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7 Money Secrets God Taught Solomon · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: What if everything you were ever taught about money was incomplete,
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  Speaker 1: not wrong, just in complete. What if the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: financial system ever designed was not invented in Silicon Bat,
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  Speaker 1: was not discovered on a trading floor in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: and was not hidden behind a paywalk in some online course.
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  Speaker 1: What if it was written down over three thousand years
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  Speaker 1: ago by a king who, by every historical and economic measure,
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  Speaker 1: was the wealthiest human man who has ever lived. Here
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  Speaker 1: is a number that should stop you cold. Sixty one
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  Speaker 1: percent are currently living paycheck to picture. Not unemployed people,
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  Speaker 1: not people who gave up, people who are working sometimes
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  Speaker 1: two jobs, sometimes three, and still one misdeposit away from
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  Speaker 1: complete financial collapse. That is over one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: million people lying awake at three in the morning wondering
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  Speaker 1: how they are going to make it to Friday. What
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  Speaker 1: if there was a way out that did not require
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  Speaker 1: a finance degree, a lucky poor, a rich relative. What
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  Speaker 1: if God already gave us the blueprint and most of
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  Speaker 1: us have never opened it. In the next twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to walk you through the seven specific
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  Speaker 1: money secrets that God personally retreely to King Solomon. These
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  Speaker 1: are not motivational mydeeds to me. These are divine financial
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  Speaker 1: laws that have been tested across three thousand years of
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  Speaker 1: human history. And I promise you by the time we
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  Speaker 1: reach secret number four, you will never look at your
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  Speaker 1: credit card bill the same way again. Before we go
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  Speaker 1: any further, if you are new here, welcome to Bible Assent,
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  Speaker 1: this one. And if someone in your life has been stressed, afraid,
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  Speaker 1: or ashamed about money, please share this video with them
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  Speaker 1: before you even finish watching. It might be the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing you send them this year. Now, let us
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  Speaker 1: get into the Word. Every principle we are covering today
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  Speaker 1: comes directly from the Book of Proverbs and the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Ecclesiastes, the two books of the Bible that function
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  Speaker 1: as God's manual for wisdom, wealth, and a life well lived.
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  Speaker 1: This is not opinion. This is not financial advice dressed
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  Speaker 1: up with scripture. This is the living word of God
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  Speaker 1: applied to the most practical area of your daily life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let us be honest about who Solomon actually was, because
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  Speaker 1: most of us have only a vague idea. Historians and
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  Speaker 1: economists who have studied ancient wealth records estimate that King
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's net worth converted into today's dollars was approximately two
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  Speaker 1: point one trillion dollars. Two point one trillion. Jeff Bezos,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, and every other billionaire on Forbes's current list
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  Speaker 1: would not come close. Solomon received six hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: six talents of gold every single year in tributes alone.
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  Speaker 1: He had fleets of ships, continent spanning trade routes, architectural
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  Speaker 1: projects of impossible scale, vineyard systems, and a court so
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  Speaker 1: magnificent that the Queen of Sheba traveled thousands of miles
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  Speaker 1: just to see it with her own eyes. And here
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  Speaker 1: is what matters most. Solomon did not stumble into that wealth.
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  Speaker 1: God gave him wisdom first, and from that wisdom the
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  Speaker 1: wealth followed. He then wrote it all down so that
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  Speaker 1: you and I could benefit from it today. Before we
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  Speaker 1: go further, I want to tell you about David, a
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  Speaker 1: high school teacher from Dallas, Texas. Two years ago, David
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  Speaker 1: was forty five thousand dollars in debt, credit cards, a
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  Speaker 1: personal loan, a car note that felt like it would
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  Speaker 1: never end. He applied just two of the principles we
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  Speaker 1: are about to cover, stayed consistent for eighteen months, and
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  Speaker 1: today he is completely debt free, with ten thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: sitting in an emergency fund for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: his adult life. David is not a finance expert. We
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  Speaker 1: just aligned himself with God's blueprint. That is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: we are doing right now. Secret Number one the power
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  Speaker 1: of diligence. Proverbs ten verse four says lazy hands make
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  Speaker 1: for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a piece of gentle encouragement. This is an economic law
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  Speaker 1: written by the wisest man who ever lived. Wealth is
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  Speaker 1: not a lottery. It is not about luck, your zip code,
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  Speaker 1: or who your parents were. Wealth is the natural result
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  Speaker 1: of consistent, high value work performed with focus and intention
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  Speaker 1: over time. In America, we have been trained to look
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  Speaker 1: for the shortcut. We see social media ads promising six
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  Speaker 1: figures in sixty days. We scroll past success stories and
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  Speaker 1: wonder why our life looks different. Solomon cuts through all
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  Speaker 1: of that noise and tells us the truth. Diligent hands,
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  Speaker 1: not fast hands, not lucky hands. Diligent hands ends are
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  Speaker 1: what bring wealth. Marcus from Detroit was working a warehouse
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  Speaker 1: job earning fifteen dollars an hour with no clear future.
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  Speaker 1: He made one decision. Every single evening he would spend
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  Speaker 1: one hour learning to code, not when he felt like it,
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  Speaker 1: every evening without exception. Within twelve months, he had built
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  Speaker 1: enough skill to land a junior developer role that came
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  Speaker 1: with a twenty five thousand dollars raise. One hour of
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  Speaker 1: daily diligence rewrote his entire financial story. Your action step.
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  Speaker 1: Identify one skill in your career that, if improved, would
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  Speaker 1: make you significantly more valuable to your employer or your clients.
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  Speaker 1: Commit thirty minutes every single day to mastering it. Start tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Secret number two The rule of diversification. Ecclesiastes eleven, Verse two.
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  Speaker 1: Invest in seven ventures, yes in eight. You do not
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  Speaker 1: know what disaster may come upon the land. Solomon invented
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  Speaker 1: portfolio diversification three thousand years before any investment firm ever existed.
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  Speaker 1: He understood with crystal clarity that when you put everything
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  Speaker 1: into one basket, a single disaster can erase everything you
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  Speaker 1: spent decades building. Linda in Florida worked hard for twenty
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  Speaker 1: years and poured her entire life savings into one rental property.
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  Speaker 1: She felt solid, she felt secure. Then two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: eight arrived, the market collapsed, her property lost sixty percent
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  Speaker 1: of its value, and Linda lost nearly everything. Today she
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  Speaker 1: operates by what she calls her rule of seven, spreading
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  Speaker 1: her money across index funds, a real estate investment trust,
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  Speaker 1: a small online business, and a high yield savings account.
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  Speaker 1: No single disaster can wipe her out anymore. Your action
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  Speaker 1: step open your four to oh one K or look
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  Speaker 1: at your savings today. If every dollar you have is
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  Speaker 1: in one way place, open a wroth individual retirement account
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  Speaker 1: or a high yield savings account this week and create
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  Speaker 1: your second financial venture. You do not need a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money to start diversifying. You just need to start
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  Speaker 1: Secret number three. Escaping the debt trap. Proverbs twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven, the rich rule over the poor, and the
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  Speaker 1: borrower is slave to the lender. Solomon does not soften this.
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  Speaker 1: When you carry high interest debt and the average American
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  Speaker 1: credit card interest rate right now sits around twenty four percent,
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  Speaker 1: you are not just paying more for things, You are
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  Speaker 1: in financial bondadge. Every swipe of that card is a
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  Speaker 1: contract that says your future income belongs to someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Your future earnings, your future freedom, your future choices, all
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  Speaker 1: of them pledged to a lender before you even earn them.
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  Speaker 1: James and Sarah from Ohio were paying eight hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: every single month in minimum payments, and six hundred of
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  Speaker 1: those dollars was pure interest. They were working an entire
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  Speaker 1: extra week every month just to stand still. They made
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  Speaker 1: a decision. They cut up the cards, listed every debt
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  Speaker 1: from smallest to largest, and attack the smallest balance with
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  Speaker 1: every extra dollar they could find. That is the debt
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  Speaker 1: snowball method, and it is one of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: debt elimination strategies ever put into practice. Twenty six months later,
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  Speaker 1: they were free. Your action step right now. Write down
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  Speaker 1: every single debt you have, from smallest balance to largest.
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  Speaker 1: Pay the minimum on everything except the smallest one. On
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  Speaker 1: that smallest debt, throw every spare dollar you have until
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  Speaker 1: it is gone, then roll that payment into the next one.
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  Speaker 1: That is where your war on debt begins. Today we
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  Speaker 1: have covered how to build value, protect wealth, and break
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  Speaker 1: free from debt, but we are only at the halfway point,
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  Speaker 1: and the next four secrets are where most people miss everything.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up at secret number six is what I call
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  Speaker 1: the multiplication key, the one principle Solomon used that guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: his gold would never stop growing. And at secret number seven,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to talk about something that almost no
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  Speaker 1: financial advisor will ever bring up, but Solomon considered it
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  Speaker 1: the most important financial act of his entire life. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me Secret number four The ant strategy. Proverbs six,
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  Speaker 1: verses six through eight, go to the ant, you sluggard,
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  Speaker 1: consider its ways and be wise. It has no commander,
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  Speaker 1: no overseer or ruler. Yet it stores its provisions in
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  Speaker 1: summer and gathers its food at harvest. Solomon points to
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  Speaker 1: one of the smallest creatures on earth and says, that
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  Speaker 1: is your financial role model. Why because the ant does
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  Speaker 1: not wait to be told to save. The ant does
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  Speaker 1: not need a coach or a budget app The ant
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  Speaker 1: simply understands that seasons change, and what you do during
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  Speaker 1: the good season determines whether you survive the bad one. Americans,
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  Speaker 1: on average, spend one hundred and one percent of what
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  Speaker 1: they earn. We borrow the difference. Solomon would look at
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  Speaker 1: our culture and weep. He says, prepare during the harvest,
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  Speaker 1: store up during abundance so you can stand during scarcity.
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  Speaker 1: Robert was a school janitor in a small town in
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  Speaker 1: Ohio who never earned more than thirty two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year, but every single paycheck from age twenty two
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  Speaker 1: until he retired at sixty two, he automatically transferred fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars into a savings account he refused to touch. When
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  Speaker 1: Robert retired, he had over one million dollars. A janitor,
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  Speaker 1: a self made millionaire because he was the aunt. Your
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  Speaker 1: action step set up an automatic transfer of just twenty
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  Speaker 1: dollars a week, less than three dollars a day, into
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  Speaker 1: a separate savings account you label your emergency fund. Do
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  Speaker 1: not touch it, never look at it as spend money.
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  Speaker 1: That is your aunt fund. And if twenty dollars feels
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  Speaker 1: too small to matter, think about Robert. Most people do
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  Speaker 1: well with the practical secrets, but the next three are
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  Speaker 1: where things get genuinely transformational, because they move from strategy
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  Speaker 1: into something deeper. Secret number five is about the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that saved Teresa from losing her entire inheritance. Secret
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  Speaker 1: number six is the principle that most Christians intellectually agree
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  Speaker 1: with but almost never actually practice, and secret number seven
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  Speaker 1: is what separates people who build wealth from people who
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  Speaker 1: simply spend income do not go anywhere. Secret number five
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of counsel Proverbs fifteen, verse twenty two. Plans
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  Speaker 1: fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the hard truth. We do not know what
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  Speaker 1: we do not know. Solomon, the wisest man alive, a
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  Speaker 1: man whom God personally blessed with understanding, still surrounded himself
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  Speaker 1: with advisers and counselors. He did not try to figure
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  Speaker 1: everything out on his own. And yet most Americans make
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  Speaker 1: their largest financial decisions based on a quick Internet search,
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  Speaker 1: a coworker's opinion over lunch, or a gut feeling that
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  Speaker 1: feels inspired but is actually just impulse. Teresa from Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: inherited forty two thousand dollars when her mother passed away.
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  Speaker 1: She was determined to honor that money and grow it wisely.
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  Speaker 1: She did not tell anyone, She did not ask anyone.
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  Speaker 1: A co worker mentioned a technology stock in passing, and
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  Speaker 1: Teresa quietly put the entire inheritance into it. Within eighteen months,
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent of that money was gone. That was her
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  Speaker 1: mother's legacy, and it nearly disappeared because Teresa tried to
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  Speaker 1: navigate alone in territory she did not understand. When Teresa
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  Speaker 1: finally sat down with a certified financial planner and a
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  Speaker 1: pastor who understood biblical financial printsciples, everything changed. She built
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  Speaker 1: a real plan, diversified, patient, and rooted in purpose. Today,
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  Speaker 1: not only has her remaining money recovered, it has grown
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  Speaker 1: beyond what the original inheritance was worth. The right council
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  Speaker 1: changed everything. Your action step this week identify one financially
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  Speaker 1: wise person in your life, whether that is a certified
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  Speaker 1: financial planner, a trusted mentor, or a biblical financial ministry,
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  Speaker 1: and schedule a real conversation. Share your actual numbers, ask
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  Speaker 1: real questions. You were never designed to build financial wisdom alone.
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  Speaker 1: Secret number six the multiplication key. Honoring God first Proverbs three,
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  Speaker 1: verses nine to ten. Honor the Lord with your wealth,
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  Speaker 1: with the first fruits of all your crops. Then your
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  Speaker 1: barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will
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  Speaker 1: brim over with new wine. Notice the word first fruits,
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  Speaker 1: not last fruits, not leftovers, not whatever is remaining after
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  Speaker 1: the mortgage. In the groceries and the streaming subscriptions, the
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  Speaker 1: first and best portion, before the bills, before the budget,
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  Speaker 1: before anything else. This is the principle of tithing, and
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  Speaker 1: it is the most countercultural, most faith requiring, most supernaturally
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  Speaker 1: powerful financial principle in all of Scripture. Now I know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what some of you are thinking, Pastor. I can
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  Speaker 1: barely cover rent. How am I supposed to give ten
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  Speaker 1: percent away? And I want to be completely honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: This principle does not make sense on paper. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: run the math and make it work in a spreadsheet.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a financial strategy. It is an act
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  Speaker 1: of faith. It is you looking at God with your
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  Speaker 1: checkbook and saying, I trust you more than I trust
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  Speaker 1: this number. Michael and Diane from Memphis were in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a financial crisis three years ago. Behind on
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  Speaker 1: the mortgage, behind on the car, behind on everything. Their
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  Speaker 1: pastor challenged them to tithe for ninety days and trust God.
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  Speaker 1: With the result, they were terrified. They did it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Within those ninety days, Michael received an unexpected promotion. He
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  Speaker 1: had not applied for. A medical bill they owed was
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  Speaker 1: forgiven by the hospital. A family member they had not
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  Speaker 1: spoken to in years reached out and quietly paid off
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  Speaker 1: one of their debts. Could those things have happened without
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  Speaker 1: the tithe? Perhaps, But Michael and Diane will tell you
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  Speaker 1: to their graves that the moment they put God first
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  Speaker 1: in their finances, the atmosphere around their money changed completely.
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  Speaker 1: Your action step this Sunday. Bring your tithe. If you
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  Speaker 1: are not currently connected to a local church, find a
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  Speaker 1: biblically grounded ministry to support with your first fruits. Start
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  Speaker 1: with whatever percentage you can genuinely commit to, and trust
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  Speaker 1: God to honor every step of faith you take toward him.
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  Speaker 1: We are almost at the finish line, and Secret number
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  Speaker 1: seven is the one I personally believe has the most
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  Speaker 1: power to change not just your life, but the lives
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  Speaker 1: of people who have not even been born yet. This
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  Speaker 1: is the one Solomon considered the crown of everything. Do
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  Speaker 1: not skip it. Secret number seven. Building a generational legacy
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs thirteen, verse twenty two. A good person leaves an
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  Speaker 1: inheritance for their children's children, but a sinner's wealth is
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  Speaker 1: stored up for the righteous. Solomon does not think in months.
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  Speaker 1: He barely thinks in years. He thinks in generations. The
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  Speaker 1: question he asks is not how do I survive this month?
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  Speaker 1: The question he asks is what am I building right
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  Speaker 1: now that will still be standing when my grandchildren are alive?
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  Speaker 1: What foundation am I pouring today that people who have
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  Speaker 1: not yet been born will stand on. This is the
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  Speaker 1: mindset shift that separates people who build wealth from people
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  Speaker 1: who simply earn income. When you begin thinking generationally, every
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  Speaker 1: financial decision gains weight and meaning. You stop seeing money
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  Speaker 1: as something to consume, and you start seeing it as
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  Speaker 1: something to steward, to grow, protect, and pass forward on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The Williams family in Charlotte, North Carolina, carries a story
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  Speaker 1: that has been told at their dinner table for decades.
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  Speaker 1: Three generations ago, the family patriarch, a man who worked
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  Speaker 1: long hours for modest pay, bought a small plot of
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  Speaker 1: land that almost everyone around him called worthless. He did
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  Speaker 1: not buy it for himself. He bought it because he
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  Speaker 1: believed his grandchildren deserve something to stand on. He could
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  Speaker 1: not fully explain his decision at the time, he just
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  Speaker 1: felt it was right. Today that land is a commercial
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  Speaker 1: property worth over one million dollars. Three generations of the
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  Speaker 1: Williams family have never known the generational poverty that surrounds
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  Speaker 1: so many families with similar starting points. Because one man
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  Speaker 1: made one decision for people he would never meet. Your
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  Speaker 1: action step, write down one financial decision you can make today,
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  Speaker 1: not for this month, not for this year, but for
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  Speaker 1: the next generation. Maybe it is opening a custodial investment
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  Speaker 1: account for your child or grandchild. Maybe it is finally
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  Speaker 1: writing a will. Maybe it is paying off your home
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  Speaker 1: so it belongs to your family, free and clear. Think
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  Speaker 1: beyond yourself, think legacy. I want to tell you about
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  Speaker 1: one more family before we close, and this one is
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  Speaker 1: close to my heart. The Millers were a family of
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  Speaker 1: four in rural Tennessee. Two years ago. They were six
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  Speaker 1: weeks away from foreclosure on the home where they had
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  Speaker 1: raised their children. The husband was working two jobs, the
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  Speaker 1: wife had gone back to work after years at home
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  Speaker 1: raising their kids. They were doing absolutely everything humanly possible,
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  Speaker 1: and the math still did not work. They came to
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  Speaker 1: their pastor one evening with all of their financial statements
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  Speaker 1: spread across the table and tears. They were no longer
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  Speaker 1: trying to hide. Their pastor did not write them a check.
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  Speaker 1: He gave them these seven principles. He walked through every
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  Speaker 1: single one. The tie they had quietly stopped paying three
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  Speaker 1: years earlier. The debt snowball. They had never heard of
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  Speaker 1: the emergency fund. They had never built the diversification. They
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  Speaker 1: had never considered the council. They had never saw it.
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  Speaker 1: They built a plan together, they prayed over it, they
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  Speaker 1: committed to it in writing. Eleven months later, the Millers
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  Speaker 1: did not just save their home. They paid off fourteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in consumer debt. They had three months of
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  Speaker 1: living expenses in a savings account for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in their entire marriage, and their pastor told me that
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  Speaker 1: when he saw them a year later, the husband looked
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  Speaker 1: him in the eye and said, for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in twenty years, we slept through the night, both of us.
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  Speaker 1: No one cried about bills. We just slept. They did
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  Speaker 1: not need a miracle check from heaven, although God can
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  Speaker 1: absolutely do that. They needed to align with God's financial laws,
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  Speaker 1: and when they did, those laws performed exactly the way
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  Speaker 1: Solomon said they would. We started this video with a
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  Speaker 1: number sixty one percent, over one hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 1: Americans are struggling financially right now, and that number is real,
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  Speaker 1: and it is heavy, and it matters deeply. But here
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  Speaker 1: is what I need you to hear. As we close today,
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  Speaker 1: you do not have to be part of that statistic anymore.
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  Speaker 1: God's blueprint is not reserved for pastors or theologians or
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  Speaker 1: people who already have it all figured out. It was
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  Speaker 1: written for working people, tired people, scared people, people who
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  Speaker 1: are wondering if things will ever change. Solomon received this
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  Speaker 1: wisdom for you. This word is alive, it is active,
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  Speaker 1: We are on this journey together. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: lecture from someone who has everything figured out. We are
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  Speaker 1: walking this road side by side, reclaiming our family's futures,
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  Speaker 1: one biblical decision at a time together. If something shifted
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  Speaker 1: in you during this video, go to the comments right
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  Speaker 1: now and type these words, I am walking in God's
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  Speaker 1: financial freedom. Let us declare it together as a community.
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  Speaker 1: are doing this alone. If you know someone who is
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  Speaker 1: I Am going to reveal the number one reason that
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  Speaker 1: God's people stay broke, and I promise you it has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with money. It is something far closer
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  Speaker 1: to home and it is completely fixable. You do not
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