This is an excerpt from my journal this week. I have been trying to read through the notes that I take during church and allow God to make them more real for me and not just words I heard in a building on Sunday:
“Financial freedom does not mean we can stop trusting in God to provide for us each day” - Isaac Hunter Pastor of Summit Church in Orlando, FL on March 4th 2012
Regardless of how we are doing financially, we can never stop trusting in God to provide for us daily. Lydia and I are doing pretty well financially right now, saving money, and we don’t have too many expenses. We are trusting God to provide a house for us when we get to Kennesaw as we live with her parents now finishing our support raising.
The Enemy wants to use money and have a hold over us, he wants to control us and bring us down when we put our trust in anything other than God. If we put our trust in Christ to provide for us, whether or not we have a large emergency fund, we will always have what we need; not necessarily everything that we could want but that which we need in order to do what God has called us to do.
This is a tough mindset/balance for me because I want to provide as much as I can for my family, providing stability and security as God has called me to as the head of my household. To invest in our future, to prepare our kids for their future and to glorify God with our finances are all things I desire to do and want to do them while trusting in God to provide on a daily basis: "Give us each day, our daily bread" Luke 11:3 (from the Lord's Prayer)
What is the balance of trusting God to provide everything that we need daily and planning and saving to provide for my family?
It boils down to where we put our trust: Do we put our trust in the things of this world that moth and rust can destroy, or do we constantly trust in God to meet our needs? Matthew 6:19-21
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