What does it really mean to let God be Lord of every area of our lives? Jesus understood the power money holds over human hearts. Of the roughly 36 parables he told, nearly half touched on finances in some way. That is not a coincidence. Jesus was not trying to fill a sermon series. He was diagnosing something real, something that runs deep in every human soul, and offering a way out.

There is a moment in every believer's life when the question shifts. It stops being "Am I saved?" and starts being "Am I growing?" That shift is not a small one. It marks the beginning of something the New Testament calls discipleship, and it is arguably the most important journey a Christian will ever undertake.