The Dialog
God and money: what the Bible says about wealth
What does the Bible actually say about money, wealth and prosperity? Tithing, generosity, the prosperity gospel, poverty mindset and biblical sufficiency, with the Hebrew and Greek words behind them.
Nine episodes from my podcast, The Dialog. Each one is a search for truth where ancient philosophy, history and theology meet modern life.
- Is poverty a mindset? What Jesus told John the Baptist 1.4
I'm convinced it is. Jesus could have ended poverty for everyone. Instead He preached good news to the poor and taught them to think better.
- Who taught you to think the way you think? 1.8
Somebody did: your parents, your culture, your church and everything you've lived through. The test is the fruit. Do you like what that thinking has produced, especially with money?
- How much money does God want you to have? 1.9
More than enough. Not so you can have more than someone else, but so your needs are met and you have enough left over to meet other people's needs.
- Where did your beliefs about money come from? 1.23
Probably not from Scripture. Most of us inherited them and hold them like traditions, and when a belief doesn't line up with the Bible, the belief has to go.
- Are you living what you say you believe? 1.25
Most of us don't lack information. We lack application, and money is where the gap between what we say we believe and how we live shows up first.
- Is manifesting biblical? 1.42
Not the way manifesting is usually taught, because it puts you on the throne. But prayer is Christian manifesting: delight yourself in the Lord, and He changes the desires of your heart.
- Are God and money incompatible? 2.1
No. God isn't an either-or God. He's a both-and God. Why I once thought God and money were incompatible, and how to start with what the Bible actually says about money instead of what you were taught.
- Does God want me to be rich? 2.2
Yes, once you use God's definition of rich, not the culture's. What the Bible actually means by prosperity, from the Hebrew and Greek words to Proverbs 13:22 and 2 Corinthians 9.
- If God wants you rich, why aren't you? 2.3
Because the problem isn't what God says. It's what we believe about what God says. Mark 7, the traditions we inherit about money, and why Jesus couldn't do miracles in His own hometown.
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