MANIFESTATIONS OF MAMMON:
Mathew 6: 25: “Don't be anxious”.
1.Extreme Worry and Anxiety One of the first things that happens around money, is extreme anxiety and worry. If you're having extreme anxiety and worry around finances, then you’re under the influence of a spirit.
-It may be from a proceeding word you get from the secular media in negative financial news and bleak future predictions.
God has got no anxiety and worries to give you - He's got peace.
He tells you what to do about anxiety and worry: redirect your attention in certain ways.
2. A poverty mentality (there's not enough)
-we are daily bombarded in the media with, stories of lack
- if you continually live with this thinking dominating you - that I haven't got enough, then you are under bondage to a spirit - absolutely.
3. Struggle with Giving
- I would think that one of the biggest evidences to me, that a person is under the spirit of bondage to Mammon, is very simply this: they just can't give. It just is impossible.
If I have some money in my hand here, here's the big question to ask: do I have the money, or does the money have me? Who's holding who?
If I'm holding the money, it's very simple - I'm able to then open it, and let go of it, and give it someone - which I did before.
If the money's holding me, I think: “ooh, there won't be enough”. I need a bit more.
One of the greatest ways that you can tell if money's got a hold of you, is in your ability to give.
4. Rising Debt.
This does not referto Debt that you are currently paying back but the kind that you are unable to pay.
one way or another Mammon was involved in how you got into it.
If you're in bondage to debt, so that you're paying so much back in interest, you've got no ability to do anything for God - You're in bondage to Mammon.
5. If you continually find that you're discontented with what you have, and ungrateful for what you have.
