THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN BABYLON

THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN BABYLON

The cost of doing kingdom business in a degenerate world is very high, because the value system is completely different. The value system is not based on the dollar but the character of the King. No lying, cheating, stealing, misrepresenting, half truths, or taking advantage of bad situations. The dollar has value only in the world and is used as barter to operate on a natural plain. The kingdom on the other hand operates on faith in the supernatural with a high set of values. 

The sphere of love surrounds everything and nothing is done outside it. The dollar is cold and callus and leaves people empty and void of compassion. People end up spending it all trying to find kingdom love that cannot be bought or sold. Love giving, is foreign to the world because the heart is not kingdom. I am able to produce something from nothing so the dollar has no value. 

When you operate business fully using the kingdom value system, the dollar is only a method of interaction with the degenerate world. If you are operating on that value system, then I confound the the world, with your lack of love for the dollar and it's power. When mammon has no power over you, I am able to move you to levels that make the rich jealous. They are spending their fortunes to reach those levels and still come up short. 

Their god is money and when you treat it as nothing, by handing it out freely, it shakes their world to the core. What value you put on the dollar shows up when you run low. Do you run to the King in faith or to the world in panic. You may only have enough dollars to purchase five loves and two fish. The question is are you going to eat them and feed one or will you give them to me to feed five thousand plus yourself. 

I did not do these, something from nothing miracles, to show off My power, but to demonstrate the power that I was placing in you. You are living on a level so far below the power I have placed in you, and it grieves My spirit, night and day. Your love level is so low you cannot see above the dollar. Kingdom people look for places to give, not places to save. Do not save money, redirect it according to My instruction. 

Breaking free from mammon's power, while living in Babylon, will be the hardest task in your whole Christian walk. To do kingdom business in Babylon requires you live in constant contact with the King. The secret place must become your living room. Living in Babylon, for the kingdom person, is living inside the jaws of the devourer with no fear of being devoured. 

Abiding in secret place is the only way to combat the fear factor. Do everything you can to stay there, for it it is the only place of safety in the days ahead. Surround yourself with those that abide there, because it will take two in agreement from now on. The world system is now in a tailspin and as a kingdom person you must not go down with it. As fiery darts of fear are thrown at you from all directions, use your combined faith, to quench them immediately, do not let them burn in your mind, even for a moment.

This is the good fight of faith and you must fight it, it is the cost of doing kingdom business in Babylon.

Matthew 6:24-34 (AMP)
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in). [25] Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater in quality than food, and the body far above and more excellent than clothing? [26] Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? [27] And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life? [28] And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. [29] Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. I Kings 10:4-7. [30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? [31] Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear? [32] For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. [33] But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. [34] So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

1 Timothy 6:11-21 (AMP)
But as for you, O man of God, flee from all these things; aim at and pursue righteousness (right standing with God and true goodness), godliness (which is the loving fear of God and being Christlike), faith, love, steadfastness (patience), and gentleness of heart. [12] Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and for which you confessed the good confession of faith before many witnesses. [13] In the presence of God, Who preserves alive all living things, and of Christ Jesus, Who in His testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I solemnly charge you [14] To keep all His precepts unsullied and flawless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), [15] Which appearing will be shown forth in His own proper time by the blessed, only Sovereign (Ruler), the King of kings and the Lord of lords, [16] Who alone has immortality in the sense of exemption from every kind of death and lives in unapproachable light, Whom no man has ever seen or can see. Unto Him be honor and everlasting power and dominion. Amen (so be it). [17] As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be proud and arrogant and contemptuous of others, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches, but on God, Who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. [18] Charge them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal and generous of heart, ready to share with others, [19] In this way laying up for themselves the riches that endure forever as a good foundation for the future, so that they may grasp that which is life indeed. [20] O Timothy, guard and keep the deposit entrusted to you! Turn away from the irreverent babble and godless chatter, with the vain and empty and worldly phrases, and the subtleties and the contradictions in what is falsely called knowledge and spiritual illumination. [21] For by making such profession some have erred (missed the mark) as regards the faith. Grace (divine favor and blessing) be with you all! Amen (so be it).

Proverbs 11:1 (AMP)
A FALSE balance and unrighteous dealings are extremely offensive and shamefully sinful to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.

Proverbs 16:11-13 (AMP)
A just balance and scales are the Lord''s; all the weights of the bag are His work established on His eternal principles. [12] It is an abomination to God and men for kings to commit wickedness, for a throne is established and made secure by righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation). [13] Right and just lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

Ephesians 6:11-18 (AMP)
Put on God''s whole armor the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies, that you may be able successfully to stand up against all the strategies and the deceits of the devil. [12] For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood contending only with physical opponents, but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. [13] Therefore put on God''s complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day of danger, and, having done all the crisis demands, to stand firmly in your place. [14] Stand therefore hold your ground, having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God, [15] And having shod your feet in preparation to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news of the Gospel of peace. [16] Lift up over all the covering shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked one. [17] And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God. [18] Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all manner of prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God''s consecrated people).

Matthew 18:18-20 (AMP)
Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven. [19] Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever anything and everything they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven. [20] For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.