Hi friends,

I am writing this to seek your help. I have prayed to God and I know he is in control, but I needed to down load this on you to advise.I have been betrayed by at least four friends who have asked me to lend them money. After all the help I gave them they are not paying me back. I have made calls, texts and even tried to meet them and discuss this but this has been to no avail. What am I supposed to do? Can I just tell them to stay with the money for ever? I am so ****** off that no one can help me when I need help yet I have tried to be there for people. What would you do? Should I call in a lawyer to force this. Because I am afraid that I have lost friends anyway.

What would Jesus do? I just can't let go all that money easily. I think that I am never ever going to lend any one money again. In case you read this and you owe people money just call them up and atleast make a pledge to pay back other wise its not good for you to exploit other people.

Thanks
Imani

Hi Imani,

I'm so sorry for what your friends have done to you. Is it fair no it sure is not, but you asked what what Jesus do and we can find that answer in the book of Luke in chapter 6 verses 29-31.

To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who ask of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. And Just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them like wise.

When someone has wronged you it's never easy to back down, but this time Jesus says if they take do not ask them to give it back...place this in the hands of our Lord and Savior do not let satan take away your joy my sister and friend in Jesus...and know this your reward is great in heaven.

My prayers and thoughts are with you in this matter! If you ever need to talk you can pm anytime at all. God bless

AA

imani

I will be praying for you.

You should not lend money to anyone. I lend lots of things but I do not lend money. Money represents my time, my labour, my life etc. These things are very expensive and cannot be traded.

Psalm 118 v 8. Is the central verse in the bible.

"It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in men. It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in Princes"

i.e. Trust no one.

Keep pestering them for your money back. I will be praying for you.

God be with You.

What would Jesus do? I just can't let go all that money easily. I think that I am never ever going to lend any one money again. In case you read this and you owe people money just call them up and atleast make a pledge to pay back other wise its not good for you to exploit other people.

My wife and I just had the same situation. We let a girl live with us for several months, we gave my daughters bed room to her so that she could have privacy, my daughter just slept in our room.

This girl said God told her to pay us a certain amount each month, and she never gave us a dime. That was the agreement, and she did not keep it.

She left a few days ago, and we handled that whole situation wrong. I should have booted her long ago.

God is our source, not man. I never give money to anyone and expect them to pay me back. I sow it to them. Forgive them, and move on. God will repay. It's not worth having that on your heart.

Jesus Is Lord.

You should not lend money to anyone. I lend lots of things but I do not lend money. Money represents my time, my labour, my life etc. These things are very expensive and cannot be traded.

Whoa stephen!

your time, your labor, your life, aint yours.

know`m sayin?

"When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something, lend it to him."
- Jesus (Matthew 5)

imani, think of your 'loan' an offering to God, you will find you won`t be nearly as upset about when or how you will be repaid.

Lord Jesus, allow your peace so supernaturally calming to cool down Imani's feelings for the dishonesty that has happened. Dishonesty of sin from Satan is so poisonous all over the world, you wonder why people feel such pain and rage that will not go away.
That's why our Christian communities are there to help those who have been deceived, such as the Salvation Army, to give away free food, clothing or goods from generous donors. Allow your supernatural wisdom to keep Imani open-minded about the poverty in parts of Uganda and other local areas in other nations, where this spiritual disease of sin is never-ending, and can easily bring dishonesty to people who want to survive and who wished they had the money to pay back what they owe.

We Christians can only give Christian advice where the spiritual wealth of Christ far exceeds the material wealth of man by reading our holy bible that gives us eternal feelings of positive joy that is beyond human explanation: the healing of Christ is real to those who hunger for it, ask and you shall receive the forever spiritual pure waterfall of the love of Christ that washes away the damaging effects of sin on the mind and body.
I hear on the TV news of people being made redundant in this time of crisis, where Jesus is our Christ savior to rescue us from Satan's detrimentrally cruel power of sin anytime, anywhere, anyhow - Jesus will always be our miracle lifesaver.

We Christians in our global community wait patiently for the coming of our victorious Lord Jesus, hopefully very soon in the future, so that Satan can be defeated and sin can be deleted once Jesus has transformed our old earth-born selves to new glorious minds and bodies of Christ...
As we socialize together as brothers and sisters of Christ in God's most massive and most modern place of Community: the Kingdom of God on a new oceanless planet Earth where Christ's supernatural joy will be so over-joyous, our hearts will be so very positive and our faces so very always smiling.:*:.

Hey friends...

Thanks for your advice, I shall be weighing all the options this week.
you won't blv between the time I sent this post and now

Two people have already called me asking for money. Another friend has just told me she totally doesn't know what to do with her debtors. Luckily, I have read your advice and I shall share it with her.

Technically if I had that money I would have completed a building project and at least pay my advance in rent. But I am now operating from hand to mouth as if I never had money of my own. I feel that it is so unfair and I need the grace to put many things to perspective. I am glad that I haven't thought about this for most of the day but when I do, I get almost depressed and distraught.

Well I am just going to fight through this one with prayer and resisting any strategies to kill my joy. In my view If God gave me what the purposes of the money was for today, may be I would give the debts up?
Please keep praying that whatever I do shall be in God's will

Stephen

You should not lend money to anyone. I lend lots of things but I do not lend money. Money represents my time, my labour, my life etc. These things are very expensive and cannot be traded.

Coconut:

Whoa stephen!

your time, your labor, your life, aint yours.

Well, I never Lend Money myself. Money is the big test. Money can be top priority for the most poor, and for the most rich. Being focused on it because you can't pay bills, or being focused on it because you want to bank Millions for yourself is not good.

Money is just a tool, it translates to any other tool, like a lawnmower.

Being a tool, and the test of faithfulness, showing where your heart is, I sow, and give money without a thought to what I have to pay. I tithe faithfully 10% before anything gets considered as a need on my end, and hear God if I need to bless someone else.

We have never run out, it just comes in somehow.


We stopped hinting about any need we have, and asking others. If my needs are not met, or I am starving, then I am out of line with God somewhere, and need to see it, and get it fixed. His seed will never beg for bread if you doing what God has told you to do, and your where God told you to be.

People need to stop enabling disobedience.

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imani

If you had millions, would you be concerned about that money not getting paid back right away, or ever getting paid back?

Or is it your in need yourself, and need it paid back so you can meet your own needs?

Jer 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

It's a curse to look to others to supply need, that curse will keep you in poverty.

Jesus Is Lord.

Psa 37:21
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

you can pray that you'll have your money back.

i wouldn't ever borrow except to assuming to never receive it back.

but if you do receive things back the hand of God has been in play.
so you can pray.. and hope.
but best not to think about it too much, and move on with your life.

you will receive them back if Lord wills it.

I have just been reading some Spurgeon....and thought this may be helpful.


God Repays

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him again.
Proverbs 19:17

We are to give to the poor out of pity. Not to be seen and applauded, much less to get influence over them; but out of pure sympathy and compassion we must give them help.

We must not expect to get anything back from the poor, not even gratitude; but we should regard what we have done as a loan to the Lord.

He undertakes the obligation, and, if we look to Him in the matter, we must not look to the second party. What an honour the Lord bestows upon us when He condescends to borrow of us! That merchant is greatly favored who has the Lord on his books. It would seem a pity to have such a name down for a paltry pittance; let us make it a heavy amount. The next needy man that comes this way, let us help him.

As for repayment, we can hardly think of it, and yet here is the Lord's note of hand. Blessed be His name, His promise to pay is better than gold and silver.
Spurgeon




Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these My brethren, you have done it unto Me
Matthew 25:40