A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things [Ecclesiastes 10:19].
*MONEY ANSWERETH*
When the bible says that money answereth all things, it means that money answereth and that's it's primary job is not to ask but answer. The way money comes to a man is by answering him, there is no other way. That is why he says in Proverbs, ‘labour not to be rich’. Do not ever spend your years trying to be rich because the principle by which money comes into your hand is how to call it and how it responds. There are people in this world to whom money doesn’t answer because they do not know how to call it.
Money is the leading spirit of this world. Many people are engaged in evil because of the spirit of this world, and thus they are so attached to money. Jesus said you cannot serve two masters; God and money. Many people have not tamed their spirits to master money. The wisdom of proverbs teaches that the prosperity of fools will destroy them. In fact, the reason why some might not have money is because God knows that it has the capacity to destroy them. That is an act of grace in itself.
When Paul is speaking about money, he says ‘I know how to be full and how to be abased’. Paul discovered a principle in the gospel that could instruct him when he needed money and he could give as much as he wanted because he was not bound by money. If money is your servant, it answers to your call, but if it be your master, you are consequently it's slave.
*FURTHER STUDY*: Matthew 6:24, Proverbs 1:32
*GOLDEN NUGGET*: If money is your servant, it answers to your call but if it be your master, you are consequently it's slave.
*PRAYER*: Lord we thank you because we are wise. We know how to call money. Money knows how to respond to us. It answers to us. We are its master, it is our servant. We do not serve money. Money serves us. We are not attached to it, it's attached to us. Our attachments are to things eternal and as such by instruction, we know how and when to be full and when to be abased. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
*Excerpt*: Afrostone Q&A- Lumumba Hall.
