be holding a son in your arms.”
“Oh!” she exclaimed. “Please, sir, don’t lie to me. You are a man of God!”
17 But, as Elisha had said, at about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.
Message:
Money can be a blessing or a trap, depending on one’s attitude towards it.
Money is a powerful weapon against poverty and plays such a vital role in life that Ecclesiastes 10:19 presents it as the answer to all things. It is this great power and influence attached to money that makes financial prosperity the desire of almost every human being.
Contentment however, is an important virtue that money cannot buy.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 teaches that anyone who loves money will never be satisfied with it, and whoever loves wealth will continue to seek more.
I have repeatedly told my children that being wealthy is not evil and there is nothing godly about poverty. A poor person who refuses to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior will end up in hell, while a wealthy person who is born again will surely make it to heaven.
When it comes to money, the real issue for us as Christians is our attitude towards it. Some have become slaves to money. Some also worship money and would do anything to get as much of it as they can.
1 Timothy 6:10 NKJV says:
“For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
I pray for everyone who money has dragged away from God and may be in any kind of sorrow right now: Be delivered today and receive the grace to renew your fellowship with God in the mighty name of Jesus.
Godliness and contentment are gifts from God that money cannot buy.
We must be able to say like Apostle Paul
“….I have learned to be satisfied with what I have.” (Philippians 4:11).
May the Lord break the hold of covetousness over your life and fill you with godliness and contentment in the mighty name of Jesus.
Prayer point: Father, please fill my life with Your blessings that money cannot buy, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Author: Pst E. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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