Then take to heart this straight talk to encourage you to grow and mature - delay pleasure - and get positioned for great things.
Dave Ramsey provides a perspective on how we make financial decisions. Are you tired of making excuses? Do you want to listen to some fact based truth with a direct assessment of your spending? Are you ready to face the cold hard truth and make some financial changes? Do you desire the kind of changes that will stabilize your life and unlock your destiny?
Then take to heart this straight talk to encourage you to grow and mature - delay pleasure - and get positioned for great things.
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Quality relationships and choices are one of the primary indicators of wealth building. Are you an emotionally stable individual who values a solid family platform from which to build a life of financial success? Are you trustworthy? Your character helps to shape your financial opportunities.
Get ready for some straight talk from Dave Ramsey about taking control of your choices, building viable relationships, and then from that place, building wealth which is used to propel your life, family and Godly purpose forward.
Prager University offers us a secular, yet insightful view, of free enterprise as it relates to a moral imperative. Isn't it true that those of us in search of a Godly destiny also desire to be fruitful and fulfilled in our service to God and others? Isn't there something important for our eternal walk in this pursuit?
Prager University will encourage you with this idea, "Built into the foundation of free enterprise is a promise. It's a promise that no other economic system offers. This promise has a great deal to do with your sense of well-being, that is, your happiness. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton understood this. So does renowned social scientist, Arthur Brooks. In five minutes, he explains how happiness and free enterprise are marvelously entwined."
Prager University outlines for us the path and way that wealth is created. Do you desire a destiny filled with possibilities and prosperity? Of course you do.
Prager University challenges us with the following, "Why are some countries rich and some countries poor? Is it access to natural resources? Is it tax policy? A motivated work force? These are important, but not determinative. The answer is deceptively simple – it’s what’s in our heads: knowledge. Thus, the surest way to promote economic growth is to cultivate an environment that encourages the spread of knowledge. Such an environment requires freedom, which is why the freest societies are the most prosperous. In five minutes, economist George Gilder explains why."
In this video, Chris Hoff encourages us to empower each others dreams. He describes three dreams that he had over consecutive nights that convinced him it was time to move in faith.
He reaches the conclusion, rightly so, that believers must be woven together and dedicated to helping each other reach their Godly destiny.
This video will make you hungry for your own destiny - and at the same time - encourage you to help others. Hungering for and participating with others, in this way, unlocks destiny. How? By engaging your faith - your heart to give - and your willingness to care deeply for other people's purpose - as much as you care for your own.
Imagine an empowered nation walking in the fullness of their dreams. You can learn more about Chris's project by visiting https://www.facebook.com/empower1another or http://empower1another.org/
Having the faith to handle destiny supporting finances is a real key to unlocking your Godly purpose. While many skills and mindsets are part of the equation, one can not forget the power of faith and steadfast dependence on God to attain all that He has designed you to be.
Are you suffering from lack? Have you been frustrated by financial struggles that seem unrelenting?
If so, then let this discussion of Kingdom financial principles encourage you to a new level of faith and abundance. May you have an abundance for every good deed!
We found a little gem today. It was a comment posting made by a man only known as Mike. This tidbit was just lying there begging to be shared with a larger audience. Mike's Christian witness of endurance seems to be building character and character - hope. Mike's journey and his critically thinking questions are quite instructive and ought to challenge us all in how we approach Kingdom money matters.
Mike opines: "Last year Bill Johnson did a four week sermon series on prosperity with a purpose, and shared some excellent principles. I have wrestled in many ways with investing and prosperity principles. Like many of my brothers and sisters online here, I have received prophetic words, revelation, and calling into the mountain of business and finances for the Kingdom of God. I have experienced frustration, loss, gain, and emotional turmoil. I've experienced the ambush of the Josephs. My hope is that these nuggets of wisdom will be a blessing to you. Nowhere in Scripture are we instructed to seek to be rich, in fact Proverbs says the opposite. Seeking and stewardship are two separate things. We are told to seek the Kingdom of God, His righteousness, seek God, and seek wisdom and understanding, but not riches. What happens is when we seek what we are instructed to seek, we prosper. The challenge then becomes stewardship of the prosperity, rather than allowing the riches to become the thing we are seeking. I have found this task to be more challenging than I ever imagined, but God! A good question I am asking myself now, how much time am I spending looking at the markets, portfolios, business information, compared to the time seeking His Kingdom, His righteousness, wisdom and understanding? Through this process my prayers have changed. I have found I Timothy 6:3-10 to be of utmost importance for all of us called to steward wealth. "If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain... " I have been asking God for godliness with contentment now. One year I earn more in my job, the next year I earn less, will I be content with what God has provided? I find a test in all of this, will I choose peace and contentment as more important than financial gain? Will I truly trust in the Lord and wait on Him? I wrestle with having patience, having dreams I want to see the Lord fulfill, and as yet unfulfilled. Not wanting to be in the crucible of refining, yet in meditation in His Word seeing the necessity of the refining, otherwise the wealth could destroy me and my family. It is simple to see, looking at the record of lottery winners, over 90% of whom have destroyed lives, marriages, and families. Will I be different? Will I be able to seek what I am supposed to seek, and steward what I am supposed to steward? Bill Johnson added another important revelation: It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it. (Proverbs 10:22) I ask myself this question now, when I have gained, was there sorrow with it? Was there any accompanying loss or sorrow? Was it truly God's blessing? If I listened to someone else's revelation and followed it in the market and lost, what was my reaction? Anger? Frustration? If someone else succeeded and I wasn't in that investment am I envious or jealous? If I share counsel or advice with someone do they receive it well? Do I handle it well if they don't receive it? Can I simply love and pray, blessing my brother or sister and asking God to help them grow and mature in seeking and stewardship? Asking God to help me hear Him more clearly, to be content. My goal here is not to discourage anyone who has this calling in their lives, but to encourage you. We need to be molded, shaped, refined, to steward what God wants to transfer. If we are not, it can destroy us. I pray that the Lord develop godliness with contentment in you. What is the place of contentment? I Timothy 6:8, “If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.” Grow to be content, there are many wicked behaviors associated with godliness as a means of gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain. I have fallen in this area more times than I care to count. Lord, please mold us in the image of Jesus, in godliness with contentment. God Bless, Mike
In this video, Bob Katz presents investing wisdom from King Solomon, and subsequently proven by a major modern university study. Ecclesiastes 11:2 says, "Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth."
In this scripture and study we see wisdom that points to a specific strategy for investing that with which you have been entrusted.
Taken to a next step, Bob Katz talks about dividing your financial holdings into 7 portions, which includes:
Remember, you are responsible for handling the resources with which you have been entrusted, so do your own research, as this is not meant to be specific financial advice - but rather, a perspective from which to unlock your destiny.
In this discussion, G. Edward Reid, attorney, financial planner and pastor, lays out seven Biblical principles for managing money. As you watch this video, pay special attention to the Biblical perspective that strongly supports his thesis. You will learn that proper money management with a Christian worldview requires a properly oriented way of thinking and acting as regards money.
These seven principles are a great place to start, and includes understanding that:
God wants to prosper you. He wants to break the spirit of poverty over your life and release significant financial resources to you. But there are several deeper issues to be considered with this promise. First, God desires more than simply blessing us personally. He wants to release resources for establishing His kingdom on the earth. Second, He does not want prosperity to dampen our desire for Him and spiritual things. Last, He is giving us an opportunity for faithfulness with natural resources so we can be trusted with "the true riches" (see Luke 16:11).
Money provides tremendous opportunities, but also brings difficult tests. In fact, with the remarkable material prosperity released in our generation, "being blessed" has proven a curse for many people. When their money and material possessions have increased, many solid Christians have tragically lost their heart for God and the furthering of His kingdom. Many of these failed when tested with financial blessing because of three mistakes. First, they largely misunderstood the purpose of financial increase and money in general. Second, many did not embrace the repentance that John the Baptist preached. Third, when God released prosperity to them, they allowed their focus to drift away from Him and toward the natural wealth He had provided. |
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