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a wonderful church where his children are being taught e WORD and the gifts of the Spirit are moving. Everything is going great because he's following God's plan. en some guy offers him a job that pays $100 more a month in another town, and he decides to move. He pulls his children out of Sunday school, goes someplace he's not called to be, and tries to find a church outside of the will of God. at kind of thing can wreak havoc in our lives. It can turn us into meat for satan's table! e LORD told me this years ago: "If you make your decisions based on money, you're going to miss it almost 100% of the time. Make your decisions based on the anointing." Seek God's direction and ask, "Where am I most anointed? What's the most anointed thing I can do here?" en stay positioned to hear His answer. Pray, Praise and Worship How do we stay positioned to hear His answer? By developing a consistent prayer life. Jesus said in Luke 18:1 that we "ought always to pray, and not to faint." In other words, we're to pray and not quit. We're to make fellowshipping with God in e WORD a consistent priority, putting our time with Him first place in our schedules every day. It's also important that we spend a good part of our daily prayer time in praise and worship. As Bishop David Oyedepo says, "When we pray, we enter into God's presence. When we praise, God enters into ours." Bishop Oyedepo knows Jesus as his Financier better than perhaps anyone else I've ever met. He's built one of the largest Christian church buildings on earth, in Lagos, Nigeria. e sanctuary seats 50,000 and even with five services on Sunday, it's full to overflowing every service. Just phase one of the church campus cost $500 million (they've moved on to phase two now) and it was built debt free with no American money. How did a congregation in such an impoverished nation manage to give that much? ey've learned from Bishop Oyedepo how to connect with Jesus' financial program. ey've learned to praise and worship Him lavishly, to be tithers and givers, and look to Jesus alone as their Source of supply. "Well, I don't think poor people should be expected to tithe and give," someone might say. "It puts an unfair burden on them." On the contrary! It lifts that burden off them. It frees them from the sentence of poverty that's been put on them by the devilish financial system of this world and connects them to the abundance of the kingdom of God. Remember how e LORD put such a strong desire to give in the hearts of the Macedonian believers in the early Church? ey were extremely poor, yet the Apostle Paul not only received their offering, he wrote to the Corinthians about it and said: Brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints (2 Corinthians 8:1-4, New King James Version). He never intended for us to spend our lives worrying about money and trying to figure out ways to supply our own needs. 8 : B V O V