MoneyWalk 131: What's The State Of Your Finances?

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

You are committing financial suicide if you don’t regularly save for a rainy day. This destructive tendency can be caused and enhanced by regularly taking on loans to purchase things you don’t have cash to pay cash for. It is further exacerbated by your failure to subtract account withdrawals from your checkbook. Finally, when you don't reconcile your bank account(s) monthly such destructive tendencies compound the problem over and over, month after month, and year after year until they finally result in some type of ruin (unbearable debt, repossession, foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce, homelessness, loss of belief and trust in Jesus Christ, etc.).

When you consistently walk out such tendencies, you're a financial kamikaze who will inevitably crash and burn and your irresponsibility will damage the ship (your spouse, children, church family, friends, etc.). The bible instructs you to monitor the state of your income versus your expenditures, so you do not become such a reckless tool of the enemy and begin to think you’re justified in acting irresponsibly. In order to let peace and joy overcome financial destruction, you must keep the amount of your expenses well below the amount of your income. For example, you must budget in such a way that you spend no more than 70% of your after tax income on necessities and desires and you should establish a habit of regularly tithing ten percent of your income, so that you open the window of heaven over your life to receive tremendous blessing to carry out your purpose and help others. If you don't like to hear the word "budget," would you rather hear the phrase "trapped in debt?"

When you don't budget, you inevitably overspend your income and get trapped in debt. Financial and spiritual ruin silently overcome most people who are held in its grip, just like carbon monoxide silently and without odor overtakes people in closed buildings. No one knows until they see you lying limp and lifeless. All because the enemy of your soul, satan, convinced you that you are wiser than God when you forsake God’s instructions. But, just like Adam and Eve you’ll lose far more than you imagine when you take the enemies word and continue to walk according to his instructions. Destruction will come and it doesn’t matter who reaches out to help you, you’ll continue to be in a place of natural, financial, and eternal torment.

This is not the future God planned for you! If you want to grow financially healthy, wealthy, and wise, you must keep your expenses below your income by staying out of debt. Also, you must do the other things that allow you to stay focused on God’s will and His instructions: get saved, worship Christ daily, pray daily, read the scriptures daily, join a local church, fellowship with believers every week, and be committed on a long-term basis to a ministry sanctioned by your church. This pattern will serve you in the natural, financial, and eternal arenas of your life. The road to prosperity is not hard to navigate, but it requires setting your face like flint to obey biblical instruction and disciplining yourself to heed the words of our Lord Jesus, who asked what man would attempt to erect a building without first counting the cost. You can only build His building, one that glorifies Him, when you follow His instructions. For if the Lord does not build the house (through you following His guidance), the workmen (you) labor in vain!!!

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Proverbs 27:23-24, Habakkuk 2:2-3, Luke 14:28-30
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