The love of money 

*Money*is a commodity accepted by general consent as a medium of economic exchange.

Assets properties and resources they are classified as money or finances or wealth.

1Timothy6:10 For the *love of money* is a root of all kinds of evil.

Some people, in their eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Ecclesiastes10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but*money* is the answer for everything.

Matthew22:36to 39. Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”Jesus replied: “ ‘ *Love the Lord* your God with all your *heart*and with all your *soul* and with all your *mind* .’ This is thefirst and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

*Financial abuse* often occur in one of these four scenarios:

One partner has a paid job and the other doesn’t.

Both partners would like to be working but one is unemployed.

One spouse earns considerably more than the other.

One partner comes from a family that has money and the other doesn’t.

When one or more of these situations is present, the money earner (or theone who makes or has the most money) often wants to *dictate/control*the other partner, and that's financial abuse.

One partner doesn’t own the marriage; he is only the steward of what God has entrusted to him/her. God gives us all things richly to enjoy, nothing is ours. Nothing really belongs to us. God owns everything; we’re responsible for how we treat each other. In the matter of finance there is a need to seek Unity and work as a team,psalms133.

PastorJames Ogoto Nyangau

*CADAKenya* .