Is money a blessing?

… or  Why  not be afraid of  money..Let’s ask ourselves who the slave is. Let’s look at history, who was a slave? A man dependent on his master, without free will, in principle, such a man lacked freedom. What did granting freedom, release, or abolishing slavery mean? In the Roman Empire, it brought a disposition of power in the first place, freedom meant power that the slave absolutely could not have. The power to freely dispose of my life, the power at my own discretion to submit, to be obedient, the power to choose the environment in which I want to exist and the power to exploit all the possibilities that life brings. What about today’s? In today’s world, people say they are free, but they lack power. The power to submit to the attributes of life to your advantage. I have the power to choose Jesus and to choose for him freely. And so I will. Today, the world offers freedom of destruction and, very often, self-destruction: we choose and do things that ultimately harm us. That’s how the world dictates it. People have become slaves to their own jobs. I have nothing against the work, but the Word of God is clearly speaking out. Let’s open the Lv 23.26-32. Don’t work that day. In these few verses, the Lord explicitly says that he must not work. It’s good, right? The Lord wanted Jews to be clear that they were not slaves. Today, time tells us you have to try harder, you have to work, you’ve got to perform at work. If the Lord 5x stresses that you should be able to free yourself from work, that’s the point. Do you feel cut off from your community from your family? Read 30 verses, maybe he has an explanation for you.

Where’s your freedom? One of the manifestations of freedom we receive from God is the power to forgive each other. I have the freedom to forgive. Amazing. I can angle a broken road, I have the power to fix the broken, I have the power of forgiveness to accept. I can handle it freely. And so I do. That’s freedom. You’re free to do so, and so do you. Freedom does not manifest itself in the possibility of it being disposed of, but freedom exists when it is used. If you don’t follow her, you don’t have it. I know people waiting to act. They’re waiting for them to get green to enter the intersection. But they didn’t notice that the green was still there. You think freedom is in feelings or something? If you got it, you’re great, you’re one. But feelings come down to deed. And if you have them without doing anything, be careful because your feelings are most likely false and are based on nothing. Protect the feelings that emanate from the emptiness.So what is slavery?

When a man does not act according to his will, or when he acts the will which he has not accepted for his. He still has to think about what other people think to say what they want to hear. Maybe you’ve come to such an extreme that, to make you love God, you say what you think God wants to hear, you want to please him, and so you’re most insincere. You don’t go by your heart, you can’t admit it’s not 100 percent. Don’t you realize that God sees his last nooks and cranny?  Keep asking, “Is this God’s will for me to be here? To do this?”” If so, believe in her, accept her as yours, act according to your heart, and you must not be afraid that God will not take care of your needs. Needs – i.e. including money. And that’s what I want to talk about.

God really blessed me in this regard. I’ve already taken a 1,000-year scholarship, very nice money for those times. When I followed school, it was just after the revolution, he wanted to go to England for an evangelical school, so I signed up, even though I required 1500£ he didn’t have tuition fees. I was eventually forgiven for a significant part, and the community helped me. I remember the fresh newlyweds, who would have all the reasons to keep the money, gave me 2000.-, the rosary community gave me all the valuty that had been collected into the church bell during the year, a substantial part of me came out of the Christian Youth Union, where I sent my request only. God wanted to step away from me, and He provided the rest. I can’t remember here how I had a bad conscience that others in school had to pay more, I thought, prayed for money and finally wrote to the Vatican. I wrote to the Prefect for the Evangelism of Nations on the plane that I am studying at an evangelism school, !!! I need money, and I have been told by Cardinal Tom that i can’t see it in #163 my life. But the money wasn’t just that.

In the 93rd minute, Theor. I got into the first job and I knew what an empty account is two weeks before the paycheck, which is to wonder if I can afford to buy a kilo of bananas, etc. I was distressed that I was earning little, and most importantly, I didn’t get the promised salary after three months of probation. I was very unhappy about it, sleeping badly, walking like a meme, living long into the night at work and often when I wanted something to happen, I slept on a sofa bed at work. In the morning, in a sweaty shirt, with circles under my eyes, I passed on the completed statistics, especially at the closing date of the month, and waited for a reward in the form of a higher salary, or at least recognition. I was eager to see that the charts were in front of my boss. I stopped going into the community, maintaining a relationship with a girl who was very exhausted and hurt. My prayer was the prayer of a weary desperate man who only hoped that God would see into his heart and not need his words. But I used to be in for cheap stuff with a friend from an old community, and although I’d already stopped going there, we kept up the “see you’ll see you at the weekend” relationship. We had conversations, sometimes long into the night; You know those conversations lying out of bed until i’m completely dead, the next morning I didn’t remember anything I said. I must say, however, that even though it was a very difficult time, god took care of what I needed, not once did I die of hunger and I still had a roof over my head.

Since I often saw my roommate Ivan reading Scripture, I remember that it was around that time when the Lord spoke to me through one quote: “The Lord loves a generous donor.” It seemed absurd to me that the Lord was telling me, with zero on the bill. One by one, however, I was very eager to make the Lord love me and to feel it. I knew that first, and experienced it in the early days of the He’s. But the emotions passed and I felt arid and ruined. I longed for love from the Lord. And he revealed it to me in a completely different way than I expected. He started taking care of my money. Before that, I got free to take the first step. I think the real ones who started to appear after  that day. That’s when inflation rose dramatically, and I realized that I was still throwing my crown at the church bell, even though prices had risen several times. And, so I started giving more – 5, 10, 20 crowns, I had great reproach, if the church needed it at all, but I wanted to show God that I was generous and I didn’t care about the rest.

After a while, the director at the company sent me on a business trip abroad, and that was dieting, i.e. sticking. Then I was commissioned to draw up a security directive in cooperation with the Foreign Aviation Authority, and that meant another trip, and since the directive went well for the first time without any comments from abroad, the boss gave me a one-off reward and raised a bit of a salary in two to three months. But I still didn’t get what was originally promised to me, but I started to slowly understand something. At the time, UPC opened and contributors were looking for, so I took permanent orders from my so often empty account to pay 400-kora for students. My head shook when I realized how much it was and what I could buy for it. But it became an interesting thing that I never missed that money at the end of the month. I decided to return to service in the old community and when the “Fire” evangelism rally took place in Bratislava, I took responsibility for the interpreting service.

And then came one moment. I remember that since the pilot training was terribly expensive, I gave up hope that I would ever become a professional pilot. I haven’t flown for four years, I’ve had all my licenses and health checkups long ago. My brother stabs me sometimes if I don’t try again. But I didn’t believe it anymore, and I couldn’t put it where I’d take the money. It was enough that God knew. In fact, God saw the desire of my heart and saw that it fit into his plan, he saw that I had liberated myself from the slavery of money, that I could renounce them even though I myself felt their lack. And so one nice spring Sunday afternoon, I walked on foot from Karlovka to Storkto to my girl and i looked at the bright blue sky with the white ribbon of the jet, when in my head clearly the words i can hear in my ears: Glory, there are maybe a million pilots in the world. Why can’t you be one of them? It was a question rather than an order, but one I understood very clearly: it is God’s will to become a pilot. At that point, I came to believe that even though the whole world would stand up against me, I, with God on my side, could do it. I told the girl how I decided and how it happened, but that later led to our breakup because she felt offended that I didn’t include her in the decision-making. It hurt me a lot, but now I see when she’s happily married with one child, that it was good for both of us. And so the money for training sent me a real admirable message. At work, I learned to handle the graphics editor cleverly, and with the help of “power point” I created a project to finance my training, put it in a nice package, put on a suit, grab my hand and start going around businesses. In the meantime, I have come across strong opposition from my direct boss, who has since begun to get out of control, and he has therefore stood up against my unpaid leave of business. Finally, with pressure from colleagues who cheered me on and thus expressed their attitude to leadership, the company even provided me with an account to raise that $5000, which I, as a private person, had no chance of legally getting out of the bank. In the end, it was wrapped up as a training session paid by an employee with private money. I exceptionally received my ticket for free, so training in Dallas could begin. He was of high quality, but to my unpleasant surprise in the middle of the course, an air school accountant told me that my account was already missing money and they stopped guaranteeing me a pre-agreed amount. Later, I learned from other students that it was their usual practice of sourcing extra money from students. I knew if I came home in the middle of the course, no one would give me money at home, it would be my loss and I won’t finish school. I called a friend who had been in America for many years and she advised me to borrow money, but where and from whom? These were very difficult moments, I had to prepare for theoretical pilot exams while spending hours on my knees in prayer. That’s when I clearly understood what it was to have faith in God’s promise. I knew I still had God on my side and that it must be enough for me. And so I started making phone calls, writing faxes, doing black slates at the gas station in the evenings, my instructor offered to teach me for free. And two weeks later, I got a fax machine with very interesting content from a Slovak expatriate from Canada, who I asked for $1500. That he also started from the floor as a cleaner and orange cleaner, that his son also underwent pilot training, to which he had to earn himself and not give him a dollar, but that he sends me half of what I asked for. A burst of joy. It still wasn’t a full amount. A week later, I got a call from Angie, an American, a female friend from a student brigade in Turkey, and she lent me $2,000. I finished the training on the hair, and the Lord also took care of paying off the debts very interestingly: The day before the training was completed, I was hit at the intersection by a car, basically only a few abrasions, but painful of it brought $2500. Because my ticket dropped and I didn’t have a trip home, I sold an airline calculator and bought a plane ticket to New York. That’s where I was looking for work in 20°C frosts. A tile cladding, a waiter at a Chinese restaurant, where I was set off because i fell to the ground among the guests the contents of a tray with dirty plates and then from door to door, from the store to the store I was looking for work. Probably the hardest two weeks of my life. That’s when my unpaid time at home ran out and I got kicked out of Company. Although I had to move from one new York neighborhood to another, I had a place to live again, and the Lord took care of the food, as my new roommate, Italian Massimo, worked in a bakery and had bread abundantly. I was also invited a couple of times on some Sunday sat-in for lunch by an expatriate family, or someone paid me a coffee with a doughnut after church. I remember it was my birthday at the time, and I bought a cookie for one dollar, like a cake, he told a saleswoman what I was celebrating, and she became my only congratulavor that day. I’ve already worked in a Jewish shop, and after a couple of weeks, the owner entrusted me with all-day sales to bring her to the bank. I did my driver’s license and started to walk around New York shipping, which still brought some tip. I enjoyed every dollar as a little boy. I went to donate blood, as I used to in Slovakia, because it still sounded in my ears that the Lord loved a generous donor, and my blood was the only thing I could donate at the time. After three months, I was told by Air Ostrava from the Czech Ave that they needed pilots and i bought a plane ticket home that day. I flew out knowing that the Lord, in addition to the price of time and real friends, taught me the price of money. When I flew to Vienna, I had $5 in my pocket, which I still had to change for shillings because I needed change for the luggage trolley. So I’ve flown poor in terms of money, but with a pilot’s license in my hands. I did it!Finally, even though Air Ostrava gave me a pilot’s salary, which was incomparably higher than my original one in Tatra Air, so because of financial problems, i postponed retraining and worked then for three months on the equipment of passengers at Prague airport. I lived there a wonderful time, when my prayer became even more stabilized and when I returned to regular reading of the Word of God and also to sport, so even physically I felt good again after a long time. Three months later, I was told by the chief pilot of Tatra Air that they were looking for a man and a pilot I knew from the days when I worked there as an official, pushed me through the management of a company that still couldn’t forgive me for leaving the company. The Lord took care of myself so much that in the same company where I sometimes rubbed distress and enjoyed adversity, less than a year later I began to enjoy abundance. Pilot salary, subsistence, paid accommodation. I was looking forward to finally being able to start saving for an apartment. At the bank, I raised a permanent order for UPC to 600. I don’t know how much and to whom I donated all the money. The interesting fact was that I didn’t miss the money, I had more and more of it.

I was looking for opportunities to go abroad, and even in the autumn, 10 months before the bankruptcy of Tatra Air, I took the risky step. I travelled to the Swiss firm Crossair to ask on the spot. I went again with a vivid belief that the Lord is on my side. I came, no one expected me there, I didn’t have any interviews. They were so surprised that the chief pilot, even though he had a different program, spent half an hour talking to me. They didn’t have a plan to recruit second pilots from abroad, but he told me that things could change quickly. So I was leaving with a good feeling that nothing had been achieved, but a step had been made. It wasn’t until a year later that when I left that hastily banged-up interview (it was normally very hard to get to and waiting a long time for an invitation), so the chief pilot came to the secretary and asked her if she saw the pilot who came all the way from Bratislava and she said yes and he asked her to put my request on top of the pile.

My faith grew a lot during that period. I put himself back on duty in the management of the oase. The company got a lot of financial problems, we stopped flying and all of a sudden I had a huge amount of time off. I had time to prepare the community of animators for the summer oase, prayed the house for work and often begged for community prayer at St. Peter’s Cathedral. Martina. At the time, as of 30 June 2004, the commission had not been The company has resigned. July I had free on the oasis and on the third day of the oasis, when the program is celebrating Christmas, so I received a gift from the Lord. He called the chief pilot from Crossair to say they were definitely accepting me and with me other pilots, colleagues from Slovakia, who didn’t even have requests there. I was happy that the Lord blessed others through me.

I have been working in Switzerland for over a year today, I have 33 times my salary than the first one in Slovakia and my donations have increased many times. I live in a rented apartment, I don’t have my own, but I know that when the time comes, the Lord will take care of it.

ľ/ Free will. I’d like to get your attention here. I was talking at the beginning about slavery. Someone realizes their slavery to the lord of this world, and in the panic that snags him to the opposite extreme: he will become a slave to God. But God never wanted it! He never wanted you to become his slave. People without their own will (they say they may no longer have one, they just need to be god) move, live in our neighborhood and meet them every day. God doesn’t want you to lose your will. If you became unfree, you would no longer be what you were originally when God created man. He wants you to be free. He wants his children to become single people. If it wasn’t, God would do enough with the angels. Lack of free will causes a lack of joy. You feel like you’re missing ???  When I look at how the Church portrays some saints, I have a strange feeling. I see some of them here being threatened over what I’m saying right now. Listen, but. It’s like they don’t even have their will, they renounced it, they depersonalised. I don’t think God calls me for that kind of life. Those few saints – how difficult it is to understand their way of faith. Only a few people have been able to live like this, and they seem unsuampable to us. How difficult it is for normal, in ordinary life living people, to understand them. Then we feel how hard it is to catch these “patterns”, how hard it is to be a good Christian and wonder that we are exhausted and that our joy is gone. God doesn’t ask you to do this. I repeat it. This is not what God is asking you to do. He doesn’t want you to think that following him is toblame. Yes, it is the denial of his old self, but rather in walking with Jesus and not behind Jesus and with his tongue on his knees. Its burden is pleasant and certainly does not cause a warped expression on the face. If tired Christians are right, then damn it with such attraction! What do we offer the world when we’re unattractive? I believe that God offers us something that is possible for everyone, not just a few of us.

2/ Two coins. Look at the story of the houser (Mk 12.41-44), who threw her two last coins into the temple’s coffers. It’s about the ability to freely dispose of your money. You think if the douche was without freedom, she’d throw the money in there? You’d find 100 reasons not to throw them in there. Two coins, that is, the kvadrans, were ridiculous money at the time. Almost like nothing. Getting rid of them might sound like a simple thing. But she wanted to get rid of something she had reason to convulse because that was the last thing she had. How many of us, for your good conscience, empty the change from our wallet to the bell?  This was her speech: God I believe you have the ability to give me as much as I really need. And what did God give her? A place in The Scriptures. At least. Very often we subject God to all the areas of our lives that we think are important, but we will keep those that we think are meaningless under our own control. We say, God take all this, but don’t reach out to me for this. It’s just two coins. (It’s just a negligible income, it’s just my phone, it’s just my hobby, it’s just such an innocent magazine…) So we want to downplay the things we want to justify before God. Ask God to show you the “two coins” of your life.

3/ Friendship money. Lk 16,9-15 Hey, can you hear that? Do you hear well with your ears??? To get into the eternal abode, you have to learn to use an unjust mother!!! Creating friendships with whom I want is one of the hallmarks of a free life.  God says: Be good with money. Make them a friend. What does the 15th day of 2016? Verse? That God knows your heart in this case. He knows where you got it. If your heart is fine, you don’t have to worry about money. The world needs Christian entrepreneurs. In fact, it was the entrepreneurs that became one of the first whistleblowers of Christianity. Church communities in Asia Minor, e.g. Ephez, Laodicea, Smyrna and others were built on business trips and who do you think were their inhabitants? Traders. These centres of intellectual and business activity have almost become centres of Christian life. The rich trading centers of their time as Lyon, Marseilles, had as some of the first christian temples built on their territory. Priscila and Akvila made tents, leather items, saddles, belts and clothing components and sold them to the Romans. That also gave them the opportunity to give evidence. Very often they moved to the store, as normal businessmen do today. In Sk 18.2 we read that they were in Rome, then met Paul in Corinth and later moved to Ephesus. Let’s look at 2Sol 3,8-9. Mr. Paul was financially independent (understandably, apparently in addition to staying in prison) and gave himself a role model to others. After a wealthy Christian village, he even organized a fundraiser for the Church of Jerusalem, because Jerusalem Christians initially sold their possessions in euphoria, which later proved to be a noble and impressionable thing, but caused them to leave financially without their own income, resonant to others. Are you worried, as a businessman, that you won’t have anything to pay your taxes on? See in Scripture the story of the denar in the mouth of the fish. If you give God what is God, then God will make sure you have something to give to the emperor. There’s a lot to talk about on this subject, I recommend the book “The Power of Business for God’s Sake”, which translates and I hope it will appear early on our shelves.

4/ Investments. A few principles like giving money. You think there’s a financial crisis in heaven? Have you ever heard of heavenly kingdom actions going down? Or that the rating of eternal life would have a downward trend? Not? Then why are you still hesitating??? Invest in heaven! Start giving first and believe that God sees your needs. Collect treasures in heaven where… Who can finish this? God hates it when it gathers. When money is buried and not in circulation (see parable of talent). Do you remember the story of the rich man who built the mesal? Put your money in circulation! What am I putting my money into? You still have to be able to give yourself a clear answer to that question. Who will they serve my money to??? The Lord taught me the principles of donation and, above all, one principle. Not all those who ask for money need money, too. He taught me to listen to his voice while donating, and it happened multiple times that I donated money to a person who didn’t mention anything, but then confessed that she was in a major financial crisis and that my money was listening to her prayers. I understand that the Lord can give me a gift through me and that I can become a blessing to others. Invest your money in people who do something for God. Invest in your church = in your community, invest in those people who lead you to God. (When I was in Turkey, I met an American law student there, a strong believer, and I asked her why she didn’t want to evangelise 100%. She told me that she has the gift of being a good lawyer, she will earn good money and missionaries, since they can not live from the air, yet someone has to support…) I want to encourage you not to spare on the support of your community, you know well that, for example, you will be able to do so. Braňo works full-time for the Lord and does not have a permanent income. Give yourself the answer to the question: How much do you invest monthly in clothes, how much food and how much does your community cost you a month? How much of your salary? And how much do you get from him? If you give a lot, you can expect a lot. If you’re giving a little, expect a little. If you’re not giving anything – where did you take the rudeness of expecting something? And a very important principle: don’t put gifts under pressure and don’t give gifts that don’t bring you joy.  But remember that joy always comes as an accompanying phenomenon of donation. Keep your joyful heart while donating. So it’s not like, “All right, here’s the money.”

5/ Grateful heart. A few principles on how to receive money. It’s sometimes harder than money to give. If the Lord gives you money (and not just money) through someone, then he will accept it with a grateful heart. I think our tradition is a little bit warped: we think that a person who has more money than we do is obliged to give us his own. I see a little bit of communism in it. When we get a donation, we don’t even thank the donor so often. We take it for granted. The gifted person probably thinks that he received the money directly from God and that the donor was “manipulated” by him, that he had only done his duty. He doesn’t realize that the donor had to give his free consent. Let us also try to understand correctly the quote “Seek the Kingdom of God first and….” That doesn’t mean we don’t ask for money. We don’t just seek out the money and build it as your primary concern.

During the evangelism school, we also learned money to beg. First of all, when you’re praying for money, pray for the donor before you get the money. Give him gratitude, whether it’s your brother in faith, or your boss or a completely unknown man. Secondly, be able to do so, that the donor is not obliged to give you money. He’s doing it as an act of free will. Thirdly, if the donor only donates one crown to you, write him a thank you letter, even if it costs you five crowns. This is a very important principle. Because it depends on you whether the donor will have a willingness to give again, so it depends on you the gift of who God wants to give after you. The donor is a human only, too. Fourth, let the donor know how you used his money and how you manage to “reproduce” it.  I think if Cardinal Tomko and many other good-natured people were sitting here today, they would be happy with their gift. All of this is the consequence of walking in faith and believing the word of God to take care of your material.

The Lord loves a generous donor. Let me tell you something. I’m so loved. I BELIEVE IN IT. Based on one question back on a sunny Sunday, I understood what God’s will was with me, and I stepped up to her. I recognized the Voice of the Lord and went to see him. If you don’t know the answer to the question of what god’s will is in your life, it’s most likely because you don’t ask. But then you’re on the best path to becoming a slave to yourself and the pretenst you have about your life. If you don’t believe that Jesus can take care of your material needs, your money, then you’re their slave. You question that Jesus has prolifedied bread and fish for thousands. Don’t you think a little too much about yourself? You think you’re someone more than the 5,000 who listened to his word? You think he can’t do it for you? If you’re listening to his word, his voice, be sure he can do it. Before you answer the question of whether money is a blessing, say to yourself: Why, if God wants to bless you in all areas of your life (surely you’ve confessed it many times in prayer), should God deny you this blessing? True, if you don’t do it yourself, voluntarily for some good reason (life in a reholiso)

Be aware that you have two options. Become a slave to money, or their master. Either they will serve you or you will serve them. If we take down the money, then their lords will become pagans and we will become their servants. Are you really single in this area? God’s plan is for you to trust that he will take care of your financial needs, to take advantage of your financial opportunities and to become free to money. But watch out! Free does not mean to get rid of or forgo money! What would you say if God told you you were going to become a millionaire? I’m sure most Slovak Catholics would put on a pious mask and say: I don’t need it, I’m going to do it with the little thing I have, or that God doesn’t have to do it at all, that it doesn’t have to be. The mistake is that we’re too sure about what we have, even if it’s a little. And yet God wants to bless the world through you. And you say to him, Oh, God, I don’t want to be rich, that’s a sin. We all suffer from the guilt of owning money, we see them as evil. Yes, it’s bad if you’re addicted to them. We all think we’re not going to go to heaven with money, because it’s easier to walk through a camet with the eyeof a needle than a rich man to get into the Kingdom. Yes, but it’s just the rich guy who thinks he can take it richly with him to bribe you in heaven. Petra. If wealth lies in your open palm, then you don’t have to worry about anything. You know God gave it to you, and God can take it from you. We all think that when Job lost his fortune, it was a curse for him. Quite the contrary: it was a blessing. If God takes it, he’s just to use it. He’s just waiting for your open palm. The Blessed were never worth it: blessed the poor from property, but blessed by the poor with their hearts. If a young man in the gospel had a poor heart, I am convinced that God would not ask him to give up his property.

Before you give God permission to use you as a source of financial blessing, I would urge you to beg God for forgiveness if you had the wrong attitude to money. If you despised them when God offered them to you, when he gave them to you to bless you. Forgiveness for maybe still being their slave, that you’re envivable by envy of keeping your two coins to yourself. Forgiveness for that when you could use the finacies for your own good and the good of others, you rejected them out of false modesty. Express remorse for ingratitude if you took the gifts of others for granted. Thank God for your current financial situation. Open your heart and give him your financial needs. Be God today to bless your finances and make you an instrument of blessing for others. To believe in the gifts he has entrusted to you in this regard. To get a generous heart. Ask God for a generous heart. Accept the position of a free man and confess him as the Lord of his finances. Come 3,9-10 Honor the Lord with your property and (bring him) the primitures of each of your crops, and they will be filled with your barns of God, and your presses will flow through the must. This is probably the key to all your prosperity, and I’ll let you call it the golden verse of this post.