Day 16 - Darkness

Bible

Read Exodus 10:21-29

Key Verse: Exodus 10:24

Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord; your little ones also may go with you; but leave your flocks and herds here.”

Key Thought

Freedom isn’t freedom until it affects your finances.

The Voice of the Enemy

We’ve lost them. We’ve even lost their children. But before we admit defeat, we’ll take one final shot: Don’t let their newfound freedom affect their finances. It’s a long-term play, you see. If we can keep the humans thinking that they can keep their same financial habits—my personal favorites are keeping them from bringing the full tithe into their local church—we will eventually work our way back and get to their heart and keep them in ever-increasing debt. We have so many good excuses: “That’s an Old-Testament thing,” “The church is just after my money,” “If I tithe I won’t be able to pay the bills.” We’ll use their Father’s own scripture against them: Wherever your money is, there your heart will be also. We keep so many humans bound by this! They experience freedom for a short season, but they never trust God with their tithe. That allows us a in-road, and we make our way back in to their hearts and bring then back to bondage, one paycheck at a time.

The Voice of the Father

My son, my daughter, you have trusted me with your life. You have trusted me with your future. You have trusted me with your family. I am so pleased. Will you now trust me with your finances? I love you with all of my heart. I am a good Father. I want to protect and bless you. I want to provide for you. I want you to live in complete freedom. But you can never live in total freedom until you live in freedom with your finances. Would you test me in this? It’s ok. I actually want you to do this. Test me, return the whole tithe to me and see if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing upon you that you will not be able to contain it.

Questions

Are your finances free? Who is your provider? Will you trust God with your finances?

Are you brining the whole tithe into the storehouse? If not, when will you start? Will you “test God” with this and tithe for 90 days?

Are you in financial captivity because of debt? What if you started today to get free from that bondage?

(for a great place to find Christian financial guidance on breaking the bondage of debt, go to www.daveramsey.com/start)