How to Know If Money Has Become Your Idol (Jesus is King with Bryan Harris - Part 2)

Most of us pray about money. Very few of us ask God what to do with it and then sit still long enough to hear an answer.

This is Part 2 of our conversation with our friend Bryan, a business owner and honestly a spiritual mentor in a lot of ways. In Part 1 he showed us how a money idol hides in a phrase you say every day. This time he shows us the other side: what it actually looks like to hear God about a money decision, and what God tends to deal with before He builds anything.

In this conversation we get into the exact ten-minute practice Bryan's whole team uses to ask God what to do (a timer, a notebook, and four things to write down), what came out of it the first time twelve people tried it, why he believes everyone in the room hears something, why "you need $250,000 to do this" is usually money holding you hostage, the stuff in the basement God insists on dealing with first, why you should not rush to be a teacher, the million-dollar cabin God told them to buy with money they did not have, and the question Bryan can't shake: how many spots have I not been in because I didn't listen?

Nothing here is a formula. It's a practice, it happens in community, and Bryan argues against his own decisions the whole way through.

If you want a place to start, Linda and I wrote 30 Days of Prayer for Your Finances for exactly this: one short prayer a day to start asking God about your money instead of just worrying about it. Grab it at: https://seedtime.com/30DOP

 

Timestamps

• 0:00 Cold open and intro
• 0:48 Stop stealing God's problem (the easy yoke)
• 2:44 The ministry friend who thought he needed $250,000
• 5:41 The ten-minute practice: a timer, a notebook, four things to write down
• 8:00 Thirteen years of work, one ten-minute prayer
• 9:54 Ask, seek, knock (and what God deals with first)
• 12:35 Don't rush to be a teacher
• 14:57 "Show me the man of lawlessness in me"
• 16:28 The million-dollar cabin
• 18:05 How many spots have I not been in?
• 18:47 Closing prayer

 

Here's a little of what we cover in this episode:

• The ten-minute practice Bryan's team uses to ask God what to do
• The four things to write down while you listen
• Why the number you think you need is usually the thing holding you hostage
• What God deals with in your basement before He builds anything
• Why Bryan tells new pastors to spend three years getting humbled
• The million-dollar cabin, and the guardrail Bryan puts around that story
• How many spots have I not been in because I didn't listen?

 

Bible Verses Mentioned:

• Matthew 5: 5
• Matthew 7: 7-8
• Matthew 11: 28-30
• Luke 11: 9-10
• Nehemiah 6: 15
• 1 Corinthians 3: 12-15
• 1 Thessalonians 4: 11
• 2 Thessalonians 2: 3-8
• James 3: 1
• Acts 8:2 6-39
• Acts 9: 1-19

 

Resources Mentioned:

• Growth Tools 

 

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