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08 Feb

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

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!

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

18 Nov

Bible Study TopicProsperityBy calvaryagchurch

Is it God’s will for me to be prosperous

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

Many have many doubts about prosperity.
Is it really God’s will for me to be prosperous?
Why are the worldly people more prosperous than Christians?

Firstly let us see what was the plan of God for man when He created

Genesis 2:8-14
8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.
9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.
11 The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is the Tigris, which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

When God created:
Curse was not in God’s list for man
Pain was not in God’s list for man
Poverty was not in God’s list for man
lack was not in God’s list for man

If we see the verses, the Garden was huge and it had every kind of tree and four rivers flowed through the garden, Gold, Onyx, bdellium were in that garden.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.

God became sinner so that we can be righteous
In the same way God became poor so that I can be rich.

Rich does not mean we become millionaire and billionaire.
It means that we are more than enough.

Rich means full supply.

3 John 2
Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health physically just as you are spiritually.

Prosperity comes to us:
1. Intention of Heart
2. Walking in Love
3. Tithes

1. Intention of Heart

2 Chronicles 1:8-10
8 And Solomon said to God: “You have shown great and faithful love to my father David, and You have made me king in his place. 9 Lord God, let Your promise to my father David now come true. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. 10 Now grant me wisdom and knowledge so that I may lead these people, for who can judge this great people of Yours?”

God asked Solomon what you want. Solomon did not ask for money.

Our motive should be right when we pray

* Solomon’s Prayer

– Solomon was thankful to God
– His prayer was not for himself but for God and God’s people.

People are not prosperous because of their selfishness.
God does not answer the selfish prayers.

When our motives are pure for God’s work – then God will bless us.
God is not just looking at words but He His looking at His heart.

2 Chronicles 1:11
God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart, and you have not requested riches, wealth, or glory, or for the life of those who hate you, and you have not even requested long life, but you have requested for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king,

In My heart
Our heart is very important when we pray and believe.

God is testifying about Solomon.
Solomon’s heart had a thought about God, God’s work and God’s people

When your heart is right – even the devil cannot hold anything in your life.

2 Chronicles 1:12
wisdom and knowledge are given to you. I will also give you riches, wealth, and glory, unlike what was given to the kings who were before you, or will be given to those after you.”

2. Walking in Love

Galatians 5:14
For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Proverbs 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;
then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

3. Tithes

1. Paying Tithes is not the Law

Abraham paid the tithe before the Law
He paid tithe 400 years before he paid to Melchizedek
Isaac and Jacob paid.
They honoured God with their tithes.
They did not pay out of fear but of love and honour towards God.

2. Jesus spoke about Tithes Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

Is it God’s will to be prosperous and the answer is Yes
Is it God’s will to be prosperous and the answer is Yes
It is God’s will to be prosperous and the answer is Yes