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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
Money with a Mission
"Your value in Heaven is worth more than money."
~ Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
After you watch the video and read the study notes on this page, answer these questions here on the Blog mentioned above:
Glorify God with all your wealth, honoring him with your very best, with every increase that comes to you. Then every dimension of your life will overflow with blessings from an uncontainable source of inner joy!
—Proverbs 3:9-10 TPT
DISCUSSION:
Jesus told me that people wouldn’t let Him into their finances. They’ll come and ask for prayer for healing or relationship issues, but when it comes to money, they won’t ask for prayer because it’s too personal. We have to get to a mature place where we can carry the load financially for those who can’t. There are people in the Church that are in need, and we can be of help to them. If you’re in a situation financially, you are not meant to stay there. God has ordained for you to obtain wealth. Part of the problem on the earth is that the church has made it a holy pillar to be poor as if poverty has become something attributed to holiness or godliness. That is not necessarily true. If you talk to a Jewish person, they might think, why would I want to be a Christian? I'm under the blessing of Abraham, and if I want to be under a covenant, it has to be better than the one I'm under, but Paul said that the new covenant is based on better promises. It's a better covenant. Jesus said they wouldn't let me into their finances, but they'll let me into their relationship problems. They'll let me into their issues concerning the devil or healing, but they won't talk to me about money.
We want to be a people that believe the whole Bible. I believe that God wants Christians to own everything. I know that we are strangers in this world, and we're just visiting, but if you have rent to pay and don't pay it, well, guess who you're hurting? You're hurting the person you’re renting from. If you don't pay your electric bill, guess what? They don't care if you're a Christian or not, your lights will go off next month. God wants you to pay your light bill. Why wouldn’t He let you pay your house off, so you don't pay all that money to the bank? Why can't you have a little extra and then help the person down the street who has three kids and no husband, believing for the next meal? Jesus showed me this. He said He wants us to prosper because it helps the whole body. It helps the church to operate and have more outreach. We can do more when people give gifts. It causes us to be able to do more things with what God has asked us to do. I don't go into debt over anything, and as the money comes in, we put it towards projects, but I'm not going to be in debt to anyone.
o How has this discussion affected your mindset about finances and giving?
o Are there areas in your life where you’ve allowed Jesus to have access, but in other areas you have made it off limits to Him? Discuss as a group and allow Him full access in prayer?
ACCOUNTABILITY GOES A LONG WAY
I have never seen anybody stand at a gas pump and try to get gas when they don't have money or a credit card. They don't just stand there and say, I'm a Christian, and I need gas. You have to put your credit card in or pay cash. The pump does not just automatically give you gas.
We have an accountability to uphold, and Christians have gone off the deep end with debt and credit cards. It's a false way to live just to keep buying on credit when God wants to give you the money right there to pay for it. The world system does this so they can entrap you and control you. Your money has a destiny. It's already designated. The Lord told me that all money has a mission, and it has a destiny. Jesus told me to write a book about this, and I don't come at it from just giving to get. I want you to prosper to help others and help to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ and be a good witness to a landlord or someone you're paying money to that you owe. It's a testimony to God when He comes through for you. I know this for a fact that if you pay your bills and you're faithful and accountable, you stand out.
o Discuss the difference between entitlement and accountability.
A COVENANT OF INCREASE
There is a joy that's coming up from within you. It’s bubbling up, and you're not going to be able to contain this. God is saying that there is an increase coming. We see this all through the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, it's understood.
Everybody from the Old Testament that got saved at the time of Jesus came and followed Him. There were Jewish people that put their faith in Messiah, and they got saved. They became believers, but they were Jewish believers. Then Paul and Peter came, and they were sent to the Gentiles. The Gentiles weren't under the same covenant as the Jews, but why would it be that the Gentiles couldn’t prosper, but the Jews could? You have these weird boundaries that don't make any sense, but God wants everyone to prosper at everything they put their hand to because He made man in His image. In the beginning, He said, take dominion and have dominion over everything. Own everything! We used to own everything, but now the devil is the god of this world.
Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
He wants to own everything, and he doesn't want Christians to have anything. If they have everything, he can't control them. Your increase is coming, and your money has a mission. It has an earmark and a destiny.
2 Corinthians 9:7 NLT: You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”
• Paul is saying, I want you to give not for my benefit, but give because it's laid up in your Heavenly account for your benefit.
• An offering shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. It shouldn't take an hour.
• The pressure to give is being applied, and mature saints shouldn't have to be coaxed. Determine what you’re going to provide beforehand so that you’re not manipulated or pushed in any direction.
• Christians should be ready to give because God loves a cheerful giver. They know that God will reward them. Your money is not yours, anyway.
• God gives you the power to get wealth, according to Scripture.
• God was the one who gave power to produce wealth in the Old Testament. In the New Testament and New Covenant, the Holy Spirit is the one who gives you the power to produce wealth.
• Walking in the spirit will cause you to walk in the truth, which means that God wants you to have money to pay your bills and give to others.
He wants you to have more than enough.
• He wants you to have supernatural finances. In the New Testament, money is supernatural. Anything that the devil doesn't have, and a Christian has is supernatural because God gave you the power to have it. God is trusting you.
• After you have paid to provide for your family, believe for more so that you can help somebody else and build up the body of Christ.
• Money is designated. In Heaven, I saw that money has a serial number on it, and God has already designated it to go to a certain place. Money flows through the system of different countries, and God has a mission and something in mind for all the money.
• God doesn't have a printing press in Heaven, so He doesn’t make money, but you are entrusted with money and wealth down here.
• In the Old Testament, we didn't have dollar bills. We had goods, produce, and livestock. They used to barter and trade for goods. Over time it transitioned into coins and dollars.
• When you go to different countries, you don't know the value of money because it's incongruent, so there's room for manipulation.
• We have to come to this place with money where we give it all to God in our hearts and ask the Lord what He wants us to do with it. If you need more money, then you can ask God to help you because He's your provider.
• Money has a destiny, and it has a mission.
DISCUSS:
1. What is it that God has for you that's going to cost more money than what you have coming in.
2. How God gives you provision first and provides for you, and then He
gives you a vision for what to do with it.
3. Accountability and how God trusts us to be responsible with money.
4. How God doesn’t have money in Heaven, but makes use of it here on the Earth. He wants to get money to you so you can help others and build the kingdom.
5. We don't respond out of pressure, but we give what we’ve determined in our hearts to give.
6. Why wouldn’t God want to prosper you? How is it God’s will for you not to pay your bills?
PRAYER:
Father, I pray for the finances coming into all of my family all over the world. Everybody that is participating at Warrior Church; we pray for their finances right now. Jesus, you said that my people need to let me in You said that you want to come into their finances. Jesus, we allow you to come into our finances, and we ask you to increase us according to what you have given us in Revelation and also in trust because we can trust you, Father. But can you trust us? Can you trust us with wealth? Because will we do the right thing with it? So, Lord, we just ask you as we trust you, we ask you to trust us. We ask you to build character in us, to trust us so that we can pass our tests, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
