Where Your Heart Lives: Money, Mammon, and the Soul-Kingdom Personal Financial Series Book II

What do your money, your fears, and your comparisons reveal about the true condition of your heart?

You may believe that everything belongs to God. You may work hard, budget carefully, save diligently, and give faithfully. Yet beneath these outward practices, a deeper question remains: Has your heart found its security in God, or is it still looking to money for what only He can provide?

In Where Your Heart Lives: Money, Mammon, and the Soul, D. C. Lawrence Chinaka takes readers beyond the foundations of financial stewardship into a more personal examination of the heart. Building on The Owner and the Steward, Book One of the series, this thought-provoking volume explores the relationship between treasure and affection, faith and fear, ambition and contentment.

Through twelve searching chapters, the book examines how money can quietly become a functional idol, why the promise of “just a little more” never seems to deliver lasting satisfaction, and how materialism gradually takes root through ordinary decisions and constant comparison. It also confronts the fears beneath financial anxiety—the fear of lack, the fear of loss, and the fear of never having enough.

But this is not an invitation to abandon ambition, neglect financial responsibility, or accept passivity as contentment. Rather, it challenges readers to distinguish godly ambition from covetous striving, discover contentment as a discipline learned through Christ, and embrace simplicity as a source of spiritual clarity.

With biblical teaching, practical illustrations, reflection questions, and closing declarations, this book invites you to look beyond your financial statements and examine the heart behind your financial decisions. It challenges you to recognise where money may have assumed a place that belongs to God alone—and to begin the journey of restoring your trust, affections, and priorities to Him.

Whether you have much or little, are building a career, running a business, raising a family, or seeking to honour God with your resources, this book offers an opportunity to examine not merely what you possess, but what possesses your heart.

True financial freedom is more than reaching a number. It is living with a heart that money no longer rules.

Where Your Heart Lives is Book Two of the Kingdom Personal Financial Stewardship series, built around the transformative principle:

Faith + Finance = Freedom.

Before you ask how much you need, how much you should save, or how much more you hope to earn, pause and consider the question that reaches deeper than every financial plan:

Where does your heart truly live?