Gospel: Knowing Money (2) By Dr. Paul Enenche

SERVICE OBJECTIVE(S):

1. Understanding why we must know money => the power of money
2. Understanding what our relationship with money should be => the place of money
3. Understanding Kingdom keys to having money => the exploration of money
4. Understanding what to do with money=> the possibilities of money
5. Understanding money traps to avoid => the problems of money

KINGDOM KEYS TO MAKING MONEY – THE EXPLORATION OF MONEY:

4. Be a diligent labourer (Prov. 14:23; Prov. 10:4; Gen, 31:40; Gen. 26:18-22; Prov. 11:16)
   4a. God causes the labourer to see profit
   4b. The Blessing of the Lord is permanently in search of the work of a man’s hands (Deut. 28:8)
   4c. To be slack is to be in lack but to release diligence is to receive abundance (Prov. 10:4)
   4d. Life is never easy for the lazy (Prov. 10:4; Gen, 31:40; Gen. 26:18-22; Prov. 11:16)
   4e. It is strong, forceful and energetic people that receive and retain riches (Prov. 11:16)
5. Maintain financial integrity (Job 1:1, 3; Gen. 39:5-6; Josh. 7:20-21, 24)
   5a. Financial integrity is the way to financial authority (Job 1:1, 3)
   You don’t have to be crooked to succeed (Gen. 39:5-6)
   5b. Financial crookedness is the way to financial wretchedness (Josh. 7:20-21,24)
   5c. Financial transgression can lead to life and destiny abortion (Josh. 7:24-26; 2 Kings 5:25; Matt. 27:3-7)
   5d. What God has not given you does not add anything to you, rather it takes something from you (Gen. 3:1-21)
6. Produce Excellence (Eccl. 9:10; Prov. 22:29; Gen. 41:39-44; 1 Chron. 29:1-5; Dan. 2:46-39)
   6a. Quality attracts both quantity and prosperity (Prov. 22:29; Gen. 41:39-44; 1 Chron. 29:1-5; Dan. 2:46-39)
   6b. To get the best out of life, you must give your very best to life. (Dan. 2:46-49; Matt. 5:14)
   6c. Those who sow average reap obscurity, but those who sow excellence reap eminence.
   If you sow mediocrity you reap obscurity but if you sow quality, you will reap dignity.
   If they are looking for ten of the best in your field and your name does not come up then something is wrong!
   Don’t let your excellence be only in your container (what you wear), let it also be in your content (what you carry)
7. Possess good management (Gen. 2:5; Matt. 25:27-29)
   7a. The Blessing of God is in search of good management
   7b. Bad managers of money lose money to good managers of money (Matt. 25:27-29)
   Money runs away from those who mismanage it in the direction of those who manage it properly
   7c. Waste will always lead to want (Luke 15:13-14)
   Money is always in haste where there is waste
   “I refuse to be a mismanager of resources; Lord, give me the grace to do it well

WHAT DO WE DO WITH MONEY? – THE POSSIBILITIES OF MONEY:

1. Honour God first by fulfilling your covenant obligations (Prov. 3:9-10; 11:24-25; Matt. 6:33; Gen. 14:18-20; Heb. 7:7-8)
2. Maintain a reserve – don’t spend everything (Prov. 21:20; Deut. 28:8)
   The Blessing of God is looking for your storehouse (Deut. 28:8)
   THING TO NOTE ABOUT THE STOREHOUSE:
   i. It is a Faith principle
   ii. It is obedience of Divine command
   iii. It is a strategy against wastefulness
3. Reinvest for returns (Matt. 25:27-29; Gen. 47:19-20, 23-25; 26:12-14)
   3a. Expenditure is not the purpose of money, investment is the purpose of money; you invest
   money then you expend from dividends/profit.
   Don’t meet your need from your seed, meet your need from your returns.
   Anybody putting your life under pressure to be spending raw money on them is not doing your life any good
   3b. Investment is the security of the future (Gen. 26:12-14)
4. Impact in your field or business endeavour must be placed above personal comfort (Prov. 24:27KJV, TLB, NIV)
   4a. Investment is superior to enjoyment
   What you eat, wear drive, and where you live are not as important as what you do
   4b. Impact more than intake guarantees income
   When you correct your mentality you can connect your prosperity
5. Be charitable – remember the poor and the needy (Gen. 12:2-3; Prov. 19:17; Job 29:11-16; Ps. 72:11-14; Gen. 14:14)
   5a. The major reason why God blesses people is to make them blessings to their generation
   If you will not be a blessing don’t expect to be blessed
   5b. To give to the poor is to lend to the Lord, and God cannot owe anybody; He pays with interest (Prov. 19:17; Job 29:11-16; Ps. 72:11-14; Gen. 14:14)

MONEY TRAPS TO AVOID – THE PROBLEMS OF MONEY:

1. Be diligent but never be in a haste to be rich (Prov. 28:20)
   1a. Traps of deceptive investment
   Any return on investment that appears too juicy to be true is likely not true
   HASTE TO BE RICH CAN LEAD TO:
   1a. Traps of deceptive investment
   1b. Stepping into fraud (knowingly or unknowingly)
2. Don’t bite more than you can chew – don’t take up more money pursuits or responsibilities that are beyond both your management capacity and manpower capacity (Prov. 4:25-26)
   Functioning with focus is the key to a financial future
   “Pursue only that which you know you can pursue with focus and deliver with excellence” – Dr Paul Enenche
   “To be drawn in too many directions is to be drawn into exhaustion, frustration and stagnation” – Dr Paul Enenche
   “To pursue too many things all at once is to end with nothing at the end” – Dr Paul Enenche
3. Don’t be in a hurry to show off (Prov. 24:27)
   Don’t be in a hurry to unveil your true capacity; it is not wisdom
   Let there be more to you per time than what people know
4. Don’t lose your humility to prosperity (Prov. 18:23)
   Don’t lose your humanness to money
5. Don’t lose your spirituality to money (Matt. 6:24; 1 Tim. 6:10-11; Matt. 19:23-24; Job 1:1,3; Luke 16:22)
   Any money that will make you reduce your spiritual fire let it go to hell!
6. Don’t lose your name to money (Prov. 22:1; Eccl. 7:1a)
   Your character is superior to your certificate; your character is superior to your connections
   It doesn’t matter what you have, if your name is not good, your future can never be great
   If your name is not good, your future can never be great no matter how talented or gifted you are.
7. Avoid the trap of indebtedness, including the oppression of hired servants (Rom. 13:8; Prov. 22:7; Jam. 5:1-4)
   Indebtedness is an attack on your financial future
   Indebtedness is taking your welfare into your hands and out of the hands of God
   The worst form of debt is the one owed hired servants, employees and labourers.
   Have zero degree allowance for debt
   Any service you cannot pay for do it yourself!
   Within the first 7 days of this 7th month, what you have been pursuing since the beginning of the year shall enter into your hands!
   Within the first 7 days of this 7th month, what the enemy has kept back from you by fraud or any means, is entering into your hands!

PRAYERS
Father, in this 7th month I ask that You will establish Your Kingdom rule and reign in my life, family, destiny, this nation, Nigeria and dethrone the dominion, the reign and rule of the devil. Father, establish it NOW, Lord in Jesus’ Name. (Matt. 6:10)

Father, I ask that You will establish, Your will, plan and purpose and agenda for my life, my destiny, the Church, Dunamis, Our Nation, Nigeria and overthrow every plan, plot and agenda of the enemy in this season Oh LORD in Jesus’ Name

Father, I receive my supply of Divine allocation for the Month of July; I receive for myself, family, the Church, Dunamis. I receive it NOW in Jesus’ Name. (Matt. 6:11, Ps. 68:19)

Father, thank You for this heavy instruction; I receive the grace to maintain character in the area of money; I receive that grace now in Jesus’ Name.

Father, I surrender myself to You – my resources, my life and my all, Lord in Jesus’ Name.

Father, I receive the grace to abide and comply with Your Word I just heard today, Lord in Jesus’ Name.

Father, I receive the grace to do Your will, I surrender to You today, help me Lord to be everything You want me to be. Father, help me to get it right in the financial area, Lord in Jesus’ Name.

JULY 2023 BLESSING SUNDAY DECLARATIONS:
I stand by the prophetic and apostolic mantle of God on my life to declare:

1. The month of July shall favour you!
2. In the month of July you shall experience the blessing of life; every spirit of death is arrested!
3. In the month of July you shall experience the blessing of Divine health; every arrow of sickness is returned back to hell!
4. In the month of July you shall experience the blessing of supernatural strength!
5. In the month of July you shall experience the blessing of peace – battle crisis shall never be your portion!
6. In the month of July you shall experience the blessing for supernatural supplies – scarcity and shortage shall not be your portion!

• In the month of July you shall experience the blessing of Divine preservation – you shall never be the victim of sudden attack!
• Your destiny shall open up!
• Every curse placed upon your life, every generational and ancestral curse is broken!
• Everyone sick in the body, that sickness is cleared out!
• Cancer dies, Poverty dies!

PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:

• I see that premature grave closed!
• I see that storm nullified and the agenda of hell reversed!
• Witchcraft attack in arrested, occultic and water spirit attack is arrested right now!
• That cancer dies right now and that mental condition is over right now!
• Everyone plagued with the spirit of death, any dead relation or loved one looking for you I set that spirit on fire, you shall fulfil your days!
• Those looking for human lives to take shall take their own lives!
• Everyone who is surrounded by witchcraft I declare today they are destroyed by fire!
• Every coffin prepared for you and your loved ones, the coffin is hereby set on fire!
• Every coven that is tying down your destiny, today it is set on fire!