Aramaic demonic spirit

• The New Testament contains 2,084 verses dealing with money and finance.
• Sixteen of Jesus' thirty-eight parables deal with money.
  

The reason Jesus spoke so much about money was because He was always trying to see where a person's loyalty was. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matt 6:21). Jesus said a person could not serve two masters. Instead, he will love one and hate the other - Matt 6:24.

Many people incorrectly believe money is synonymous with mammon. Mammon is an Aramaic demonic spirit that was worshipped as a false god by the Philistines.

Mammon desires to be worshipped, have influence, and control of peoples' lives through the use of money. Money is simply the instrument by which mammon seeks to have power.

Any spirit that opposes God seeks to influence people through deception. It wants to gain loyalty and love without you knowledge. The primary lie behind the spirit of mammon is that money contains power. It encourages people to place disproportionate value on money because of the power it has to influence and control others.

The symptoms of being controlled by the spirit of mammon are revealed when we allow our activities to be governed by the amount of money we have instead of God alone. It makes us believe one's provision is one’s employer, spouse, investments, or other cash sources. So, when we allow money to rule the choices we make, we have yielded to the spirit of mammon. This in turn leads to other problems as Paul wrote to Timothy: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." (1 Tim 6:10)
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