Zacchaeus had to stretch. He knew how to celebrate the Lord on high. Jesus stood still and said he will stay at his house (Luke 19:1-10). Jesus didn’t come for perfect people, he came to show the way to sinners who have the right attitude. The worst thing to be is to be a sinner who is full of self, nobody can help them; not even God. They have no consecration. They release wicked spirits and that is why the Church is the way it is today.
A pastor who is not empowered comprehensively especially financially will be manipulated. In this ministry, we don’t preach money. God has given us dominion over money to the praise and honour of his name. You must have this dominion and it is based on your relationship with God. How do you connect with money? What value do you place on it? What controls your thinking and your relationship with God? Is it driven by money? What controls you? Are you a money chaser or a God chaser?
Every money chaser will end up as an idolater and that is why I am so angry with the very shallow theology of ‘give me your gold and I will make you a god’. Modern day idolatry is using God to make money.
The Bible says, the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Tim. 6:10). You cannot worship God and mammon, the two are mutually exclusive. One of the things we need to do is to trust God to empower us.
Pray –
- Father, do something new in my life, do something new in my business, do something new in my pocket, do something new in my family, do something new in my ministry in the mighty name of Jesus.
- Lord, move in the fullness of your power and undo everything the adversary has done. Silence the voice of the adversary forever. Give us overwhelming victories over stealing hands and criminals that are on the rampage in the name of Jesus.
- Father in the name of Jesus, move and do something new for the sake of those who have not bowed to the wickedness in the land.
- Terminate the operators of devaluation. Uproot the evil seal of limitation. Utterly destroy the spirit of criminality in the mighty name of Jesus.
- We raise the blood of Jesus against idolatry in the mighty name of Jesus.
TO BE CONTINUED.