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08 Feb
MenProsperityBy calvaryagchurch

Financial Planning – Week 2

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

 
Planning helps us to focus on doing right
Planning helps us to move in the right direction
Planning helps us to move forward
Planning helps us from being distracted
Planning helps us from turning backwards
 
Our learning from last week is we need money but:
* Don’t allow money to be your master
* Be faithful in handling money
* Do not set your heart upon money
 
This week we will see some more details about financial blessing and planning.
 

Luke 12:16-21 (Rich towards God)
16 Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops? 18 I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there. 19 Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

21 “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

So today we will be learning how to be rich towards God
How to be rich
Matthew 6:19-21 (Bible tells where we should collect treasures)
19 “Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 12:31-34 (Bible tells how to collect treasures in heaven)

“But seek His kingdom, and these things will be provided for you. 32 Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 

Mark 12:41 – 44 (Best way of storing is by giving tithes)
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 12, 2022 @ 5:00 PM – Men’s Revival

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08 Feb
MenProsperityBy calvaryagchurch

Financial Planning – Week 1

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Planning helps us to focus on doing right
Planning helps us to move in the right direction
Planning helps us to move forward
Planning helps us from being distracted
Planning helps us from turning backwards

Moving forward from this week, we will be learning about Financial planning. 
“Money and possessions are the second most referenced topic in the Bible –
money is mentioned more than 800 times – and the message is clear: Nowhere in Scripture is debt viewed in a positive way.”

As men we need to have proper planning for money because money is a great servant but a worst master.

Matthew 6:24
“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

Luke 16:10‭-‬15
Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own? No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.” The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him. And He told them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

Psalm 62:10

Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Our learning from today is we need money but:
* Don’t allow money to be your master
* Be faithful in handling money
* Do not set your heart upon money

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 5, 2022 @ 5:00 PM in Men’s Revival

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08 Feb
MenBy calvaryagchurch

Planning Series – Week 4

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Planning is an important part in anybody’s life.
Without planning no matter what we do, we will be just walking in the wrong direction.

Planning helps us to focus on doing right
Planning helps us to move in the right direction
Planning helps us to move forward
Planning helps us from being distracted
Planning helps us from turning backwards

Proverbs 29:18 
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

David plans to build the temple

2 Samuel 7:1-7
Now it came about, when the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, 2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God remains within the tent.” 3 Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your mind, for the Lord is with you.”

4 But in the same night, the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, 5 “Go and say to My servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Should you build Me a house for My dwelling? 6 For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; rather, I have been moving about in a tent, that is, in a dwelling place. 7 Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

Solomon helps to build the temple David planned

1 Kings 5:1-6
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place, for Hiram had always been friends with David.

2 Solomon sent this message to Hiram: 3 “You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of Yahweh his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the Lord put his enemies under his feet. 4 The Lord my God has now given me rest all around; there is no enemy or crisis. 5 So I plan to build a temple for the name of Yahweh my God, according to what the Lord promised my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the temple for My name.’

6 “Therefore, command that cedars from Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants’ wages according to whatever you say, for you know that not a man among us knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

Benefits of having a plan:
* Plan will help us protect from famine (Joseph)
* Plan will help us protect from our enemies (David and Jonathan)
* Plan will help us from losing the battle
* Plan will help us to build

Sermon Preached by Pas. Naveen John on January 29, 2022 @ 5:00 PM in Men’s Revival

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07 Feb
MenBy calvaryagchurch

Planning Series – Week 3

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Planning is an important part in anybody’s life.
Without planning no matter what we do, we will be just walking in the wrong direction.

Planning helps us to focus on doing right
Planning helps us to move in the right direction
Planning helps us to move forward
Planning helps us from being distracted
Planning helps us from turning backwards

Proverbs 29:18 
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

David plans to build the temple

2 Samuel 7:1-7
Now it came about, when the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, 2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God remains within the tent.” 3 Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your mind, for the Lord is with you.”

4 But in the same night, the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, 5 “Go and say to My servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Should you build Me a house for My dwelling? 6 For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; rather, I have been moving about in a tent, that is, in a dwelling place. 7 Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

David plans to go for war

2 Samuel 18:1-6
 David divided his soldiers into groups of a hundred and groups of a thousand. Then he chose officers to be in command of each group. 2 He sent out one-third of his army under the command of Joab, another third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, and the rest under the command of Ittai from Gath. He told the soldiers, “I’m going into battle with you.”

3 But the soldiers said, “No, don’t go into battle with us! It won’t matter to our enemies if they make us all run away, or even if they kill half of us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. It would be better for you to stay in town and send help if we need it.”

4-6 David said, “All right, if you think I should.”

Then in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, he said, “Joab! Abishai! Ittai! For my sake, be sure that Absalom comes back unharmed.”

 

David stood beside the town gate as his army marched past in groups of a hundred and in groups of a thousand.

Sermon was preached by Pas. Naveen John on January 22, 2022 @ 5:00 PM in Men’s Revival

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07 Feb
MenBy calvaryagchurch

Planning Series – Week 2

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

As men do, we really need to plan.
Let us see from the scriptures what happens when we plan and what happens when we don’t plan.

Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Now there are different kinds of plan:
Noble plans
Wicked plans

Isaiah 32:8
But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.

Psalm 37:12
The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

Genesis 41:33-36 (Plan of Joseph)
33 “So now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this: Let him appoint overseers over the land and take a fifth of the harvest of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. 35 Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food. 36 The food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine that will take place in the land of Egypt. Then the country will not be wiped out by the famine.”

1 Samuel 20:5-9 (Jonathan and David’s plan)
5 So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I’m supposed to sit down and eat with the king. Instead, let me go, and I’ll hide in the field until the third night. 6 If your father misses me at all, say, ‘David urgently requested my permission to quickly go to his town Bethlehem for an annual sacrifice there involving the whole clan.’ 7 If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he becomes angry, you will know he has evil intentions. 8 Deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I have done anything wrong, then kill me yourself; why take me to your father?”

9 “No!” Jonathan responded. “If I ever find out my father has evil intentions against you, wouldn’t I tell you about it?”

 

Sermon was preached by Pas. Naveen John on January 15, 2022 @ 5:00 PM in Men’s Revival 2022

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25 Jan
MenBy calvaryagchurch

Planning Series – Week 1

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Luke 5:36-38
36He also told them a parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, not only will he tear the new, but also the piece from the new garment will not match the old. 37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill, and the skins will be ruined. 38But new wine should be put into fresh wineskins. 

This verse talks about Old and New.
There is a vast difference between old and new.

The verse goes on to tell if we mix old with the new:
There will be a tear
They will not match 
They will burst
It will Spill
It will be ruined.

Does it ring a bell when these terms are spoken because as men we always have been mixing old with the new and many times we have been torn apart and we try to adjust but it does not match and it will burst open and it has spilled and finally it gets ruined.

Many times our plans have been ruined because we tried to match the old with the new.

Next thing we say is that why God took me to ruin
God did not take us to ruin but our own plans and mixing up landed us up in ruins.

As we start 2022 – as men we need to have a plan

Luke 14:28-30

28“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and calculate the cost  to see if he has enough to complete it? 29Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him, 30saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Luke 14:31-33
31“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000? 32If not, while the other is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not say good-bye to  all his possessions  cannot be My disciple.

Proverbs 16:3
Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.

Proverbs 16:9
In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps.

Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John (NJ) on January 8, 2022 @ 5:00 PM in Men’s Meeting

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