If Money Talked | Week 3
Money Says: My direction reveals your ultimate direction.
Discussion:
There are essentially 5 things we do with money
Spend it
Repay Debt
Pay Taxes
Save it
Give it
Most of us do those five things in that order of me first living with some leftover giving.
Read: Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
What you spend your money on reveals what you care about most.
In our culture “me-first living with some leftover giving” is the typical way to handle money
Jesus invites us to reprioritize.
Give First
Save Second
Live on the Rest
How does this challenge you with your current spending?
As best you can review your top five expenses from the last month.
Would it be realistic for one of your five biggest expenses to fit the Give it (God and others) category?
Giving can be proactive or reactive.
Proactive is giving regularly to something
Reactive is giving as a need arises.
Which way does the majority of your giving lean?
Read Matthew 6:25-29, 33-34
5 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
What do these verse say to you?
Remember:
No one who applies what Jesus taught about money to their personal finances ever regrets it.