Steady Plodding Brings Prosperity - The Blessed Life Part 2

“Steady plodding brings prosperity; hasty speculation brings poverty.” Proverbs 21:5 TLB Goal #1 - Worship God With Tithe - Begin Using A Spending Plan (budget) - Save $1,000 For Emergencies Goal #2 - Continue to Worship God With our Tithe - Begin to Pay Off Credit Cards - Increase Savings To 1 Month’s Living Expenses. Goal #3 - Continue to Worship God With Tithe - Pay Off All Consumer Debt (cars, student loans etc.) - Increase Savings To 3 Months Living Expenses – seemed to take forever. Goal #4 - Worship God With Tithe - Begin Saving For Major Purchases (home, car, etc.) - Begin Saving For Retirement (that seemed like a far off dream) - Begin Saving For Children’s Education Goal #5 - Worship God With Tithe - Buy Affordable House - Begin Prepaying Home Mortgage - Begin Investing Wisely Goal #6 - Worship God With Tithe (continue…) - Pay Off Home Mortgage - Fund Children’s Education - Confirm Estate Plan Is In Order Goal #7 - Worship God With Tithe - Fund Retirement - Be Generous With Our Time and Money 7 Biblical Principles About Money: #1. How You Handle Money Impacts The Closeness Of Your Relationship With Jesus. 11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? Luke 16:11 NIV #2. Money Is The Primary Competitor With God For Our Affection. Jesus said we would love and serve – one or the other. 24 ‘No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matthew 6:24 NIV #3. God Wants Us To Handle Money Wisely. #4. God Owns All Your Possessions. The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; Psalms 24:1 … The land is Mine and you reside in My land as foreigners and strangers. Leviticus 25:23 8 “The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,” declares the Lord Almighty. Haggai 2:8 For every animal of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are Mine. 12 If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and all that is in it. Psalms 50:10-12 #5. God Is Ultimately In Control. 5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you… 8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. Genesis 45:5,8 NIV 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Genesis 50:20 NIV #6. God Is Our Provider – He is Jehovah Jireh #7. Jesus Is Lord Of The Universe Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Isaiah 40:26