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Your Future Now with Pastor Andre Butler
Don't Make Money Your God
By Pastor Andre Butler
Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded
1 Timothy 6:17
You need to watch yourself when God starts making you rich and you go from driving a modest car to a luxury car, from owning a small house to owning a finer home. You need to watch yourself when you go from wearing decent clothes to wearing finer clothes. You need to watch yourself when you start sticking your chest out and when you start walking into a room a little differently.
When you make money your god and become high and mighty, thinking you’re greater than God because you have money, you are in error. God clearly says in His Word that He wants you to have money, but He does have a problem with money having you. There is a balance that must be maintained.
A Word You Can Live By with Bishop Keith A. Butler
What Naming Revealed
By Bishop Keith A. Butler
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Genesis 2:19
Immediately after God formed Adam’s body from the ground and breathed the breath of life into him, He placed him in His garden and put him to work. One of the first things Adam did was name each animal of the field and bird of the air as God brought them to him.
Adam was naming the animals because he was given all authority to rule on the earth. The world Adam discovered on his first day of existence consisted of three kinds of beings or things: God, the creator; the elemental things God spoke into existence, such as the sun, the stars, and the land; and the creatures God formed from the dust of the earth. As fascinating and as beautiful as the Garden of Eden must have been, God’s plan was not yet complete. For the first time in history, the Creator said that something was “not good.”
God knew all along what He was going to do, but in bringing all the animals to Adam for naming, He seemed to be allowing Adam to come to the conclusion that these animals would never fill the special void God had placed in his heart for intimate companionship and completion. God’s solution was to add one more category of creature to the inhabitants of Eden-a unique creation taken from the deepest core of man’s being who would bear evidence of God’s most delicate and refining touch at the culmination of the final day of creation.
Prayer for Today
Father,
You have called me by name, and you place your love and promise on me. You know me inside and out. Thank you for providing me with all things beautiful and good. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Selah: Think on These Things
- Psalm 107:31
- Proverbs 10:22
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