Finances

P: Lord, how should I focus my writing?

L: I think you have a good start. It isn’t what you set out to write about at this point, it is the fact that you are writing and the fact that you are searching me. In combination, these will lead to what you will end up writing. The devotional idea is good. Stick with that, but don’t focus on it. When you have small insights about Me that are important, write them down, or develop them with Me, and they will end up becoming the devotion of your life.

P: OK, easy enough. Lord, what would You like to say to me today?

L: Do you already feel yourself more at ease, knowing that what you are about is my business? Isn’t that what you wanted? I have already given you good places to start looking, and good avenues of searching my face. You will find me, and I will bless what you are doing. As for finances, yes, you may feel the strain at first. But you need to really learn to live within your budget, and learn to give from it, and when you are blessed, you will be able to bless yet more abundantly.

P: Well, what about your resource? Do I not have access to it?

L: That doesn’t mean to squander your wealth. Patrick, wealth is created by living well, living steadily and living generously with surplus. Purge yourself of having to satisfy fleshly apetites with spending money on them. Your kids depend on this. It is not wrong to have much. But having much requires being able to live with little. Only then do you begin to accumulate things with purpose. That is the point. Otherwise you begin to accumulate idol things that have no lasting purpose, other than to satisfy a hunger for distractions. I want you to focus your life on seeking me and blessing others. This doesn’t mean I want you poor. Absolutely not, because you will have much wealth, but it will be wealth to distribute. Think of Joseph. What wealth he had was only for a time to save my people from destruction. He was in jail with nothing before that, but he handled the affairs of the king with honor and the highest integrity. Learn this skill. Do not think about it in terms of denying yourself things, but focus on those things that are intentional to My purposes, and manage them wisely. Then when your abundance is in your hand, it will multiply instead of being spent.

P: My main concern, Lord is going into more debt. I am trying to get out of it, and taking less hours at work, and not making as much money as I ought to be able to make just seems counterproductive. Will you help me?

L: Remember that I am the Lord of cancelled debts. Your financial situation is nothing serious, not for me. You consider it with severity because you do not see the way out other than through many months and years of paychecks. Ah, but you do not see the plans I have for you. Pay your debts as you can and you will see me work in them. I love you Patrick.