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5 Financial Mistakes God Warned Us About (Most Christians Miss This) · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: What if the reason you are still struggling financially has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with your income, your education, or even
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  Speaker 1: the economy, but everything to do with five specific mistakes
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  Speaker 1: that God already warned us about thousands of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Americans are carrying over one point one three
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars in credit card debt. Nearly eighty percent of
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  Speaker 1: families are living paycheck to paycheck, one medical bill away
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  Speaker 1: from a full financial collapse. People are working two jobs,
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  Speaker 1: skipping vacations, cutting groceries, and still falling further behind every
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  Speaker 1: single month. And here is what breaks my heart. Most
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  Speaker 1: of these families love God, they pray, they go to church,
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  Speaker 1: They are good people. But nobody ever sat them down
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  Speaker 1: and showed them what the Bible actually says about money,
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  Speaker 1: not in a vague, feel good way, but in a precise, practical,
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly what you need to stop doing way.
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  Speaker 1: What if the exact blueprint to escape the financial trap
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  Speaker 1: you are in in was not locked behind a thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars Wall Street seminar. What if it was not in
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  Speaker 1: some guru's online course or a finance podcast with a
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  Speaker 1: million subscribers. What if the answer has been sitting on
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  Speaker 1: your shelf this whole time, inside the most powerful book
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  Speaker 1: ever written. In the next twenty minutes, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to walk you through the five exact financial mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: God himself warned us about in his Word. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to show you what each mistake looks like in real life,
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  Speaker 1: why it destroys wealth, and most importantly, exactly what to
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  Speaker 1: do about it. Starting today, stay with me through the
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  Speaker 1: entire video, because mistake number five is the one that
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  Speaker 1: nobody talks about in church, and it is silently keeping
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  Speaker 1: ninety percent of Christians completely broke every single month. Before
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  Speaker 1: we dive in, do me a quick favor. Go down
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  Speaker 1: to the comments right now and type the words I
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  Speaker 1: am ready. It takes two seconds, and it tells the
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  Speaker 1: algorithm to push this message to someone else who desperately
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  Speaker 1: needs it today. Hit that comment and let us get
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  Speaker 1: into it now. Before I give you these five mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: let me establish something important. This is not my wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a financial coach's hot take or a
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  Speaker 1: trending theory from someone on social media. This is the living, breathing,
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  Speaker 1: time tested word of God. Proverbs twenty two, verse seven
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  Speaker 1: says this the rich rule over the poor and the
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  Speaker 1: borrower is slave to the lender. Notice the word God chose,
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  Speaker 1: not customer, not client. Slave. In the ancient world, that
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  Speaker 1: was the most severe word possible. God used it intentionally
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  Speaker 1: because he understood exactly what happens to a person when
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  Speaker 1: debt takes over their life. Now, who do we look
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  Speaker 1: to in scripture when it comes to money. One name
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  Speaker 1: towers above everyone else. King Solomon. Solomon was not just
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  Speaker 1: a wise teacher with nice quotes. He was history's most
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  Speaker 1: successful wealth builder. Financial historians estimate his net worth in
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  Speaker 1: today's dollars at over two trillion dollars two trillion. He
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  Speaker 1: owned gold reserves, vineyards, livestock, and international trading fleets. He
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  Speaker 1: was not just wise, he was loaded. And he literally
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  Speaker 1: wrote the manual on how wealth is built and how
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  Speaker 1: it is destroyed. That manual is sitting right there in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Proverbs, and today we are pulling five
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  Speaker 1: of his most powerful warnings directly from those pages to
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  Speaker 1: bring it close to home. Before we start, think about Mike,
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  Speaker 1: a regular mechanic down in Texas, making an average income,
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  Speaker 1: no finance degree, no wealthy family, but by applying just
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  Speaker 1: one of Solomon's rules from this exact list, Mike wiped
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  Speaker 1: out forty five thousand dollars in consumer debt in under
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  Speaker 1: two years without changing his job. What Mike discovered is
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  Speaker 1: what we are going to uncover right now. Mistake number
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  Speaker 1: one taking on other people's financial burdens. Proverbs twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verses twenty six through twenty seven says, do not be
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  Speaker 1: one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security
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  Speaker 1: for debts. If you lack the means to pay, your
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  Speaker 1: very bed will be snatched from under you. God was
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  Speaker 1: not suggesting caution here, He was giving a direct command.
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  Speaker 1: Do not co sign. Here is the truth that the
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  Speaker 1: bank already knows, but will never say out loud. When
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  Speaker 1: a lender requires a cosigner, it means they have already
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  Speaker 1: done the math and decided the primary borrower is too
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  Speaker 1: high of a risk to approve on their own. The
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  Speaker 1: bank looked at their income, their credit history, and their
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  Speaker 1: spending patterns and concluded that this person is likely to default.
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  Speaker 1: When you step in and put your name on that loan,
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  Speaker 1: you are not helping your loved one get ahead. You
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  Speaker 1: are simply transferring the bank's risk onto your own shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: Think about Linda. She is a fifty five year old
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  Speaker 1: nurse in Florida, earning sixty five thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: She spent three decades building a clean, solid credit profile.
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  Speaker 1: Her nephew came to her needing a twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollar auto loan and could not qualify on his own.
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  Speaker 1: Linda loved him, she wanted to help, so she co signed.
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  Speaker 1: Six months later, he lost his job, stopped making payments,
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  Speaker 1: and defaulted on every single installment. The repo man came
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  Speaker 1: for the car. Linda's credit score dropped by one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty points overnight. When she applied for a mortgage
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  Speaker 1: for her retirement home, the one she had been dreaming
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  Speaker 1: about and saving toward for years, she was denied. Her
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  Speaker 1: retirement dream, the home she had earned, was derailed by
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  Speaker 1: someone else's debt and someone else's decision. Here is your
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  Speaker 1: action step. If someone asks you to co sign alone today,
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  Speaker 1: the most loving and biblically sound answer you can give
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  Speaker 1: them is no, not maybe, not, let me think about it. No.
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  Speaker 1: If you genuinely want to help, sit down with them
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  Speaker 1: and review their budget, or offer a cash gift of
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  Speaker 1: an amount you can afford to lose forever and never
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  Speaker 1: see again. But do not put your name on their debt.
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  Speaker 1: Your financial security is not a sacrifice God is asking
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  Speaker 1: you to make for someone else's poor financial decisions. Mistake
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  Speaker 1: number two chasing get rich quick illusions. Proverbs twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty says a faithful person will be richly blessed,
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  Speaker 1: but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
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  Speaker 1: Slow down on that second half. One eager to get
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  Speaker 1: rich will not go unpunished. This is not a gentle suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: This is a guarantee of consequences, written by a man
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  Speaker 1: worth two trillion dollars who understood the difference between building
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  Speaker 1: wealth and chasing it. We live in a world absolutely
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  Speaker 1: saturated with overnight wealth promises, speculative cryptocurrency tokens that promise
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  Speaker 1: to ten x in sixty days, day trading courses sold
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  Speaker 1: by twenty two year olds, in rented Lamborghinis, lottery tickets,
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  Speaker 1: multi level marketing opportunities that promise you six figures from
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  Speaker 1: your living room couch. Every single one of them is
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  Speaker 1: built on the same illusion that you can shortcut the process.
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  Speaker 1: But God's design for wealth is not a short cut.
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  Speaker 1: It is compound growth. It is the steady, boring, invisible
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  Speaker 1: process of putting your money to work over time, the
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  Speaker 1: same way a farmer plants in the spring and is
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  Speaker 1: patient enough to wait until the fall to harvest. Take Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: an information technology worker in Chicago making good money with
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  Speaker 1: a growing four oh one k. He had a decent foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Then a friend told him about an alt coin that
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  Speaker 1: was basically guaranteed to ten x in two months. Marcus
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  Speaker 1: did not just put in a little. He withdrew forty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars from his retirement savings, paid the early withdrawal penalty,
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  Speaker 1: paid the taxes on it, and poured every remaining dollar
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  Speaker 1: into that coin. Within three weeks, the coin collapsed. Marcus
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  Speaker 1: lost eighty five percent of his retirement savings, money that
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  Speaker 1: had taken over a decade to build in twenty one days,
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  Speaker 1: and the friend who recommended it, he had already sold
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  Speaker 1: his position before Marcus even bought in. Your action step
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  Speaker 1: is unglamorous, and that is exactly why it works. Log
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  Speaker 1: into your bank account today and set up an automatic
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  Speaker 1: transfer of fifty dollars every single week into a boring, steady,
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  Speaker 1: diversified Standard and Poors five hundred index fund. Do not
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  Speaker 1: try to time the market. Do not wait for the
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  Speaker 1: perfect moment, just start faithful. People are richly blessed, and
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  Speaker 1: faithfulness looks like showing up every single week, not gambling
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  Speaker 1: everything on one desperate moment. Mistake number three living without
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  Speaker 1: a financial buffer. Proverbs twenty one, verse twenty says the
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  Speaker 1: wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools
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  Speaker 1: gulp theirs down. In the ancient world, a household that
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  Speaker 1: stored food and oil had a buffer against drought, famine,
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  Speaker 1: and crisis. In our world to day, that buffer is
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  Speaker 1: called an emergency fund. And right now, surveys consistently show
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  Speaker 1: that the majority of Americans cannot cover a single unexpected
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  Speaker 1: expense of one thousand dollars without going into debt. Spending
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  Speaker 1: every dollar you earn the moment it hits your account,
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  Speaker 1: leaves your entire life fully exposed to storms that God
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  Speaker 1: himself told us were coming. It is not a question
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  Speaker 1: of if a crisis will happen, It is a question
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  Speaker 1: of when. Think about James and Emily, a couple from Denver, Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: Together they earned one hundred and ten thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: That is a genuinely solid household income by any measure,
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  Speaker 1: But they drove two brand new finance sport utility vehicles,
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  Speaker 1: carried rolling credit card balances and saved essentially nothing month
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  Speaker 1: to month. Then, on a bitter cold night in December,
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  Speaker 1: their homes heating, ventilation and air conditioning system failed completely.
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  Speaker 1: The repair estimate came in at three thousand, five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 1: With no emergency fund, no buffer, and no savings to
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  Speaker 1: pull from, they had only one option put it on
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  Speaker 1: a credit card charging twenty four percent annual percentage rate interest.
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  Speaker 1: That one emergency started a debt spiral that took them
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  Speaker 1: years to climb out of three thousand, five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: became over six thousand dollars by the time interest was
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  Speaker 1: factored in. Your action step is to open a high
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  Speaker 1: yield savings account to day. If you already have one,
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  Speaker 1: it is time to fund it with serious intention. Your
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  Speaker 1: first mission, and I mean this week, not this year,
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  Speaker 1: is to reach one thousand dollars in that account. That
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  Speaker 1: single thousand dollars will shield you from the vast majority
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  Speaker 1: of life's unexpected minor emergencies. It will not make you rich,
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  Speaker 1: but it will stop you from getting poorer the next
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  Speaker 1: time life sends a crisis your way, and that protection
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  Speaker 1: is the foundation that everything else gets built on top of.
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  Speaker 1: We are half way through, and I want to stop
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  Speaker 1: right here for just a moment. If you have made one, two,
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  Speaker 1: or all three of those first mistakes, do not feel
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  Speaker 1: crushed by that. Grace covers it. The blood of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: covers financial mistakes just as much as any other. But
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  Speaker 1: I need you to stay focused right now, because mistake
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  Speaker 1: number four and mistake number five are coming up next,
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  Speaker 1: and number five in particular, it is the silent wealth
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  Speaker 1: killer that ninety percent of Christians commit every single month
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  Speaker 1: without ever realizing it. Most of them will go their
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  Speaker 1: entire lives without identifying it. You cannot afford to miss this.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. Also, if this video is already speaking
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  Speaker 1: to something in your spirit, take one second right now
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  Speaker 1: and drop a comment below. Type the words God is
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  Speaker 1: my provider. Let us build something in this comment section together.
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  Speaker 1: Mistake number four relying on a single source of income.
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  Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes eleven, verse two says invest in seven ventures, yes
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  Speaker 1: in eight. You do not know what disaster may come
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  Speaker 1: upon the land. That verse was written thousands of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and it may be more relevant today than at any
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  Speaker 1: other point in human history. We live in an economy
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  Speaker 1: defined by corporate layoffs, by artificial intelligence eliminating entire job categories,
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  Speaker 1: by inflation silently shrinking every paycheck, and by company restructurings
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  Speaker 1: that can eliminate your position in a forty five minute
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  Speaker 1: zoom call. Depending one hundred percent on a single W
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  Speaker 1: two paycheck from a single employer is not stability. It
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  Speaker 1: is fragility wearing the costume of stability, and God warned
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  Speaker 1: us about it long before any of us were born.
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  Speaker 1: Think about David, a marketing manager in Seattle, earning ninety
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars per year. He had a great team, solid benefits,
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  Speaker 1: and a three thousand dollars per month mortgage on a
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  Speaker 1: home his family loved. He felt completely secure. Then, without
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  Speaker 1: any warning, a corporate restructuring eliminated his entire department in
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  Speaker 1: a single afternoon. No severance, negotiation, no warning signs he
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  Speaker 1: had seen coming. David had no side income, no freelance clients,
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  Speaker 1: no assets generating cash flow, and no alternative plan. Within
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  Speaker 1: ninety days, he was facing the real possibility of losing
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  Speaker 1: the family home. His wife was terrified, his kids had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what was happening. One paycheck, one employer one moment,
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  Speaker 1: and everything was at risk. The cost of being dependent
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  Speaker 1: on a single income stream in today's economy is simply
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  Speaker 1: too high to ignore any longer. God's own word told
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  Speaker 1: us to invest in seven ventures in eight to build
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  Speaker 1: multiple streams so that when one is disrupted, we are
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  Speaker 1: not destroyed. Here is your action step, and it requires
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  Speaker 1: nothing but a piece of paper and a pen. Write
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  Speaker 1: down one skill. You currently have one thing you can
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  Speaker 1: actually do cooking, graphic design, writing, fixing cars, photography, teaching, tutoring, woodworking,
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  Speaker 1: social media management, anything. Now write down how you could
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  Speaker 1: charge someone one hundred dollars for that skill this coming weekend,
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  Speaker 1: not next month, this weekend. You are not trying to
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  Speaker 1: build a business empire tonight. You are trying to open
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  Speaker 1: a second door, because when the first door slams shut,
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  Speaker 1: and in this economy it can happen to any one
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  Speaker 1: of us, you need another door to walk through before
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  Speaker 1: the walls close. In mistake number five, the scarcity mindset
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  Speaker 1: and failing to give now we have arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: mistake nobody wants to talk about in church, the one
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  Speaker 1: that quietly keeps more Christians financially stuck than almost anything
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  Speaker 1: else on this list. Proverbs eleven, verse twenty four says,
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  Speaker 1: one person gives freely, yet gains even more. Another withholds unduly,
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  Speaker 1: but comes to poverty. Read that carefully one more time.
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  Speaker 1: One person gives freely and gains even more. Another withholds
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  Speaker 1: holds on tightly out of fear, and comes to poverty.
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  Speaker 1: God is not just making a moral statement here, He
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  Speaker 1: is describing a financial mechanism withholding out of scarcity is
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  Speaker 1: itself a strategy for becoming poorer. Here is the deeper
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  Speaker 1: spiritual truth buried beneath that verse. When we grip our
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  Speaker 1: money with white knuckles, terrified to let any of it go,
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  Speaker 1: convinced that if we give any away we will not
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  Speaker 1: have enough, we are not trusting God as our provider.
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  Speaker 1: We are trusting our bank account as our provider. We
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  Speaker 1: have quietly made money into an idol. We have placed
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  Speaker 1: it on the throne of our heart, arts where God belongs.
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  Speaker 1: And God, who is a jealous God who loves us
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  Speaker 1: too much to compete with an idol, will not bless
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  Speaker 1: what he is not lord over. Generosity is not just
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  Speaker 1: a moral virtue. It is a spiritual weapon that breaks
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  Speaker 1: the idol of money in your heart and realigns you
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  Speaker 1: with the source of all true and lasting abundance. Consider Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: a single mother in Ohio making just thirty eight thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars per year. By every worldly standard, she could not
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  Speaker 1: afford to give. She was barely staying above water month
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  Speaker 1: to month. But she felt a nudge, a persistent, gentle
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  Speaker 1: nudge from the Holy Spirit, to step out in faith
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  Speaker 1: and begin tithing a small percentage of her income. She
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  Speaker 1: was scared. She did the math, and it still did
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  Speaker 1: not seem to add up. But she obeyed anyway, and
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  Speaker 1: something completely unexpected began to happen. The act of giving
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  Speaker 1: off the top forced her to build a budget with
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  Speaker 1: a level of discipline and precision she had never practiced before.
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  Speaker 1: She found weeks in her spending she had never noticed.
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  Speaker 1: She became intentional in a way that fear had never
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  Speaker 1: made her. Within twelve months of consistent, faithful giving, she
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  Speaker 1: found the courage to apply for a better paying job
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  Speaker 1: she had previously convinced herself she was not qualified for.
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  Speaker 1: She got it. She paid off her credit cards, she
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  Speaker 1: started saving for the first time, and she told anyone
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  Speaker 1: who would listen that she felt richer. Making thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars with an open hand than she ever had
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  Speaker 1: holding tightly to every single penny in fear. Sarah did
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  Speaker 1: not change her income first, she changed her posture, and
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  Speaker 1: the financial breakthrough followed. Your action step today does not
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  Speaker 1: have to start with a full tithe If you are
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  Speaker 1: not ready for that step yet, start smaller. Pay for
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  Speaker 1: the coffee of the stranger behind you in the drive
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  Speaker 1: through line, leave a tip more generous than you normally would.
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  Speaker 1: Give away clothes you have not worn in a year.
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  Speaker 1: Donate something, give something away today, and break the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of scarcity that has had its hands around your finances.
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  Speaker 1: The grip of scarcity loosens the moment you open your hand.
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  Speaker 1: When we stare at our bank accounts and see a
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  Speaker 1: number that does not reflect how hard we have been working,
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  Speaker 1: it is easy to feel like we are beyond repair,
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  Speaker 1: like the gap between where we are and where we
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  Speaker 1: need to be is simply too wide to cross. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to think about John and Mary, a couple
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  Speaker 1: who were drowning under eighty thousand dollars of combined consumer debt.
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  Speaker 1: They were not just financially broken, they were relationally broken.
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  Speaker 1: The stress had hollowed out their marriage they were saying
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  Speaker 1: things to each other they could not take back, fighting
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  Speaker 1: over every dollar. Their marriage was hanging by a thread.
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  Speaker 1: That debt had nearly severed completely. But they made a
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  Speaker 1: decision together. They stopped doing things the world's way. They
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  Speaker 1: surrendered their finances fully, completely, with open hands, to God's blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: They stopped co signing for people who asked. They killed
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  Speaker 1: the get rich quick fantasies and started a small, steady
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  Speaker 1: side income from a skilled David already had. They opened
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  Speaker 1: a high yield savings account and treated it like sacred ground.
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  Speaker 1: They gave consistently, even when it was uncomfortable, and they
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  Speaker 1: started trusting the process. It was not a miracle that
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  Speaker 1: happened over night. There was no lottery win, no viral moment,
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  Speaker 1: no unexpected inheritance. It took four grueling, disciplined, faithful, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: painful years. But today they are completely debt free. Every
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  Speaker 1: single dollar of that eighty thousand dollars is gone. Their
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  Speaker 1: marriage is not just surviving, it is restored and stronger
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  Speaker 1: than it was before the debt ever arrived. We do
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  Speaker 1: not have to be a statistic. We do not have
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  Speaker 1: to remain part of the eighty percent living paycheck to paycheck,
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  Speaker 1: terrified of the next bill. The blueprint has been there
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  Speaker 1: all along. It has been sitting in the ancient words
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  Speaker 1: of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, written by a man who understood
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  Speaker 1: that wealth is not mere a financial achievement. It is
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual alignment. When we align our money with God's wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: we stop fighting a battle we were never meant to
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  Speaker 1: fight alone. We step out of the trap. We step
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  Speaker 1: into the piece that passes all understanding, not just bigger
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  Speaker 1: numbers in a bank account, but the freedom that comes
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  Speaker 1: from knowing we are faithful stewards of every single thing
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  Speaker 1: God has placed in our hands. The path forward is
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  Speaker 1: not complicated. Do not co sign, do not chase shortcuts,
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  Speaker 1: build your buffer, diversify your income, and open your hand
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  Speaker 1: in generosity. Five moves God breathed, proven across thousands of
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  Speaker 1: years and millions of lives. Now, before you click to
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  Speaker 1: the next video, I need you to do one thing.
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  Speaker 1: If even one of these five mistakes spoke to something
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  Speaker 1: real in your life today, if something in this message
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  Speaker 1: hit home, this is your moment to declare something new
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  Speaker 1: over your financial life. Go down to the common right
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  Speaker 1: now and type these exact words. I am debt free
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  Speaker 1: and walking in God's abundance. Type it right now, even
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  Speaker 1: if it has not happened yet. Speak it by faith,
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  Speaker 1: declare it out loud, and watch how many other people
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  Speaker 1: respond to you with the same declaration. Because there is
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  Speaker 1: supernatural power in a community that agrees together. Money is
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  Speaker 1: the number one source of stress in America today, Do
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  Speaker 1: not keep this video to yourself. Hit the share button
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  Speaker 1: right now and send this to a friend, a family member,
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  Speaker 1: a coworker, anyone in your life who you know is
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  Speaker 1: quietly drowning under the weight of debt and financial fear.
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  Speaker 1: You could be the reason they find their breakthrough this week.
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  Speaker 1: way deeper. We are going to tackle the number one
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  Speaker 1: reason God's people stay broke. And I promise you it
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  Speaker 1: is not what you think. It is not a lack
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  Speaker 1: of income, it is not a lack of education. It
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  Speaker 1: is something far more subtle, far more dangerous, and far
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  Speaker 1: more personal than either of those things. And once you
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  Speaker 1: see it, you will never be able to unsee it.
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  Speaker 1: God's wisdom is not outdated. His financial blueprint has outlasted
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  Speaker 1: every economic crash, every depression, every period of inflation, and
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  Speaker 1: every market collapse in human history. It will outlast every
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  Speaker 1: challenge you are facing right now. I will see you
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  Speaker 1: in the next video, and until then, manage it faithfully,
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  Speaker 1: give it generously, and trust the one who gave it
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  Speaker 1: all to you in the first place. God bless you.