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Mastering Money Matters - pt. 9
Handling Money Wisely
As we continue in this series, I pray and believe that you are gaining insight and revelation, and most importantly, rearranging your thinking about money. We have made the following tools available to help you in this process: 1) a Spending Record intended to track your monthly spending; and 2) a Money Meanings survey intended to gauge what money means to you. Last Wednesday in Covenant Circles, we identified four predominant attitudes tied to money: freedom, security, power, or notions of love. This survey is an important tool to understanding why and how your emotion is tied to money. Your emotional reaction to money is how money moves into God’s territory – all of these responses to money (love, freedom, power or security) are what God is to His children.
1. I am not supposed to spend everything that comes into my hands. Some money is intended to bless others, including your Man of God and the ministry. The world tells things will make you happy and give you the status you feel you need.
Proverb 27:23, 24 –Being diligent or paying attention to your finances is a promise to be blessed. Why? Because riches aren’t forever.
Philippians 4:10-13, 19 – Paul advised us that balance is key. Not to be too full or too hungry, but in just the right balance in giving and receiving. Why should you change when you have too much? Or too little? Abundance is meant to carry you for something else. God intends you to be full and empty at the same time! If you live in the balance, it doesn’t matter if you have little or a ton.
1 Timothy 6:6-8; 17-19 – God intends for you to enjoy the fruits of your labor, and spread the rest. But not every dollar that comes to you is intended for you. It is very difficult to help others when you’re broke yourself! You have to have it first before you can give it, which should be motivation enough to have more. Having a willing heart to give is what comes after.
Ecclesiastes 5:10; 18-20 -- A wise man doesn’t spend his days worrying about the future, but rather enjoys the fruit of his labor. There has to be more to it than just your blessing, but to bless others.
Luke 12:15 – Jesus warned us take care not to be greedy. Your life does not consist of the status or material things you have.
A shrewd (wise, sharp, artful, one who pays attention to detail) spender is one who enjoys the fruit of their labor but guards against materialism.
Our job is to earn a giving, not a living! Our work (labor) is to fulfill a purpose, to work out what God has put in you.
As we continue in this series, I pray and believe that you are gaining insight and revelation, and most importantly, rearranging your thinking about money. We have made the following tools available to help you in this process: 1) a Spending Record intended to track your monthly spending; and 2) a Money Meanings survey intended to gauge what money means to you. Last Wednesday in Covenant Circles, we identified four predominant attitudes tied to money: freedom, security, power, or notions of love. This survey is an important tool to understanding why and how your emotion is tied to money. Your emotional reaction to money is how money moves into God’s territory – all of these responses to money (love, freedom, power or security) are what God is to His children.
1. I am not supposed to spend everything that comes into my hands. Some money is intended to bless others, including your Man of God and the ministry. The world tells things will make you happy and give you the status you feel you need.
Proverb 27:23, 24 –Being diligent or paying attention to your finances is a promise to be blessed. Why? Because riches aren’t forever.
Philippians 4:10-13, 19 – Paul advised us that balance is key. Not to be too full or too hungry, but in just the right balance in giving and receiving. Why should you change when you have too much? Or too little? Abundance is meant to carry you for something else. God intends you to be full and empty at the same time! If you live in the balance, it doesn’t matter if you have little or a ton.
1 Timothy 6:6-8; 17-19 – God intends for you to enjoy the fruits of your labor, and spread the rest. But not every dollar that comes to you is intended for you. It is very difficult to help others when you’re broke yourself! You have to have it first before you can give it, which should be motivation enough to have more. Having a willing heart to give is what comes after.
Ecclesiastes 5:10; 18-20 -- A wise man doesn’t spend his days worrying about the future, but rather enjoys the fruit of his labor. There has to be more to it than just your blessing, but to bless others.
Luke 12:15 – Jesus warned us take care not to be greedy. Your life does not consist of the status or material things you have.
A shrewd (wise, sharp, artful, one who pays attention to detail) spender is one who enjoys the fruit of their labor but guards against materialism.
Our job is to earn a giving, not a living! Our work (labor) is to fulfill a purpose, to work out what God has put in you.
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