FINANCIAL PROBLEMS

GOD WANTS TO BLESS US AND MEET OUR NEEDS. SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT IF A PERSON IS TO BE SPIRITUAL HE HAS TO BE POOR. OTHERS PRESENT THE IDEA THAT IF ONE IS SPIRITUAL HE WILL BE RICH. NEITHER EXTREME IS TRUE IN EVERY CASE. THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE FOR EVERY NEED TO BE MET AND FOR INDIVIDUALS TO PROSPER AND BE BLESSED IN THE LORD.

SOME PERSONS ARE ENTRUSTED WITH GREAT RESOURCES AS THEY SERVE THE LORD. THE BIBLE CONTAINS MANY SUGGESTIONS REGARDING POVERTY, RICHES, GIVING, PROSPERITY, ABUNDANCE, AND FINANCES.

SCRIPTURES CONCERNING FINANCIAL MATTERS:

DO NOT IGNORE INSTRUCTIONS

“POVERTY AND SHAME SHALL BE TO HIM THAT REFUSES INSTRUCTION: BUT HE THAT REGARDETH REPROOF SHALL BE HONORED.” PROVERBS 13:18

BE INDUSTRIOUS

“THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOW BY REASON OF THE COLD; THEREFORE SHALL HE BEG IN HARVEST, AND HAVE NOTHING.” PROVERBS 20:4

“LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY; OPEN THINE EYES, AND THOU SHALT BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD.” PROVERBS 20:13

GOD WILL PROVIDE

“I HAVE BEEN YOUNG, NOW I AM OLD; YET I HAVE I NOT SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN, NOR HIS SEED BEGGING FOR BREAD.” PSALM 37:25

“MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEED ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY JESUS CHRIST.” PHILIPPIANS 4:19

SEEK GOD AND HE WILL BLESS YOU

“WAIT ON THE LORD, AND KEEP HIS WAY, AND HE SHALL EXALT THEE TO INHERIT THE LAND.” PSALM 37:34

“SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.” MATTHEW 6: 33

GOD WANTS TO PROSPER US

“THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF THY MOUTH; BUT THOU SHALT MEDITATE THEREIN DAY AND NIGHT, THAT THOU MAYEST OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN THEREIN: FOR THEN THOU SHALT HAVE GOOD SUCCESS.” JOSHUA 1:8

“BELIEVE IN THE LORD YOUR GOD, SO SHALL YE BE ESTABLISHED: BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS, SO SHALL YE PROSPER.” 2 CHRONICLES 20:20

“IF THEY OBEY AND SERVE HIM, THEY SHALL SPEND THEIR DAYS IN PROSPERITY, AND THEIR YEARS IN PLEASURE.” JOB 36; 11

“HE SHALL BE LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE RIVERS OF WATER, THAT BRINGETH FORTH HIS FRUIT IN HIS SEASON; HIS LEAF ALSO SHALL NOT WITHER; AND WHATSOEVER HE DOETH SHALL PROSPER.” PSALM 1:3

“LET THEM SHOUT FOR JOY, AND BE GLAD, THAT FAVOR MY RIGHTEOUS CAUSE: YEA, LET THEM SAY CONTINUALLY, LET THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED, WHICH HATH PLEASURE IN THE PROSPERITY OF HIS SERVANT.” PSALM 35:27

“I, EVEN I, HAVE SPOKEN; YEA, I HAVE CALLED HIM: I HAVE BROUGHT HIM, AND HE SHALL MAKE HIS WAY PROSPEROUS.” ISAIAH 48:15

“THE DEVIL COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY: I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.” JOHN 10:10

“BELOVED, I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT THOU MAYEST PROSPER AND BE IN GOOD HEALTH, EVEN AS THY SOUL PROSPERETH.” 3 JOHN 2

GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU

“THERE IS THAT SCATTERED, AND YET INCREASES; AND THERE IS THAT WITHHOLDETH MORE THAN IS MEET, BUT IT TENDETH TO POVERTY.”
PROVERBS 11: 24

“HE THAT HATH PITY UPON THE POOR LENDS UNTO THE LORD; AND THAT WHICH HE HATH GIVEN WILL HE PAY HIM AGAIN.” PROVERBS 19:17

“HE THAT GIVETH UNTO THE POOR SHALL NOT LACK; BUT BUT HE THAT HIDETH HIS EYES SHALL HAVE MANY A CURSE.” PROVERBS 28: 27

“GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU; GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, AND SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER, SHALL MEN GIVE INTO YOUR BOSOM. FOR WITH THE SAME MEASURE THAT YE METE WITHAL IT SHALL BE MEASURED TO YOU AGAIN.” LUKE 6:38

“I HAVE SHOWED YOU ALL THINGS, HOW THAT THRU LABORING YE OUGHT TO SUPPORT THE WEAK AND TO REMEMBER THE WORDS OF THE LORD JESUS, HOW HE SAID, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.” ACTS 20:35

“BUT THIS I SAY, HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE WHICH SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY SHALL REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY. EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSED IN HIS HEART, SO LET HIM GIVE; NOT GRUDGINGLY, OR OF NECESSITY: FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER. AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU; THAT YE, ALWAYS HAVING ALL SUFFICIENTLY IN ALL THINGS MAY ABOUND TO EVERY GOOD WORK.” 2 CORINTHIANS’ 9: 6 – 8