WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT WITH OUR MONEY, AS LONG AS OUR HEART IS RIGHT BEFORE GOD.<\/p>\n
Really?
\nAnd what says that our heart is right before God?
\nOUR MONEY DOES!<\/p>\n
So we can’t do whatever we want with our money, even if we say our heart is right before God.
\nEveryone speaking on the story of Jesus telling the rich, young leader to sell everything, give it to the poor, and follow Him—everyone, even Billy Graham, is compelled to give a disclaimer.
\n“Jesus didn’t want his money; He wanted his heart.”
\nThe problem with saying that is something else Jesus said to everyone, “Where your money is, there your heart will be also.”
\nSo God can’t have my heart without having my money.<\/p>\n
A man decided to go to a pastor to unload his troubles, because his life was falling apart.
\nWhen he called to make the appointment, the pastor told him to bring his checkbook.
\nThe man got angry that this pastor was charging for counseling.
\nThe pastor assured him that he was not.
\nWhen they met, the pastor used the man’s checkbook to reveal where his heart was, and where his priorities and problems were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT WITH OUR MONEY, AS LONG AS OUR HEART IS RIGHT BEFORE GOD. Really? And what says that our heart is right before God? OUR MONEY DOES! So we can’t do whatever we want with our money, even if we say our heart is right before God. Everyone speaking on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}