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- 0:03Good morning, Good morning, family guy, Welcome back to the Morning Devotion.
- 0:06Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock and I forgot to put on one
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- 1:03And we're still here. Amen. Glory to God. So let's go for
- 1:07it. Man. Today we're still on this money money issue. God doesn't
- 1:11want me to let go of this money teachings. Amen. These morning DeVos,
- 1:15these Bible studies, if you want to call them that, but they're
- 1:19really snapshots moaning devot devone in sometime in the world of God, for us
- 1:23to stay focused on what God is saying and not what the world is telling
- 1:27us. Amen. The world is teaching our children, teaching trying to rewire
- 1:33their brains, trying to rewire our brains through social media, through platforms that
- 1:37are trying to give us information that's not really it. That's not really it.
- 1:42The information that the world gives you is the It's just like the tip
- 1:49of the iceberg. It's not the truth. It's something that will please our
- 1:55flesh. It won't satisfy you. It won't give you the promm says that
- 2:00God gives us. Amen. It just tries to satisfy our flesh, and
- 2:04they're doing Unfortunately, they're doing a good job at it. So if we're
- 2:07not careful a man, we might fall into those lies and fall for the
- 2:12lies. But the truth is that there are all money standards in the scripture.
- 2:16God talks about money all throughout his scripture, a man of finances,
- 2:21and how we should get it, how we should stay away from trying to
- 2:25get so much of it. You know, it's a balance, there's a
- 2:30balance all through the scriptures. When it comes to money standards. So I'm
- 2:31calling this one money standards here on the Morning Devo, which you bro Sam
- 2:36Lopez a man and let me just get to my notes here and share this
- 2:42out as well. I'm shared it to my story real quick so that way
- 2:45everybody knows I'm a live and also to my group. Thank you so much
- 2:49for everybody who comes through and helps me share this out to as many people
- 2:53as possible. I see what you're doing a man is really helping me out
- 2:57and it's really improving our reach. So thank you so much. So here
- 3:02we go. Part of what we earn, part of what we earn because
- 3:07God gives us the health to gain wealth. Right, So part of what
- 3:10we earn should be given back to God. Right, it's all through the
- 3:16scriptures. We should give it back to God. Why so he could expand
- 3:20it, He could bless it, expand it, multiply it, Amen,
- 3:23and be it could be used for the advancement of the kingdom. Right.
- 3:30Not to build a kingdom. Kingdom of God is not built by human hands,
- 3:36Amen. God builds his kingdom himself. But to expand the reach of
- 3:40the Gospel. Amen. And that's what we should be all on one page
- 3:45about any ministry that preaches the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We should
- 3:50all be connected, Amen, and we should we should share this wealth,
- 3:54and what we earn we should be given back to the Lord. Right.
- 3:57The scripture says that all through can't deny. But here it is is a
- 4:03tithe mandatory? Is a tithe mandatory because I know a lot of people are
- 4:11feel so obligated to the tithe. I have to tithe. I have to
- 4:14do this, I have to do that isn't mandatory. Think about it.
- 4:17And I'm gonna go to the famous scripture. Part of the famous scripture that
- 4:23we always hear when it comes to giving and when it comes to tithing.
- 4:27Yep, you guess the Malachi chapter number three, verse number eight. I'm
- 4:30gonna stay in eight. I'm not gonna go through really the whole thing Malachi
- 4:34three and eight. That's where we're gonna start, because I want us to
- 4:38think this thing out, Amen. I want God to use his word Amen,
- 4:43to teach us money standards. Amen. And of course, since I've
- 4:47been on this money a man, guess what's been attacked in my personal life.
- 4:53My money has been has been attacked. It's almost it's almost like the
- 4:57devourers trying to get to it, trying to discourage me. But I'm like,
- 5:00nope, God has me on his journey with these money standards and these
- 5:05issues of giving, reaping and sowing for a reason or purpose. He's showing
- 5:11me something, Amen, And hopefully he will show you something too, because
- 5:14this word is everlasting. His word is true every single time we read it.
- 5:17Amen. But now, of course it's like anything else. So you
- 5:23want to, you know, learn about patience. Get ready be your patience
- 5:30is going to be tested. You want to learn to have hot, to
- 5:31stay enjoy and be enjoyed all the time. Get ready, your joy is
- 5:35going to be tested. It goes with the flow. Man. But guess
- 5:41what, at the end of it or during it, when we still stay
- 5:45on the word of God and we focus on the author and perfective of our
- 5:48faith, which is the Lord Jesus, we win. We get through it
- 5:51knowing more, we get through it stronger, Amen, And we don't have
- 5:55to be discouraged. Amen. It's coming. Money is always there some people.
- 6:00Money's in the air now, especially with the tech we have right there's
- 6:02money in the air. Literally, you go to a gas station, you
- 6:05go to a store, you could just tap down boop tap your phone on
- 6:10those devices and the money's in the air. It just flows through the air.
- 6:13You don't have to have a lot of money, you know what I'm
- 6:16saying, Like back in the days in your pocket walking around with all this
- 6:19cash. You don't got to do that. The more it's a digital age.
- 6:23But inside that digital age, Amen, it's more it's easier now to
- 6:27be in debt than it was before when we were using paper money. Amen.
- 6:31And God knows all of that. It's not like he's surprised, not
- 6:34like he doesn't know what's going on. Amen. God knows all things.
- 6:38He's omnipresent, all knowing, all powerful. Yet he's a kind spirit.
- 6:42Yet he loves us. And yet he still teaches about money standards. So
- 6:46let's pray first. After we pray, if you have any questions, comments,
- 6:49concerns, or any prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it on a
- 6:53live chat. That's what we're here for, Amen, money standards. Let's
- 6:57pray Father, Thank you Lord God, that whatever we have is given by
- 7:00you, and whatever is good, we know it's from God because you are
- 7:03the only one who is good. So I ask you, Love God,
- 7:05to bless our money situation, show us your money standards. All through your
- 7:12scriptures, Lo God, teach us LogD how to handle, how to earn,
- 7:15how to give, how to reap, how to sow. And thank
- 7:18you, Lord God that you have shown us in your old Covenant the money
- 7:24standards and what you were telling your people then is still relevant to what you're
- 7:28telling your people now, your children. Thank you, Lo God for expanding
- 7:31our reach. Thank you, Lo God for blessing our pockets our money.
- 7:36Thank you, Lord God that even if we don't have seemingly enough according to
- 7:41the world system, if we have You, we have it all. We
- 7:44have everything we need to live this life out of godliness and righteousness. Thank
- 7:47you, Lord God for continually teaching us my way of your Holy Spirit.
- 7:53But I speak I had your protection LogD over our minds, physically, emotionally
- 7:57and spiritually, over every single person connected and listen right now or watching right
- 8:01now, Lord God, that you will bless them financially, spiritually, that
- 8:05physical bodies, our physical bodies will be touched by your hand, your healing
- 8:09hand or strength to our bones and help to our body. Thank you,
- 8:13Lord God that you give us ies to see, ears to listen, and
- 8:16a mouth to speak, the oracles of God, the promises of God over
- 8:20our money, over our finances, over our businesses, over our employees and
- 8:26employers. Thank you, Lord God, that we continue to know that when
- 8:28we speak your word, Lord God, things change, Things happen according to
- 8:33your purpose and according to your plan for our lives. So I speak life
- 8:37over all my financial endeavors and over every single one of my friends and families
- 8:41and their endeavors as well, so that way we all know that you are
- 8:45the King of kings and the Lord of lawyers, and you own everything.
- 8:48And amen, everything that's good is owned by you and given freely to us.
- 8:54And we have the inheritance because someone had to die for us to get
- 8:56this inhaeritance. And Lord God, you yourself came to this earth, died,
- 9:01suffered, and rose again on the third day, and you're alive to
- 9:05this very day, and you said you're coming back. Thank you, Lord
- 9:07God, for your promises over everything in our lives that is good. In
- 9:11Jesus Name, with thanksgiving, I pray this by faith, and all those
- 9:15who agree we say amen and amen. So let's go for it. Take
- 9:18a minute, help me share this out. When we come back, we'll
- 9:20die right into Malachi chapter three, verse number eight. See what the word
- 9:24of God says. Amen, and we'll start from there and we'll keep on
- 9:28going. I'll be right back. Amen. Amen, we're back. So
- 10:52let's go for it. Let's see what the word of God says. A
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- 11:35your convenience, Sister Joanne, I see you, good morning, God blessed
- 11:39you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo, my sister and my friend.
- 11:41Amen, a new day, and God has me on this money. Amen.
- 11:46So we're going to continue talking about it until he changes our focus.
- 11:52Amen. Over here on the Morning Devo. So let's go for It's called
- 11:56money standards. Amen, and listen, I know some way, somehow that
- 12:01we're all connected through finances, whether you're doing good or you're not doing so
- 12:05good, whether you have a lot or you don't have a lot. Amen.
- 12:09But in Christ, in the Kingdom of God, we always have more
- 12:13than enough. It's just that sometimes sometimes it feels like how am I going
- 12:18to get by and day by day living? Right? And as a Kingdom
- 12:22principle, we don't. We're not a slave to the bar, to the
- 12:28lender. Amen. We should be lending out, not on getting from a
- 12:33lender. Right. That's just the way the word and the principles are.
- 12:37But if we're not there yet, Listen, I'm behind in bills. I'm
- 12:41not there yet, Amen, but I know where I'm going. That's the
- 12:43difference between a person who is rich in this world and has supposedly all they
- 12:50need and they're never satisfied, but a person from the Kingdom of God in
- 12:54the Kingdom of God knows that we're at reach. Everything is at reach according
- 12:58to the scriptures. We have what we need, we have mourned than enough.
- 13:01And if it's not manifesting, it's not physically in our hands, and
- 13:05we're not using what God has shown us to use through the scripture, that
- 13:09then we're still waiting. It's on its way. We're not confused, Amen,
- 13:13We're just trying to figure out what we're missing. God's not missing anything,
- 13:18Amen. Is what am I missing? That's how I take it.
- 13:20Amen. And if I'm doing something illegal or wrong, Amen, And then
- 13:26God's gonna show me that He's gonna show me. We're not with wrath and
- 13:28judgment. He's going to show me with kindness because he's a kind and gentle
- 13:33spirit, Amen. And also fear spirit, and also a spirit of God.
- 13:39The Spirit of God, Holy Spirit of God will lead us into all
- 13:41truth, not into all lives, not so all myth, not in all
- 13:46fantasy, but in reality. He will lead us. Amen. And he
- 13:48will show us where the treasure is. The treasure that I know that's in
- 13:52the Word of God, is the Word of God. The treasure that's worth
- 13:56more than silver and gold is his word. Amen, So let's go into
- 14:00it. Let's get into it. Here we go money standards. Malachi chapter
- 14:05three, verse number eight. Amen. And if you follow me, you
- 14:09know that I have issues with how we're saying this to one another, how
- 14:18we're preaching this in the churches. I have an issue with it. God
- 14:22has no issue with it because his word is true. No matter if we
- 14:28preach it wrong, or we say it wrong, or we try to change
- 14:31it, God's word will remain Amen, not my word, but His word
- 14:35will remain. Okay. So Malachai chapter three, verse eight. I'm pretty
- 14:39sure if you're part of a church, or you've been in church for any
- 14:43amount of time, Amen, you've probably heard this scripture from the pulpits all
- 14:48through America on TV, on the radio. You've heard this when it comes
- 14:52to giving and when someone's raising an offering or trying to. Unfortunately, there's
- 14:58a lot of people manipu relating others with scriptures like this, taking away out
- 15:03of context. I'm not going to dive right into the whole chapter. That's
- 15:07why we have the liberty and the privilege to go into the word of God
- 15:11for ourselves and take Malachi chapter three and read the whole thing. But I'm
- 15:15going to stick at verse number eight because God wants to show us something here.
- 15:18Here it is quote, will a man rob God? That's a question,
- 15:24and I believe this is the Lord speaking. Yet you are robbing me?
- 15:31So the question is will a man rob God? Think about it?
- 15:35Is it possible for us to rob God like the Almighty, to rob him,
- 15:41to go into the kingdom and take his stuff? Yet you are robbing
- 15:46me? But you say, in what way have we robbed you? And
- 15:54here's the answer. In tithes and offerings you have with held? So you
- 16:02had, He's saying to the people, you have, but you don't give.
- 16:07You're withholding. And when we withhold what we have to give, Amen,
- 16:12then we're not doing any justice for anybody. God knows what we have.
- 16:18God knows what we can give. But if you're withholding, amen,
- 16:22God says you me are robbing him in tithes and offerings you're withheld. I
- 16:33don't think this means that we could literally take God's stuff. I think this
- 16:38is challenging to our heart. Where's our heart? Where's our money? Standards?
- 16:44Amen? So I want you to think about that. We'll start right
- 16:47there. You could take time today and read the whole chapter of Malachi,
- 16:52chapter three. I just want to start there, to start start with us
- 16:56thinking it's the old covenant, right, I dare to say there's a new
- 17:00covenant, that's a better covenant. Amen. Why because we know that Jesus,
- 17:03a man, came to establish the Kingdom of God. Amen. He
- 17:07didn't come to establish the law. He didn't break the law. He didn't
- 17:11he didn't add to the Lord take away from the law. He fulfilled the
- 17:15law, and the tide became part of the law. And I already hear
- 17:19people saying, but what about Melchizedeck. That was before the law when the
- 17:26tide was given to Melchizedeck. Amen. And that's a whole Bible study.
- 17:30I can't get into it, but let me give you a highlight of it.
- 17:34That was that time that was given to Melchizedec. Amen. It was
- 17:40from the spoils of war. It wasn't from this person giving from his situation.
- 17:48It was from the spoils of war. He gave from the abundance of
- 17:52the spoils of war. Amen. I'll leave that right there. That's a
- 17:56that's a whole thing. A man it's a beautiful study if you look at
- 17:59it. Men, and I've heard the teachings of what tithe is according to
- 18:06the scriptures, and what it was for, who was for, and what
- 18:10it was meant for amen the tithe and how many times people would tie the
- 18:15year. It wasn't every week, ladies and gentlemen, like we're doing it
- 18:21here in America and in the I call it the mainstream churches, every week
- 18:26tithe high tiede tithe. You'll be surprised how it really was in the scriptures
- 18:32and how they would tithe and what they were tied for, and how many
- 18:34times a year they would tithe, and you would see that it wasn't weekly.
- 18:40So we can't. We can if you want to stick to the old
- 18:42Covenant way of doing things, But then that will like kind of like bind
- 18:47us to the law, to the law of the Lord right to love God.
- 18:51We're not under that covenant anymore. I don't know if you understand that
- 18:56we're under the New Covenant. It's just like nowhere around it they go together.
- 19:00Absolutely. I'm always being accused of you're trying to throw away the old
- 19:03Covenant. I can't throw away the old Covenant. Even if I wanted to
- 19:07is there is for purposes for a reason. It's the word of God from
- 19:10Genesis to Revelation, and there's more. Just because it's not in our scriptures
- 19:15doesn't mean that God doesn't have more for us. That's why we have eternal
- 19:18life with him to get more of what he happened, to understand him more.
- 19:23And it'll take eternity, eternity, eternity to get more of God,
- 19:29a man to understand God in a deeper way. But I opened up with
- 19:33the statement, I said, part of what we earn should be given to
- 19:37God. How much is that part? Right? Is the tithe mandatory?
- 19:42I don't know. Let me follow up Malachi three eight with this verse Romans
- 19:48thirteen eight and man and the word of God does not contradict. The word
- 19:52of God is perfectly matched up a man. It goes together. God is
- 19:56not confused. God is not bipolar. God, that is not saying one
- 20:00thing here and another thing there. And there's a whole bunch of contradictions.
- 20:04Like some of the people say, oh, your Bible's full of contradictions.
- 20:08And when I show them the Bible and give them a bible, physical Bible,
- 20:12I said, just show me one, and if they're smart enough,
- 20:15they'll go to some supposedly supposed contradictions. But those supposed contradictions are so explainable
- 20:22that you know, it's impossible for them to really honestly think that's a contradiction
- 20:29when they show you one. But most people, since they don't read the
- 20:32scriptures for themselves, they'll say there's many contradictions because they heard somebody say there's
- 20:37many contradictions. But they can't show me not even one. And they can't
- 20:41show you not even one. Amen. Romans Chapter thirteen, verse number eight.
- 20:48That no debt remain outstanding, So we're supposed to pay our debt,
- 20:52Amen, Kingdom Principal. So I'm behind, So guess what. I'm not
- 20:57following something. I'm off on something somewhere. Amen. Let no debt remain
- 21:04outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another. There it is. Still
- 21:12we're still talking about money. We're still talking about giving, reaping, sowing.
- 21:18Amen, and listen, it's a debt to love one another. For
- 21:22he who loves his fellow man has what has fulfilled the law. Love fulfills
- 21:32the law. Jesus said, the greatest commandment is the same like the Old
- 21:36Covenant says, to love your God with everything you have, soul, body,
- 21:38strength, your mind, everything, Love your God. Don't put another
- 21:44guy in front of the God of heaven and earth. And then love yourself
- 21:48as you love your neighbor. Love your neighbor as you would love yourself.
- 21:53Right, and those two, which is really one, because it's all about
- 22:00love, right, love God, love one another. Amen. Love fulfills
- 22:08the law. And last time I checked in the scripture, what is love?
- 22:14God is love, so that fulfills the law. So this whole thing
- 22:19about I have to tithe, Well, let's love one another. Amen,
- 22:25And you will see that the tithe will fall short in comparison to the New
- 22:30Covenant bracegiving. Amen. Yeah, you could start with the tenth. That's
- 22:37a great place to start. You can start with a tenth. But when
- 22:41you love, Amen, And when we love one another, there should be
- 22:44no lack anywhere, because not only are we sowing seeds of love towards one
- 22:48another, but we're fulfilling the law. Amen, in love, because God
- 22:52is love, and no longer are we obligated in any which way we read
- 22:59it. I think the other day about not being under compulsion, not being
- 23:03pressured into giving, and don't give with a grudge, don't give angrily,
- 23:07don't give like, oh, man, I got to do this again.
- 23:10That's what the law will make you do. A man, if you're trying
- 23:14to follow the law as a matter of fact, all through the scripture,
- 23:17if you break one law, you broke the breaking them all. So if
- 23:21we want to take the tithe Amen and say, well, that's still relevant
- 23:26in the New Covenant Church, and then we got to start taking other other
- 23:30laws too. And the ten that we know of Amen is the Mosaic law,
- 23:37the law of Moses that God gave Moses. But it will actually six
- 23:41hundred and thirteen. So is it to pick and choose then, which law
- 23:47we're going to keep and which law we're going to say, no, that
- 23:49that's not relevant anymore, or we're gonna follow the word of God to where
- 23:53it leads. And the word of God leads to the Lord Jesus, which
- 23:56is the fulfillment of the law. He is the living Word, Amen.
- 24:00And he tells us to love one another. So don't owe anybody anything financially,
- 24:07but let's show love towards one another. And that right there fulfills the
- 24:10law right. We read Tewo Corinthians nine on the other time that we got
- 24:18together, So check that out. You can put that also in here.
- 24:21So handling the Greece, the green stuffs, these are the basics of handling
- 24:26money, the money standards that God has for us. If we go by
- 24:30his standards, Amen, we won't feel obligated. We won't be forced into
- 24:36anything, manipulated into anything. Will be given because we love to give,
- 24:40We love one another. Amen, and the little that we have God can
- 24:42multiply the little Amen. Trying to help our sub missionaries. Amen. My
- 24:47money's being so tight right now. Amen. I had a request from a
- 24:52family member for money, and I'm like, man, okay, this is
- 24:56great. I don't have no problem. Amen. Were giving as long as
- 24:59it's to give, So I am Amen. Seeking out the scriptures. These
- 25:04scriptures are hitting me personally as well. And I hope, I hope these
- 25:08scriptures are making sense to you as well. So it's a soul search.
- 25:11It's a search through the heart. God searches our heart. Amen, He
- 25:17renews our heart, he changes our heart, heman news our mind, he
- 25:19changes our mind. Amen, And we can stay focused on His way of
- 25:25giving and all the cliches and all the other things and all the systems that
- 25:30we've adopted from corporate America. That's where it's from, right, corporate America.
- 25:33We have to we have to have this in line, this in line
- 25:37these processes advertising. I've seen it all and on social media of how to
- 25:42grow your church, how to grow you know, your finances in the church,
- 25:47get more offerings and tithes and all that into the house House of God.
- 25:52But when you look at the scriptures, it's clearer than the systems that
- 25:56we're trying to develop. That's my point. So money standards according to how
- 26:00God wants us to move when it comes to money, Amen, is the
- 26:03best way to go. We started Malachi chapter three, verse number eight.
- 26:07Take time to read the whole chapter for yourself, Amen, and then slide
- 26:11over. Take that that's the word of God, and slide over to the
- 26:14New Covenant in Romans chapter thirteen. Read that whole chapter as well. Amen,
- 26:18and you decide for yourself. Let God speak to your heart when it
- 26:21comes to money and his standards for it. Amen. So I'm out of
- 26:23time, God bless you. I hope and pray that you have received today's
- 26:29morning devo as the Word of God. Amen, Because we did read the
- 26:32Word of God and didn't put too much of my opinion in there for a
- 26:34purpose and a reason. It's not about my opinion, and we did that
- 26:38the other day too. My opinion is not really matter too much when it
- 26:44comes to the Word. It's the Word over my opinion. Amen. So
- 26:47God bless you all, God keep you all, and remember always that God
- 26:51is Good. Peace.