Financial Freedom God's Way

[trukinlady]

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Financial Freedom God's Way[/FONT]

[FONT=&]by Harvey Nowland[/FONT]

[FONT=&]It is important to know why you want to become financially free. This may seem like a “no-brainer.” After all, why would you want to be in financial bondage because of debt? Freedom-from-debt freedom looks like the logical choice.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Nevertheless, your motivation for becoming debt free is important. Being released from the tension and anxiety of debt and being able to do what you want, when you want, might be high on a priority list.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]But for the Christian, learning God’s biblical principles of finances, and practicing them in order to become debt free, actually is a path to know Christ more intimately and be financially free to serve Him. This means, however, that you must trust God and be willing to submit to His will and direction.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]We say we trust God, but there’s a great difference between saying and trusting. Often we trust if it’s convenient or necessary as a last resort. God expects us to trust Him daily, in all things.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]If you’re serious about becoming financially free, take these action steps:[/FONT]

• Transfer ownership to God. Recognize that God really owns what you have and that includes your family as well as your time and things. Recognize this biblical principle or it will be impossible to free yourself financially. Psalm 24:1 (NKJV) “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.”
• Get out of debt. Break the habits that keep you in debt – like spending more than you earn and borrowing. Save so you don’t have to borrow. Proverbs 15:16 (NKJV) “Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure with trouble.”
• Accept God’s provision for you. God is wiser than you are and He will provide for your needs just as He promised. Matthew 6:31 (NKJV)“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ”
• Refuse temptations to make hasty financial decisions. Don’t buy into get-rich-quick schemes or be pressured to make quick decisions based on incomplete information. Proverbs 21:5 (NKJV) “The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.”
• Strive for excellence in all you do. Set high standards for yourself and your family. Humility doesn’t mean second best. 1 Peter 4:11 (NKJV) “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
• Seek contentment through your relationship with God. A discontented spirit produces greed and covetousness. Contentment results from a proper relationship with God based on accepting the lifestyle that He has made provision for in your life. Philippians 4:11-12 (NKJV) 11 “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

• Believe God’s promise that your needs will be met. Sometimes He’ll do this through the abundance of others; however, He never promises to provide equally for everyone. As a Christian, learn to accept God’s provision for you, because it is clear evidence of the role He has designed for you in His plan. Accept His provision without resentment because: 2 Corinthians 8:13-15 (NKJV) 13 “For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened; 14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality. 15As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.” ”

 

[Saintscruiser]

This report is right on the money.....no pun intended. I call this syndrome, which I got from my husband......'Magpie Syndrome.' If it's new and shiny ..... or the Jones' got one, you've got to have it as well. We all battle that one.....me at the front of the line. One of my friends told me about a new jewelry channel 'Liquidation Channel' and Friday's and Sunday's are $9.99 days. I bought my granddaughters a real pretty cross for their birthdays this month and I spent much less than if I sent them money. I'm pumped about it. It sure looked pretty on tv, and has a miniscule diamond chip in the center. You need the Hubble Telescope to find it, but I feel good about giving it to them. I would have liked to of bought MANY items, but you have to exercise control. I'm a costume jewelry junkie.

We have been hit BAM, one right after the other since October. We would no sooner catch our breath from one hit before we got hit again.....and again.....and again. It can't be just us. The P.O.P. and his onions are extremely busy. HOWEVER, we have 2/3's of the angelic realm at our disposal while the P.O.P. only has 1/3.

Not trying to preach, but I need to go as laptop is about to choke it's last kilowatt stored in it's battery.

I love all of you!