This program will help you undo financial bondage.
Over fifty percent of people who get student loans don’t finish
college. During recessionary periods, many people find themselves underwater or
at the mercy of foreclosure because they cannot pay mortgages they could not afford
on current income. Others are devasted because they’ve taken loans, often with above
average interest rates, and then get laid off or fired and experience unnerving
periods of unemployment. Some use borrowed funds to purchase investments that lose
money because they were not well conceived or supported by factual historical
data showing long-term annual gains. Indebtedness is especially devastating
when you experience loss of income including from failed business endeavors.
Creditors won’t tell you about the grief that accompanies debt.
When you don’t have a mindset to eliminate debt and stay out of it in the
future, it eventually renders you unable to make loan payments and pay them off
and pursue investments you really need to create a wealth legacy for your
family and generous gifts to be used to serve others leading them to salvation,
eternal life, and a future of obedience to the LORD’s will including teaching
them how to fish so they can provide for themselves economically as they move
throughout life. Loans may not seem bad when you apply for them, but they
become harmful to you and your family over time because most of the funds are
not spent on things that greatly appreciate in value or that give you
drastically increased earning power throughout your life.
You should not be fearful of what life may bring, because
the LORD is there to uphold you when seeking to live in a way that pleases Him.
So, make sure your activities and actions are aligned with good stewardship
principles. Then, you can properly love God and people by regarding His word
foremost and listening to His guidance for your lifestyle, pursuit of work, income
and assets, and the use of all resources entrusted to you. Trust the Lord and
thus be wise about the proportion of income that goes to giving, saving and
spending and be careful to stay out of debt.
Employer loyalty to employees and vice-versa seems to be a
thing of the past for many people. A result of this shift in caring for one
another is massive layoffs because it is considered the foremost remedy for
every situation when a business is not as profitable as Wall Street powerbrokers
want it to be. Also, many financial institutions expect it in order to get more
insidious loans to supposedly correct profitability problems. Another result of
the shifting loyalty is employees moving from employer to employer in less than
five-year intervals (even when they could stay on a long-term basis)
because they believe it’s necessary to achieve the good life (get all the pay
and material things they’ve ever wanted). Individuals and businesses should
stay out of debt and eliminate the debt they have to avoid financial bondage
and increase loyalty to one another, so businesses are not derailed, thus
hurting many who really didn’t need to suffer and so individuals are able to avoid
repossession, foreclosure, bankruptcy and the accompanying headaches and
heartaches.
Severe financial distress is often the result of poor money management
long before layoffs and pay cuts occurred. This is true with few exceptions,
though many people don’t want to acknowledge it. We simply don’t give, save
& invest, and then spend like we really believe economic downturns could
occur at some point down the road. We don’t plan for rainy days. Instead, we
continually say every desire we have is a need and borrow more and more money
to make fulfilling them a regular part of our lifestyle. Instead of using godly
stewardship principles to manage income, we spend our time focusing on what we
believe our employer should be doing or what it is not doing. You cannot force an
employer to operate the way you think it should. Instead, choose to change your
work and money management habits to achieve a better financial condition. This
Holy Spirit led endeavor, including a plan to eliminate debt and stop using it
in the future, will release you from bondage brought on by loans you
irresponsibly accepted from lenders.
Deuteronomy 28:12, Psalms 37:21, Proverbs 22:6-7, 27:23-24,
Romans 13:8
Please
pray for this ministry and email questions to parlor@ameritech.net and share the links below
with others who need guidance. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His
plan!
Share http://kminfo.org/ministries/financial-freedom weekly with family and
friends so these bondage-breaking articles and other financial information can
help them gain helpful insight!
The
book at the link below provides principles and practical steps that help you
use the Power To Get Wealth. By 1992, we had $135,000 of debt and
a negative $35,000 net worth. Financial bondage and turmoil led me to seek
principles and a process for employing good stewardship. As a result, we became
constructively debt-free in 1998, mortgage free January 2004, millionaires in
2012, multi-millionaires shortly thereafter, and retired in 2018 in my
mid-fifties from public servant jobs while giving abundantly to fund the gospel
of our LORD Jesus Christ. The same power is available to you!
You
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