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Have you ever believed that striving for wealth was ungodly? If so, you're not alone. Many Christians feel stuck financially because they’ve been taught that the pursuit of wealth contradicts their faith. In this episode, we’re breaking down the lie that keeps so many believers broke - and silent.
The truth? God doesn’t want you to live with a poverty mindset. It’s not the desire for wealth that’s wrong - it’s when wealth becomes your god (Matthew 6:24). In fact, God wants you to experience abundance, but in a way that honors Him.
We’ll explore:
👉 Financial Freedom: How to break free from financial bondage without letting money rule your heart.
👉 Mental Freedom: Why controlling your thoughts is a form of wealth and how to achieve it through prayer, self-control, and community.
👉 Spiritual Abundance: The power of using your spiritual weapons to build a strong foundation that can withstand any attack.
God’s definition of wealth goes beyond money - it’s about living a life filled with purpose, freedom, and divine provision. Tune in to learn how to embrace financial, mental, and spiritual abundance while keeping your heart aligned with God’s will.
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⏰TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Let's get real: Why are so many Christians broke?
01:25 - Why does money feel so complicated for Christians?
02:04 - The truth about wealth: What the Bible really says
03:45 - Are we interpreting Scripture wrong when it comes to money?
05:09 - Finding the balance: Contentment without complacency
06:11 - Serving like Jesus... without staying broke
07:04 - Why a poverty mindset isn't God's plan for you
07:41 - How to chase wealth without losing your heart
14:34 - Financial freedom: The God-honoring way
24:13 - Winning the battle in your mind: Breaking free from anxiety and depression
27:19 - Spiritual abundance: Building a faith that stands strong
32:59 - Are you a kingdom builder or a wealth builder?
34:12 - Wrapping up: Living a life aligned with God’s vision
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Speaker (00:00):
Let's talk about something that a lot of us do
not like to talk about.
Why?
Because it's triggering.
It reminds us of what's goingwrong in our lives, and at the
end of the day, we just don'twant to deal with this very true
fact that either has been ourreality in the past or currently
is right now.
And that my friend is beingbroke.
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Let's talk about being broke.
Matter of fact, let's dive deepinto why you might be struggling
with being broke, livingpaycheck to paycheck, and not
figuring out how in the world toget out of this cycle that makes
you feel trapped, stuck.
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And financially enslaved.
Whew.
I know, I know.
Okay.
It's a tough topic, but youknow, or if this is your first
time listening to theseepisodes, you're about to know
that this audio show.
Is about being real.
It's about being honest.
It's about creating a safe spaceof vulnerability because why the
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facades?
Why the surface level stuff?
Why the norms.
Let's go deep.
Let's talk about the real stuff.
Let's get to the real issues sothat we can work through it,
find solutions in God first andforemost, and grow into this
beautiful version of ourselvesthat God does desire for us to
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grow into.
Now I don't just wanna talkabout the concept of being
broke.
I specifically wanna talk aboutwhy Christians.
Are struggling with being broke.
I'm not saying that it is atrend that Christians are broke.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just specifically talkingabout the reality of being broke
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and you being a Christian.
And the reason why I want tospecify this topic, because
we're gonna talk a lot aboutJesus today.
We're gonna talk a lot about Godtoday, and we're gonna talk
about some biblical truths.
And biblical misconceptions whenit comes to money.
Let's dive in.
There is a lie that I thinkwhether it's intentional or
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unintentional, that a lot ofChristians are feeding into, and
that lie my friend is.
It's ungodly to achieve wealth.
You either might.
Straight up believe word forword that it is ungodly to
achieve wealth, or you might notnecessarily believe that word
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for word.
You might believe that God doeswant us to achieve wealth, but
your actions are sayingotherwise.
The way that you act, the waythat you respond, the way that
you do or do not put efforttowards certain things, is you
unintentionally subconsciouslybelieving.
That wealth is ungodly or wealthshould not be pursued, so let's
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talk about that.
I think keyword think okay.
Because something that I amreally intentional about is
making sure that you listeningto this episode know that I am
in the same journey with you.
I am learning just as much asyou are learning as well.
My purpose is to simply come onthese podcast episodes.
Teaching of things that I'veexperienced, that I've been
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learning to help you too, orthings that I am currently
experiencing or currentlylearning so that we can help
each other, we can learntogether, we can overcome.
So I think that a lot ofChristians feed into specific
Bible verses.
That make them believe or act asif they should not, or cannot or
will not achieve wealth in theirhuman life here on earth.
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And I believe that those reasonsstem from a few places, one.
The Bible tells us that the loveof money is the root of all
evil.
This gets misinterpreted a lotbecause in Timothy six 10 when
that scripture says, the love ofmoney is the root of all sorts
of evil.
It isn't saying that money isevil.
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It says the love of money isevil, and I don't know why we
miss that.
This is something that.
Is really essential when itcomes to reading scripture and
applying it to your life.
You can't just skim it.
You can't just read it.
You need to do a deep dive intowhat that verse is actually
saying.
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What did that mean in thecontext of the historical times
back then, and what does thatmean in the context of your very
own life right now based off ofhow God wants you to live and
how he wants you to perceivecertain things in this world.
So a lot of times whenChristians see that verse of
money and evil being in the samesentence.
They might unintentionallycorrelate that with money being
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evil when that's not the case,money is not evil.
It's the love of money that isevil.
But you misinterpreting that andthinking that money is evil or
money is ungodly, could be thereason why you are broke living
paycheck to paycheck and are notachieving the wealth that God
very well could want for you.
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We'll talk about that more in asecond, so stick with me.
I also think that biblically weare taught to be content with
what we already have, ratherthan constantly chasing after
futuristic things that we do nothave yet.
It's good to be content.
We absolutely should be contentno matter where we're at
financially.
But being content doesn't meanthat you.
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Don't put in effort to becomebetter, that you don't put in
effort to work towards certaingoals.
It's that while you're puttingin effort, while you're putting
in certain goals, you'retrusting God in where he has you
and where he might bring you,and you are contend in that
whole journey.
So I also think we need to becareful with the word
contentment.
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Do not disguise content withlaziness, content with not
moving forward.
Content with just flowing, and Idon't need to work towards that.
No, do not disguise contentmentwith that.
Instead, look at contentment asan attitude that you should have
as you pursue what God iscalling you to do.
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Another reason why I thinkChristians could be in a state
of being broke or feeling broke,living paycheck to paycheck is
because we're taught biblicallyto be service driven, not money
driven.
If you look at the life ofJesus, he was nowhere near money
driven.
He was all about service, andthe Bible teaches us to put on
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the attitude of Jesus to livelike Jesus.
He's the ultimate roadmap to oureveryday lives.
So even though yes, you shouldabsolutely be service driven,
not money driven, that does notmean that you should just treat
money or your current financialsituation as it is what it is.
I'm just going with the flow,whatever.
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No, God calls you out of that,and I'm going to talk about that
here in a second.
So again, stick with me.
All of those reasons that I justmentioned could be keeping you
in a poverty mindset.
I know that that's hard to hear.
God calls you to get.
Out of that, not to remain init.
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So what does it look like tobreak these misinterpretations?
To break our thinking behindwealth God's way, and instead
fully understand the truthbehind wealth God's way so that
we can pursue it.
hear me correctly here so thatwe can pursue it with the right
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heart posture.
Now in order to get in the rightheart posture of pursuing
wealth, no longer being broke,no longer being a slave to your
finances, no longer livingpaycheck to paycheck.
There's a couple of things thatI wanna say.
First off the truth.
We talked about the lie, right?
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Which was that it's ungodly.
To be wealthy or that it'sungodly to pursue wealth.
Let's talk about the truth.
God could want you to bewealthy.
But it is how you view yourwealth and how you steward that
wealth that matters.
Yes.
God wants you to be servicedriven.
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Yes.
God wants you to be content.
Yes.
God wants you to not have thelove of money in your heart
because it can lead to all kindsof evil and sin that you won't
even see coming.
He wants all of that.
We should be living by thosestandards, but God wanting
wealth for you starts with youviewing that wealth in a certain
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way and stewarding that wealthin a godly way too.
That being said, let me beextremely clear to you listening
to this episode.
It is not ungodly to be wealthy.
It is not ungodly to desirewealth.
It is not ungodly to pursuefinancial freedom as a goal in
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your life.
What is ungodly is when thewealth you seek becomes your God
that my friend is where it getsdangerous.
And the scariest part about thatis, to be honest with you, is a
lot of us are there.
A lot of us subconsciously makemoney, financial freedom.
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Financial goals, wealth.
We make it a God and we don'teven realize it.
That is where the problem is andthat's what we need to fix.
Matthew 6 24, I wanna read thisscripture because it is one of
my favorite ones.
And it's a good one to hold dearin your heart to help keep you
from making money a God in yourlife.
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Matthew 6 24 says, no one canserve two masters.
Either he will hate the one andlove the other, or he will be
devoted to the one and despisethe other.
You cannot serve both God andmoney.
I want you to ask yourself.
Which 1:00 AM I serving?
Because it's written here thatyou can't serve both.
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You might be thinking, oh, well,I feel like I'm serving both.
I serve God, but you know, I'mchasing after my financial
goals.
Truly ask yourself if you arechasing after financial goals,
what is your heart's posture inthat?
Because if you feel enslaved toit, if you are constantly
worrying about it, if you areconstantly thinking of it and
prioritizing the effort and thetasks that it takes to get to
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your financial goals over aconnection and a relationship
with God, him himself, then myfriend, you are serving money
over serving God.
Listen, I struggle with it too.
Okay?
There are so many times where Ihave to check myself day by day,
right?
'cause it's a daily battle on amI serving money today?
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Am I doing a little too much ofthat, and am I not serving God
enough?
Okay.
Heart check.
Let me flip it.
What does it look like for me totake action?
To flip it right here, rightnow, to make sure that God stays
on the throne of my heart ratherthan money and my financial
freedom goals and my wealthgoals remaining on the throne of
my heart based off of myactions, based off of my
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worries, based off of mythoughts?
How do I make sure that God.
Is strongly sitting on thethrone of my heart.
Now here's what I've learned.
There is a difference.
Between worldly wealth andspiritual wealth.
And I believe that in order forus as Christians, as believers,
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to go from being broke to beingwealthy, God's way is to first
understand the differencebetween what is wealth in the
world and what is wealth in thespirit.
So what I did, I was thinkingabout this.
And I found a few definitions ofwealth just by Googling it, and
of course a lot of thosedefinitions reference money, but
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there was one definition thatsaid plentiful supplies in a
particular resource.
I prayed about it and I said,you know what?
Spiritual wealth, same sentencestructure, different message,
and that definition of spiritualwealth is, I would say plentiful
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supplies provided by the source.
Let's compare the two worldlywealth plentiful supplies in a
particular resource.
Spiritual wealth, plentiful.
Supplies provided by the source.
What is the source?
God.
Wealth is trusting God tosupply, to provide for you.
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And this could mean in everyway.
You could be wealthy financiallythrough God.
You could be wealthy mentallybecause of God.
You could be wealthy spirituallybecause of God.
He is the source he can provide.
Holistic wealth into your lifeif you allow him to, if you have
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the right heart posture inpursuing wealth God's way.
So in summary, I truly believethat wealth God's way.
Riches in God's eyes for you canmean financial freedom, mental
freedom, and spiritualabundance, and I believe that
these three can absolutely beachieved in your life.
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If you live according to God'sword and kept your heart in the
right posture.
So I wanna talk about thosethree areas of wealth and how
you can achieve them in a godlyway because yes.
Can God provide this for youbecause he is the source.
Absolutely.
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But life my friend, yourjourney, my friend with God is a
partnership.
You need to move with God.
You need to take action.
You need to put in effort, youneed to have the faith.
God will be right there by yourside leading the way.
So if we know that God's job orresponsibility is to provide, to
be the source to produceoutcomes, then that means that
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our job, our responsibility isto put in effort towards these
things And to have trust in Godall along the way.
So let's talk about how you canachieve wealth God's way.
How you can stop living in thereality of being broke or living
paycheck to paycheck and startworking towards wealth God's
way, starting with the firstarea, financial freedom, one
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that.
All of us.
Okay, let's be real.
All of us want.
The thing about financialfreedom is a lot of us think
that it's about us figuring outhow to make more money.
Is it a part of that?
Yes.
We're gonna talk about that in asecond, but one of the things
that we tend to skip over whenit comes to financial freedom is
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where in our finances are we aslave?
Meaning, where in our financesdo we owe money?
Think about your debts.
Your student loan debt, yourcredit card debt, your home
debt, the people that you owemoney to, anything.
The IRS that you owe.
Okay.
I've been there.
Okay.
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Money at the end of the day thatyou owe to someone else.
Financial freedom.
God's way.
Is ensuring that you areactively working towards getting
out, no longer being a slave tothe people that you owe money
to.
And if you're like, is thatreally biblical?
Is that God's way?
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Let me read it to you.
In Proverbs 22 7, it says, therich rule over the poor and the
borrower is slave to the lender.
And Dave Ramsey, who is aChristian financial guru, took
that verse and simply put itlike this, if you owe someone
money, they'll control your lifeuntil you pay it back.
If someone is controlling yourlife because of money, that is a
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situation that God would callyou to get out of.
Another example, and I don'thave this specific verse pulled
up right now, is when.
Jesus's disciples in the NewTestament.
Were asking him about taxes,asking him if they should even
be paying taxes, and Jesusreplied and said, Give to
Caesars.
What is Caesars?
And give to God.
What is God's?
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If you owe money, give it.
If you borrowed money and you'rein debt, actively work towards
paying that off.
A lot of times we bypass that asa way of getting financially
free.
Financial freedom does not justmean making more money.
It also means managing yourcurrent money well enough to get
out of the debt that you owe, tonot be a slave to the lender.
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God wants you to be free ofthat, but are you prioritizing
it enough?
I had to check myself on thatbecause who am I to sit here and
say, you know what?
Let me figure out how to makemore money when I haven't even
paid my student loan debts.
I've been outta school for, um,let's see, seven years, I
deferred those student loansokay.
It wasn't until this past yearthat I was like, you know what?
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I am falling victim to being aslave to the lender by not
actively making these paymentsor even on my credit cards.
If I am making the minimumpayment, can I increase it a
little bit so that I can worktowards no longer being a slave
to the lender?
That is also me working towardsfinancial freedom.
Now I mentioned financialfreedom is getting free of debt,
right?
Financial freedom is alsolearning how to make more money
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so that money does not controlyou.
This is also biblical when youhave the right heart posture
behind it.
The story that I always love torefer back to, to talk about
this is the beautiful story ofthe talents.
I'm just gonna read this off, sostick with me here because it's
good.
Tune in, listen and try toabsorb in your spirit what it is
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that I'm reading biblically inMatthew 25, verse 14, Jesus
says, it will be like a mangoing on a journey who called
his servants and entrusted hiswealth to them, to one, he gave
five bags of gold to another twobags and to another one bag each
according to his ability.
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Then he went on his journey.
The man who had received fivebags of gold went at once and
put his money to work and gainedfive bags more also the one with
two bags of gold gained twomore, but the man who had
received one bag went off, dug ahole in the ground and hid his
master's money.
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After a long time, the master ofthose servants returned and
settled accounts with them.
The man who had received fivebags of gold brought the other
five master.
He said, you entrusted me withfive bags of gold.
See, I have gained five more.
His master replied.
Well done.
Good and faithful servant.
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You have been faithful with afew things.
I will put you in charge of manythings.
Come and share your master's.
Happiness.
The man with two bags of goldalso came master.
He said, you entrusted me withtwo bags of gold.
See, I have gained two more.
His master replied.
Well done.
Good and faithful servant.
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You have been faithful with afew things.
I will put you in charge of manythings.
Come and share in your master'shappiness.
Then the man who had receivedone bag of gold said, master.
I knew that you are a hard manharvesting where you have not
sown and gathering where youhave not scattered seed.
So I was afraid and I went outand hid your gold in the ground.
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See, here is what belongs toyou.
His master replied, you wicked.
Lazy servant, so you knew that Iharvest where I have not sewn
and gather where I have notscattered seed.
Well then you should have putmoney on deposit with the
bankers so that when I returnedI would have received it back
with interest.
So take the bag of gold from himand give it to the one who has
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10 bags, for whoever has will begiven more and they will have an
abundance.
Whoever does not have even whatthey have will be taken from
them and throw that worthlessservant outside into the
darkness where there will beweeping and gnashing of teeth.
Whew.
I know it's a long one.
But I had to share that entirestory so that you could feel the
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effects of it.
There is meaning depth to what Ijust read to you.
The biggest takeaway from thisscripture is how essential it is
to invest wisely in the moneythat God gave you.
From your job, from yourclients, from your business,
from your projects, how are youusing that money to invest it,
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to spend it wisely?
A lot of times we take the moneythat we've earned and we might
save a little too much of itbecause we're scared.
We might use it on ourself alittle too much because we're
unintentionally or intentionallybeing selfish.
But what does it look like toinstead, take that money, pay
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your bills, do what you need todo, budget, all that stuff.
But take that money, a goodportion of that money, and
invest it wisely.
Invest it in places, resources,ventures, investments.
Projects that will make you areturn, meaning it will multiply
your money.
What does it look like to takethat money and to spend it
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wisely in places like tithing inthe church and giving God back,
minimum 10% of what he blessedyou to have?
Even putting it towards gettingout of debt so that you are no
longer a slave to the lender.
These are things that we need todo a better job at taking into
consideration, your money is notjust about paying bills.
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It's not just about spending iton yourself.
What does it look like toinstead view your money as not
yours, but God's and heentrusted you with that money?
To invest it wisely and multiplyit.
You doing that consistently,financial freedom is on its way
to take that money and have agenerous heart in tithing it and
giving some of that money awayand helping people.
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You doing that?
Financial freedom is on its waybecause God sees that he can
trust you, but when welink tightto it, when we're so worried
about money, when we just don'tknow money, then.
Is your God, and that is whereyou need to be careful.
At the end of the day, Goddesires for you to steward your
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money well.
When he sees that you cansteward it well by how you
manage it, how you invest it,where you spend it.
He can trust you with more andbecause he is the source he can
and he will provide you withmore on his timing in his way
for your life.
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And the result of that, myfriend, wealth God's Way.
So how do you achieve that?
How do you work towards that?
Well, you work towards payingoff your debts.
You tithe, you work towardsbetter financial management.
You work towards money workingfor you rather than the other
way around.
By building the knowledge andthe skill sets of investing in
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ventures, in projects, learningprofitability strategies, and
keeping your heart's postureupright with God as you do.
Now the challenge in this isthat as you're pursuing
financial freedom, as Imentioned before, it can easily
take the throne of your heart.
Check yourself on that.
Every day is money on the throneof my heart today.
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If it's a yes, flip it.
Put God back on the throne ofyour heart.
Daily battle and one that youshould be entering into every
day.
If you wanna reach financialfreedom, if you wanna reach
wealth when it comes to thefinancial aspect of your life,
but doing it God's way.
Alright, that was just one.
We talked about wealth.
When it comes to financialfreedom, let's go to two.
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Which is wealth when it comes tomental freedom.
God wants for you to not becontrolled by your mind.
Your own emotions, the chaos ofthoughts that produce anxiety,
that produce depression, thatproduce insecurity, that produce
overthinking, that producedoubts.
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God does not want you to becontrolled by these things, and
because our mind, our humanbrain is oftentimes so loud, we
end up unintentionally.
Being controlled by our mind.
God calls you out of that.
How can you achieve it?
How can you get out of that andreach wealth, mentally,
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self-control, my friend,self-control.
One of the beautiful fruits ofthe spirit that is produced when
we live God's way.
When we put on the character ofJesus.
Having self-control in a way towhere your mind is no longer
controlling you means beingaware of your triggers, having
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better control over how yourespond and how you act,
communicating in a healthy way.
All of these things are skills,habits that you absolutely can
develop with effort and withtime.
I.
Being okay with getting the helpthat you need.
Talk to people in yourcommunity, your friends, your
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family members, people in yourcommunity that you trust about
what you're mentally strugglingwith.
Get help, get advice, getencouragement from people.
Seek therapy.
It's okay to seek therapy.
I myself, am just now gettingback into therapy.
It's okay to get professionalhelp if you feel that you need
it.
And then of course, prayer.
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A lot of times we kind of lookat prayer as like, oh, okay, let
me just say my daily prayers.
Let me pray over this mealtoday.
That's great, but where is thestrong, victorious warrior type
of prayer?
The kind of prayer where you gotyour hands raised up, you are
boldly proclaiming with strengthand with faith, and this extreme
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competence in what God can doand asking God to help you
become mentally free and nolonger being held down by the
anxiety, depression, orinsecurities that you are
dealing with now.
We talked about how you canachieve wealth through mental
freedom, right?
But here's the challenge.
The challenge, to be honest withyou, my friend, is that it is
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easy to be a victim of your mindrather than being a victor over
it.
It's just easier to play thevictim.
Being a victor takes a newversion of yourself that you
have to work on.
Stepping into a version that'sbold, a version that's
confident, a version that putsin effort, even when you're
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tired, even when you don't feellike it, you still work towards
becoming mentally free becauseyou know that that is what God
would want for you.
And you are ready to absorb andto receive all that God has for
you.
Lastly, number three, achievingwealth via spiritual abundance.
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God wants you to be strong inthe spirit, so filled with God's
word, God's love, and hisroadmap for you in this life.
That you are standing on such astrong foundation that nothing,
absolutely nothing can tear youdown, can make you waver, can
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make you fall, can make thatfoundation break nothing.
That is the level of the spiritthat God wants you to exist in.
And let's be real.
This is tough.
It's hard to build up such astrong foundation to the point
where nothing can break you.
You know how many times I feltbroken, whether it was crying
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over something, whether it wasfeeling defeated, whether it was
me wanting to give up, whetherit was me feeling like I'm not
good enough.
So many moments where myfoundation shattered and it
wasn't to blame myself.
Of that foundation shattering.
It was more so to be aware ofthe fact that my foundation
shattered because I was not asstrong as God wants me to be in
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the Spirit.
How can I work towards being sostrong in the spirit to the
point where my foundation isunbreakable?
How can you Work towards beingso strong in the spirit to the
point where your foundation isunbreakable.
I have learned that how we dothat is using our spiritual
weapons.
The Bible tells us what ourspiritual weapons are.
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It says that we are not fightingagainst.
Flesh.
We're not fighting againstworldly things, even our worldly
emotions and people andcircumstances.
We're not fighting againstthings that we see or feel.
We are fighting against hiddenspirits, the spiritual realm,
and in order to fight that, wehave to use the spiritual
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weapons, not worldly ones.
So what are those?
Some of you might know, which isgreat, but maybe you need a
reminder.
Some of you might not have anyidea.
Let's work through thattogether.
In Ephesians six, chapter 14, itsays, stand firm then with the
belt of truth buckled aroundyour waist with the breastplate
of righteousness in place, andwith your feet fitted with the
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readiness that comes from thegospel of peace.
In addition to all this take upthe shield of faith with which
you can extinguish all theflaming arrows of the evil one.
Take the helmet of salvation andthe sword of the spirit, which
is the word of God, and pray inthe spirit on all occasions with
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all kinds of prayers andrequests.
I wanna point out the words thatemphasize the armor of God, a
part of your spiritual weaponsto fight the right fight, to
have spiritual abundance fully.
Those words are truth,righteousness, gospel of peace,
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faith.
Salvation, word of God andprayer.
What does it look like to takethese words and to fight with
them leading the way so that aswe do, we are so filled with the
spirit, we are so bold in thespirit that nothing can take us
down.
Our foundation is unbreakable.
That my friend is spiritualwealth, achieving wealth,
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through getting spirituallyabundant.
Now, here's the challenge withthis, because it's one thing to
know how to achieve it, but ifyou really wanna learn how to
achieve it, you have to beprepared for the challenge
that's up ahead.
This challenge is something thatI pulled from Priscilla Schreyer
who gave this incredible sermonthat I watched on YouTube, and
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she said, the enemy will attackyou and will disguise himself
behind surface level lifeproblems to do it.
Meaning problems in your liferight now.
Financial problems, problems atwork, health problems, problems
with people, problems in yourmarriage, problems with your
kids, problems in your business,problems within your creativity
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and what you're trying topursue, whatever it is.
A lot of those life problemslook like life problems when in
actuality.
It's the enemy hiding behindthose things as a method to
attack you, and it can feel sodifficult to overcome those
attacks, but you're aware ofthat upcoming challenge now.
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So what does it look like?
That when the next problem hitsyou, the next time you're
worrying about a specificproblem, you tell yourself, you
know what?
This isn't just my problem in mylife.
This is the enemy trying toattack me.
And you know what?
I'm going to fight the rightfight.
I'm going to put on the armor ofGod.
I'm going to use my spiritualweapons.
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I'm gonna stand up and be boldand confident and bright and
trusting in the Lord that Iserve, to the point where the
enemy trying to hide behind thisproblem cannot break my
foundation.
I am standing on the strongfoundation with faith, with
trust in God, with contentment,knowing that there are brighter
days ahead, knowing that I willbe more than okay.
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That is the level of spiritualabundance that God wants us all
to have.
To wrap up this episode, myfriend, I wanna read a paragraph
that.
Blew my mind.
That is sticking with me righthere, right now.
This paragraph is coming fromthe book, A Purpose-Driven Life
by Rick Warren.
It is so good.
If you have not read this bookyet, highly recommend it.
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The paragraph says there are twokinds of people, kingdom
builders, and wealth builders.
Both are gifted at making abusiness grow, making deals, or
sales and making a profit.
Wealth builders continue toamass wealth for themselves no
matter how much they make.
But Kingdom Builders change therules of the game.
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They still try to make as muchmoney as they can, but they do
it in order to give it away.
They use the wealth to fundGod's church and its mission in
the world.
I want you to think about that.
Which one are you, as you pursuewealth?
Are you a kingdom builder or awealth builder?
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Both pursue making more money.
Where it's different is theheart posture.
Where is your heart posture?
How can you better pursue wealthGod's way to the point where
being broke, living paycheck topaycheck is no longer your
reality because you broke thenorms that the world tells you
when it comes to achievingwealth, and you decided to
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completely go God's way when itcomes to achieving wealth.
What does that look like foryou?
Something to think about, myfriend.
I hope that this episode waspowerful to you.
I hope that it was uplifting foryou.
I know we went deep.
I know we talked about a lot,but my prayer is that everything
that I shared in today's episodedoesn't just go in one ear and
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out the other, that it doesn'tjust sit with you as inspiration
for today, but it is a seedplanted to help you change your
life as you pursue wealth.
Now if you're looking for morehelp, more insight, more
step-by-step strategies when itcomes to wealth in building a
business, I got you covered witha free course that you can
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In this free course, you getthree videos from me, each
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We talk about mindset, we talkabout marketing, and we talk
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Thanks so much for tuning in.
What a pleasure to have you joinus today and I'll see you next
week for another episode.
Let's talk about something that a lot of us do
not like to talk about.
Why?
Because it's triggering.
It reminds us of what's goingwrong in our lives, and at the
end of the day, we just don'twant to deal with this very true
fact that either has been ourreality in the past or currently
is right now.
And that my friend is beingbroke.
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Let's talk about being broke.
Matter of fact, let's dive deepinto why you might be struggling
with being broke, livingpaycheck to paycheck, and not
figuring out how in the world toget out of this cycle that makes
you feel trapped, stuck.
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And financially enslaved.
Whew.
I know, I know.
Okay.
It's a tough topic, but youknow, or if this is your first
time listening to theseepisodes, you're about to know
that this audio show.
Is about being real.
It's about being honest.
It's about creating a safe spaceof vulnerability because why the
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facades?
Why the surface level stuff?
Why the norms.
Let's go deep.
Let's talk about the real stuff.
Let's get to the real issues sothat we can work through it,
find solutions in God first andforemost, and grow into this
beautiful version of ourselvesthat God does desire for us to
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grow into.
Now I don't just wanna talkabout the concept of being
broke.
I specifically wanna talk aboutwhy Christians.
Are struggling with being broke.
I'm not saying that it is atrend that Christians are broke.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just specifically talkingabout the reality of being broke
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and you being a Christian.
And the reason why I want tospecify this topic, because
we're gonna talk a lot aboutJesus today.
We're gonna talk a lot about Godtoday, and we're gonna talk
about some biblical truths.
And biblical misconceptions whenit comes to money.
Let's dive in.
There is a lie that I thinkwhether it's intentional or
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unintentional, that a lot ofChristians are feeding into, and
that lie my friend is.
It's ungodly to achieve wealth.
You either might.
Straight up believe word forword that it is ungodly to
achieve wealth, or you might notnecessarily believe that word
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for word.
You might believe that God doeswant us to achieve wealth, but
your actions are sayingotherwise.
The way that you act, the waythat you respond, the way that
you do or do not put efforttowards certain things, is you
unintentionally subconsciouslybelieving.
That wealth is ungodly or wealthshould not be pursued, so let's
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talk about that.
I think keyword think okay.
Because something that I amreally intentional about is
making sure that you listeningto this episode know that I am
in the same journey with you.
I am learning just as much asyou are learning as well.
My purpose is to simply come onthese podcast episodes.
Teaching of things that I'veexperienced, that I've been
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learning to help you too, orthings that I am currently
experiencing or currentlylearning so that we can help
each other, we can learntogether, we can overcome.
So I think that a lot ofChristians feed into specific
Bible verses.
That make them believe or act asif they should not, or cannot or
will not achieve wealth in theirhuman life here on earth.
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And I believe that those reasonsstem from a few places, one.
The Bible tells us that the loveof money is the root of all
evil.
This gets misinterpreted a lotbecause in Timothy six 10 when
that scripture says, the love ofmoney is the root of all sorts
of evil.
It isn't saying that money isevil.
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It says the love of money isevil, and I don't know why we
miss that.
This is something that.
Is really essential when itcomes to reading scripture and
applying it to your life.
You can't just skim it.
You can't just read it.
You need to do a deep dive intowhat that verse is actually
saying.
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What did that mean in thecontext of the historical times
back then, and what does thatmean in the context of your very
own life right now based off ofhow God wants you to live and
how he wants you to perceivecertain things in this world.
So a lot of times whenChristians see that verse of
money and evil being in the samesentence.
They might unintentionallycorrelate that with money being
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evil when that's not the case,money is not evil.
It's the love of money that isevil.
But you misinterpreting that andthinking that money is evil or
money is ungodly, could be thereason why you are broke living
paycheck to paycheck and are notachieving the wealth that God
very well could want for you.
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We'll talk about that more in asecond, so stick with me.
I also think that biblically weare taught to be content with
what we already have, ratherthan constantly chasing after
futuristic things that we do nothave yet.
It's good to be content.
We absolutely should be contentno matter where we're at
financially.
But being content doesn't meanthat you.
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Don't put in effort to becomebetter, that you don't put in
effort to work towards certaingoals.
It's that while you're puttingin effort, while you're putting
in certain goals, you'retrusting God in where he has you
and where he might bring you,and you are contend in that
whole journey.
So I also think we need to becareful with the word
contentment.
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Do not disguise content withlaziness, content with not
moving forward.
Content with just flowing, and Idon't need to work towards that.
No, do not disguise contentmentwith that.
Instead, look at contentment asan attitude that you should have
as you pursue what God iscalling you to do.
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Another reason why I thinkChristians could be in a state
of being broke or feeling broke,living paycheck to paycheck is
because we're taught biblicallyto be service driven, not money
driven.
If you look at the life ofJesus, he was nowhere near money
driven.
He was all about service, andthe Bible teaches us to put on
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the attitude of Jesus to livelike Jesus.
He's the ultimate roadmap to oureveryday lives.
So even though yes, you shouldabsolutely be service driven,
not money driven, that does notmean that you should just treat
money or your current financialsituation as it is what it is.
I'm just going with the flow,whatever.
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No, God calls you out of that,and I'm going to talk about that
here in a second.
So again, stick with me.
All of those reasons that I justmentioned could be keeping you
in a poverty mindset.
I know that that's hard to hear.
God calls you to get.
Out of that, not to remain init.
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So what does it look like tobreak these misinterpretations?
To break our thinking behindwealth God's way, and instead
fully understand the truthbehind wealth God's way so that
we can pursue it.
hear me correctly here so thatwe can pursue it with the right
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heart posture.
Now in order to get in the rightheart posture of pursuing
wealth, no longer being broke,no longer being a slave to your
finances, no longer livingpaycheck to paycheck.
There's a couple of things thatI wanna say.
First off the truth.
We talked about the lie, right?
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Which was that it's ungodly.
To be wealthy or that it'sungodly to pursue wealth.
Let's talk about the truth.
God could want you to bewealthy.
But it is how you view yourwealth and how you steward that
wealth that matters.
Yes.
God wants you to be servicedriven.
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Yes.
God wants you to be content.
Yes.
God wants you to not have thelove of money in your heart
because it can lead to all kindsof evil and sin that you won't
even see coming.
He wants all of that.
We should be living by thosestandards, but God wanting
wealth for you starts with youviewing that wealth in a certain
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way and stewarding that wealthin a godly way too.
That being said, let me beextremely clear to you listening
to this episode.
It is not ungodly to be wealthy.
It is not ungodly to desirewealth.
It is not ungodly to pursuefinancial freedom as a goal in
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your life.
What is ungodly is when thewealth you seek becomes your God
that my friend is where it getsdangerous.
And the scariest part about thatis, to be honest with you, is a
lot of us are there.
A lot of us subconsciously makemoney, financial freedom.
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Financial goals, wealth.
We make it a God and we don'teven realize it.
That is where the problem is andthat's what we need to fix.
Matthew 6 24, I wanna read thisscripture because it is one of
my favorite ones.
And it's a good one to hold dearin your heart to help keep you
from making money a God in yourlife.
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Matthew 6 24 says, no one canserve two masters.
Either he will hate the one andlove the other, or he will be
devoted to the one and despisethe other.
You cannot serve both God andmoney.
I want you to ask yourself.
Which 1:00 AM I serving?
Because it's written here thatyou can't serve both.
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You might be thinking, oh, well,I feel like I'm serving both.
I serve God, but you know, I'mchasing after my financial
goals.
Truly ask yourself if you arechasing after financial goals,
what is your heart's posture inthat?
Because if you feel enslaved toit, if you are constantly
worrying about it, if you areconstantly thinking of it and
prioritizing the effort and thetasks that it takes to get to
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your financial goals over aconnection and a relationship
with God, him himself, then myfriend, you are serving money
over serving God.
Listen, I struggle with it too.
Okay?
There are so many times where Ihave to check myself day by day,
right?
'cause it's a daily battle on amI serving money today?
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Am I doing a little too much ofthat, and am I not serving God
enough?
Okay.
Heart check.
Let me flip it.
What does it look like for me totake action?
To flip it right here, rightnow, to make sure that God stays
on the throne of my heart ratherthan money and my financial
freedom goals and my wealthgoals remaining on the throne of
my heart based off of myactions, based off of my
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worries, based off of mythoughts?
How do I make sure that God.
Is strongly sitting on thethrone of my heart.
Now here's what I've learned.
There is a difference.
Between worldly wealth andspiritual wealth.
And I believe that in order forus as Christians, as believers,
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to go from being broke to beingwealthy, God's way is to first
understand the differencebetween what is wealth in the
world and what is wealth in thespirit.
So what I did, I was thinkingabout this.
And I found a few definitions ofwealth just by Googling it, and
of course a lot of thosedefinitions reference money, but
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there was one definition thatsaid plentiful supplies in a
particular resource.
I prayed about it and I said,you know what?
Spiritual wealth, same sentencestructure, different message,
and that definition of spiritualwealth is, I would say plentiful
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supplies provided by the source.
Let's compare the two worldlywealth plentiful supplies in a
particular resource.
Spiritual wealth, plentiful.
Supplies provided by the source.
What is the source?
God.
Wealth is trusting God tosupply, to provide for you.
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And this could mean in everyway.
You could be wealthy financiallythrough God.
You could be wealthy mentallybecause of God.
You could be wealthy spirituallybecause of God.
He is the source he can provide.
Holistic wealth into your lifeif you allow him to, if you have
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the right heart posture inpursuing wealth God's way.
So in summary, I truly believethat wealth God's way.
Riches in God's eyes for you canmean financial freedom, mental
freedom, and spiritualabundance, and I believe that
these three can absolutely beachieved in your life.
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If you live according to God'sword and kept your heart in the
right posture.
So I wanna talk about thosethree areas of wealth and how
you can achieve them in a godlyway because yes.
Can God provide this for youbecause he is the source.
Absolutely.
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But life my friend, yourjourney, my friend with God is a
partnership.
You need to move with God.
You need to take action.
You need to put in effort, youneed to have the faith.
God will be right there by yourside leading the way.
So if we know that God's job orresponsibility is to provide, to
be the source to produceoutcomes, then that means that
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our job, our responsibility isto put in effort towards these
things And to have trust in Godall along the way.
So let's talk about how you canachieve wealth God's way.
How you can stop living in thereality of being broke or living
paycheck to paycheck and startworking towards wealth God's
way, starting with the firstarea, financial freedom, one
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that.
All of us.
Okay, let's be real.
All of us want.
The thing about financialfreedom is a lot of us think
that it's about us figuring outhow to make more money.
Is it a part of that?
Yes.
We're gonna talk about that in asecond, but one of the things
that we tend to skip over whenit comes to financial freedom is
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where in our finances are we aslave?
Meaning, where in our financesdo we owe money?
Think about your debts.
Your student loan debt, yourcredit card debt, your home
debt, the people that you owemoney to, anything.
The IRS that you owe.
Okay.
I've been there.
Okay.
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Money at the end of the day thatyou owe to someone else.
Financial freedom.
God's way.
Is ensuring that you areactively working towards getting
out, no longer being a slave tothe people that you owe money
to.
And if you're like, is thatreally biblical?
Is that God's way?
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Let me read it to you.
In Proverbs 22 7, it says, therich rule over the poor and the
borrower is slave to the lender.
And Dave Ramsey, who is aChristian financial guru, took
that verse and simply put itlike this, if you owe someone
money, they'll control your lifeuntil you pay it back.
If someone is controlling yourlife because of money, that is a
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situation that God would callyou to get out of.
Another example, and I don'thave this specific verse pulled
up right now, is when.
Jesus's disciples in the NewTestament.
Were asking him about taxes,asking him if they should even
be paying taxes, and Jesusreplied and said, Give to
Caesars.
What is Caesars?
And give to God.
What is God's?
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If you owe money, give it.
If you borrowed money and you'rein debt, actively work towards
paying that off.
A lot of times we bypass that asa way of getting financially
free.
Financial freedom does not justmean making more money.
It also means managing yourcurrent money well enough to get
out of the debt that you owe, tonot be a slave to the lender.
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God wants you to be free ofthat, but are you prioritizing
it enough?
I had to check myself on thatbecause who am I to sit here and
say, you know what?
Let me figure out how to makemore money when I haven't even
paid my student loan debts.
I've been outta school for, um,let's see, seven years, I
deferred those student loansokay.
It wasn't until this past yearthat I was like, you know what?
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I am falling victim to being aslave to the lender by not
actively making these paymentsor even on my credit cards.
If I am making the minimumpayment, can I increase it a
little bit so that I can worktowards no longer being a slave
to the lender?
That is also me working towardsfinancial freedom.
Now I mentioned financialfreedom is getting free of debt,
right?
Financial freedom is alsolearning how to make more money
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so that money does not controlyou.
This is also biblical when youhave the right heart posture
behind it.
The story that I always love torefer back to, to talk about
this is the beautiful story ofthe talents.
I'm just gonna read this off, sostick with me here because it's
good.
Tune in, listen and try toabsorb in your spirit what it is
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that I'm reading biblically inMatthew 25, verse 14, Jesus
says, it will be like a mangoing on a journey who called
his servants and entrusted hiswealth to them, to one, he gave
five bags of gold to another twobags and to another one bag each
according to his ability.
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Then he went on his journey.
The man who had received fivebags of gold went at once and
put his money to work and gainedfive bags more also the one with
two bags of gold gained twomore, but the man who had
received one bag went off, dug ahole in the ground and hid his
master's money.
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After a long time, the master ofthose servants returned and
settled accounts with them.
The man who had received fivebags of gold brought the other
five master.
He said, you entrusted me withfive bags of gold.
See, I have gained five more.
His master replied.
Well done.
Good and faithful servant.
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You have been faithful with afew things.
I will put you in charge of manythings.
Come and share your master's.
Happiness.
The man with two bags of goldalso came master.
He said, you entrusted me withtwo bags of gold.
See, I have gained two more.
His master replied.
Well done.
Good and faithful servant.
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You have been faithful with afew things.
I will put you in charge of manythings.
Come and share in your master'shappiness.
Then the man who had receivedone bag of gold said, master.
I knew that you are a hard manharvesting where you have not
sown and gathering where youhave not scattered seed.
So I was afraid and I went outand hid your gold in the ground.
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See, here is what belongs toyou.
His master replied, you wicked.
Lazy servant, so you knew that Iharvest where I have not sewn
and gather where I have notscattered seed.
Well then you should have putmoney on deposit with the
bankers so that when I returnedI would have received it back
with interest.
So take the bag of gold from himand give it to the one who has
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10 bags, for whoever has will begiven more and they will have an
abundance.
Whoever does not have even whatthey have will be taken from
them and throw that worthlessservant outside into the
darkness where there will beweeping and gnashing of teeth.
Whew.
I know it's a long one.
But I had to share that entirestory so that you could feel the
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effects of it.
There is meaning depth to what Ijust read to you.
The biggest takeaway from thisscripture is how essential it is
to invest wisely in the moneythat God gave you.
From your job, from yourclients, from your business,
from your projects, how are youusing that money to invest it,
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to spend it wisely?
A lot of times we take the moneythat we've earned and we might
save a little too much of itbecause we're scared.
We might use it on ourself alittle too much because we're
unintentionally or intentionallybeing selfish.
But what does it look like toinstead, take that money, pay
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your bills, do what you need todo, budget, all that stuff.
But take that money, a goodportion of that money, and
invest it wisely.
Invest it in places, resources,ventures, investments.
Projects that will make you areturn, meaning it will multiply
your money.
What does it look like to takethat money and to spend it
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wisely in places like tithing inthe church and giving God back,
minimum 10% of what he blessedyou to have?
Even putting it towards gettingout of debt so that you are no
longer a slave to the lender.
These are things that we need todo a better job at taking into
consideration, your money is notjust about paying bills.
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It's not just about spending iton yourself.
What does it look like toinstead view your money as not
yours, but God's and heentrusted you with that money?
To invest it wisely and multiplyit.
You doing that consistently,financial freedom is on its way
to take that money and have agenerous heart in tithing it and
giving some of that money awayand helping people.
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You doing that?
Financial freedom is on its waybecause God sees that he can
trust you, but when welink tightto it, when we're so worried
about money, when we just don'tknow money, then.
Is your God, and that is whereyou need to be careful.
At the end of the day, Goddesires for you to steward your
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money well.
When he sees that you cansteward it well by how you
manage it, how you invest it,where you spend it.
He can trust you with more andbecause he is the source he can
and he will provide you withmore on his timing in his way
for your life.
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And the result of that, myfriend, wealth God's Way.
So how do you achieve that?
How do you work towards that?
Well, you work towards payingoff your debts.
You tithe, you work towardsbetter financial management.
You work towards money workingfor you rather than the other
way around.
By building the knowledge andthe skill sets of investing in
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ventures, in projects, learningprofitability strategies, and
keeping your heart's postureupright with God as you do.
Now the challenge in this isthat as you're pursuing
financial freedom, as Imentioned before, it can easily
take the throne of your heart.
Check yourself on that.
Every day is money on the throneof my heart today.
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If it's a yes, flip it.
Put God back on the throne ofyour heart.
Daily battle and one that youshould be entering into every
day.
If you wanna reach financialfreedom, if you wanna reach
wealth when it comes to thefinancial aspect of your life,
but doing it God's way.
Alright, that was just one.
We talked about wealth.
When it comes to financialfreedom, let's go to two.
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Which is wealth when it comes tomental freedom.
God wants for you to not becontrolled by your mind.
Your own emotions, the chaos ofthoughts that produce anxiety,
that produce depression, thatproduce insecurity, that produce
overthinking, that producedoubts.
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God does not want you to becontrolled by these things, and
because our mind, our humanbrain is oftentimes so loud, we
end up unintentionally.
Being controlled by our mind.
God calls you out of that.
How can you achieve it?
How can you get out of that andreach wealth, mentally,
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self-control, my friend,self-control.
One of the beautiful fruits ofthe spirit that is produced when
we live God's way.
When we put on the character ofJesus.
Having self-control in a way towhere your mind is no longer
controlling you means beingaware of your triggers, having
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better control over how yourespond and how you act,
communicating in a healthy way.
All of these things are skills,habits that you absolutely can
develop with effort and withtime.
I.
Being okay with getting the helpthat you need.
Talk to people in yourcommunity, your friends, your
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family members, people in yourcommunity that you trust about
what you're mentally strugglingwith.
Get help, get advice, getencouragement from people.
Seek therapy.
It's okay to seek therapy.
I myself, am just now gettingback into therapy.
It's okay to get professionalhelp if you feel that you need
it.
And then of course, prayer.
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A lot of times we kind of lookat prayer as like, oh, okay, let
me just say my daily prayers.
Let me pray over this mealtoday.
That's great, but where is thestrong, victorious warrior type
of prayer?
The kind of prayer where you gotyour hands raised up, you are
boldly proclaiming with strengthand with faith, and this extreme
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competence in what God can doand asking God to help you
become mentally free and nolonger being held down by the
anxiety, depression, orinsecurities that you are
dealing with now.
We talked about how you canachieve wealth through mental
freedom, right?
But here's the challenge.
The challenge, to be honest withyou, my friend, is that it is
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easy to be a victim of your mindrather than being a victor over
it.
It's just easier to play thevictim.
Being a victor takes a newversion of yourself that you
have to work on.
Stepping into a version that'sbold, a version that's
confident, a version that putsin effort, even when you're
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tired, even when you don't feellike it, you still work towards
becoming mentally free becauseyou know that that is what God
would want for you.
And you are ready to absorb andto receive all that God has for
you.
Lastly, number three, achievingwealth via spiritual abundance.
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God wants you to be strong inthe spirit, so filled with God's
word, God's love, and hisroadmap for you in this life.
That you are standing on such astrong foundation that nothing,
absolutely nothing can tear youdown, can make you waver, can
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make you fall, can make thatfoundation break nothing.
That is the level of the spiritthat God wants you to exist in.
And let's be real.
This is tough.
It's hard to build up such astrong foundation to the point
where nothing can break you.
You know how many times I feltbroken, whether it was crying
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over something, whether it wasfeeling defeated, whether it was
me wanting to give up, whetherit was me feeling like I'm not
good enough.
So many moments where myfoundation shattered and it
wasn't to blame myself.
Of that foundation shattering.
It was more so to be aware ofthe fact that my foundation
shattered because I was not asstrong as God wants me to be in
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the Spirit.
How can I work towards being sostrong in the spirit to the
point where my foundation isunbreakable?
How can you Work towards beingso strong in the spirit to the
point where your foundation isunbreakable.
I have learned that how we dothat is using our spiritual
weapons.
The Bible tells us what ourspiritual weapons are.
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It says that we are not fightingagainst.
Flesh.
We're not fighting againstworldly things, even our worldly
emotions and people andcircumstances.
We're not fighting againstthings that we see or feel.
We are fighting against hiddenspirits, the spiritual realm,
and in order to fight that, wehave to use the spiritual
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weapons, not worldly ones.
So what are those?
Some of you might know, which isgreat, but maybe you need a
reminder.
Some of you might not have anyidea.
Let's work through thattogether.
In Ephesians six, chapter 14, itsays, stand firm then with the
belt of truth buckled aroundyour waist with the breastplate
of righteousness in place, andwith your feet fitted with the
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readiness that comes from thegospel of peace.
In addition to all this take upthe shield of faith with which
you can extinguish all theflaming arrows of the evil one.
Take the helmet of salvation andthe sword of the spirit, which
is the word of God, and pray inthe spirit on all occasions with
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all kinds of prayers andrequests.
I wanna point out the words thatemphasize the armor of God, a
part of your spiritual weaponsto fight the right fight, to
have spiritual abundance fully.
Those words are truth,righteousness, gospel of peace,
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faith.
Salvation, word of God andprayer.
What does it look like to takethese words and to fight with
them leading the way so that aswe do, we are so filled with the
spirit, we are so bold in thespirit that nothing can take us
down.
Our foundation is unbreakable.
That my friend is spiritualwealth, achieving wealth,
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through getting spirituallyabundant.
Now, here's the challenge withthis, because it's one thing to
know how to achieve it, but ifyou really wanna learn how to
achieve it, you have to beprepared for the challenge
that's up ahead.
This challenge is something thatI pulled from Priscilla Schreyer
who gave this incredible sermonthat I watched on YouTube, and
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she said, the enemy will attackyou and will disguise himself
behind surface level lifeproblems to do it.
Meaning problems in your liferight now.
Financial problems, problems atwork, health problems, problems
with people, problems in yourmarriage, problems with your
kids, problems in your business,problems within your creativity
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and what you're trying topursue, whatever it is.
A lot of those life problemslook like life problems when in
actuality.
It's the enemy hiding behindthose things as a method to
attack you, and it can feel sodifficult to overcome those
attacks, but you're aware ofthat upcoming challenge now.
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So what does it look like?
That when the next problem hitsyou, the next time you're
worrying about a specificproblem, you tell yourself, you
know what?
This isn't just my problem in mylife.
This is the enemy trying toattack me.
And you know what?
I'm going to fight the rightfight.
I'm going to put on the armor ofGod.
I'm going to use my spiritualweapons.
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I'm gonna stand up and be boldand confident and bright and
trusting in the Lord that Iserve, to the point where the
enemy trying to hide behind thisproblem cannot break my
foundation.
I am standing on the strongfoundation with faith, with
trust in God, with contentment,knowing that there are brighter
days ahead, knowing that I willbe more than okay.
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That is the level of spiritualabundance that God wants us all
to have.
To wrap up this episode, myfriend, I wanna read a paragraph
that.
Blew my mind.
That is sticking with me righthere, right now.
This paragraph is coming fromthe book, A Purpose-Driven Life
by Rick Warren.
It is so good.
If you have not read this bookyet, highly recommend it.
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The paragraph says there are twokinds of people, kingdom
builders, and wealth builders.
Both are gifted at making abusiness grow, making deals, or
sales and making a profit.
Wealth builders continue toamass wealth for themselves no
matter how much they make.
But Kingdom Builders change therules of the game.
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They still try to make as muchmoney as they can, but they do
it in order to give it away.
They use the wealth to fundGod's church and its mission in
the world.
I want you to think about that.
Which one are you, as you pursuewealth?
Are you a kingdom builder or awealth builder?
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Both pursue making more money.
Where it's different is theheart posture.
Where is your heart posture?
How can you better pursue wealthGod's way to the point where
being broke, living paycheck topaycheck is no longer your
reality because you broke thenorms that the world tells you
when it comes to achievingwealth, and you decided to
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completely go God's way when itcomes to achieving wealth.
What does that look like foryou?
Something to think about, myfriend.
I hope that this episode waspowerful to you.
I hope that it was uplifting foryou.
I know we went deep.
I know we talked about a lot,but my prayer is that everything
that I shared in today's episodedoesn't just go in one ear and
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out the other, that it doesn'tjust sit with you as inspiration
for today, but it is a seedplanted to help you change your
life as you pursue wealth.
Now if you're looking for morehelp, more insight, more
step-by-step strategies when itcomes to wealth in building a
business, I got you covered witha free course that you can
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access right down below.
In this free course, you getthree videos from me, each
touching on a core component tobuilding a successful,
profitable business God's way.
We talk about mindset, we talkabout marketing, and we talk
about money all pursuing itGod's way and the strategies
that you can leverage to do so.
You can get it right down belowif you're interested.
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Thanks so much for tuning in.
What a pleasure to have you joinus today and I'll see you next
week for another episode.
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