KEY SCRIPTURE:1Ti 3:3 KJV Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Dear reader, I wish that we look at this topic one more time. To be greedy is a very serious thing. When greed takes over one’s heart, his conscience is seared. He no longer has any sense of right or wrong. He has no restraining power to keep him from being fair, respectful, or considerate. He would go to any length to satisfy his ego of having whatever money he craves.Anyone  overtaken by greed comes under the control of a demon. When Absalom was possessed with a greed for power or the throne, he was ready to kill his father. He openly slept with his father’s concubines on a rooftop. Could such a person be acting by his normal senses( 2nd Samuel 16:22)? Something else had possessed him.Anyone  with a greed for money has sold his soul to the devil. The bible said Satan entered into Judas to make him betray Jesus( John 13:27)

I wish to add that any man under the power of greed for money can not make it to heaven until he repents and surrenders his life into the Lord’s hand. A senior pastor who is greedy for money does not care about the plight of his associate pastors and their families. He would not pay them adequately or on time. He thinks about the car he wants to buy and so delays paying his workers or associate pastors. There have been certain pastors who have brought  their head pastor to the public domain with baseless accusations, all because  their hearts were overtaken by greed. As I said, greed makes one very heartless and would stop at nothing till they achieve whatever they are craving for.

Dear one if somehow your heart has been overtaken with greed then do not treat it as just one of the wrong ways.It is far worse than you see it.You need to cry unto the Lord to reformat your heart or break that power or control of greed that has taken over your heart.With some of you it is just creeping in, seeking a way to engulf your heart.Make  sure you kill it from growing to fully dominate you.It was greed that made Delilah to deceive Samson to tell her the secret of his strength so she could sell him for money.Greed made king Ahab to allow his wife Jazebel , smear Naboth with wrong accusations so he would be stoned to death( 1 st Kings 21:8-14).Please do all you can to free yourself from greed
A very simple way to help yourself out of greed is to find a senior man of God and  confess that evil desire to him. That wrong desire would quickly run away, even without him praying for you.

Finally, I wish to establish that anyone who has known the impact of the gospel of Jesus or the kingdom should never come under the impact of greed. Through the good news, you are dead with Jesus. He is the one  living or reigning in you. It is not mammon any longer. His reign in you is called the kingdom of God  in your heart. Sin, Satan’s rule, sicknesses, and death are all history. You can now scream through Jesus, I am free. Say to yourself, I refuse to be greedy because that is alien to me.

THOUGHT: THE NEW CREATION CAN NOT BE GREEDY BECAUSE HE IS AN EMBODIMENT OF GOD’S LOVE.

PLEASE SAY THIS, I AM BORN OF GOD, MY OLD NATURE WAS CRUCIFIED WITH JESUS, IT IS  JESUS WHO IS MY LIFE, HE IS VITALLY LIVING IN ME, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GREED TO  RULE ME, JUST AS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR SIN, SICKNESS, OR DEATH TO REIGN OVER ME.IN JESUS I AM FREE.GLORY BE TO GOD.

FURTHER STUDIES

Pro 1:19 KJV “So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.”

Col 1:22 KJV In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;