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Why God Wants You to Save Money (From Proverbs) · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: Did you know that fifty six percent of Americans cannot
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  Speaker 1: cover a simple one thousand dollar emergency, one car breakdown,
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  Speaker 1: one trip to the emergency room, one broken furnace in
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  Speaker 1: the dead of January, and more than half the people
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  Speaker 1: watching this right now would have absolutely no choice but
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  Speaker 1: to reach for a credit card one charging twenty two
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  Speaker 1: percent interest, just to survive the week. That is not
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  Speaker 1: a small problem. That is a quiet crisis unfolding in
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  Speaker 1: millions of American homes right now. And the most painful
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  Speaker 1: part is this, most people believe this is simply normal,
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  Speaker 1: that sleepless nights, financial arguments, and the suffocating feeling of
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  Speaker 1: living paycheck to paycheck is just the way life is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be. But what if it is not. What
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  Speaker 1: if the most powerful blueprint for financial freedom in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the world has been sitting right on your shelf,
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  Speaker 1: collecting dust buried inside the ancient pages of the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Proverbs. Right now, before we go one second further,
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  Speaker 1: if this is already speaking directly to your situation, type
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  Speaker 1: the words I am ready in the comments below right
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  Speaker 1: now two seconds that one small act of faith sets
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  Speaker 1: the tone for everything you are about to receive. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: I will wait. In the next twenty minutes, I am
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  Speaker 1: going to reveal five ancient wealth building secrets directly from
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs that will completely transform how you handle money, pull
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  Speaker 1: you out of the paycheck to paycheck panic, rebuild your
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  Speaker 1: financial confidence, and secure a lasting legacy for your family.
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  Speaker 1: These are not theories. These are time tested, God breathed
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  Speaker 1: principles from the wisest and wealthiest man who ever walked
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  Speaker 1: this earth. Let us get into it. Before we dive
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  Speaker 1: into the five secrets, I need you to understand exactly
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  Speaker 1: who we are learning from today. We are not following
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  Speaker 1: a trendy finance influencer. We are not taking advice from
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street. We are going directly to the original source.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty one, Verse twenty says this the wise store
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  Speaker 1: up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.
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  Speaker 1: Read that again. The wise store up, they prepare, they
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  Speaker 1: build systems, and fools people acting without wisdom. They consume
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  Speaker 1: everything the moment it arrives and have absolutely nothing left
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  Speaker 1: when the storm comes. Now, who wrote those words? King Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: the primary author of the Book of Proverbs. And here
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  Speaker 1: is a fact that most believers have never fully absorbed
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  Speaker 1: Solomon was not simply a spiritual teacher. He was the
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  Speaker 1: wealthiest human being who has ever lived on this planet.
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  Speaker 1: Historians and biblical scholars estimate that Solomon's net worth converted
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  Speaker 1: into today's dollars would be approximately two point one trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: To put that in perspective, the richest person alive on
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  Speaker 1: Earth today is worth less less than a fraction of
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  Speaker 1: what Solomon accumulated. Solomon was not offering financial advice from
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  Speaker 1: a place of theory. He was speaking from personal, lived,
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  Speaker 1: and divinely blessed experience. He knew exactly how money worked
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  Speaker 1: because God taught him. And here is what makes that
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  Speaker 1: so incredibly powerful. God gave Solomon wisdom first, and the
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  Speaker 1: wealth followed. His principles are not just intelligent, they are
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  Speaker 1: spiritually rooted. They have been tested across thousands of years
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  Speaker 1: of human civilization, and they are one hundred percent relevant
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  Speaker 1: to your bank account right now today, in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: first century. Let me share one quick story before we
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  Speaker 1: begin the secrets. Meet John from Texas. John was drowning
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  Speaker 1: in fifteen thousand dollars of auto loan debt. He had
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  Speaker 1: tried budgets, he had tried cutting expenses, but nothing stuck
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  Speaker 1: because he had never changed his core mindset about money.
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  Speaker 1: Then someone placed Proverbs twenty one, verse twenty in front
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  Speaker 1: of him. The phrase fools, gulp theres down hit him
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  Speaker 1: like a freight train. He realized he had been gulping
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  Speaker 1: down every single paycheck. The moment it arrived in his account,
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  Speaker 1: he changed his entire approach, stopped gulping, and built a
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars emergency fund in just eighteen months. That
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  Speaker 1: is the power of a single verse. Now imagine what
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  Speaker 1: five principles can do for your entire family. Secret number
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  Speaker 1: one the ant's strategy. Secret number one is called the
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  Speaker 1: ant's strategy, and it comes directly from Proverbs six, verses
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  Speaker 1: six through eight. Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider
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  Speaker 1: its ways and be wise. It has no commander, no
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  Speaker 1: overseer or ruler. Yet it stores its provisions in summer
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  Speaker 1: and gathers its food at harvest. Here is the truth
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  Speaker 1: behind this verse. The ant does not wait until it
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  Speaker 1: feels motivated. The ant does not check its balance on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday evening and think, let me see what is
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  Speaker 1: left over after this week. The ant has a system.
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  Speaker 1: It operates with complete discipline. It stores automatically, consistently, and
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  Speaker 1: without emotion. It stores first, then it lives on what remains. Now,
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  Speaker 1: look at how the average American handles money today. Most
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  Speaker 1: people earn their paycheck, pay a few bills, spend freely
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  Speaker 1: throughout the month on meals, subscriptions, and convenience purchases, and
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  Speaker 1: then maybe save whatever is left over at the end.
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  Speaker 1: And almost always there is nothing left over. This is
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  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of the ant's strategy. God through Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: is telling you to automate your saving, remove the decision
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  Speaker 1: from your hands entirely, take human emotion completely out of
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  Speaker 1: the equation, whether that is contributing to your four oh
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  Speaker 1: one k at work so the money never even touches
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  Speaker 1: your checking account, or setting up an automatic bank transfer
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  Speaker 1: every payday. The principle is identif store first, live on
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  Speaker 1: what remains. Let me tell you about Marcus. Marcus is
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  Speaker 1: a warehouse manager in Atlanta, Georgia, earning fifty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year. He always told himself he would start
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  Speaker 1: saving when things settled down, but things never settled down,
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  Speaker 1: because life never settles down. Then Marcus made one single decision.
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  Speaker 1: He set up an automatic transfer of one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: every pay day directly into a savings account he barely
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  Speaker 1: looked at. He never saw the money in his checking account,
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  Speaker 1: he never had the opportunity to spend it. Within eighteen months,
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  Speaker 1: Marcus had a solid emergency fund that gave him more
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind than any purchase he had ever made
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  Speaker 1: in his entire adult life. Your action step for secret
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  Speaker 1: number one today, not tomorrow, not on Monday, not when
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  Speaker 1: the next paycheck arrives. Today. Set up an automatic transfer
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  Speaker 1: of twenty five dollars into a savings account. Every time
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  Speaker 1: you receive your pay twenty five dollars start. There be
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  Speaker 1: the ant Secret number two, the fake wealth trap. Secret
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  Speaker 1: number two is quietly destroying more American families right now
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  Speaker 1: than almost any other financial force, and most people do
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  Speaker 1: not even recognize it is happening to them. I call
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  Speaker 1: it the fake wealth trap. Proverbs thirteen, verse seven. One
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  Speaker 1: person pretends to be rich yet has nothing. Another pretends
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  Speaker 1: to be poor yet has great wealth. Solomon wrote those
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  Speaker 1: words thousands of years ago, but he might as well
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  Speaker 1: have been scrolling through your social media feed this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a culture absolutely saturated with the performance
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  Speaker 1: of wealth, luxury, vehicles on a lease, designer clothes, charge
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  Speaker 1: to a credit card, vacations funded by buy now, pay
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  Speaker 1: later apps. From the outside, it all looks like success
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  Speaker 1: on the bank statement, it is a catastrophe. The world
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  Speaker 1: has convinced millions of Americans to trade real financial seas
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  Speaker 1: security for the appearance of financial success, and Proverbs identified
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  Speaker 1: this trap over three thousand years before Instagram existed. Pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be rich while having nothing is not a modern problem.
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  Speaker 1: It is a deeply human problem, and it leads to
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  Speaker 1: the same destination every single time financial Bondage meet Sarah
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  Speaker 1: and Tom from Ohio. They looked absolutely incredible from the outside,
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  Speaker 1: two brand new vehicles in the driveway, a beautifully decorated home,
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  Speaker 1: kids in every activity, perfectly curated vacations posted online every summer.
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  Speaker 1: But underneath all of that, they had accumulated twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in credit card debt, spending money to maintain a
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle that looked wealthy but left them completely drained. Every
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  Speaker 1: single month. Their two vehicles alone cost fourteen hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: per month in combined payments and insurance, money that could
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  Speaker 1: have been building a real future. When Sarah read Proverbs thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven, something broke open inside of her. She and
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  Speaker 1: Tom made a hard decision. They sold one vehicle. They
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  Speaker 1: bought a used Honda Civic with cash, no payment, no interest,
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  Speaker 1: no chain around their neck. They cut every unnecessary subscription,
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  Speaker 1: eliminated impulse buying, and stopped performing wealth for an audience
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  Speaker 1: that was not even paying their bills. For the first
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  Speaker 1: time in years, they watched their bank account actually grow.
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  Speaker 1: The appearance of wealth was gone. Real wealth had begun.
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  Speaker 1: Your action step for secret number two right now, go
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  Speaker 1: to your social media and unfollow one account, one brand,
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  Speaker 1: one influencer, one lifestyle page that consistently makes you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you need to spend money you do not have
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  Speaker 1: in order to feel valuable. Just one. Protect your mind
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  Speaker 1: and your wallet will follow. Secret number three, the compound effect.
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  Speaker 1: Secret number three is found in Proverbs thirteen, verse eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Dishonest money dwindles away, But whoever gathers money little by
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  Speaker 1: little makes it grow. Pay close attention to that phrase
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  Speaker 1: little by little. God is not promising you a lottery win.
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  Speaker 1: He is not endorsing a volatile cryptocurrency. He is not
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  Speaker 1: telling you that one brilliant investment will transform your life. Overnight.
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  Speaker 1: He is saying, gather consistently, faithfully, little by little, and
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  Speaker 1: it will grow. This is the principle of compound growth,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most mathematically proven forces in the entire
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  Speaker 1: history of wealth building. The Standard and Poor's five hundred
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  Speaker 1: Index Fund, a diversified investment across five hundred of America's
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  Speaker 1: largest companies, has delivered an average annual return of approximately
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  Speaker 1: ten percent over the past twenty years, even through multiple
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  Speaker 1: recessions and significant market downturns. One hundred fifty dollars invested
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  Speaker 1: every single month does not simply become the sum of
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  Speaker 1: your contributions. It multiplies interest earns interest, growth compounds on
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  Speaker 1: top of growth, little by little, becomes something extraordinary over
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  Speaker 1: two decades. And notice what the same verse warns against.
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  Speaker 1: Dishonest money, money chased through shortcuts, speculation and overnight schemes
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  Speaker 1: dwindles away sound familiar meme stocks, pump and dump schemes,
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  Speaker 1: pyramid programs dressed in clever marketing language. Solomon identified every
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  Speaker 1: single one of these traps over three thousand years before
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  Speaker 1: the Internet existed. Meet Linda. Linda is a registered nurse
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  Speaker 1: in Florida. She is not a financial genius. She does
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  Speaker 1: not day trade stocks or track cryptocurrency prices at midnight.
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  Speaker 1: What Linda does is beautifully simple. Every month, without fail
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  Speaker 1: she invests one hundred and fifty dollars into a low
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  Speaker 1: cost index fund. She has done this for twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks entirely to compound growth, Linda now has a retirement
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  Speaker 1: nest egg worth more than two hundred thousand dollars, built
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  Speaker 1: one hundred fifty dollars at a time, exactly as Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: promised it would work. Your action step for Secret number three,
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  Speaker 1: look at your budget this week and find one small
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  Speaker 1: recurring expense, a daily coffee habit, an unused subscription, a
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  Speaker 1: regular fast food stop, and redirect even twenty dollars a
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  Speaker 1: month toward a savings or investment account. Start the little
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  Speaker 1: by little process today, because today is the youngest you
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  Speaker 1: will ever be mid video rehook around ten minutes. Stop
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  Speaker 1: stay right here with me, because we are now exactly
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  Speaker 1: halfway through these five Proverbs principles. What we have covered
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  Speaker 1: so far, the ant strategy, the fake wealth trap, the
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  Speaker 1: compound effect could realistically double your savings within the next
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  Speaker 1: two years if you apply them. Stifle arting today. But
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  Speaker 1: secret number five, Secret number five is the one principle
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  Speaker 1: that will determine whether your grandchildren are wealthy or struggling.
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  Speaker 1: Not your children, your grandchildren. That is not exaggeration, that
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  Speaker 1: is scripture. And before we get there, secret number four
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  Speaker 1: is going to expose a dangerous lie that is circulating
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  Speaker 1: quietly inside the American Church, a belief disguised as faith
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  Speaker 1: that is actually keeping sincere tithing Bible believing Christians financially
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  Speaker 1: stuck year after year after year. I am going to
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  Speaker 1: confront that lie directly. You have never heard it. Address
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  Speaker 1: this plainly, do not go anywhere. Secret number four preparing
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  Speaker 1: for winter. Secret number four is called preparing for winter,
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  Speaker 1: and it is grounded in Proverbs twenty seven, verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: The prudence see danger and take refuge, but the simple
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  Speaker 1: keep going and pay the penalty. I want to address
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  Speaker 1: something directly because I hear this concern constantly from believers.
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  Speaker 1: If I truly trust God, do I even need an
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  Speaker 1: emergency fund? Is saving for the worst case scenario a
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  Speaker 1: sign of lacking faith. This is a sincere and important question,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible answers it with absolute clarity. Proverbs does
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  Speaker 1: not say the faithful ignore danger. It says the prudent.
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  Speaker 1: The why see danger approaching and take refuge before it arrives.
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  Speaker 1: God is not calling you to be reckless and call
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  Speaker 1: it faith. He is calling you to be prudent. Prudence
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  Speaker 1: is not the absence of trust. It is trust expressed
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  Speaker 1: through action and preparation. That is not doubt. That is discipleship.
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  Speaker 1: Layoffs happen. They happen to hundreds of thousands of American
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  Speaker 1: workers in recent years. Medical emergencies strike without warning, car
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  Speaker 1: engines fail, roofs develop leaks at the worst possible moment.
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  Speaker 1: These are not signs of spiritual failure. They are the ordinary,
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  Speaker 1: predictable realities of living in a fallen world. And the
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  Speaker 1: same God who directed the aunt to store provisions in
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  Speaker 1: summer is commanding you to build a financial refuge before
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  Speaker 1: your personal winter season arrives. In your life, the widely
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  Speaker 1: accepted benchmark is three to six months of living expenses
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  Speaker 1: held in a high yield savings account, a separate account
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  Speaker 1: earning meaningful interest, completely untouched except for genuine emergencies. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a compromise of your faith. This is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what God, through Solomon calls prudence. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: about James. James was a software engineer in Seattle, Washington, Talented,
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  Speaker 1: well compensated, and confident his position was completely secure. Then
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  Speaker 1: the technology industry's significant wave of layoffs arrived and James
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  Speaker 1: lost his job with almost no warning. But James had
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  Speaker 1: done something different from most of his colleagues. He had
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  Speaker 1: quietly built six months of living expenses inside a high
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  Speaker 1: yield savings account, completely separate from his everyday spending. While
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  Speaker 1: coworkers panicked and accepted the first available offer out of desperation,
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  Speaker 1: James was calm. He had time, He interviewed carefully, evaluated
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  Speaker 1: every option thoughtfully, and landed a better position at a
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  Speaker 1: higher salary three months later. The emergency fund did not
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  Speaker 1: just protect his finances. It protected his peace, his marriage,
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  Speaker 1: and his ability to make genuinely wise decisions under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Your action step for Secret number four this week. Open
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  Speaker 1: a high yield savings account completely separate from your everyday
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  Speaker 1: checking account. Label it your refuge fund. Start it with
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  Speaker 1: whatever you have, even fifty dollars. Let it grow quietly, untouched,
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  Speaker 1: and let the peace of God settle over your household
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  Speaker 1: in a way that no paycheck alone has ever been
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  Speaker 1: able to provide. Secret number five the generational shift, and
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  Speaker 1: now the secret that changes not just your life, but
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  Speaker 1: your entire family line for generations. Proverbs thirteen, verse twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: A good person leaves an inheritance for their children's children,
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  Speaker 1: not just your children, your children's children. God's financial vision
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  Speaker 1: for your life reaches far beyond your own lifetime. The
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  Speaker 1: purpose of saving money is not merely your personal comfort
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  Speaker 1: or your own security alone. It is a tool God
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  Speaker 1: has placed in your hands to break generational cycles of poverty,
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  Speaker 1: to rewrite your family's story permanently, and to leave a
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  Speaker 1: legacy of blessing that will outlive you by generations you
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  Speaker 1: will never even meet on this side of eternity. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the truth that I believe hits the deepest. Saving
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  Speaker 1: money is not selfishness. Saving money is not hoarding. When
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  Speaker 1: you save wisely, invest carefully, and manage God's resources with
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  Speaker 1: discipline and integrity, you become a vessel of blessing, not
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  Speaker 1: just for yourself, not just for your own immediate children,
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  Speaker 1: but for grandchildren who have not yet been born. Your
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  Speaker 1: faithfulness today is someone else's foundation tomorrow. Meet Maria. Maria
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  Speaker 1: is a single mother in Chicago, Illinois. She works two jobs,
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  Speaker 1: manages her household entirely on her own, and some months
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  Speaker 1: she counts every single dollar just to reach the next payday.
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  Speaker 1: But Maria made a decision that was bigger than her
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  Speaker 1: current circumstances. She opened a five twenty nine education savings
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  Speaker 1: plan for her daughter and set up an automatic contribution
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  Speaker 1: of twenty five dollars every single month. She said this,
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  Speaker 1: I do not want my daughter to start her adult
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  Speaker 1: life the way I started mine, buried under student loan
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  Speaker 1: debth that took me ten years to dig out from under.
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  Speaker 1: She is going to start free. Maria does not have
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  Speaker 1: much by the world's measure, but Maria has a vision
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  Speaker 1: that reaches beyond herself, and that vision is quietly and
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  Speaker 1: permanently rewriting the trajectory of her entire family. Your action
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  Speaker 1: step for Secret number five tonight, sit down with your
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  Speaker 1: family or simply with yourself, and write down one financial
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  Speaker 1: goal for the next five years. One specific goal, one
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  Speaker 1: specific dollar amount, one specific deadline. Maybe it is paying
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  Speaker 1: off your final credit card. Maybe it is opening a
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  Speaker 1: college fund for your child. Maybe it is paying off
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  Speaker 1: your home entirely and owning it debt free. Write it down,
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  Speaker 1: seal it in prayer, and let God's principles work through
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  Speaker 1: your daily decisions to bring it to life. I want
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  Speaker 1: to close with a story that I believe is going
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  Speaker 1: to stay with you for a very long time. David
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  Speaker 1: and Emily are a couple from the Midwest. Just a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago, they had accumulated forty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in combined consumer and medical debt. They were behind on
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  Speaker 1: their mortgage payments. Foreclosure notices had begun arriving in their mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: Their marriage was fracturing under the unbearable, relentless weight of
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  Speaker 1: financial pressure, arguments. Every night, silence at the dinner table,
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  Speaker 1: a deepening distance between two people who had once been
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  Speaker 1: completely in love. Every unknown phone call sent a wave
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  Speaker 1: of dread through both of them. They were ashamed, exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: and running completely out of hope. In the middle of
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  Speaker 1: their darkest night, Emily picked up her Bible and opened
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  Speaker 1: it to Proverbs. She read it differently than she ever
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  Speaker 1: had before, not as routine religion, but as a woman
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  Speaker 1: reaching for a lifeline in the dark. She and David
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  Speaker 1: sat together at the kitchen table that night and read
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  Speaker 1: these verses out loud to each other, and something broke
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  Speaker 1: open in both of them. Not just emotionally, but decisively.
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  Speaker 1: A turning point that could not be undone, they chose
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  Speaker 1: to stop performing wealth and start building it. They sold belongings,
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  Speaker 1: they worked additional hours, They stopped eating out, eliminated every
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  Speaker 1: unnecessary subscription, and said no to things they had never
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  Speaker 1: said no to before. They embraced humility over the appearance
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  Speaker 1: of success. They automated their savings twenty five dollars at
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  Speaker 1: a time. They built their emergency fund. They made a
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  Speaker 1: plan not just for themselves, but for the children who
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  Speaker 1: would come after them. It took four years, four years
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  Speaker 1: of real sacrifice, of saying no consistently, of late nights
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  Speaker 1: at the kitchen table, crunching numbers side by side, of tears,
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  Speaker 1: of small victories celebrated with genuine gratitude, and setbacks endured
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  Speaker 1: together with determination. But David and Emily are completely debt
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  Speaker 1: free today. They own one hundred percent of their home,
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  Speaker 1: their marriage is stronger than it has ever been, And
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  Speaker 1: they share this testimony with everyone who will listen. Because
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  Speaker 1: it all started with one desperate night, one open Bible,
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  Speaker 1: and the ancient wisdom of the Book of Proverbs. The
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  Speaker 1: promise I made to you at the very beginning of
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  Speaker 1: this video is real. God's word provides the blast, but
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  Speaker 1: we must take the steps. God does not want us
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  Speaker 1: living in anxiety every time the phone rings because we
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  Speaker 1: are afraid it is a bill collector. He does not
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  Speaker 1: want us lying awake at three in the morning, calculating
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  Speaker 1: whether we will make it to Friday. He wants us
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  Speaker 1: to walk in peace, in abundance, and in generosity when
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  Speaker 1: we manage his resources wisely. When we honor the principles
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  Speaker 1: He placed in Proverbs thousands of years ago, we do
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  Speaker 1: not just transform our own lives. We become a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to every family, every community, and every generation that comes
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  Speaker 1: after us. That is the calling, that is the inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: and you are more than capable of answering it. If
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  Speaker 1: you are ready, truly ready, to break the cycle of
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  Speaker 1: debt and step into the financial peace that God designs
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  Speaker 1: specifically for your life. I want you to type something
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  Speaker 1: in the comments right now. Type this, I am debt
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  Speaker 1: free and walking in God's abundance, even if you are
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  Speaker 1: not there yet. Type it as a bold declaration of
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  Speaker 1: faith over your future. Speak it before you see it,
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  Speaker 1: declare it before you feel it, and then take the
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  Speaker 1: practical steps. One faithful day at a time to make
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  Speaker 1: it your reality. And please do not keep this video
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  Speaker 1: to yourself. Think right now about one specific person in
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  Speaker 1: your life who is silently struggling with their finances and
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  Speaker 1: is too asheemed or too proud to ask anyone for help.
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  Speaker 1: A sibling, a co worker, a close friend, someone in
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  Speaker 1: your small group at church who you know is carrying
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  Speaker 1: a financial burden they have never spoken out loud. Share
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  Speaker 1: this video with that one person today. You may never
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  Speaker 1: fully know how much they needed it. One share from
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  Speaker 1: you could permanently alter the financial future of someone you love. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to prosper. And that is not empty encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: That is the promise woven into every page of Proverbs.
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  Speaker 1: But next week I am going to reveal the number
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  Speaker 1: one reason that God's people stay financially stuck, even when
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  Speaker 1: they tithe faithfully, even when they pray diligently over their finances,
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  Speaker 1: even when they genuinely have the best intentions in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It is something the Church almost never discusses openly and
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  Speaker 1: understanding it will completely transform the way you approach money
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  Speaker 1: as a believer. You absolutely do not want to miss
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  Speaker 1: and I will see you in the next video. Stay faithful,
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  Speaker 1: stay wise, Stay blessed.