SERVING MAMMON

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Idol worship is serving or regarding someone or thing more than the living God. We’ve read of witchcraft, we are aware of cults, we know of traditional religion where stones and trees are revered etc. but do we know the most common form of idol worship? Serving mammon
Mammon is the god of wealth, when we worship wealth we are as idolatrous as a wizard, or cultist or traditional worshiper etc.  
You are serving mammon if because of the prospect of getting more money, you neglect your devotions with God; you neglect your worship day(s) or spiritual duties to God.
In our society now, God comes after money, we only worship God on days when our business isn’t moving well or is closed down; we consider God after considering our business and job.
We should consider our business and Job in relation to God and not God in relation to our business or job, whenever we are considering God second, we’ve become idolatrous.
God is a jealous God, He is either the first in your life or He is not at all in your life. ‘...Ye cannot serve God and mammon’ mat. 6:24
True worship is not the worship you do when things are convenient for you, rather is the worship you give though things aren’t convenient, yes, when you have to close down your shop to worship, when you have to turn down a contract/job that should give you great wealth because the contract/job days would be on your worship day etc.
So many of us would be disappointed on the last day, when God would tell us He doesn’t know us, yes God doesn’t know all those who worship Him on their job/business convenient day.
Your worship days are those days you should be in assembly with fellow believers (church services) and the days you should be observing your personal devotion with God.
For those who forsakes wealth and job because of God, wealth and jobs will come after you in a hundredfold (Mt 19:29) and for those who refuses to forsake or close down their business to worship God, may gather wealth and not enjoy it (Lu 12:20).
Every wealth you gather at the expense of God, would bring you pain and misery and damn your soul to hell.
God delights in your prosperity, serving Him won’t make you poor, rather it would make you very rich. Nothing and no one can enrich you more than God can and will enrich you if you forsake mammon and serve Him in truth.
God bless you
Pastor Promise Ikpe
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