This program will help you undo financial bondage.
Husbands have an awesome responsibility to care for their wives and immediate family and be an example of how to serve others in a godly manner. Many are unaware of the great blessing reserved for those that love, understand, pray for, and care for their wife according to the will of God for marriage and the family unit. This is what the Lord designed for the union between man and woman and the care of their offspring and their effect upon their greater community.
Hardships, trouble, divorce, and broken family units are often a by-product of a husband’s failure to love his wife like Christ loves the Church. Some live in selfish mode not really providing and protecting and being a godly example. Others provide what they consider to be the needs of the wife (food and shelter, maybe transportation and clothing), but once done they move on to satisfying their own pleasures such as purchasing boats, season sport tickets, going to the bar with friends, etc. Some become workaholics who spend too much time tending their businesses and careers but very little time with their family, thinking that the income earned and what it provides is all they need to be a unified family. In many of these scenarios, husbands failed to be good stewards of their lives, including finances. They have not organized their finances, budgeted their income and expenses, and set the family on a pathway to prosperity by tithing, offering, eliminating debt, saving, investing, and diversifying.
Unfortunately, some pressure wives for agreement or mentally or physically bully them into accepting poor stewardship by lording it over them with comments like “God made me the head so I get to make the decisions around here” or “I don’t know why you don’t want me to have anything when you always get what you want” etc. It may be true that the wife is afforded some leeway to purchase desired things, but in some instances, it is meant to help alleviate loneliness from the husband spending too much time at work, hanging out with friends too much, buying toys the family really can’t afford, and not spending enough quality time with the wife and kids. Some purchases husbands have suggested and encouraged as a way to assuage their own guilt.
Some harmful marital attitudes and actions were formed when we were kids socialized by watching interactions between our parents and some come from mimicking the worldly interactions we see all around us. We mimic them because we refuse to be guided by biblical truth and instruction which would have us sift beliefs, customs, and behaviors to know which ones we should and should not mimic. Of course, your parents, other parents, and even some unbelievers may have been great examples in some areas that you chose not to follow. No matter the reason for your current dysfunction you can stop the madness in your marriage, see the dysfunction and lack of leadership for what it really is, and correct it to greatly enhance marital unity and financial condition.
Here are a couple of suggestions. First, surprise your wife every now and then with something special. Second, honor her birthday and special days in ways that truly fits your budget. Third, often ask for and always be open to her input, suggestions, and ideas that will help discipline the family to be good stewards. Fourth, reduce your monthly expense to a level that fits well within your agreed upon budget, savings, and investment goals. Properly loving your wife helps discipline you in a way that greatly increases the blessing on your life and finances and society.
Malachi 2:14-15, Matthew 19:3-6, Ephesians 5:28-29, 1Peter 3:7-8
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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!
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