Building Financial Unity in Marriage Through Faith

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"He's, God's not sitting there hoping for you to accumulate wealth just so he can take it from you. You know, like he's not this, he's not this grumpy old man in heaven with a beard. That's really against anybody having prosperity. And again, that goes into, a lot of the, a lot of the view that some people have, truthfully, I mean, just, just kind of taking some scriptures only at face value and not really diving into it. They, they take it and there's even teachings out there that you have to put yourself in a life of poverty and that's how you get closer to God. You won't find that teaching in scripture. You really won't. What you will find is Jesus constantly addressing the heart issue." [00:02:43] (45 seconds)


"Okay. So bring all your tithes into the storehouse. So laying that biblical foundation, paying your tithes is a, biblical command. Tithe literally means 10th. So it's taking the first part, the first fruits, the first 10 % of what you make. to God, giving it back to God. And so I heard a statement one time, if somebody understands tithing, they know that they give 10 % and that 10 % quote unquote belongs to God. If somebody understands stewardship, they know that a hundred percent of their money is God's." [00:05:57] (32 seconds)


"Try to affront and try to take something from him. And so, but then the amazing thing about God is he addresses a heart issue, but then he tells you what the blessing is. Try a minute. And so what will he do? If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. That Hebrew word there of pour out literally means to empty." [00:07:42] (28 seconds)


"having that abundance mindset and allowing that, you know, understanding God is for me. He wants to bless me. He wants to give me all of these things. And knowing that it isn't limited, man, is it, it is not limited to materialistic things. And truly we box ourself in thinking that, well, I want to be blessed in the materialism. How many times in my life, I thought about it this morning in prayer, I was praying, I said, God, there is a multitude of things that you've done for me that I'll never know." [00:12:23] (31 seconds)


"Yeah. And so that abundance mindset is knowing there's more where this came from, that you can sum up abundance into there's more where this came from. If God's asking for it, there's more where it's going to, there's way more. Let's clarify. There's responsibility. And we'll talk about it more next podcast. But scripture says it is required that a steward be found faithful. Yes, you have to have stewardship." [00:14:38] (30 seconds)


"And Jesus says, there's one thing you lack. Sell all you have, give to the poor and follow me. And it says that he went away sorrowfully for he had a lot. And that story is always kind of, it's always kind of hurt my heart. But what's amazing about is Jesus then turns around to his disciples that are standing there thinking like, oh man, this guy, like he could have lived a life, just blessed with God himself, robed in flesh, leading us." [00:21:23] (26 seconds)


"There's a quote I heard one time that was talking about the difference between secrets and surprises. And it said, secrets is withholding vital information from somebody hoping that they never find out. And you can't build a relationship on and I want to, I want to go a little further. This, this is a podcast and you're listening to it if you're married, unmarried, whatever, but we're going to speak the truth in love. Part of distrust is not sharing bank accounts." [00:25:55] (28 seconds)


"Now they can truly begin to heal the depths of their marriage because what may have just been, somebody could have just viewed as an isolated money incident. No, no, there was distrust. There was secrets. There was, there were hidden things. And when it was all brought to light, we could finally start unifying because they can finally start getting on the same page. They can finally start pooling the same way. They can finally start going. They can finally start going. They can finally start going. They can finally start going. Going in the same direction." [00:29:51] (29 seconds)


"But it shows the principle of if we unify together in our marriage, if we unify under godly principles, we are now unifying. Sure. You know, as one -to -one now we've multiplied in a different direction, but now we've brought God into the multiplication factor. And now nothing shall be impossible, to them that believe we have now unified in that effort. you're unifying in your finances." [00:32:41] (26 seconds)


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