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7 Forgotten Biblical Principles That Will Transform Your Scarcity Mindset Into a Wealth Mentality · Bible Ascent

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Speaker 1: What if everything you have been taught about money, every
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Speaker 1: financial tip, every budgeting hack, every Wall Street strategy was
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Speaker 1: built on the wrong foundation. What if the most powerful
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Speaker 1: wealth building system ever created was written down over three
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Speaker 1: thousand years ago and you have had access to it
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Speaker 1: your entire life, but nobody ever told you to open
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Speaker 1: it for financial advice. And what if the reason seventy
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Speaker 1: eight percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck right
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Speaker 1: now has nothing to do with the economy and everything
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Speaker 1: to do with a set of forgotten principles that most
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Speaker 1: people have never applied. My name is your guide at
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Speaker 1: Bible Assent, and today I am going to walk you
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Speaker 1: through seven forgotten Biblical principles that will completely rewire the
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Speaker 1: way you think about money, debt, income, and legacy. These
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Speaker 1: are not motivational quotes. These are divine laws. Laws that
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Speaker 1: produced a man with a net worth of over two
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Speaker 1: trillion dollars in today's money, laws that have transformed ordinary
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Speaker 1: families across this nation, and laws that will work for
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Speaker 1: you starting the moment you apply them. By the end
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Speaker 1: of this video, you will have a complete scripture backed
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Speaker 1: roadmap to financial peace that no recession, no inflation, and
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Speaker 1: no job loss can ever fully destroy. Before we go
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Speaker 1: any further, if financial stress has been keeping you up
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Speaker 1: at night, if you are tired of feeling like you
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Speaker 1: are running on a treadmill that never moves, I want
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Speaker 1: you to type yes in the comments right now, just
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Speaker 1: that one word. Let me know you are here and
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Speaker 1: let this community stand with you today. If someone shared
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Speaker 1: this video with you, that was not random, that was
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Speaker 1: God directing a word toward your situation right on time. Now,
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Speaker 1: let us get into it. The Bible mentions money and
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Speaker 1: possessions over two thousand, three hundred times. That is more
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Speaker 1: than prayer, more than faith, more than Heaven and Hell combined.
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Speaker 1: God is not silent about your finances. He has been
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Speaker 1: speaking about them for thousands of years. We just stopped
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Speaker 1: listening long enough to hear. Here is a truth that
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Speaker 1: Wall Street will never put in a quarterly report. How
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Speaker 1: you handle your money is a direct reflection of the
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Speaker 1: condition of your heart. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew six,
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Speaker 1: verse twenty one. Where your treasure is there, your heart
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Speaker 1: will be also. Your check book is a spiritual document,
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Speaker 1: and God has been reading it. The proof that these
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Speaker 1: principles work is not theoretical consider King Solomon. Economic historians
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Speaker 1: and scholars who have studied the descriptions of his treasury
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Speaker 1: in first kings have estimated his wealth at over two
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Speaker 1: trillion dollars in today's inflation adjusted value. He was not
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Speaker 1: born into a Silicon Valley dynasty. He did not inherit
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Speaker 1: a hedge fund. He followed specific intentional laws of wealth
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Speaker 1: rooted in wisdom, discipline, stewardship, and generosity. And those laws
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Speaker 1: produced a result that has never been equaled in recorded
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Speaker 1: humans history. And if those laws worked for a king
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Speaker 1: three thousand years ago, they will work for a project manager,
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Speaker 1: a nurse, a single mother, and a small business owner.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, principal one the law of stewardship Luke,
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Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen, Verse ten, whoever can be trusted with very
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Speaker 1: little can also be trusted with much. This single sentence
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Speaker 1: destroys one of the most dangerous lies in American financial culture,
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Speaker 1: the idea that you will start managing your money properly
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Speaker 1: once you have more of it. We are all waiting
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Speaker 1: on the rays, the bonus, the inheritance, the right moment.
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Speaker 1: But God does not give you more to manage. He
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Speaker 1: gives you more when you manage what you already have.
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Speaker 1: Stewardship is not about the size of your income. It
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Speaker 1: is about the quality of your attention to what God
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Speaker 1: has already placed in your hands. Every dollar, every resource,
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Speaker 1: every opportunity you currently have belongs to him. You are
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Speaker 1: not an owner. You are a manner and managers who
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Speaker 1: are faithful with small things get promoted to larger responsibilities.
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Speaker 1: James from Atlanta had been waiting three years for a
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Speaker 1: promotion before he understood this. He was convinced a bigger
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Speaker 1: salary was the answer to all his financial stress. But
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Speaker 1: one evening he sat down and actually examined his last
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Speaker 1: ninety days of bank statements. What he found stopped him cold.
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Speaker 1: He was hemorrhaging over four hundred dollars every single month
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Speaker 1: on subscriptions he had forgotten about and restaurant visits that
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Speaker 1: had become mindless habit. He was not broke, he was leaking.
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Speaker 1: He was failing the stewardship test on the money he
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Speaker 1: already had. When he fixed the leak, he found the
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Speaker 1: seed he had been asking God to give him. Your
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Speaker 1: action step open your banking app today and find every
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Speaker 1: subscription charge from the last thirty days. Cancel every single
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Speaker 1: one you have not actively and intentionally used. That is
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Speaker 1: your first act of stewardship. That is the signal you
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Speaker 1: send to God that says I am ready to be
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Speaker 1: trusted with more. Principal two Escaping the debt trap Proverbs
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Speaker 1: twenty two, verse seven, The borrower is slave to the lender.
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Speaker 1: Solomon wrote this long before credit card companies existed, long
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Speaker 1: before twenty nine percent annual percentage rates and minimum payments
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Speaker 1: designed to keep you paying for decades, But he identified
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Speaker 1: the trap with surgical precision. Debt does not just cost
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Speaker 1: you money. It costs you freedom, options, peace of mind,
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Speaker 1: and the ability to respond to God's promptings when they come.
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Speaker 1: When you are chained to a lender, you cannot give freely,
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Speaker 1: you cannot take risks, and you cannot build. Sarah is
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Speaker 1: a registered nurse in Ohio. She had twelve thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: spread across four credit cards. She described the feeling of
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Speaker 1: seeing those balances every month as wearing a weighted vest
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Speaker 1: she could never take off. She was making good money
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Speaker 1: by most standards, but every spare dollar vanished into minimum
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Speaker 1: payments that barely touched the principle. She felt exactly what
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Speaker 1: Proverbs described like a slave. Then she applied the debt
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Speaker 1: snowball method. List every debt from the smallest balance to
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Speaker 1: the largest, pay the minimum on every account except the smallest,
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Speaker 1: and attack that smallest debt with every extra dollar she
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Speaker 1: could generate. When the smallest debt was gone, she rolled
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Speaker 1: that entire payment onto the next one. The momentum it
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Speaker 1: creates is both financial and psychological. Within twenty two months
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Speaker 1: on a single nurse's income, Sarah eliminated all twelve thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars of consumer debt. Your action, step right now, in
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Speaker 1: your notes app or on paper. List every debt you owe,
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Speaker 1: from smallest to largest balance. Do not filter it. Do
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Speaker 1: not feel shame about the numbers. Just see the full picture.
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Speaker 1: Clarity is the beginning of every financial breakthrough. Principle U
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Speaker 1: three The Divine Blueprint for multiple income streams. Ecclesiastes, Chapter eleven,
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Speaker 1: Verse two, invest in seven ventures, yes in eight. You
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Speaker 1: do not know what disaster may come upon the land
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Speaker 1: three thousand years ago, written three thousand years ago, and
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Speaker 1: it reads like a twenty twenty six financial planning manual.
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Speaker 1: In the modern American economy, one single income stream is
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Speaker 1: one layoff notice away from catastrophe. The pandemic proved it.
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Speaker 1: The two thousand and eight crisis proved it. Every major
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Speaker 1: economic disruption in modern history has proven that the most
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Speaker 1: financially vulnerable people are those who built their entire security
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Speaker 1: on a single door. God warned us, He said, invest
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Speaker 1: in seven. In eight, diversify, create multiple channels through which
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Speaker 1: provision can flow. Marcus from Texas spent a decade as
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Speaker 1: an accountant with a solid salary and quiet terror every
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Speaker 1: time leadership whispered about restructuring. He had a woodworking hobby
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Speaker 1: he did on weekends, custom cutting boards, small furniture pieces,
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Speaker 1: things he made because he loved them. A friend suggested
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Speaker 1: he list a few items on an online market place.
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Speaker 1: He was skeptical, but did it anyway. Within eighteen months,
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Speaker 1: that weekend hobby was generating an additional twenty two hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars per month. That second stream, the one he almost
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Speaker 1: never started, ultimately paid for his daughter's college education in full.
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Speaker 1: He did not quit his job. He did not take
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Speaker 1: on debt to fund inventory. He simply monetized a gift
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Speaker 1: God had already placed inside of him. Your action step
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Speaker 1: identify one skill, one hobby, or one area of knowledge.
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Speaker 1: You have that another person would pay for, not next year,
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Speaker 1: this month. One step toward one additional stream. That is
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Speaker 1: all it takes to begin walking. In ecclesiast He's eleven,
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Speaker 1: verse two, principal four the forgotten discipline of diligence Proverbs twelve,
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Speaker 1: verse twenty four. Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends
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Speaker 1: in forced labor. This is the principle that gets skipped
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Speaker 1: in every get rich quick culture. Nobody wants to hear it,
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Speaker 1: but it is in the text, and we are going
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Speaker 1: to deal with it honestly. Diligence is not grinding yourself
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Speaker 1: into exhaustion. Diligence is the daily decision to show up
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Speaker 1: with excellence in the work nobody is watching, in the
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Speaker 1: task that feels beneath you, in the season that feels invisible.
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Speaker 1: David tended sheep before he faced Goliath. Joseph served faithfully
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Speaker 1: in Potiphar's house before he stood before Pharaoh. The promotion
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Speaker 1: you are praying for is almost always positioned on the
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Speaker 1: other side of a season of faithful, unseen, unrecognized work.
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Speaker 1: DeShawn from Detroit had worked in the same warehouse for
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Speaker 1: six years without a single promotion. Would frustrated, bitter, and
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Speaker 1: ready to quit. But before he walked out, his pastor
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Speaker 1: challenged him to spend thirty days being the most excellent
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Speaker 1: employee in that building, not for his supervisor, not for
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Speaker 1: a raise, but as an act of worship. Deshaun started
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Speaker 1: arriving fifteen minutes early. He started training newer employees without
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Speaker 1: being asked. He started treating every task like it had
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Speaker 1: his name permanently attached to it. Forty one days later,
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Speaker 1: he was offered a floor supervisor position that came with
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Speaker 1: a salary increase of fourteen thousand dollars a year. The
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Speaker 1: opportunity had been there all along, but it required a
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Speaker 1: man whose hands were diligent enough to receive it. Your
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Speaker 1: action step, identify the one area of your work or
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Speaker 1: financial life where you have been showing up at sixty
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Speaker 1: percent this week. Commit to one hundred percent in that
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Speaker 1: specific area, not for a human audience, but as a
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Speaker 1: declaration that your work is worshiped. Principal five The sacred
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Speaker 1: art of planning Proverbs twenty one, verse five. The plans
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Speaker 1: of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste
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Speaker 1: leads to poverty. A budget is not a punishment A
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Speaker 1: budget is a prayer with a plan attached to it.
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Speaker 1: When you decide before the month begins where every dollar
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Speaker 1: will go, you are not restricting yourself. You are exercising dominion.
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Speaker 1: You are saying to your finances, you will serve my purpose,
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Speaker 1: rather than waking up at the end of the month
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Speaker 1: wondering where everything went. Studies consistently show that the number
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Speaker 1: one reason American families feel financially out of control is
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Speaker 1: not insufficient income. It is the absence of intentional allocation.
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Speaker 1: Families earning sixty thousand dollars a year and families earning
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Speaker 1: one hundred sixty thousand dollars a year report the same
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Speaker 1: level of financial anxiety when there is no plan. The
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Speaker 1: number on the paycheck is not the problem. The absence
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Speaker 1: of purpose assigned to that number is. Angela from Phoenix
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Speaker 1: was earning seventy two thousand dollars a year as a
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Speaker 1: dental hygienist and somehow ending every month with less than
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Speaker 1: two hundred dollars in her account. She was not frivolous,
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Speaker 1: she was just unintentional. When she sat down and built
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Speaker 1: her first zero based budget, assigning every dollar a roll
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Speaker 1: before the month began, she discovered she had been losing
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Speaker 1: over eight hundred dollars per month to what she called
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Speaker 1: financial fog, spending that was not joyful, not necessary, and
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Speaker 1: not building anything, just evaporating. Within four months of intentional budgeting,
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Speaker 1: she had funded her emergency account and eliminated her smallest debt.
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Speaker 1: The money had been there all along, It simply needed
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Speaker 1: a plan. Your action step before this week ends. Write
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Speaker 1: out next month's complete budget. Assign every dollar of your
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Speaker 1: expected income to a specific purpose needs debt payoff see
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Speaker 1: savings or discretionary spending. Give every dollar a name. This
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Speaker 1: single discipline will do more for your financial situation in
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Speaker 1: ninety days than any investment strategy you can find. Principle six,
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Speaker 1: the generosity paradox. We are now at the principle that
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Speaker 1: every logical, financially minded part of you will resist. This
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Speaker 1: is the one that defies spreadsheets, This is the one
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Speaker 1: that seems to break the rules of math, and this
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Speaker 1: is the one that changes everything. Luke, Chapter six, verse
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Speaker 1: thirty eight. Give and it will be given to you.
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Speaker 1: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over
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Speaker 1: will be poured into your lap. When you are struggling financially,
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Speaker 1: every natural instinct tells you to close your fist hold
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Speaker 1: on protect what you have. But that instinct is the
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Speaker 1: voice of scarcity, and the scarcity mindset is the spiritual
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Speaker 1: prison that keeps you exactly where you are. The fastest
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Speaker 1: path to true, lasting generational wealth is not a smarter
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Speaker 1: investment strategy. It is a more open hand. I want
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Speaker 1: to tell you about the Miller family from North Carolina.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, when the housing market collapsed,
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Speaker 1: the Millers lost their home. They were left with almost nothing,
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Speaker 1: living with extended family, their savings gone, their credit destroyed.
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Speaker 1: At their lowest point, they had one hundred dollars left,
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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars between them and absolute zero, and instead
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Speaker 1: of holding it in terror, they made a decision that
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Speaker 1: made no financial sense on paper. They found a neighbor
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Speaker 1: in an even worse situation and gave that neighbor ten
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Speaker 1: dollars to buy groceries. Not because they had abundance, because
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Speaker 1: they made a deliberate choice to believe that God's economy
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Speaker 1: does not operate on the same scarcity logic as the
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Speaker 1: world's economy. That one act cracked something open in them.
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Speaker 1: It broke the spirit of fear that had been controlling
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Speaker 1: every every financial decision they made. It shifted their identity
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Speaker 1: from people who do not have enough to people who
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Speaker 1: have enough to give. Today, the Millers own a thriving
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Speaker 1: business in North Carolina and employ over fifty people. They
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Speaker 1: will tell you the turning point was not a loan,
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Speaker 1: not a business plan, not a government program. It was
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Speaker 1: ten dollars given in faith on the worst day of
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Speaker 1: their lives. Generosity is not what you do after you
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Speaker 1: become wealthy. Generosity is part of how you get there.
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Speaker 1: Your action step this week find one concrete act of
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Speaker 1: financial generosity. Ten dollars to a food pantry, covering a
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Speaker 1: friend's meal, giving to your church's benevolence fund. Do it consciously,
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Speaker 1: Do it as an act of trust in God's economy,
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Speaker 1: over the world's economy, and watch what begins to shift,
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Speaker 1: not just in your bank account, but in your spirit.
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Speaker 1: Principal seven Building a legacy that outlives you. Verbs thirteen,
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Speaker 1: verse twenty two. A good person leaves an inheritance for
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Speaker 1: their children's children. Notice the verse does not stop at children.
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Speaker 1: It says children's children, grandchildren. God's vision for your finances
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Speaker 1: extends at least two generations. Beyond your own lifetime. That
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Speaker 1: changes everything about how you make decisions today. Most American
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Speaker 1: financial thinking is short term by design next month's bills,
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Speaker 1: next year's tax return, retirement as a vague and distant concept.
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Speaker 1: But Biblical wealthinking asks a fundamentally different question, What am
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Speaker 1: I building that will still be standing when I am gone?
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Speaker 1: When you frame your finances in generational terms, a three
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars impulse purchase stops feeling satisfying because you can
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Speaker 1: see what that money would become over thirty years of
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Speaker 1: compound growth. One hundred dollars invested at a conservative seven
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Speaker 1: percent average annual return grows to over one thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: over thirty five years, not through genius, through time and consistency. Legacy.
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Speaker 1: Wealth is not built by the wealthy. It is built
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Speaker 1: by the faithful. It is built by the person who
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Speaker 1: opens an investment account with twenty five dollars and adds
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Speaker 1: to it every single month. It is built by the
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Speaker 1: parent who teaches their child the difference between assets and
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Speaker 1: liabilities before that child earns their first dollar. It is
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Speaker 1: built by the family that creates a will, names beneficiaries,
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Speaker 1: and takes the unsexy administrative steps that insure the wealth
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Speaker 1: they build does not disappear in probate court, life insurance,
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Speaker 1: a will, a wroth, individual retirement account, investment accounts in
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Speaker 1: your children's names. These are not wealthy people things. These
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Speaker 1: are stewardship responsibilities that belong to every family, that belongs
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Speaker 1: to God. Your action step this week have one honest
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Speaker 1: family conversation about money and legacy. If you do not
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Speaker 1: have a will, research how to create one in your state.
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Speaker 1: If you do not have a retirement account, open one
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Speaker 1: today and deposit whatever you can, even if it is
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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. The act of beginning is itself an
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Speaker 1: act of faith. I want to speak to something deeper
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Speaker 1: than your bank account for just a moment before we close.
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Speaker 1: I know what it feels like at two in the
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Speaker 1: morning when a number in your checking account is the
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Speaker 1: last thing you see before you try to sleep. I
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Speaker 1: know that specific shame, the fear of checking your balance
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Speaker 1: at the grocery register, the feeling of having somehow failed
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Speaker 1: your family, your faith, maybe even God himself. But hear
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Speaker 1: this clearly. You are not a social Security number to God.
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Speaker 1: You are not a credit score. You are not the
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Speaker 1: sum of your financial mistakes or the sealing of your
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Speaker 1: current income. You are a steward of his resources, and stewardship,
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Speaker 1: by definition, means you were chosen and trusted to manage
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Speaker 1: something that belongs to him. That means he is actively
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Speaker 1: invested in your success. The same God who multiplied five
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Speaker 1: loaves and two fish to feed five thousand people is
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Speaker 1: not intimidated by your overdraft notice. He is not surprised
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Speaker 1: by your debt balance, and he has not moved on
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Speaker 1: to people with better portfolios. We have walked through seven
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Speaker 1: principles today, stewardship, freedom from debt, diversification, diligence, intentional planning,
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Speaker 1: radical generosity, and generational legacy. Together, these are not a
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Speaker 1: financial system. They are a posture, a way of relating
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Speaker 1: to money that honors God, serves your family, blesses your community,
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Speaker 1: and builds something that outlasts your name. The vision here
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Speaker 1: is not a luxury car or a bigger house. The
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Speaker 1: vision is freedom so profound that you can respond to
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Speaker 1: every need God places in front of you. The vision
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Speaker 1: is a grandchild who never knows financial terror because of
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Speaker 1: decisions you made faithfully decades before they were born. That
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Speaker 1: is the inheritance proverb is talking about. That is the
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Speaker 1: kingdom economics that makes every one of these principles worth applying.
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Speaker 1: If what you heard today stirred something in you, if
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Speaker 1: even one of these seven principles spoke directly to your situation,
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Speaker 1: I want you to do one thing right now. Type
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Speaker 1: free in the comments below one word. Declare that you
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Speaker 1: are choosing freedom, financial, spiritual, generational. Let this community see
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Speaker 1: your declaration and stand with you, and I am asking
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Speaker 1: you for a favor. Someone on your timeline right now
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Speaker 1: is silently drowning in financial stress. They have not told anyone.
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Speaker 1: They are too ashamed, too tired, or too afraid to
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Speaker 1: ask for help, but they are one car repair away
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Speaker 1: from a breakdown. Share this video with them, not as
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Speaker 1: a lecture, as a lifeline. That share costs you nothing
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Speaker 1: to them. It might be the answer to a prayer
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Speaker 1: they have whispered for months without hearing a response. If
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Speaker 1: now and ring the notification bell, because next week I
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Speaker 1: am going deep into the number one reason God's people
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Speaker 1: stay broke despite their prayers, and the answer is going
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Speaker 1: to challenge you in the best way possible. You do
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Speaker 1: not want to miss that conversation. Thank you for being here,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for choosing wisdom over distraction and investing this
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Speaker 1: time in your future. That choice alone sets you apart
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Speaker 1: from the crowd. God has not forgotten your situation. He
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Speaker 1: has a plan, he has provision, and he has a people,
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Speaker 1: and you are absolutely one of them. Go be a
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Speaker 1: wise steward, Go build something that outlives you. God bless