Debt Free

Effective Money Management

*I will give you everything
*God is asking to be willing to give up everything
*Luke 16:1-13: Jesus told his disciples: "There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer."
"The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm ashamed to beg--I know what I'll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.'
"So he called in each one of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
" ' Eight hundred gallons of olive oil, he replied.
"The manager told him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.'
"Then he asked the second, 'And how much do you owe?'
" 'A thousand bushels of wheat, ' he replied.
"He told him, 'Take your bill and make it eight hundred.'
"The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kinds than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own?
"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

*Jesus said more about money than heaven
*He wish the people will leverage the earthly things for the kingdom of heaven
*You will not been faithful in heavenly riches if you are not faithful in handling worldly riches
*If you are sacrificing marriage for other stuff, who are you serving? God or Money?
*We fall to our culture and trend that we are influenced of
*Continue to surrender to God then he will handle your finances because he wants to be in your life
*You are a money manager and God has entrusted what is his to us
*We are not bringing money to heaven

Becoming Great Money Managers
1. Track your spending
*Figures don't lie
*You will escape the anxiety

2. Get a financial strategy
*100% money is to be use for the purpose of God
*Examine what would Jesus hope and do
*Figure out what you would want to do in life- plan it out

3. Setup direct debit/ automatic transfers
*Committed to give 10% of income each month
*Why?
*not because were more generous or spiritual but automatic transfer
*Take control of our giving
*Lets be a community which God has taken charge for us to do
*If we could get hold of this, our lives and the community's lives will be transfored
*We have clothes, food, water, but after that, what would we do to our money?
*We are looking for opportunities to do what God wants us to do.



**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**