How to be rich?Different ways,practical and biblical principles to reveal the Secret to Blessed Wealth

How to be rich?Different ways,practical and biblical principles to reveal the secrets to Blessed Wealth.





⦁ Love of Money and wealth is meaningless…
⦁ Matthew 6:21
⦁ 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

⦁ Ecclesiastes 5:10
⦁ 10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
⦁ Love of money is a root of all kinds of evil
⦁ 1 Timothy 6:10
⦁ 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

⦁ Be free of love of money , be contented
⦁ Hebrews 13:5
⦁ 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
⦁ Pay your debts…
⦁ Romans 13:8
⦁ 8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
⦁ Being righteous is better than wealthy…
⦁ Psalm 37:16-17
⦁ 16 Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; 17 for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
⦁ Earn money with honesty
⦁ Proverbs 13:11
⦁ 11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
⦁ Money cant buy wisdom
⦁ Proverbs 17:16
⦁ 16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?
⦁ Wisdom is better than money…
⦁ Ecclesiastes 7:12
⦁ 12 Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.
⦁ money perish with you
⦁ Acts 8:20
⦁ 20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
⦁ Wealth is deceitful , makes you unfruitful
⦁ Matthew 13:22
⦁ 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
⦁ Don’t extort money…
⦁ Luke 3:14
⦁ 14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.”
⦁ Who can be wealthy?
⦁ Proverbs 10:4
⦁ 4 Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
⦁ Rich could be wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked…
⦁ Revelation 3:17
⦁ 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
⦁ Rich people who will be in misery
⦁ James 5:1-6
⦁ 1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
⦁ Who can give you wealth?
⦁ 1 Samuel 2:7
⦁ 7 The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
⦁ Wisdom and knowledge will be given you added with wealth, possessions and honor
⦁ 2 Chronicles 1:11-12
⦁ 11 God said to Solomon, “Since this is your heart’s desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, 12 therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, possessions and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have.”
⦁ How much should we give to the Lord?
⦁ Mark 12:41-4441 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. 43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
⦁ The kingdom of heaven is like treasure
⦁ Matthew 13:44
⦁ 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
⦁ Choose to serve God over money…
⦁ Matthew 6:24
⦁ 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
⦁ How can you serve God with your money?
⦁ give to the needy secretly...to be rewarded by God
⦁ Matthew 6:1-4
⦁ 1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
⦁ Do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.

⦁ 1 Timothy 6:17-19
⦁ 17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
⦁ do not be hardhearted or tightfisted
⦁ Deuteronomy 15:7
⦁ 7 If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
⦁ Don’t charge interest to your brothers …
⦁ Deuteronomy 23:19
⦁ 19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.
⦁ Help the needy…
⦁ Exodus 22:25
⦁ 25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.
⦁ Helping one another makes all better…
⦁ Acts 4:34
⦁ 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales
⦁ Use your money and resources to serve the Lord…
⦁ Matthew 19:21
⦁ 21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
⦁ Give to the poor
⦁ Luke 12:33
⦁ 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
⦁ Honor the LORD with your wealth…
⦁ Proverbs 3:9
⦁ 9 Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops;
⦁ The Lord will bless you
⦁ Deuteronomy 28:12
⦁ 12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
⦁ Key for over flowing blessings… Give unto the Lord …
⦁ Malachi 3:10
⦁ 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.