{"id":432,"date":"2020-08-30T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T02:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.org\/share\/?p=432"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:21:16","slug":"are-you-in-bondage-to-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/are-you-in-bondage-to-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you in bondage to Debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/elisha-and-the-widows-oil-2-kings-41-7-kjv\/\" target=\"true\">Elisha and the Widow\u2019s Oil \u2013 (2 Kings 4:1-7) KJV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lesson:\u00a0 work with what you have.<\/p>\n<p>Trust God will multiply it if you come to Him in faith.\u00a0 He does not want His children to be in slavery to the bondage of debt.\u00a0 But we have to put Him FIRST.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why He teaches in Haggai to &#8220;Consider your ways!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8220;Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8220;Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> &#8216;Consider your ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>6 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Consider your ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>8 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified&#8217;<\/span>, saith the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>9 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why?&#8217;<\/span> saith the Lord of hosts. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Because of Mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>10 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>11 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/the-command-to-rebuild-the-temple-haggai-11-11-kjv\/\" target=\"true\">&#8211; The Command to Rebuild the Temple &#8211; (Haggai 1:1-11) KJV \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story: Elisha and the Widow\u2019s Oil \u2013 (2 Kings 4:1-7) KJV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}