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Seven Steps of Friends Monetary Healing

Step 3.   Admit How Rich We Are

Our Father owns everything - in heaven and on earth,
  heart, mind, body and soul
 
Psalms 50:9-12
50: 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

2 Chronicles 7:(12)14   ... the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, ... If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Acts 24:14 (World English Bible,WEB Translation)
But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a [religious] sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets; ...  

a. Gain vs Godliness ; 1 Timothy 6:5-6,11

6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.


b. Materialism, Covetousness And Greed; Ex 20:17; Haba 2:9; Luke 12:11- 23


Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that coveteth (or, gaineth and evil gain) an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Luke 12:11-23
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
12:12   For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
12:13  And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
12:14  And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
12:15   And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
12:16   And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
12:17   And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
12:18  And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
12:19   And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
12:20   But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy (do they require thy soul) soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
12:21   So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
12:22   And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
12:23   The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

c. Contentment, Satisfaction and Wants; Psalms 23:1; 1 Thes 3:7- 12

Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

1 Thessalonians 3:7-12
3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct (or, guide) our way unto you.
3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:



 
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