Wealth EthicsYour Wisdom And Direction For SuccessWealth ethics are essential for creating a wealthy-mindset. It gives wisdom and direction for all avenues of life, including getting out of debt and attaining financial prosperity that will flow into every area of our lives.
While one is awaiting the manifestation of financial prosperity or debt relief, a certain attitude and behavior is necessary.
It’s highly important to keep ones thoughts geared toward Philippians 4:8 which tells us how to think for success, good health, healing, safety, protection, intelligence, wisdom, patience, love, and kindness.
Give those verses your attention because they say everything about who you are today and the amount of success you will have tomorrow. These verses are God's wealth ethics in thought which will lead to wise actions.
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Therefore, you’ll never have to stress or worry over the aspects of your life unless you choose to do so. In fact, Philippians 4:6-7 tells us that we are to be anxious for nothing and instead be thankful as we present our requests to God. We’re also told that His peace will be ours through Jesus Christ. Because people don’t know how to operate in that principle, they have much fear, worry, and doubt over many issues in life, with money being one of the most prominent.
The sad fact is that it’s at the crux of even Christians causing harm to themselves or others for the sake of financial gain. I know because I witnessed it growing up. I was brought in a Christian family, yet many of my relatives cheated others and even bragged about it. I have been told to this day that I was a source of great contention to my family while growing up, but that was only because I wouldwouldn't follow their actions. Having fear of a lack of money or not having enough money to meet a specific standard can indeed lead to destructive behaviors that wouldn’t ordinarily exist with a strong wealth ethic. Negative actions caused by desperation for money are unnecessary because God tells us that He will provide whatever we desire.
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Allowing Desperation To Override God's Wealth Ethics Is Self DestructiveWhen people allow their consciences to become seared or not in tune to what is wrong or right. For example, people who align themselves to those who are bad influences because they believe they have something to offer them they couldn’t accomplish on their own. Another situation is when people manipulate others to take what belongs to them feeling justified for it because those persons have more money and things than they do. This type of mind-set (a lack of wealth ethics) will keep us in a state of never having enough and will destroy our ability to consistently succeed in life on our own merit. And the repercussions can be steep for ourselves and others for perhaps a lifetime. For instance, people marry the wrong person because they believe that he or she offers a great financial benefit to them. Others manipulate people through sob stories or lies to gain material goods and power, while others impose upon family or friends to constantly give them financial support out of arrogance or laziness.
There are those whose wealth ethic is to depend upon government assistance for a regular income throughout their lifetime when they are perfectly able to work. This is all part of a negative wealth ethic from a Biblical point of view that will keep anyone from ever realizing financial true success and prosperity. Other examples people don’t recognize as unethical behavior are: taking supplies from the companies they work for, borrowing money from others without the intention of paying it back, and eating food while grocery shopping without paying for it. This behavior is wrong and will keep anyone from developing a successful mind-set to receive the manifestation of the money desired for increase or to get out of debt. If you fit into any of these categories, don't walk away in disappointment that you've ruined your opportunity with God to prosper financially and in all other areas of your life. See yourself as God sees you and forgive yourself. He looks at you through His grace and compassion. He is a loving God of infinite opportunity to help you develop a good sense of wealth eithics concerning your money. So don't leave, stay and learn how to move forward in your life.
The Work Ethics MythWhen we work hard and for long hours with the belief of becoming financially wealthy, we’re only depriving ourselves from enjoying life, our families and friends. Such thinking only provides us with half a life and a condition of always chasing more money as more money is spent. Worse our debt will only increase to higher proportions because this mind-set leads to an addiction of having more things. Just as soon as you believe you’re satisfying your ego, it desires a new level of lifestyle that will leave you believing you must work even harder. The result of this type of wealth ethic is to allow money to control you instead of the other way around. With God’s approach to money, which helps us see the money behind the money (what we want the money for), we can relax and work at a normal pace with great success. The only hard work you have to accomplish is changing your thinking to God’s thinking. If you’re working hard, it should be by choice not out of a desperate need to have more money. It should be realized, though, that our bodies need rest whether we desire to take it or not. However, working desperately to have more money leads to a fear of never having enough and losing what we already have. So, how do we get in line with God’s thinking to create the money we want without working hard the rest of our lives? By learning to rely upon God’s wealth ethics, you can actually learn to have more money for less hours worked! How is this accomplished? By combining the Law of Reciprocity with the verse in Philippians 4:8 that tells us how to think.
The Law Of Reciprocity: A Practice In Godly Wealth EthicsGod will give an initial measure of seed in our lives, but we must be willing to sow that seed, whether it be for spirit, mind, body or materially into the ground (our hearts or spirits) that it is designated for. When we learn to do this, God will give us more seed. Note: When it comes to our finances, this is wealth ethics at work in our lives for abundance and increase. 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
6. "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9. (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11. Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.”
The promises are clear... as we sow our seed we will find that we will begin to reap! Sow love and you'll reap love. Sow joy and you'll reap joy. Sow money and you'll reap money. Sow bad things and you'll reap bad things!
There's not a lot of detail to consider here. Whatever you sow you will reap. The Bible uses seed to teach because it is a simple principle we can all understand, and after all, it is seed which produces life. It is also the very seeds we sow in our lives that determines what we become and what we have.
The verses above give you access to God's truth for abundance in all things. If you are a student of the Law of Attraction and The Law of Cause and Effect for expecting money to be attracted to you in much the same way, God's principles based upon Biblical scripture goes deeper and causes greater success over your total life. So as a Christian, consider first God's total financial program over a general teaching that is universal.
While it's true that the seeds of faith must be planted in our minds and our hearts, cemented with faith, we must also give the same of what we want. These verses tell us that we must plant seeds for what we want.
This is where the Bible works to make us a whole person through Jesus Christ. If you want more money, sow your seeds of giving. God gives us guidelines of how to give our money, but if you are in debt and have very little money, then your giving must be by other means than financial. You will have to give of yourself in some capacity. You can decide what that is. If you don't know, God will guide you.
Just remember to thank God in all things and be willing to be a giver as well as a receiver through Jesus Christ. Then relax while you watch your debt disappear and the money come to you as if you were a magnet!
In conclusion of the study of wealth ethics, always give God's Word first place when learning new information and never let it take you away from God or give you confusion about who He is and what He says.
Godly wealth ethics will keep you centered on Kingdom living so that you can enjoy a relaxed life while you earn more money.
Click on the links below for more information to help keep your thinking in line with Philippians 4:8.
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