{"id":61612,"date":"2023-01-11T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=61612"},"modified":"2023-01-11T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:15:43","slug":"mind-what-your-money-does-or-where-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=61612","title":{"rendered":"Mind what your money does, or…where it goes"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: The Preacher<\/strong><\/p>\n

*1.\u00a0 Money Errands<\/b>*<\/p>\n

Mind the errands on which your money goes, whether sent by you or by a delegate.\u00a0 Mind what your money does, and what others do with it, sometimes.\u00a0 That is one profound lesson from Judas Iscariot.<\/p>\n

*2. The Judas-Receipt<\/b>*<\/p>\n

For a fee of thirty pieces of silver, Judas agreed to facilitate a nocturnal plot for the arrest of Jesus, his Master.\u00a0 He might have imagined that Jesus would vanish before anyone caught Him, as had happened in the past.\u00a0 If it did, then he would not have been to blame for a failure on the side of those who were to do the arrest after he shall have done his part of leading them to Jesus\u2019 prayer hideout.\u00a0 In that case, he would keep \u2018his\u2019 price and theirs would be the loss.\u00a0 It was a smart deal.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that deal fell through.\u00a0 That day, Jesus did not disappear.\u00a0 Suddenly, the shiny coins got too hot to keep, and Judas ran back to his hirers. He threw the money back at them as they were reluctant to receive it.\u00a0 Frustrated, Judas went away to hang himself.<\/p>\n

Those religious leaders, wicked as they were, were careful what they did with the money of Judas.\u00a0 They called it \u201cthe price of blood\u201d (Matthew 27:6).\u00a0 In their own callous hands also, those coins were too hot to handle, so they came up with a plan.\u00a0 Promptly, they purchased a field for burying strangers and other questionable characters.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, the receipt of *their<\/b>* purchase was in the name of Judas.\u00a0 It was they who took the decision; it was they who chose the property; it was they who did the purchase.\u00a0 Judas was never consulted, yet the receipt said, \u201cNow *THIS MAN purchased a field<\/b>* with the reward of iniquity\u201d (Acts 1:18).\u00a0 Judas \u201cpurchased\u201d?\u00a0 How?\u00a0 When?\u00a0 Who could prove that they personally transacted with Judas?\u00a0 None, yet the receipt, according to the spiritual records, bore his name, dead though he already was \u2013 which makes it more curious.<\/p>\n

*3.\u00a0 A Prayer<\/b>*<\/p>\n

May the fire of God burn up any evil receipt of purchase that has been done in your name. May your money never answer to any evil assignment, in Jesus name.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

*4.\u00a0 Mind Your Money<\/b>*<\/p>\n

Some money is still yours even after it has left your hands; be careful what it does.\u00a0 Some money is no longer yours after it has left your hands; you have no control over that.\u00a0 Be careful where your money goes in your name, and be careful what money is forced upon you.\u00a0 Even God is careful both about the offerings He accepts and where His income goes (Deuteronomy 23:18; Leviticus 2:1-2).<\/p>\n

*5.\u00a0 A Name for Your Money<\/b>*<\/p>\n

Monies sometimes carry a spiritual name apart from the name printed on them.\u00a0 Judas\u2019 money had such dual identities.\u00a0 At the natural level, the currency was called \u201cpieces of silver\u201d as we today might have called it dollars or pound sterling or rand or naira or rupees or euro. That is how everyone knew it.\u00a0 At another level where only the religious leaders could discern, it was both \u201cthe price of blood\u201d and \u201cthe reward of iniquity,\u201d thus unfit for a place in the coffers of the holy God.\u00a0 What is the name of the monies in your accounts: \u201cthe price of blood\u201d? or of bribe? or of \u2026?<\/p>\n

*6.\u00a0 Astral Journeys and the Voice of Your Money<\/b>*<\/p>\n

Money not only carries a \u2018currency\u2019 name, sometimes it also has a voice.\u00a0 Of the monies that Cornelius gave as alms, no less than a mighty angel from heaven reported that they had \u201ccome up\u201d and arrived the presence of God; that those alms at that time were standing \u201cbefore God\u201d\u00a0 to do what?\u00a0 They were \u201cup\u201d there \u201cfor a memorial before God\u201d; they were there to speak for the giver before the Judge of all the earth (Acts 10:4).\u00a0 The angel was on the earth in response to their heavenly voice, as demons might also have responded to a person for their gifts at their altar.\u00a0 In other words, money also makes *astral<\/b>* journeys.\u00a0 Thus, while their \u2018bodies\u2019 might still be in some bank account or in someone\u2019s pocket, their \u2018spirit\u2019 has made the psychic trip to stand \u2018before\u2019 a holy or unclean spirit.<\/p>\n

When monies and gifts make such astral trips to \u201cstand\u201d or appear in those celestial or dark courts of spirits, they do not keep quiet.\u00a0 They speak, and they could speak for centuries, like the \u201cgifts\u201d of Abel of which it is said in the book of Hebrews, after over 4,000 years: \u201cand by it he being dead *yet speaketh\u201d<\/b>* (Hebrews 11:4).\u00a0 According to the New Living Translation, \u201cAbel’s offering gave *evidence<\/b>*\u201d for the giver in the Highest Courts of God.\u00a0 Although some Bible translations give the impression that the voice was that of Abel rather than of what he gave, even then it is clear that it was a voice \u2018through\u2019 the \u2018microphone\u2019 of his gifts.<\/p>\n

Some altars give voice and speed to gifts and monies.\u00a0 Be wise.\u00a0 If Abel\u2019s gift on God\u2019s altar was spiritually eloquent, no less would be the gifts on Satanic altars, even when those gifts may have been \u2018carefully\u2019 passed through other \u2018safer\u2019 hands because the willing and \u2018cheerful\u2019 giver does not want to be publicly seen at those dark altars.\u00a0 Altars know whose monies they have.<\/p>\n

In what realms is the \u2018spirit\u2019 of your monies?\u00a0 What is it saying there?\u00a0 Is it speaking for or against you?\u00a0 For how long has it been speaking, and for how many more centuries is it likely to keep speaking?\u00a0 May the wrong and limiting voices be now silenced through the blood of Jesus that \u201cspeaketh better things\u201d (Hebrews 12:24).\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 Mind your monies.<\/p>\n

\u25aa\ufe0e The Preacher can be reached at +2348035115164;+2348035115025; info@thepreacher.info; http:\/\/thepreacherdiary.com\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From: The Preacher *1.\u00a0 Money Errands* Mind the errands on which your money goes, whether sent by you or by a delegate.\u00a0 Mind what your money does, and what others do with it, sometimes.\u00a0 That is one profound lesson from Judas Iscariot. *2. The Judas-Receipt* For a fee of thirty pieces of silver, Judas agreed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[5446,5447,202],"class_list":["post-61612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-abel","tag-judas","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}