Sunday, September 17, 2023

MoneyWalk 216 Budget Your Way To Blessings

This program will help you undo financial bondage.

A budget is necessary for successfully managing your finances. Every person should have a budget to ensure that they're getting the most out of their income. It helps you see exactly how much comes in versus how much goes out over short-range and long-range periods, so you don't blindly float along buying things that cause your expenses to creep above your income.

Without a budget you will likely have no ability to appropriately save and invest for the future. Many people attempt to budget in their heads, but it causes them to fall short on bill payments and other operations of daily life that should be greater priority. Writing out a budget would have fore-warned them of the situation and let them know that negative consequences would eventually follow if they do not correct the situation.

A good book that contains budgeting illustrations along with paper and pencil are all that's needed to start writing your budget. A computer spreadsheet or budgeting software makes the job even easier. After your initial few hours setting up your budget, you'll only need about an hour each week to maintain it and revise it if necessary due to changes in income and necessary expenses.

My recommendation is that you pay the tithe as the first line-item expense. Then, find out how the rest of your budget works out. For example, do you have a surplus during each month or do you have a deficit. Now, look at your expense categories to identify the things that can reasonably be eliminated or reduced, so the increased disposable cash flow can be put toward a first-tier $1,000 emergency fund and then toward repayment of non-mortgage debt (credit cards, car loans, personal loans, student loans, etc.). Once non-mortgage debt is paid off, use the surplus cash flow to build at least a $10,000 emergency fund.

On average it takes people who are focused two to three years to pay off all their non-mortgage debt, about six months thereafter to build their emergency fund to $10,000, and about seven years to pay off their mortgage even while putting 10% of their income into investment accounts (brokerage, 401k, Roth IRA, etc.). Over the years, budgeting your income and expenses will produce enormous blessings that in the past you never thought could be realized. We are a testimony to the power of scripture in this regard, as we have become multi-millionaires using this technique along with the few other proven steps for financial freedom and wealth building and have helped others find freedom from financial bondage and build wealth.

Proverbs 13:22-23, 21:20, 27:23-24, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Luke 14:28-31, Romans13:7-8

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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!

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Get-Wealth-Randy-Parlor-ebook/dp/B08QCH5MVH/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Randy+Parlor&qid=1638336718&s=books&sr=1-2

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