INVESTMENT 3

12 HE said, “A nobleman was called away to a distant empire to be crowned king and then return.
13 BEFORE he left, he called together ten of his servants and divided among them TEN POUNDS OF SILVER, saying, ‘INVEST THIS FOR ME WHILE I AM GONE.’
14 BUT his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’
15 “AFTER he was crowned king, he returned and called in the SERVANTS to whom he had GIVEN the MONEY. HE WANTED TO FIND OUT WHAT THEIR PROFITS WERE.
16 THE first servant reported, ‘Master, I INVESTED YOUR MONEY AND MADE TEN TIMES THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT!’
17 “‘WELL DONE!’ the king exclaimed. ‘YOU ARE A GOOD SERVANT. You have been FAITHFUL with the LITTLE I entrusted to you, so you will be GOVERNOR of TEN cities as your REWARD.’
18 “THE next servant reported, ‘Master, I INVESTED YOUR MONEY AND MADE FIVE TIMES THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT.’
19 “‘WELL done!’ the king said. ‘You will be GOVERNOR over FIVE cities.’
20 “BUT the third servant brought back only the ORIGINAL amount of MONEY and said, ‘Master, I HID your MONEY and kept it SAFE.
21 I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, TAKING what isn’t yours and HARVESTING crops you didn’t plant.’
22 “‘YOU wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what isn’t mine and harvests crops I didn’t plant,
23 WHY didn’t you DEPOSIT my MONEY in the BANK? AT LEAST I COULD HAVE GOTTEN SOME INTEREST ON IT.'
24 “THEN, turning to the others standing nearby, the king ordered, ‘Take the MONEY from this servant, and GIVE it to the one who has TEN POUNDS.’ ”
Luke 19:12-24 (NLT)

• What to do before making any decision on Investments.
(i) Before the Investments are made, give to God's work until you know that all the needs or things to be done for Him or others, which are placed in your heart, are satisfactorily done.
(ii) Settle on a level of family living standard, which you have prayerfully planned with God.
a. Excessive spending on the family, being impulsive in spending, can rob you of the surplus fund, and that could affect the Investment plans and cause bad Investments.
b. Each Christian family should talk it out with God, to know and decide on the level which God has planned for them, and stick to it—in spite of available surplus.
(iii) Having done that, you should endeavour to have a plan for the use of your potential surplus.
a. It is important to settle on a plan for the distributing of the profits from the investments, before they arrive.
b. Decide through the help of the Holy Spirit; what portion to be given to God and His Kingdom, the family, and the one to be reinvested (2 Corinthians 9:13).

• The primary purpose of financial abundance is about using it to promote and propagate the work of God's Kingdom.
(i) God would NOT bless you without a purpose or reason. He is profit conscious! He wants profit in whatever He invested in: "WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPOSIT MY MONEY IN THE BANK? AT LEAST I COULD HAVE GOTTEN SOME INTEREST ON IT' " (Luke 19:23 NLT).
(ii) God also is against wastefulness. If you had not used Whatever is given to you wisely, He would not increase the Blessings.
a. God wants His children to be prudent in spending, that He might bless them the more.
b. If you did not know how to manage or use the little that was given to you; you might not be considered for any abundance—promotion and lifting in the future.
(iii) Invest in the Kingdom of God, and also, in the Businesses as you are led by the Holy Spirit.
(iv) Allow God to lead you on whatever to invest in, on every investment, because: "THERE is a PATH before each PERSON THAT SEEMS RIGHT, BUT IT ENDS IN DEATH" (Proverbs 14:12 NLT).

"PEOPLE may make plans in THEIR MINDS, BUT THE LORD DECIDES WHAT THEY WILL DO."
Proverbs 16:9 (New Century Version)

• You can hear from God.

• God wants His children to relate with Him on an individual basis, and be able to hear from Him on whatever to do: "THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE THOSE WHO LET GOD'S SPIRIT LEAD THEM" (Romans 8:14 New Century Version).
• God speaks generally with those who have come to Him through Jesus Christ, and are having the Holy Spirit on the inside of them to lead them: through the Word of God, the Bible, which is an inward witness.
  AND also, spectacularly through; visions, dreams, trances, angelic visitations, and so on.
• God speaks mainly to all His children through the inward witnesses, the thought given by the Holy Spirit living in their inward man, the spirit, of every Believer in Christ Jesus.
• You have a responsibility to develop your perceptiveness, ability to discern—receive whatever message or instruction the Holy Spirit on the inside of you passes across through your recreated human spirit—the Inward Man.
• Thus, cultivate the habit of listening to your spirit, also known as heart—not the fleshly heart that pumped and circulated blood in the body.
• The witness you had on the inside of you, after you had prayed, is the leading of God to follow (Romans 8:14).
• God speaks through Thoughts or SANCTIFIED imaginations!

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.

• Whatever is not planted in your body by God, is rooted up in Jesus' name.
• Your body is made whole completely in Jesus' name.
  Peace!