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Financial Wisdom_ Biblical Principles for Debt Freedom_ Saving _ Generosit · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: The world teaches us to spend money. We do not
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  Speaker 1: have to buy things. We do not need to impress people,
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  Speaker 1: we do not even know. The Bible calls this slavery.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, in this very moment, millions of people are
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  Speaker 1: trapped in a cycle that steals their peace, destroys their families,
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  Speaker 1: and keeps them locked in a cage they built with
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  Speaker 1: their own choices. The average American carries over thirty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in personal debt. That is thirty thousand reasons to
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  Speaker 1: stay awake at three in the morning. But here is
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  Speaker 1: the truth that the world does not want you to know.
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  Speaker 1: God has already given you everything you need to break free.
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  Speaker 1: Every principle, every law, every strategy for financial freedom is
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  Speaker 1: written in the oldest and most powerful book ever created.
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  Speaker 1: And today we are going to unlock three pillars that
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  Speaker 1: will not just change your bank account, but transform your
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  Speaker 1: entire life. Before we dive in, if you are serious
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  Speaker 1: about becoming debt free this year, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: do something right now. Hit that subscribe button and ring
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  Speaker 1: the bell because Bible Assent is committed to walking with
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  Speaker 1: you every single step of this journey. Comment debt Free
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  Speaker 1: by Faith below, So we can pray for your breakthrough together.
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  Speaker 1: Now let us begin. Most people think financial wisdom starts
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  Speaker 1: with a budget or a savings account, but the Bible
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  Speaker 1: reveals something much deeper. True financial freedom begins with understanding
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  Speaker 1: one fundamental truth. You are not the owner of your money.
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  Speaker 1: You are the manager. Every dollar that passes through your
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  Speaker 1: hands belongs to God, and he is watching to see
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  Speaker 1: what you will do with it. This shift in perspective
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  Speaker 1: changes everything. When you see yourself as a steward instead
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  Speaker 1: of an owner, you stop asking can I afford this?
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  Speaker 1: And start asking is this what God wants me to
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  Speaker 1: do with his resources? This single question has the power
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate ninety percent of your financial problems before they
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  Speaker 1: even start. The world operates on a system of consumption
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  Speaker 1: and debt. Get it now, pay later, maximize your credit limit,
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  Speaker 1: treat yourself because you deserve it. But God's economy operates
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  Speaker 1: on completely opposite principles. His system is built on patience, discipline,
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  Speaker 1: and sacrificial generosity. And the remarkable thing is his system
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  Speaker 1: actually works, not theoretically, not occasionally every single time. Pillar
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  Speaker 1: one debt freedom. Let me read you something that should
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  Speaker 1: shake you to your core. Proverbs twenty two. Verse seven
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  Speaker 1: says the rich rules over the poor, and the borrower
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  Speaker 1: is the slave of the lender. Did you catch that
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  Speaker 1: word slave, not customer, not client. Slave. When you owe
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  Speaker 1: someone money, you have given them authority over your life.
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  Speaker 1: They can call you, they can demand payment, They can
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  Speaker 1: take your assets, they can destroy your credit. Debt is
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  Speaker 1: not just a financial problem. It is a spiritual bondage.
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  Speaker 1: It is a chain around your ankle that keeps you
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  Speaker 1: from running the race God has called you to run.
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  Speaker 1: Every dollar you owe is a dollar you cannot use
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  Speaker 1: for God's kingdom. Every payment you make to a credit
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  Speaker 1: card company is a payment you cannot make to further
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  Speaker 1: the gospel, to bless your family, or to invest in
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  Speaker 1: your future. Let me give you a real exact imagine.
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  Speaker 1: You have a credit card with a five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: balance at eighteen percent interest. If you only make the
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  Speaker 1: minimum payment of one hundred dollars per month, it will
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  Speaker 1: take you seven years to pay it off, and you
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  Speaker 1: will pay over three thousand dollars in interest alone. That
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  Speaker 1: is three thousand dollars that simply vanished into thin air.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what most people do not understand. Debt promises freedom,
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  Speaker 1: but delivers slavery. The credit card commercial shows you living
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  Speaker 1: your best life on a beach somewhere, but it does
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  Speaker 1: not show you six months later when that trip is
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  Speaker 1: long forgotten and you are still making payments with that
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  Speaker 1: crushing interest attached. So how do you break free? The
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  Speaker 1: world offers a thousand complicated solutions, but the Bible gives
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  Speaker 1: us a simple strategy that works every single time. It
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  Speaker 1: is called faithfulness in the little things. Jesus said, whoever
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  Speaker 1: is faithful in very little is also faithful in much.
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  Speaker 1: This principle applies directly to debt elimination. Here is the strategy,
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  Speaker 1: and it is so simple you might be tempted to
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  Speaker 1: dismiss it. List all your debts from smallest to largest.
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  Speaker 1: Ignore the interest rates for now, make minimum payments on
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  Speaker 1: everything except the smallest debt. Attack that smallest debt with
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  Speaker 1: everything you have, every extra dollar, every side hustle income,
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  Speaker 1: every unexpected check. Go straight to that one debt until
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  Speaker 1: it is completely gone. Why start with the smallest Because
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  Speaker 1: you need momentum. You need to see progress. You need
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  Speaker 1: a victory that proves to your brain that freedom is possible.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Sarah, a single mom who
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  Speaker 1: came to our church drowned in debt. She had seven
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  Speaker 1: different debts totaling forty two thousand dollars. She felt hopeless,
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  Speaker 1: but she started with her smallest debt, a six hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars medical bill. Within two months, she paid it off.
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  Speaker 1: That small victory gave her the confidence to attack the
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  Speaker 1: next one. Three years later, she is completely debt free
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  Speaker 1: and now helps others do the same. When you pay
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  Speaker 1: off that first debt, something chemical happens in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You get a taste of freedom, and suddenly you are
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  Speaker 1: motivated to keep going. That is the snowball effect, and
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  Speaker 1: it is rooted in biblical truth about the power of
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  Speaker 1: small beginnings. But here is the part nobody wants to hear.
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  Speaker 1: While you are paying off debt, you have to stop
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  Speaker 1: creating new debt. That means cutting up the credit cards.
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  Speaker 1: That means telling yourself no when the temptation comes to
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  Speaker 1: buy something you cannot afford. That means distinguishing between needs
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  Speaker 1: and wants and choosing to live like a pauper for
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  Speaker 1: a season so you can live in freedom for a lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible calls this dying to self. It is not comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: it is not fun. It requires discipline that most people
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  Speaker 1: are not willing to embrace. But here is the promise.
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  Speaker 1: The path of discipline leads to freedom, while the path
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  Speaker 1: of indulgence leads to slavery. Choose your heart. Being disciplined
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  Speaker 1: is hard. Being in debt is hard, But one hard
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  Speaker 1: leads to life and the other leads to death. Pillar
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  Speaker 1: two strategic saving. Now let me show you one of
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  Speaker 1: the most overlooked verses in all of Scripture. Proverbs six,
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  Speaker 1: verses six through eight says, go to the ant, oh sluggard,
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  Speaker 1: consider her ways and be wise without having any chief
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  Speaker 1: officer or ruler. She prepares her bread in summer and
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  Speaker 1: gathers her food in harvest. Think about that for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: God is using an insect to teach you how to
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  Speaker 1: handle money. The ant does not wait for someone to
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  Speaker 1: tell her to save. She does not need a manager
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  Speaker 1: standing over her shoulder. She sees summer coming and automatically
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  Speaker 1: prepares for winter. She works when food is abundant, so
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  Speaker 1: she will not starve when food is scarce. This is
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of biblical saving. You save not because you
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  Speaker 1: are afraid, but because you are wise. You save not
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  Speaker 1: because you distrust God's provision, But because you understand his wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: God himself designed creation with seasons, with cycles of abundance
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  Speaker 1: and scarcity. The ant recognizes this pattern and responds with preparation.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the story of Joseph in Egypt. Pharaoh had
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  Speaker 1: a dream about seven years of plenty followed by seven
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  Speaker 1: years of famine. Joseph did not panic. He did not
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  Speaker 1: pray away the famine. He prepared for it. He stored
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  Speaker 1: up grain during the abundant years so Egypt would survive
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  Speaker 1: during the lean years. And because Joseph prepared, not only
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  Speaker 1: did Egypt survive, but surrounding nations came to Egypt for food.
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  Speaker 1: Through this process, God positioned Joseph to save his entire
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  Speaker 1: family line. This is strategic saving. It is not hoarding
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  Speaker 1: out of fear. It is not stockpiling because you think
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  Speaker 1: God cannot provide. It is wisdom that recognizes patterns and
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  Speaker 1: prepares accordingly. Every financial expert will tell you the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You need an emergency fund. You need three to six
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  Speaker 1: months of expenses saved up so when the car breaks down,
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  Speaker 1: when the medical bill comes, when the job loss happens,
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  Speaker 1: you do not have to borrow money to survive. Let
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  Speaker 1: me give you specific numbers. If your monthly expenses are
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  Speaker 1: three thousand dollars, you need between nine thousand and eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in your emergency fund. That sounds like a mountain, right,
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  Speaker 1: But here is how you climb it. Start with one
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That is your first goal. If you can
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  Speaker 1: save fifty dollars per week, you will have one thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in twenty weeks, less than five months. Once you
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  Speaker 1: have that buffer, you keep going until you reach your
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  Speaker 1: full emergency fund. But here is what makes biblical saving
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  Speaker 1: different from worldly saving. The world saves to feel secure.
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  Speaker 1: The buyble teaches us to save so we are never
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  Speaker 1: forced to compromise our integrity. When you have money saved,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot be manipulated. You cannot be controlled, You cannot
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  Speaker 1: be pressured into making decisions that violate your conscience because
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  Speaker 1: you are desperate. Proverbs twenty one, verse twenty says precious
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  Speaker 1: treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but
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  Speaker 1: a foolish man devours it. Notice that contrast, the wise
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  Speaker 1: person keeps something in reserve, the foolish person consumes everything immediately.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about being cheap. Or stingy. This is
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  Speaker 1: about delayed gratification, about having the discipline to say not
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  Speaker 1: yet instead of right now. Think about how much stress
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  Speaker 1: would disappear from your life if you had six months
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  Speaker 1: of expenses saved. No more panic when an unexpected bill arrives.
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  Speaker 1: No more anxiety about obscurity, no more desperation that forces
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  Speaker 1: you into bad decisions. That is the piece that strategic
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  Speaker 1: saving provides, and it is a piece the world cannot
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  Speaker 1: give and cannot take away. Here is your action step
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  Speaker 1: for strategic saving. Open a separate savings account today. Set
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  Speaker 1: up an automatic transfer of ten percent of every paycheck
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  Speaker 1: into that account. Do not touch it, pretend it does
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  Speaker 1: not exist. Let it grow slowly and steadily until you
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  Speaker 1: have that emergency fund fully funded. And once you reach
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  Speaker 1: that goal, keep going. Save for a down payment on
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  Speaker 1: a house, Save for your children's education. Save so you
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  Speaker 1: have resources to deploy when God calls you to give
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  Speaker 1: Pillar three radical generosity. Now we come to the most
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  Speaker 1: counter cultural principle in all of biblical finance. Proverbs eleven,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty four says one gives freely, yet grows all
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  Speaker 1: the richer. Another withholds what he should give, and only
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  Speaker 1: suffers want read that again. Slowly. The person who gives
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  Speaker 1: becomes richer. The person who hoards becomes poorer. This defies
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  Speaker 1: every natural instinct we have. The world says accumulate, protect,
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  Speaker 1: and hoarde. The Bible says give, scatter and so. The
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  Speaker 1: world says money is for keeping, The Bible says money
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  Speaker 1: is for distributing. The world sees money as food to
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  Speaker 1: be consumed. The Bible sees money as seed to be planted.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the mystery that most Christians never discover. Generosity
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  Speaker 1: is not something you do after you become wealthy. Generosity
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  Speaker 1: is the pathway to wealth itself. The act of giving
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  Speaker 1: actually triggers supernatural multiplication in your finances, not because you
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  Speaker 1: are manipulating God, but because you are aligning yourself with
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  Speaker 1: how He designed the universe to function. Look at Luke six,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty eight, Give and it will be given to you.
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  Speaker 1: Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be
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  Speaker 1: put into your lap. For with the measure you use,
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  Speaker 1: it will be measured back to you. God is establishing
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  Speaker 1: a principle here. The size of your giving determines the
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  Speaker 1: size of your receiving. You cannot outgive God, but you
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  Speaker 1: can limit what he is willing to give you based
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  Speaker 1: on your unwillingness to release what is in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Think about a farmer planting seed. If he plants one acre,
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  Speaker 1: he harvests from one acre. If he plants ten acres,
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  Speaker 1: he harvests from ten acres. The heart harvest is directly
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  Speaker 1: connected to the sewing. But here is what a foolish
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  Speaker 1: farmer does. He looks at his seed and thinks, this
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  Speaker 1: is all I have. I cannot afford to plant it.
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  Speaker 1: I need to eat it right now. And so he
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  Speaker 1: eats his seed, enjoys one meal, and guarantees his own
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  Speaker 1: starvation next season. That is what most people do with money.
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  Speaker 1: They consume it all immediately and wonder why they never
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  Speaker 1: get ahead. But the wise farmer looks at his seed
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  Speaker 1: and thinks, if I plant this now, I will have
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  Speaker 1: one hundred times more in the harvest. I will delay
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  Speaker 1: gratification today to multiply my resources tomorrow. Let me show
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  Speaker 1: you how this works in real numbers. If you earn
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  Speaker 1: four thousand dollars per month and you tithe ten percent,
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  Speaker 1: that is four hundred dollars to your local church. That
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  Speaker 1: might feel like a lot. You might think I cannot
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  Speaker 1: afford to give that much away. But here is what happens.
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  Speaker 1: When you honor God with your first fruits, he protects
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  Speaker 1: the remaining ninety percent. Suddenly your car lasts longer, your
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  Speaker 1: appliances do not break. Opportunities appear that were not there before.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen it happen thousands of times. Here is
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  Speaker 1: what radical generosity looks like in practice. You tithe ten
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  Speaker 1: percent of your income to your local church, without fail
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  Speaker 1: without negotiation, without excuses. You give offerings above your tithe
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  Speaker 1: when God prompts you. You look for opportunities to bless others,
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  Speaker 1: to meet needs, to be the answer to someone else's prayer.
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  Speaker 1: And you do all of this not to get something back,
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  Speaker 1: but because you understand that you are a channel, not
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  Speaker 1: a reservoir. The moment you start hoarding money is the
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  Speaker 1: moment the flow stops. But when you keep the channel
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  Speaker 1: open through consistent generosity, God keeps pouring more resources through you,
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  Speaker 1: not so you can stockpile it, but so you can
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  Speaker 1: distribute it. You become a pipeline of blessing to everyone
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  Speaker 1: around you. Let me tell you something that will change
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  Speaker 1: your perspective forever. When you give generously, you are not
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  Speaker 1: losing money, You are transferring it from a temporary earthly
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  Speaker 1: account into a permanent heavenly account that accumulates interest forever.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,
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  Speaker 1: where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal,
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  Speaker 1: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Every dollar
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  Speaker 1: you give to advance God's kingdom is a dollar that
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  Speaker 1: is stored eternally in an account that can never be depleted,
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  Speaker 1: never be stolen, never be lost. But radical generosity also
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  Speaker 1: does something to your heart. It breaks the power of greed.
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  Speaker 1: It defeats the spirit of fear. It trains you to
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  Speaker 1: trust God instead of trusting money, and that training is
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  Speaker 1: worth more than any dollar amount you could ever accumulate.
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  Speaker 1: Now Here is how all three pillars work together. You
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  Speaker 1: pay off debt so you have freedom. You save strategically
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  Speaker 1: so you have stability. You give radically so you have
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  Speaker 1: supernatural flow. These are not separate activities. They are three
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  Speaker 1: parts of one unified strategy. Imagine your finances as a
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  Speaker 1: three legged stool. If you only focus on debt elimination
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  Speaker 1: but never save, one unexpected expense will throw you back
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  Speaker 1: into debt. If you only focus on saving but never give,
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  Speaker 1: you will accumulate money but lose your soul. If you
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  Speaker 1: only focus on giving but ignore debt, and you will
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  Speaker 1: be generous but unstable. But when you integrate all three pillars,
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  Speaker 1: something remarkable happens. Your debt decreases, your savings increase, your
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  Speaker 1: giving expands, and the compound effect of these three activities
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  Speaker 1: working together creates momentum that transforms your entire financial life.
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  Speaker 1: Here is your ninety day action plan. For the next
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  Speaker 1: thirty days, focus intensely on debt elimination. List every debt,
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  Speaker 1: create your snowball strategy, and attack the smallest debt with
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  Speaker 1: fury for the next thirty days. After that, while continuing
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  Speaker 1: your debt payments, establish your emergency fund, open that savings account,
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  Speaker 1: and set up automatic transfers. For the final thirty days,
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  Speaker 1: while continuing both debt and savings, identify your first generosity
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and give sacrificially to someone in need. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of ninety days, you will have momentum in all
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  Speaker 1: three areas. You will have paid off at least one debt.
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  Speaker 1: You will have money in savings that did not exist before.
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  Speaker 1: You will have experienced the joy of radical generosity, and
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  Speaker 1: that momentum will carry you forward into complete financial transformation.
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  Speaker 1: But let me speak to your heart for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: because all of these strategies mean nothing if we miss
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  Speaker 1: the deeper truth. Money is not the problem. Your heart
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  Speaker 1: is the problem. Jesus said, where your treasure is there,
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  Speaker 1: your heart will be also. Money simply reveals what you
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  Speaker 1: really worship. If you worship security, you will hoard. If
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  Speaker 1: you worship pleasure, you will spend. If you worship status,
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  Speaker 1: you will borrow. But if you worship God, you will
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  Speaker 1: steward with wisdom and joy. You will see money as
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  Speaker 1: a tool to accomplish His purposes, not as an end
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  Speaker 1: in itself. The financial principles we have covered today will
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  Speaker 1: absolutely work. If you apply them, you will get out
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  Speaker 1: of debt, you will build savings, you will experience the
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  Speaker 1: blessing of generosity. But if your heart is not surrendered
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  Speaker 1: to God, you will simply become a wealthy person who
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  Speaker 1: is still empty inside. True biblical financial wisdom is not
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  Speaker 1: about becoming rich. It is about becoming free, free from anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: free from comparison, free from the constant pressure to have more,
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  Speaker 1: be more, and prove more. It is about reaching a
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  Speaker 1: place where you can honestly say, God, I trust you
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  Speaker 1: with my finances because I trust you with my life.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the promise I want to leave you with.
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  Speaker 1: God is not asking you to do this alone. He
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  Speaker 1: is not standing at a distance criticizing your financial mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: He is right there with you, ready to guide every decision,
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  Speaker 1: to provide supernatural wisdom, and to multiply whatever you put
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  Speaker 1: in his hands. Malachi three, verse ten says, bring the
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  Speaker 1: full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food
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  Speaker 1: in my house, and thereby put me to the test,
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  Speaker 1: says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open
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  Speaker 1: the windows of heaven for you and pour down for
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  Speaker 1: you a blessing until there is no more need. This
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  Speaker 1: is the only place in scripture where God invites you
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  Speaker 1: to test him. He is so confident in his ability
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  Speaker 1: to provide that he challenges you to try him and
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  Speaker 1: see if he will not over overwhelm you with blessing.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a formula, That is not manipulation. That
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  Speaker 1: is God saying I want to bless you so much
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  Speaker 1: more than you are currently experiencing. But I need you
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  Speaker 1: to trust me enough to obey these principles. Stop doing
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  Speaker 1: it your way, start doing it my way, and watch
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  Speaker 1: what happens. So here is my challenge to you today.
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  Speaker 1: Choose one pillar to start with right now. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: are buried in debt and you need to create that
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  Speaker 1: snowball strategy today. Maybe you have no emergency fund and
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  Speaker 1: you need to open that savings account this week. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you have been stingy with God and you need to
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  Speaker 1: write a check that scares you and release it in faith.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever God is speaking to your heart right now, do
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  Speaker 1: not ignore it. The voice you are hearing is the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit trying to lead you into financial freedom, and
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  Speaker 1: if you ignore him today, you will wake up a
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  Speaker 1: year from now in the exact same place wondering why
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  Speaker 1: nothing ever changes. Financial freedom is not complicated, but it
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  Speaker 1: does require courage. Courage to face the truth about where
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  Speaker 1: you are, courage to stop making excuses, courage to do
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  Speaker 1: things differently than you have done them before, and courage
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  Speaker 1: to believe that God's way actually works even when everything
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  Speaker 1: in your natural mind says it is impossible. If you
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  Speaker 1: are ready to commit to becoming debt free this year,
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  Speaker 1: type debt free by faith in the comments right now,
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  Speaker 1: do not skip this step. There is power in public declaration.
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  Speaker 1: When you announce your intention, you activate accountability, and you
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  Speaker 1: invite the prayers of this community to support your breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: to Bible assent and turn on notifications. Because we are
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  Speaker 1: building a community of people who are done with financial
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  Speaker 1: slavery and ready to walk in the freedom that God
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  Speaker 1: designed for us. We are releasing biblical wisdom every single
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  Speaker 1: week that will transform not just your bank account, but
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  Speaker 1: your entire life. Remember, the question is not whether these
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  Speaker 1: principles work. The question is whether you will work them.
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  Speaker 1: God has given you everything you need. Now it is
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  Speaker 1: your turn to respond with faith and action. Let us pray. Father,
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for your word that never fails and
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  Speaker 1: never returns void. We ask right now for supernatural discipline,
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  Speaker 1: divine wisdom, and holy boldness to apply these principles starting today.
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  Speaker 1: Break the chains of debt off every person watching this,
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  Speaker 1: open the windows of Heaven over their finances, give them
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  Speaker 1: the courage to give when it does not make sense,
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  Speaker 1: and the patience to save when they want to spend.
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  Speaker 1: We declare that this is the year of financial breakthrough,
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  Speaker 1: and we trust you to do what only you can do.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name, Amen, go and be free.