Jehovah Shalom Is Magnificent
Ladies and Gentlemen, Get on the Winning Team Now!
Creation
I was thinking and reading about how a newborn baby is totally dependent upon his mother during the pregnancy, and after his birth into the world. I am fascinated with the umbilical cord and the placenta. The umbilical cord is thought to be both the physical and emotional connection between mother and fetus. The umbilical cord allows for the transfer of oxygen and nutrients from the maternal circulation into fetal circulation while simultaneously removing waste products from fetal circulation to be eliminated maternally.
When an egg is fertilized, it divides into two components: one becomes the embryo, which develops into the fetus, and the other becomes the placenta, which grows along the lining of the uterus. The umbilical cord develops from embryonic tissue and will grow about 60 centimeters long.
The placenta is attached to the fetus through the umbilical cord, the lifeline between the mother and baby. It contains one vein, carrying oxygenated blood from the placenta to the baby, and two arteries, delivering deoxygenated blood from the baby to the placenta. How marvelous this intricate system works! Only the Creator of the Universe could design and manufacture this elite system of Baby Production.
So, what does this has to do with anything?
EL Shaddai, The Mighty Breasted One, All Sufficient One who takes good care of us. Ladies and Gentlemen stay on the winning team. It is time to yield. The Creator of the Universe will take care of you. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
If My people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 2 Chronicles 7: 14 (NLT)
The just shall live by faith. Man cannot serve God and Mammon. What is the definition of Mammon?
SUMMARY
Jesus did not throw words around, so it is significant that he used the word “mammon” at least four times in the New Testament. When he used it, he did not simply mean money; he deliberately used the word “mammon” to show us what happens when we become attached to money. But mammon’s influence does not just stop with wealth. If we are not vigilant, this spirit will extend to every area of our lives and convince us to trust it instead of God. It tries to motivate us to do more things for it than for God, with the goal of replacing God as the source of what we need. In the book of Exodus, this spirit convinced the people that they did not need God, and its strategy has not changed This evil spirit will deliberately lead us astray and abandon us, but God will always extend his mercy and grace when we need him.
A. Mammon is not money. It is the spirit of deceitful riches that lies to us.
- He who is faithful in that which is least is also faithful in much, and he who is unjust in the least is also unjust in much (Luke 16:10–14).
- Jesus’ parable, as well as the entire chapter, is about a steward who was unfaithful with his master’s goods because he was influenced by mammon.
- The original translation of mammon is “deceitful riches.” Money with the spirit of mammon on it becomes deceitful.
- Money is neither good nor bad; it takes on the spirit of who has it. How it is used depends on whether its owner is under the influence of God or mammon.
- Mammon refers to the desire to pursue wealth as a primary goal in life. The Bible says to seek God first, and everything else will be added (Matthew 6:33).
- The devil took Jesus up to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. He said to him, I will give you all these things if you will fall and worship me (Matthew 4:8, 9).
- Mammon tried to seduce Jesus; there is no reason not to think it would try the same trick with us.
- Whatever mammon offers us is deceitful. Everything from this spirit is designed to fool us into thinking that walking with it will end well, but mammon always leaves us in a pit.
- When Jesus entered Jericho, Zacchaeus climbed a tree to see him as he passed by. Jesus looked up and saw him, and said to Zacchaeus to come down quickly, because he had to stay at his house that day. Jesus then told another parable to teach about the link between money and faithfulness (Luke 19:2–24).
- Zacchaeus first felt the favor of God when Jesus looked up and greeted him.
- Zacchaeus had previously been under the spirit of mammon, but a meeting with Jesus freed him to become a giver.
B. We must be careful not to unwittingly make mammon our god.
- Be careful about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God (Philippians 4:6).
- We are told to be anxious for nothing. Being anxious about our unmet needs is a sign that we worship mammon.
- No one can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and be against the other. You cannot serve God and deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in (Matthew 6:24–32, AMPC).
- We must stop being perpetually uneasy, anxious, and worried.
- Aim at and strive for first his kingdom and righteousness, his way of doing and being right, and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. Do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble (Matthew 6:33, 34, AMPC).
- When we live in the present instead of the future, the Holy Spirit will give us the grace need now.
- We need not fear the future. — — — — — CDM
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
Luke 16:10–14 Luke 19:2–24
Matthew 6:33 Philippians 4:6
Matthew 4:8, 9 Matthew 6:24–34, AMPCaggai
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