Date: Sunday, 12th October 2025
Text: Mark 8:36-37
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
If money were truly the solution to all of life’s challenges, then the rich would not be dying of incurable diseases. They would not be battling depression or raising children caught in drug addiction, gambling, or other social vices.
If money could solve every problem, then the wealthy should not be struggling with marital infidelity, barrenness, miscarriages, broken homes, or loneliness. Yet, these afflictions plague even those with overflowing bank accounts. Money can buy the best hospitals, but it cannot guarantee healing — that is why doctors often say, “We care, but God heals.”
Money can buy a luxurious bed, but not peaceful sleep; an expensive car, but not safety from accidents; a grand wedding, but not a successful marriage. It can pay for the best education, but not wisdom or intelligence. It can buy material possessions, but not a good name or inner peace.
In the end, a man may be so financially smart that he gains the whole world — only to lose his soul, the most valuable possession of all. Jesus asked a piercing question: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:36–37).
Beloved, never allow the pursuit of wealth to replace your pursuit of God. Money is a useful servant but a dangerous master. When money controls your choices, you are no longer led by the Spirit of God but by the spirit of mammon.
Therefore, let your heart seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things — including financial prosperity — shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). True success is not measured by what you possess but by who possesses you.
Prayer Nugget: Father, please, deliver me from the love of money and the spirit of mammon. Help me to trust in You as my Source and not in wealth in Jesus name
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