Why Do People Have Such Faith in Money? Even More than in God!

The things that you are saying I agree with. The person that made this post is taking this all to another level. If you read how he answered my comment it is like I put money before anything and that is not the case. Do I worry about money for my husbands medications yes I do that does not mean that I put money before the Lord.

God said I will help those who help themselves. Thank you for your prayers I do have trust in him I have never said that I do not God is the one that is giving me the breath in my body and allowing me to live everyday to do what I have to do. What I am trying to let you know is that you think just because I always have to know where that medication is coming from I am wrong and have no faith in the Lord. Last week my husband had 3 seizures and just about did not come back tell me what was I suppose to do when the foam was coming out of his mouth and I did not have his emergency sugar shot????? Yes I was praying and have faith but he needed that medication they told me if I would not have given him that shot he would have been in a coma and I would have lost him. So it is not as easy as you are making it sound, Yes you have your own things that you need to go through and I am not taking that from you but for me there are things that I have to have in my home. The Lord is foremost in my home and heart and he knows that and that is what matters not someone down the street wondering if I am worthy.

I'm praying for your husband & you, pjnjclyn ... that is, I'm giving you more trust in Him. I guess it's sad that these bodies trust more-money to enable you to get what you need than trust God. It's another curse: trusting ourselves to supply for our needs, we shew God away. When we can't supply for our needs, we don't let ourselves see that God is waiting for us to invite Him back (through Action ... which would look stupid and insane to our worldly eyes).

That's right. So many people miss so much by not seeking God and they forgot that everything will perish, including money and the ones that will remain is you and God..

Money is the blinders-on-a-horse, concealing everything to him except the job he needs to do. God is the spark-of-life that makes the horse able to stand-upright/fuel-his-body/etc. He never sees it, but it's the reason he CAN see what he can.

But 'knowing that' isn't the end. St. James says that to know you should do a thing and then to not go and do it is a sin.

See, you're proving my point; Money-talk is like bathroom-talk---nobody really wants to hear it. Having more faith in God, one would not even CLAIM to have money (good to keep beggars away, as well as living right). One WOULD thank God for whatever one gets (not really even thinking about "how"). Since you went ahead with 'the talk' ... I'm living on about the same amount (except single).

Then you tell me this you live on the same amount and you are alone we are 2 people and my husband takes 3 different types of insuline and if he did not take these daily he would die in less then 24 hours and that is how it is those alone cost more then 300 a month so please do not sit here and make yourself seem like you love God more then anyone else or that you are better then any of us here. I am grateful for what I have everyday but I do not have to sit her and say it God knows what is in my heart and that is what matters. For you to speak the way that you do there is no way that you care as much as you say that you do.

They say that the difference between the people inside a church and the people outside, is that the people inside KNOW they themselves are sinners unworthy of God's mercy. The curse is that the church-goers themselves know that they're in the same boat as the people outside the church---that they're all sharing the same fate (floating or drowning), so they feel compelled to complain when the outsiders' actions rock the boat. Our boat is taking on water (however slowly) because people feel driven to catalog and keep their 'makings.' That's right; rather than throw the dirty diapers overboard, they keep them in order to 'feel like they've earned something.' Since we're 'comparing scars' here, I'll ... no I won't; I've got to draw the line. I'll just explain that--as I'm thankful for a body that formulates the proper amounts of insulin--so you can be thankful for the independence---that people trust you to make all the right decisions with your money.

Yeah! I get it! sorta 'Let the money flow to you as it will (and away from you to build God's glory); but there's nothin` wrong with "understanding how it flows"!'

There we bring up the duality of humanity: existing at-the-same-time in the spiritual and the physical. I like to think our Spirit watches our bodies from Heaven; breathes sweet air through us when we behave (and whatever-kinda-air when we 'misbehave' )

Can you not find an Abundance (Mercy, Wisdom, Joy, Humility etc.) in the Bible and share THAT with needy people?

Thanks for yor reminder. But again it should come out from your heart and power full will rather than your part of duty. I dont want say any thing what i m doing. You can judge my job by referring my comments !

Indeed. 'Tithing for the glory of having tithed' ("I gave at the office ") is not 'giving,' it's more-like 'usury!' That's why I DON'T like churches who 'put out a bulletin' on how the weeks' offerings are spent; the offerings are given "to the glory of God," with faith that they are spent 'as the Lord calls them to be spent.'

Apostle Paul writes about learning to live in poverty AND prosperity all in the joy of the glory of God (Scripture that 'Prosperity Gospel-ers' seem to toss aside at the first promise of abundance). True, money is usually the manifestation of abundance we choose (as it works for us no matter how-saved or -unsaved we may be), but it is not the goal of the Power nor its source! Amen?