March 1, 2024
240 - Can Cruise Trip Keepsakes Ruin Finances?
Do you feel as though your finances are all set for retirement? Are you prepared and relaxed about the future because of your financial situation? Take care! This story is about just such a couple, but a seemingly innocent purchase on a vacation cruise trip changed everything!
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Well, hello and welcome back to Battle Plan, a podcast on spiritual warfare.
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I love sharing and discussing new ways to put our faith into action.
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Our website is active-faith.org.
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Today we're going to ask the question, can cruise trip heapsakes ruin finances?
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Let me start with Psalm 119, 36, NLT.
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Give me an eagerness for your laws rather than a love of money.
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Ezekiel 13, 18.
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This is what the sovereign Lord says.
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What sorrow awaits you women who are ensnaring the souls of my people, young and old alike.
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You tie magic charms on their wrists and furnish them with magic veils.
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Do you think you can trap others without destruction being brought on yourselves?
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Wait a minute, these symbols were ensnaring the souls of the people?
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Yes, that's what the Bible says.
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So now I have a story for you.
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This couple was pretty financially set for the rest of their life.
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They had their finances in order, were enjoying a great retirement without worry or financial
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concern of any kind.
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They went on a cruise visiting several countries including Egypt.
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While they were in Egypt, they bought a set of heapsakes, little statues, maybe idols,
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which I'm sure were just historical relics to them.
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They bought the idols home with some strange Egyptian art and they put these things in their
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home.
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They put the little relics in the man's office where he did all of his financial trading
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and investing.
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After that trip, after they came home from that trip, the finances began to take a turn
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for the worse until they spiraled into a big problem and now they were no longer financially
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set but were in need of help from their family just to make ends meet the last years of their
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life.
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After they passed on, the family were cleaning out the home and the office and they found
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the little idols he had brought back.
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They remembered the timing of the idols and the timing of the financial decline and they
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realized that coincided.
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They threw away and destroyed those four idols that they found.
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They thought they'd cleaned all the idols out but then the husband and wife both had
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the same exact dream that there was one more idol that they had missed.
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The dream even told them where it was located in the home.
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They went back to the house, found the fifth idol in the exact spot the dream indicated.
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They were hidden behind some books on a bookshelf.
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Be careful what you purchase on a vacation.
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In a lot of today's thoughts, let me suggest part of your personal battle plan might be
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to, number one, think back to when something changed for the worse in your life and ask
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God what you might have done to cause the problem.
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And number two, pray for God to reveal anything you've accumulated in your house that might
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need to be destroyed and removed.
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You might pray like this, Lord, I don't want anything to ensnare my soul or keep me from
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the closeness of your presence.
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Please show me what I need to change or what I need to eliminate that would hinder my relationship
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with you so I can destroy that item and honor you in Jesus' name.
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And let me remind you to keep praying cause prayer works.
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God loves you and I love you.
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Have a good day.
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,880
Well, hello and welcome back to Battle Plan, a podcast on spiritual warfare.
2
00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:16,360
I love sharing and discussing new ways to put our faith into action.
3
00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,200
Our website is active-faith.org.
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00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:26,960
Today we're going to ask the question, can cruise trip heapsakes ruin finances?
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00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:32,640
Let me start with Psalm 119, 36, NLT.
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00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,640
Give me an eagerness for your laws rather than a love of money.
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00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,440
Ezekiel 13, 18.
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00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,080
This is what the sovereign Lord says.
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00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:51,560
What sorrow awaits you women who are ensnaring the souls of my people, young and old alike.
10
00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,840
You tie magic charms on their wrists and furnish them with magic veils.
11
00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:02,240
Do you think you can trap others without destruction being brought on yourselves?
12
00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:09,160
Wait a minute, these symbols were ensnaring the souls of the people?
13
00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,600
Yes, that's what the Bible says.
14
00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,200
So now I have a story for you.
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00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,320
This couple was pretty financially set for the rest of their life.
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00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:24,720
They had their finances in order, were enjoying a great retirement without worry or financial
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00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,320
concern of any kind.
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00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:32,360
They went on a cruise visiting several countries including Egypt.
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00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:41,800
While they were in Egypt, they bought a set of heapsakes, little statues, maybe idols,
20
00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,720
which I'm sure were just historical relics to them.
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00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:52,360
They bought the idols home with some strange Egyptian art and they put these things in their
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00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,240
home.
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They put the little relics in the man's office where he did all of his financial trading
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00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,760
and investing.
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00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:08,040
After that trip, after they came home from that trip, the finances began to take a turn
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00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:16,040
for the worse until they spiraled into a big problem and now they were no longer financially
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set but were in need of help from their family just to make ends meet the last years of their
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life.
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After they passed on, the family were cleaning out the home and the office and they found
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the little idols he had brought back.
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00:02:35,540 --> 00:02:43,240
They remembered the timing of the idols and the timing of the financial decline and they
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00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,520
realized that coincided.
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They threw away and destroyed those four idols that they found.
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They thought they'd cleaned all the idols out but then the husband and wife both had
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the same exact dream that there was one more idol that they had missed.
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The dream even told them where it was located in the home.
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They went back to the house, found the fifth idol in the exact spot the dream indicated.
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They were hidden behind some books on a bookshelf.
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00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:21,960
Be careful what you purchase on a vacation.
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00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,480
In a lot of today's thoughts, let me suggest part of your personal battle plan might be
41
00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:31,920
to, number one, think back to when something changed for the worse in your life and ask
42
00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,560
God what you might have done to cause the problem.
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00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,640
And number two, pray for God to reveal anything you've accumulated in your house that might
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need to be destroyed and removed.
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You might pray like this, Lord, I don't want anything to ensnare my soul or keep me from
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00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,160
the closeness of your presence.
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Please show me what I need to change or what I need to eliminate that would hinder my relationship
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with you so I can destroy that item and honor you in Jesus' name.
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00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,800
And let me remind you to keep praying cause prayer works.
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God loves you and I love you.
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Have a good day.
