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Making Ends Meet

God’s Plan for Financial Security

What would you do if your financial advisor revealed a failure proof plan for financial security? How would you react if you were told that all of your needs would be provided for the rest of your life? What would you say if someone told you that you can be a part of an economy that will never have a deficit? As far-fetched as that may sound such an economy does exist.

In an economically unstable world God has revealed in His Word a financial plan that will never fail. He has given us principles, that if wisely applied, will bring us financial success. It will also help us avoid the pitfalls of unwise spending, ill-advised investing, and give us insight on how to prepare for a secure retirement.

God’s financial plan goes a step further. It helps us to realize that God is the rightful owner of everything in heaven and in the earth. Following God’s plan also changes our attitude about money and gives us wisdom to know how to help our neighbors and those in need.

When we follow God’s system of giving we will also become cheerful givers. Our financial plans and successes are in the hands of our loving heavenly Father. As you study this outline you will discover that God has a banking system and an economy that helps us to live a balanced life in this world. You will also discover that God’s Plan for Financial Security also comes with a retirement plan that’s out of this world.

GOD’S RIGHT TO OWNERSHIP
Genesis 1:1 – God created the heavens and the earth.
Job 41:11 – God doesn’t pay anyone, everything belongs to Him.
Psalms 8:3 – The heavens, are the works of God’s fingers.
Psalms 19:1 – The heavens declare God’s glory.
Psalms 24:1 – The earth and all that it contains belong to God.
Psalms 50:10 – Every beast and the cattle on a thousand hills belongs to God.
Psalms 50:12 – The world in all of its fullness belongs to God.
Psalms 102:25 – God created the foundation of the world and the heavens.
Haggai 2:8 – The silver and the gold belongs to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:18 – God gives us power to get wealth.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 – Wealth, riches, and power are gifts from God.
1 Timothy 6:7 – We brought nothing into the world and we carry nothing out.
Acts 17:24 – God is the Lord of Creation, He made everything.
Acts 17:28 – We need God to live and to move and to have hope.
Hebrews 1:10 – God laid the foundation of the earth and created the heavens.

OUR STEWARDSHIP TO GOD
Genesis 14:20 – Abraham gave a tithe of his possessions to honor God.
Leviticus 27:32 – A Tithe is equal to One-Tenth of our possessions
Deuteronomy 14:22 – We are called to tithe on our increase each year.
Proverbs 3:9 – We honor the Lord with the first of all our profits.
Malachi 3:8 – We are not to rob God in our tithes and in our offerings.
Malachi 3:9 – We bring a curse on ourselves when we fail to be faithful.
Malachi 3:10 – God will blesses us when we worship through giving.
Malachi 3:11 – God will not allow the enemy to destroy our plans.

GOD’S PROMISED BLESSINGS
Psalms 1:3 – Those that are faithful to God will experience prosperity.
Proverbs 11:24, 25 – Those that are generous in giving will be generously blessed.
Matthew 6:33 – God will provide when we seek Him first.
Luke 6:38 – The same measure that we give, will be measured to us
2 Corinthians 9:7 – Don’t give grudgingly, God loves a cheerful giver.
Philippians 4:19 – God will supply all of our needs according to His riches.

EXAMPLES OF STEWARDSHIP IN THE BIBLE
Deuteronomy 8:11-18 – Remember that without God there are no blessings.
Luke 12:15 – Do not be covetous, life is not abundant possessions.
Luke 12:16-20 – When we hoard our blessings we leave them behind.
Luke 12:21 – Store your treasures in heaven by faithfully giving to God.
Proverbs 22:7 – Avoid being in debt, the borrow is a servant of the lender.
1 Timothy 5:18 – The laborer is worthy of his hire don’t expect things for free.
1 Corinthians 9:13 – Those that minister are to be supported by those for whom
they labor.

No circumstance of birth or nationality, no condition of life, can turn away His love from the children of men.

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Surviving a Time of Trouble

Surviving a Time of Trouble

We are just beginning to experience the long-term economic consequences of COVID-19 on our personal lives and our families. The short-term consequences with thousands dead and hundreds of thousands more sick were bad enough, but there are significant additional consequences that society now faces. The economic impact of the pandemic is hitting many families full force.

Surviving Financially

1 – Accept the eternal truth that God is Creator of this world and the Owner of everything in it.

Ps.50.10_12 For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
Ps.104.21.25 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. When the sun rises, they gather together And lie down in their dens. Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening. O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions— This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great.
Isa.43.1 But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.
Deut.8.18 And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
1Cor.4.2 Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.
Luke.16.10 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.

2 – Believe that the God who created you and redeemed you cares for you and will provide for you.

Phil.4.19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Matt.6.31_33 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Eph.3.20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

3 – Choose to reorder your priorities in view of the coming of Jesus.

James.5.1_5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Rev.18.7_9 In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her. “The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning.

Many of the unemployed during the crisis are going back to work, but they are still experiencing the effects of lost income from their time off, and the debts they incurred. The stock market plummeted during the pandemic, with millions of people losing almost all their life savings. The entire world economy is on extremely shaky footing, and we wonder whether life will ever be the same. The economic picture for the foreseeable future is dire. Many of the businesses forced to shut down because of the lockdowns may never recover.

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