This program will help you undo financial bondage.
There
are so many Christians and unbelievers suffering financially, even though worldly
teachers promise that those who obtain a higher formal education will make
higher incomes and thus be financially well off in life. While data shows much
higher incomes for those with education beyond high school, it’s lack of good
stewardship, even among highly educated people, that’s bringing people into financial
bondage and accompanying pressures and consequences, regardless of diplomas and
degrees obtained.
Often, we’re told the solution for
getting out of financial problems is greater faith displayed by giving large
amounts of money to preachers who say you otherwise aren’t walking in great
faith and thus aren’t able to produce the financial situation necessary to get
out of bondage and build wealth. A couple of their noted thoughts are you must do
more spontaneous giving when you hear the call for various types of donations
by influential faith leaders with huge national or worldwide platforms, and
also you cannot out give God so you must give much more so He can give you much
more than you need. While the bible attests to the fact that people curse
themselves by failing to honor God in tithing and free-will giving, it doesn’t
divorce giving from other aspects of good financial stewardship that have to do
with being obedient to Him including:
**Continually working toward more
gainful employment from which you can fulfill God’s purpose for your life and
appropriately care for yourself and family.
**Intricately knowing your income and
expenses so you can employ financial management that ensures it lasts
throughout future generations.
**Having a lifestyle well within your financial
wherewithal to ensure reasonable margin (cash flow) remains for establishing
an emergency fund, eliminating debt, investing in equity vehicles, and increased
giving.
**Making sure you never let the
purchase of things desired (houses, cars, educational degrees, jewelry, etc.) put
you in a position where you cannot in the present or future provide for the
needs of your household.
**Refusing to co-sign.
**Being wise in planning projects (home
purchases, car buying, diplomas and degrees, etc.) by ensuring you have
enough to complete them without being in debt bondage.
**Becoming reasonably diversified in equity
& fixed-income vehicles as you consistently invest long-term to grow wealth
for your future.
If the limited financial message of
tithing & giving is all that church members need then all we would need do
is give each of our whole paychecks to our local church each time we receive
one and then wait for a little while to see our mortgages, car notes, school
bills, and other expenses paid off by God or other people when the payments are
due. Of course, no one follows this model. Biblical instructions let us know
there are other reasonable steps we must be aware of and employ (those
mentioned above) in order to put ourselves on the positive side of the
financial arena. People will not continually pay your monthly bills while you
go about making irresponsible financial decisions, no matter how much you think
you give.
Faith by grace instructs our spirit
that well-rounded good stewardship is the pattern that pleases the Lord and
helps increase our prosperity and fruitfulness in carrying out our part of the
Great Commission. When you have confession of faith in and allegiance to Jesus
Christ you are saved by grace and will reach Heaven when you die, yet failure
to be spiritually and naturally moved to follow bible-based good stewardship
practices very often leads people, even Christians, to the portion of the
financial arena that is Hell on earth.
You choose this day and going forward
life and blessing or death and curses and remember by His grace you are chosen
in Christ Jesus to do good works. Now this is a message that needs to be
preached during Sunday morning services at least once per year for several
weeks including practical steps and tools to employ good stewardship so we can
get out of the malaise of financial bondage we continually find ourselves in
which hampers many individuals, families, and the Church.
Proverbs
21:20, 22:7, 27:23-27, Luke 12:42-46, 14:28-30, 16:1-15
Please
pray for this ministry and email questions to parlor@ameritech.net
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richly as you follow His plan!
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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!
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