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5 Kingdom Money Moves That Will Break Every Financial Curse Over Your Family · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: Right now as you watch this, American families are collectively
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  Speaker 1: drowning under one trillion, one hundred thirty billion dollars in
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  Speaker 1: credit card debt. That number is not a typo, that
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  Speaker 1: is not a talking point from a political debate stage.
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  Speaker 1: That is one trillion, one hundred thirty billion. Reasons why
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  Speaker 1: the American dream feels more like a recurring nightmare for
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  Speaker 1: millions of households just like yours. And the most painful
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  Speaker 1: part is not the number itself. It is the silence
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  Speaker 1: around it. The hushed conversations after the kids go to bed,
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  Speaker 1: the stomach that tightens every time the phone rings and
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  Speaker 1: you do not recognize the number, The feeling that, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how hard you work, you are running on a
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  Speaker 1: treadmill that someone else controls the speed of. But here
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  Speaker 1: is the question I want to sit with you in
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  Speaker 1: for just a moment before we go any further. What
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  Speaker 1: if you have been doing everything the world told you
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  Speaker 1: to do, the budget apps, the side hustles, the financial podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: the savings challenges, and you are still waking up every
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning feeling further behind than you were the Friday before.
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  Speaker 1: What if the problem is not your income? What if
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  Speaker 1: the problem is not the economy, or your employer or
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  Speaker 1: the price of groceries. What if the answer to breaking
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  Speaker 1: this cycle permanently is not a financial strategy at all,
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  Speaker 1: but a spiritual realignment. What if the most powerful money
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  Speaker 1: manual ever written has been sitting on your nightstand this
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  Speaker 1: entire time and you have simply never opened it expecting
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  Speaker 1: financial wisdom. In the next twenty minutes, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to reveal five Kingdom money moves, rooted in ancient scripture
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  Speaker 1: and proven by real people in real cities all across America,
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  Speaker 1: that will not just slow the bleeding, they will permanently
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  Speaker 1: break the generational cycle of not enough over your family.
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  Speaker 1: And I need you to stay with me through move
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  Speaker 1: number five, because move number five is the one most
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  Speaker 1: people skip entirely, and that single omission is the reason
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  Speaker 1: so many good, hard working, god fearing families keep rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: the same financial foundation every single generation instead of ever
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  Speaker 1: getting to build something that lasts before we open the
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  Speaker 1: word together. If you are new to Bible Assent, welcome home,
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  Speaker 1: miss a video like this one, and right now drop
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  Speaker 1: a comment below telling me this. Have you ever felt
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  Speaker 1: like your finances were cursed. Just type the word open,
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  Speaker 1: one word as your declaration that you are open to
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  Speaker 1: a new way, God's way. I read every single comment
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  Speaker 1: on this channel, and your response shapes what this community
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  Speaker 1: creates next. Now let us get into it. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: is not merely a book of spiritual comfort. It is
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  Speaker 1: the most practical financial manual ever written, with over two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred verses dedicated to specifically to money, possessions and stewardship.
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  Speaker 1: God did not fill that much of his inspired word
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  Speaker 1: with financial instruction because he was indifferent to how his
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  Speaker 1: people handle resources. He filled it because he knew money
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  Speaker 1: would become one of the greatest battlegrounds of the human heart,
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  Speaker 1: and he refused to leave us without a blueprint. Consider
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  Speaker 1: King Solomon. Financial historians and economists estimate that in today's
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  Speaker 1: inflation adjusted purchasing power, his net worth exceeded two point
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  Speaker 1: one trillion dollars. He did not stumble into that wealth
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  Speaker 1: during a favorable economic season. He did not inherit it
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  Speaker 1: from a savvy investor. He operated on deliberate, consistent, spiritually
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  Speaker 1: grounded principles that produced abundance as a natural overflow. The
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  Speaker 1: same principles embedded in the five moves we are about
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  Speaker 1: to unpack together, and this is not ancient theory disconnected
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  Speaker 1: from your Monday morning reality. James is a mechanic from
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  Speaker 1: a small town outside of Detroit, Michigan. Two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: he was forty five thousand dollars in debt and staring
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  Speaker 1: at a foreclosure notice taped to his front door, wondering
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  Speaker 1: in the quiet of his garage whether God had simply
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  Speaker 1: forgotten about him. He was not a man who had
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  Speaker 1: made reckless choices. He was a hard working man who
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  Speaker 1: had been running on the world's financial playbook his entire
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  Speaker 1: adult life and had finally run out of road. By
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  Speaker 1: implementing just two of the five moves we are covering
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  Speaker 1: to day, James is now completely debt free and just
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  Speaker 1: opened the doors to his second auto repair shop. He
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  Speaker 1: is not an exception. He is a blue print, and
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  Speaker 1: by the end of this video, that blue print belongs
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  Speaker 1: to you. Move number one is the law of first fruits.
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  Speaker 1: Malachi three, verse ten says, bring the whole tithe into
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  Speaker 1: the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
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  Speaker 1: Test me in this and see if I will not
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  Speaker 1: throw open the flood gates of heavy and pour out
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  Speaker 1: so much blessing that there will not be room enough
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  Speaker 1: to store it. This is the only place in all
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  Speaker 1: of Scripture where God literally issues a dare. He does
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  Speaker 1: not suggest, he does not advise, he does not recommend.
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  Speaker 1: He says, test me. That single word should stop every
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  Speaker 1: one of us cold. Here is the truth that American
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  Speaker 1: financial culture gets completely and consistently backwards. We are taught
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  Speaker 1: from childhood to pay everyone else first. The government takes
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  Speaker 1: its portion before you ever see your paycheck. The landlord
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  Speaker 1: gets paid on the first, the car loan, the electric bill,
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store, everyone feeds before you do. And God,
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  Speaker 1: God gets whatever is left at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 1: If there is anything left at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom move is a complete inversion of that entire system.
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  Speaker 1: You put God first, not because he needs your ten percent,
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  Speaker 1: but because that single act of trust repositions your heart
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  Speaker 1: and bites his protection and provision over the ninety percent
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  Speaker 1: that remains. Sarah is a single mother in Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: making forty two thousand dollars a year and raising two
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  Speaker 1: children on her own. When she first heard the principle
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  Speaker 1: of tithing. Her immediate reaction was exactly what yours might
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  Speaker 1: be right now. I cannot afford to give away four thousand,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred dollars a year. I am barely surviving as
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  Speaker 1: it is. But Sarah took the leap anyway. She set
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  Speaker 1: up an automatic transfer for ten percent the moment each
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  Speaker 1: paycheck hit her account. She did not win the lottery,
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  Speaker 1: she did not receive a promotion, but something remarkable began
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  Speaker 1: to happen. The unexpected expenses that had been arriving like
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  Speaker 1: uninvited house guests every single month. The car repairs, the
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  Speaker 1: emergency medical bills, the surprise costs that always seemed to
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  Speaker 1: appear from nowhere, precisely when she had nothing left, they stopped,
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  Speaker 1: or if they were covered in ways she genuinely could
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  Speaker 1: not account for. She estimates she saved nearly four hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars a month simply in crises that never materialized. Your
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  Speaker 1: action step today, not this weekend. Today, set up an
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  Speaker 1: automatic transfer for your first ten percent, scheduled for the
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  Speaker 1: exact same morning your paycheck arrives. Do not wait to
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  Speaker 1: see what is left. The moment you make God last,
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  Speaker 1: you have made him optional, Make him first, and watch
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  Speaker 1: how he covers everything that follows. Move number one repositions
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  Speaker 1: your heart. But move number two deals with the chain
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  Speaker 1: that is actively preventing you from building anything at all,
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  Speaker 1: and until you break it, every financial gain you make
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  Speaker 1: will quietly flow right back out the same hole it
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  Speaker 1: came in through. Move number two is killing the slave
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  Speaker 1: master debt elimination. Proverbs twenty two, verse seven says the
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  Speaker 1: rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave
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  Speaker 1: to the lender. I want you to let that single
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  Speaker 1: word sit for a moment. Slave. That is not poetic language.
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  Speaker 1: That is precise diagnosis. When you are paying twenty four
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  Speaker 1: percent annual interest on a credit card balance to a
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  Speaker 1: bank headquartered in a city you have never visited, you
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  Speaker 1: are working for them. Every overtime hour you log, every
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  Speaker 1: weekend shift you pick up, every vacation you postpone. A
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  Speaker 1: portion of all of it belongs to them before it
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  Speaker 1: belongs to your family. You cannot build a kingdom legacy.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot fund the mission God has placed on your heart.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot leave an inheritance for your children's children while
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  Speaker 1: you are working in financial shackles. The Miller family lives
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio. When I first heard their story. They
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  Speaker 1: were carrying eighteen thousand dollars in consumer debt spread across
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  Speaker 1: four credit cards. They were not irresponsible people, They were
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  Speaker 1: not reckless spenders. They were good, hard working, church attending
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  Speaker 1: people who had simply been handed the world's financial playbook
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  Speaker 1: instead of gods. And they had been running those plays
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  Speaker 1: for a decade without questioning whether the playbook itself was broken.
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  Speaker 1: They started what they call the Kingdom snowball, listing every
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  Speaker 1: debt from smallest to largest, attacking the smallest one with
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  Speaker 1: every available dollar, and rolling each payoff directly into the
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  Speaker 1: next balance. But here is what made their approach different
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  Speaker 1: from the standard financial advice version you can find in
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  Speaker 1: any library. They prayed over as they paid it off.
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  Speaker 1: They treated each payoff not simply as a financial transaction,
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  Speaker 1: but as a spiritual declaration, a line drawn in the ground,
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  Speaker 1: a door closed permanently against that particular form of bondage.
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  Speaker 1: It took them fourteen months to break a debt cycle
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  Speaker 1: that had lasted over ten years, fourteen months to rewrite
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  Speaker 1: a full decade of financial captivity. Your action step tonight,
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  Speaker 1: write down every debt you are carrying, from the smallest
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  Speaker 1: balance to the largest, pick your smallest one and circle it.
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  Speaker 1: Then identify one subscription you are not actively using. A
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  Speaker 1: streaming service, a gym membership, an app you forgot, you downloaded,
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  Speaker 1: Cancel it today, and redirect that fifteen to fifty dollars
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  Speaker 1: per month directly toward that circled balance. It is not
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  Speaker 1: about the amount. It is about the momentum, the intention,
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  Speaker 1: and the declaration that this chain ends here. Breaking the
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  Speaker 1: debt chain stops the bleeding. But move number three is
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  Speaker 1: what builds the margin that changes how you hear from God,
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  Speaker 1: because desperate people cannot be discerning people, and you need
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  Speaker 1: both to walk in the fullness of what God has
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  Speaker 1: for your family. Move number three is the Joseph strategy
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  Speaker 1: building the storehouse. Proverbs twenty one, verse twenty says, in
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  Speaker 1: the house of the wise are stores of choice food
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  Speaker 1: and olive oil. But a foolish man devours all he has.
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  Speaker 1: Studies consistently show that nearly sixty percent of Americans cannot
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  Speaker 1: cover a one thousand dollar emergency expense without going into
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  Speaker 1: debt to do it. Sixty percent. That means the majority
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  Speaker 1: of households in the wealthiest nation in human history are
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  Speaker 1: one car breakdown one medical bill, one unexpected school expense
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  Speaker 1: away from a full blown financial crisis. We have normalized
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  Speaker 1: living on the absolute edge of the cliff and called
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  Speaker 1: it a lifestyle. Joseph understood something that most modern Americans
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  Speaker 1: have been conditioned to forget. When the seven years of
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  Speaker 1: Abundance arrived in Egypt. He did not upgrade his circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: He did not move to a larger palace or expand
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  Speaker 1: his personal comfort. He stored twenty percent of every harvest,
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  Speaker 1: year after year because he understood that the lean years
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  Speaker 1: were coming, and that preparation made in times of plenty
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  Speaker 1: was the only thing that would sustain life when those
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  Speaker 1: lean years arrived. Your savings account is not just a
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  Speaker 1: financial buffer. It is your Joseph storehouse. It is the
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  Speaker 1: margin that allows you to hear God's voice with clarity
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  Speaker 1: instead of desperation. Because when you are one emergency away
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  Speaker 1: from catastrophe, you cannot make wise decisions. You can only
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  Speaker 1: make survival decisions. Marcus is a delivery driver in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: He is not earning six figures. He is not investing
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  Speaker 1: in anything complicated or sophisticated. He simply committed to saving
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars every single week, just fifty dollars in a dedicated,
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  Speaker 1: high yield savings account that he never touched for anything
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  Speaker 1: that was not a genuine emergency. When grocery prices spiked
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  Speaker 1: during the latest inflation wave and his co workers were
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  Speaker 1: stretching their credit cards just to fill their refrigerators, Marcus
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  Speaker 1: did not panic, He did not spiral, He did not
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  Speaker 1: make a single fear based financial decision during that entire
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  Speaker 1: season because he had his provision fund. That margin changed
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  Speaker 1: not just his bank balance, but the entire posture from
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  Speaker 1: which he made every decision in his life. Peace is
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  Speaker 1: not just an emotional experience in the Kingdom. Peace is
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  Speaker 1: a competitive advantage. Your action step Open a separate savings
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  Speaker 1: account today, not your checking account, not a jar on
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  Speaker 1: the counter, a dedicated account at a different bank if possible,
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  Speaker 1: and label it your provision fund. Set your first target
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  Speaker 1: at one thousand dollars, just one thousand. That single buffer
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  Speaker 1: will change your entire financial posture and begin to silence
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  Speaker 1: the voice of scarcity that has been narrating your decisions
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  Speaker 1: for years. We have laid the foundation. The first three
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  Speaker 1: moves will stabilize your household and stop the financial hemorrhaging.
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  Speaker 1: But move number four and move no. Number five, these
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  Speaker 1: are the moves that separate the families who simply survive
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  Speaker 1: from the families who build something that outlasts them. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me because move number five is the most overlooked
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  Speaker 1: principle in the entire Kingdom money conversation, and it is
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  Speaker 1: the secret to generational wealth that most families never discover,
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  Speaker 1: not because it is complicated, but because no one ever
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  Speaker 1: told them to look for it. Move number four is
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  Speaker 1: stewardship of the talents investing for the kingdom Matthew twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: Verses fourteen through thirty. You know the parable. A master
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  Speaker 1: distributes talents units of significant monetary value to his servants
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  Speaker 1: before departing on a long journey. Two servants invest what
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  Speaker 1: they receive and return double to the master. The third
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  Speaker 1: servant buries his one talent in the ground because he
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  Speaker 1: was afraid of losing it. And when the master returns,
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  Speaker 1: he does not call that servant cautious, He does not
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  Speaker 1: call him responsible. He called calls him wicked and slothful,
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  Speaker 1: and casts him out. God expects a return on what
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  Speaker 1: he is placed in your hands, keeping your money sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a traditional checking account earning zero point zero one
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  Speaker 1: percent interest while inflation quietly erodes its purchasing power every year.
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  Speaker 1: Is not humility, It is not safety. It is, by
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  Speaker 1: the direct words of Scripture, the burying of your talent,
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  Speaker 1: and it is dressed in fear and called wisdom. Stewardship
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  Speaker 1: means making your money work as hard for the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: as you work for your paycheck. That means retirement accounts.
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  Speaker 1: That means index funds, That means real estate. If that
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  Speaker 1: is the door God opens, it means becoming financially literate
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  Speaker 1: and financially active, because ignorance is not a spiritual virtue
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the resources God has entrusted to
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  Speaker 1: your management. Linda is a middle school teacher in Tampa, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: For years, she held the quiet belief that investing was
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  Speaker 1: for wealthy people, for Wall Street people, for people who
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  Speaker 1: understood a financial language she had never been taught. Then
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  Speaker 1: she made a single perspective shift that changed everything. She
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  Speaker 1: stopped seeing her retirement account as a secular savings vehicle
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  Speaker 1: and started seeing it as a tool for kingdom multiplication.
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  Speaker 1: A talent entrusted to her management, not a number she
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  Speaker 1: was obligated to ignore out of humility, She learned to
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  Speaker 1: direct her modest contributions into low cost index funds. She
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  Speaker 1: later purchased one small rental property through careful patient saving.
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  Speaker 1: She did not become wealthy overnight. She did not take shortcuts.
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  Speaker 1: But Linda is now fully retired and she uses the
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  Speaker 1: income from her investments to fund three missionaries on the
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  Speaker 1: field full time. Three missionaries fully funded from a teacher's
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  Speaker 1: salary in Tampa, Florida, because she chose to multiply rather
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  Speaker 1: than bear mary what God placed in her hands. Your
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  Speaker 1: action step, log into your retirement account today, your four
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  Speaker 1: to oh one K, your individual retirement account, whatever vehicle
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  Speaker 1: you currently have, and confirm that your money is actually
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  Speaker 1: invested in funds and not sitting in a default cash
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  Speaker 1: position earning almost nothing. Then increase your contribution by even
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  Speaker 1: one percent. One single percent applied consistently over years can
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  Speaker 1: represent tens of thousands of dollars in the account that
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  Speaker 1: funds the second half of your life and the legacy
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  Speaker 1: you leave behind. And now, move number five, the one
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  Speaker 1: I have been building toward this entire video, the one
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  Speaker 1: most people hear and agree with intellectually, but never actually do.
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  Speaker 1: The move that transforms everything we have discussed from personal
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  Speaker 1: improvement into permanent inheritance. Move number five is the legacy
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  Speaker 1: blueprint generational thinking. Proverbs thirteen, verse twenty two says a
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  Speaker 1: good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. Notice
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  Speaker 1: the precision of that language. Not children, children's children, two
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  Speaker 1: generations beyond you. God is not calling you to think
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  Speaker 1: until your next paycheck. He is calling you to think
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years forward, and that requires a complete reorientation
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  Speaker 1: of the entire framework through which you make financial decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the painful truth about generational poverty that no
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  Speaker 1: one talks about plainly enough. It is not primarily a
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  Speaker 1: shortage of money. It is a shortage of transmission. Every
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  Speaker 1: generation starts from zero because nothing was passed down, not wealth,
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  Speaker 1: not financial wisdom, not systems, not a framework for understanding
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  Speaker 1: money through the lens of the word. The cycle does
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  Speaker 1: not break by accident or by waiting for circumstances to improve.
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  Speaker 1: It breaks by a deliberate decision made by one person
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  Speaker 1: in one generation, who decides that the pattern ends with them.
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  Speaker 1: The Hernandez family lives in San Antonio, Texas. They are
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  Speaker 1: not wealthy by any conventional measure. They are a regular
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  Speaker 1: family with a regular income and a regular mortgage, But
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  Speaker 1: several years ago they made a quiet decision that will
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  Speaker 1: echo for generations beyond their own names. They opened what
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  Speaker 1: they call their family Bank, a small investment account they
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  Speaker 1: contribute to every single month, designated not for their own
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  Speaker 1: comfort or retirement, but specifically for their grandchildren. And every
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  Speaker 1: Sunday evening at the dinner table, they take fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: to talk about money through the lens of scripture with
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  Speaker 1: their children, not lecturing, not frightening them with statistics, simply
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  Speaker 1: equipping them with a framework for understanding that money is
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  Speaker 1: a tool for God's purposes, not a measure of human
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  Speaker 1: worth or a source of human security. Their eleven year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter recently told her teacher that she wants to
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  Speaker 1: be a Kingdom investor when she grows up. That is
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  Speaker 1: dias t That is not a financial goal. That is
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  Speaker 1: a generational curse breaking in real time at a Sunday
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  Speaker 1: dinner table in San Antonio. Your action step before you
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  Speaker 1: go to sleep tonight, write down one financial goal that
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  Speaker 1: has absolutely nothing to do with your own comfort, your
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  Speaker 1: own retirement, or your own next purchase. A goal for
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  Speaker 1: your grandchildren. You may never sit across a table from
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  Speaker 1: those grandchildren, you may never hear them say your name,
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  Speaker 1: But the decision you make about money this week can
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  Speaker 1: determine whether they begin their lives with a foundation already
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  Speaker 1: built or a hole they spend their entire adult lives
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  Speaker 1: trying to climb out of. That is the weight and
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  Speaker 1: the wonder of this move. It costs you something today
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  Speaker 1: in exchange for freedom you will never personally experience, and
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  Speaker 1: that is precisely what makes it Kingdom thinking. I want
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  Speaker 1: to close with a picture, not a statistic, not a strategy,
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  Speaker 1: just a picture of what is actually at stake in
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  Speaker 1: this conversation. Imagine a home where there are no more
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  Speaker 1: hushed arguments behind closed doors after the children have gone
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  Speaker 1: to bed, no more looking across the dinner table at
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  Speaker 1: the person you married and seeing exhaustion where love used
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  Speaker 1: to live. No more. We cannot afford it. Spoken not
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  Speaker 1: as a practical reality, but as an identity, a label
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  Speaker 1: that has followed your family so long it feels like
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  Speaker 1: a last name no more, passing the invisible weight of
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  Speaker 1: financial shame to the next generation. Alongside the holiday traditions
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  Speaker 1: and the family recipes. I know a couple, Robert and
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  Speaker 1: Diane from a suburb outside of Chicago, who were forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours away from signing divorce papers. The notes from
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  Speaker 1: their counselor literally listed financial incompatibility as the primary presenting issue.
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  Speaker 1: They were not unkind people. They were not unloving people.
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  Speaker 1: They were two genuinely good people running two different, entirely
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  Speaker 1: worldly financial philosophies under the same roof, and the friction
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  Speaker 1: between those philosophies was grinding everything beautiful between them into dust.
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  Speaker 1: A friend sat them down at a kitchen table, opened
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  Speaker 1: a Bible, and walked them through the same principles you
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  Speaker 1: have been hearing today, not as a financial seminar, not
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  Speaker 1: as a self help program, but as a spiritual realignment.
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  Speaker 1: When they stopped managing their money as two competing individuals
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  Speaker 1: and started stewarding it together as servants of the same king,
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  Speaker 1: something broke. Not just the debt, not just the arguments,
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  Speaker 1: the strife itself lifted. Their marriage did not merely survive.
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  Speaker 1: It became the strongest, most unified season of their entire
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  Speaker 1: relationship because they were finally on the same tea, and
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  Speaker 1: the name of that team was not theirs, it was God's.
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  Speaker 1: We are living through a season of genuine economic uncertainty, inflation,
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  Speaker 1: rising interest rates, job displacement, global instability. The pressures pressing
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  Speaker 1: down on American families right now are real, and they
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  Speaker 1: are heavy. But we do not have to be victims
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  Speaker 1: of the economy. We were never designed to be victims
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  Speaker 1: of the economy. When we align our wallets with the word,
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  Speaker 1: when we bring our financial decisions into submission to biblical principles,
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  Speaker 1: we step under a different canopy. Not a canopy that
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  Speaker 1: guarantees an absence of difficulty, but a canopy of God's order,
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  Speaker 1: God's protection, and God's multiplication operating on our behalf in
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  Speaker 1: ways that no interest rate or inflation report can touch.
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  Speaker 1: If you are ready to break the cycle over your family,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to claim it out loud right now.
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  Speaker 1: Scroll to the comments and type this exact phrase, I
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  Speaker 1: am debt free and walking in God's abundance. I know
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  Speaker 1: that may not be your reality today, type it anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Declare it over you your future. Let this community stand
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  Speaker 1: with you and call it forward. That declaration is not
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  Speaker 1: wishful thinking. It is faith, which is the substance of
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  Speaker 1: things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen.
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  Speaker 1: And think about who came to your mind during this video,
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  Speaker 1: someone specific, someone you know who is quietly drowning under
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  Speaker 1: financial stress and has not told a single person how
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  Speaker 1: heavy it has gotten. Do not send them a mass post.
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  Speaker 1: Send them a direct message with this video before you
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  Speaker 1: close this app. You could be the answer to a
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  Speaker 1: prayer they stopped saying out loud because they were afraid
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  Speaker 1: no one was listening. Be the person who sends the
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  Speaker 1: link that changes everything. And if you are not yet
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  Speaker 1: subscribed to Bible Assent, hit that button right now and
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  Speaker 1: turn on your notifications, because next week I am going
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  Speaker 1: deep into the number one reason why hard working, faithful, generous,
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  Speaker 1: Bible believing people still stay financial stuck even when they
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  Speaker 1: are doing everything they believe is right. The answer is
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  Speaker 1: going to challenge something you hold as an unquestioned assumption.
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  Speaker 1: And I promise you do not want to be the
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  Speaker 1: person who missed it. God bless you. I will see
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  Speaker 1: you in the next one. Keep ascending.