The Power of Money - Money is a Defense

The Power of Money Series

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

You must believe that you deserve to be financially blessed, financially free, and financially wealthy. You have to have the right relationship with money. Then God will give you more.

Money is the defense:

The majority of our problems stems from lack of money.

1. When you have money you will be strong and stop problems (i.e. family, mortgage, utility bills)

2. It brings respect - You have to believe that you have the right to be blessed.

3. It helps your health

4. It answers Family problems.

5. You should want money to leave an inheritance to your children. 

6. Ministries need money - People don't care about how much you know until you show how much you care.

7. It brings protection.

    Ecclesiastes 9:14 -15

   ¹⁴There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and
      built great bulwarks against it:
  ¹⁵Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man
      remembered that same poor man.

Note in vs 15 that though the wise man helped to deliver the city but because he was poor no one remembered him.

Luke 21: 1- 5

¹And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
 ²And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
 ³And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
 ⁴For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

Because she gave her all she even got the attention of Jesus. We can not have a nonchalant attitude when we give an offering to God.

Proverbs 18:16

¹⁶A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

A gift does not mean your talent. Gift in Hebrew is mattan which means a bountiful, liberal person.

8. It will bring you before great men

  Proverbs 14:20

  ²⁰The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

 Believe that God wants to change your financial status. Be careful of what you speak Death and life are in the power of the tongue  (Proverbs 18:21). God wants to give you so much so that you will be a blessing to others.

A few other verses to look at:

Luke 20:25

²⁵And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
 
 1 Timothy 6:10

¹⁰For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Money itself is not evil. It depends on the hands it is in. Money can be used to feed the poor and help the homeless but it can also be used for drug deals and to gamble.

Your change is on its way. You just don't know where it is coming from.