Monday, November 1, 2010

Faith Integration Teachings: Evaluating Your Relationship with Money



Some serious soul-searching is in order if you are worried about your relationship with money. So, Faith Integration in learning has got you covered!!!
  • (Eccl. 5:10-11) "He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners except to see them with their eyes?"
  • Do you think, If I only had an extra few thousand dollars my problems would all be solved?
          -if so, you're wrong.
  • Rethink your attitudes toward money
          -What it's for, what it can do, and why you want it and need it.
  • What is impoprtant to you?
          -make a random wish list of things you'd like to have.
  • Now go back and assign a ranking to these wishes 
          -make sure you know the difference between those that are essential, those that are important, and
           those that are on the frivolous side.
  • Evaluate the cost of each item in terms of time, energy, and money.
          -Everything you have or achieve will cost you a combination of these three elements.
  • Decide the time frame in which you plan to reach each goal.
          -Give your goals deadlines.
  • Time and money must interact responsibly if you are to maintain your balance.
Christians need to be healthy in their relationship with money in order to handle it with integrity. If you struggle financially, it is often because you were taught that you are supposed to struggle.
Even a financial breakthrough will not end the stress of the struggle, because the notion of financial struggle is lodged in your beliefs and affects your emotions and behavior. Like Proverbs says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Hicks, 2009)

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