Episode 117 - God's Perfect Timing: When Having Less Reveals What Truly Matters

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Money troubles create stress regardless of your income bracket. We explore how someone earning a million dollars annually who suddenly drops to $250,000 experiences the same anxiety as someone facing poverty. The difference lies in expectations and lifestyle adjustments. While $250,000 represents comfort for many, the psychological impact of a 75% income reduction creates genuine hardship. Your mortgage doesn't adjust itself based on your income fluctuations, and children still need clothes regardless of your financial situation.

This episode introduces a powerful metaphor comparing divine provision to a mother nursing her infant. Just as a mother provides exactly the right amount of milk at precisely the right time—not too much, not too little—there's wisdom in receiving exactly what we need when we need it. Perhaps our resources are limited not as punishment but as protection, allowing us to develop other areas of life that might otherwise be neglected. Could it be that having just enough rather than excess forces us to focus on relationships, spiritual growth, and making the world better?

The transformative power of gratitude emerges as the key to navigating financial limitation. Rather than focusing on what we lack, we're challenged to reflect on all we've been given. This paradigm shift—training our minds to concentrate on abundance rather than scarcity—creates what I describe as a "life of euphoria" that influences everyone around us. By choosing where we direct our attention, we can experience contentment even amid financial challenges.

Ready to transform your relationship with money and abundance? Listen now and discover how financial limitations might actually be invitations to greater joy and connection. Then share your own experiences with financial challenges and how shifting your perspective made a difference.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 0 (00:00):
Good morning everybody.
Welcome to the Trust Factor,the podcast that guarantees your
success.
My friends, we are now going toflip the coin.
Up until now, we've beenfocusing primarily on the
individuals who have means thatwhen God gives somebody money,
we need to understand theinstructions of how to operate,
how to think, how someone withthese resources needs to conduct

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themselves if they really havetrust in God.
Right now, we're going to shiftfocus and we're going to talk
about the individual who lacksthe income, the one who needs to
receive, the one who is askingfor the handout.
God forbid, there are plenty.
There are plenty.
It is a challenge, but it is notunlike any other challenge, and

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you will find that the answerof how to deal with it likewise
is just the same as many of theother challenges that we face in
this life.
Let's get right into it.
It says that it's appropriatefor someone who has trust in God
regarding his income that whenincome is withheld from him at
any given time, he should say tohimself the one who brought me

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out into this world in aspecific period and specific
moment and did not bring me outinto the world before that time
or after it, is the same one whois withholding the earning of
my income until a specific timeand specific day because he
knows what is best for me.
You hear, when you'restruggling and we have all been

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there, and the struggle doesn'talways need to be destitution.
In other words, you don't haveto be completely broke or you
don't know where your next mealis coming from in order for you
to feel the stress and theanxiety of not having what you
need, your means.
So if you're used to making amillion dollars a year and
you're living a life of amillion dollar a year income and

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suddenly you're only earning aquarter of that, suddenly you've
had a year where now you're at$250,000, or two years where
you're at that point and youhave to make serious, serious
adjustments.
That means your life changes.
Your wife, your children, yourfamily, the people you've been
supporting, the communities thatyou've been upholding all of

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them suffer right along with you.
But who bears the most of that?
The individual who earns,whether it's the husband or the
wife, the individual earningthat money.
They suffer the most becausethe stress falls squarely on
their shoulders.
The kids don't stop eating,right.
They always need new clotheswhen the old ones wear out.

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The landlord's not waiting forthe rent, the bank's not waiting
for the mortgage, right?
They come asking they don'tcare that you're having a hard
time, so it doesn't have to bethat you don't know where your
next meal is coming from,because somebody can live an
extremely comfortable life with$250,000 a year, right.
But if they've accustomedthemselves to a

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million-dollar-a-year lifestyle,that's what needs to be
maintained.
And as soon as they drop belowthat threshold, they start to
feel the exact same stresses, ifnot more, than the individual
who is impoverished, who doesn'tknow where their next meal is
coming from.
Why?
Because that person is used toa certain standard.
That person is used to livingat a higher standard and to

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change now and to drop and tofall down potentially.
That much further.
That person was at a milliondollars a year.
That much further.
That person was at a milliondollars a year.
That drop is substantial.
As opposed to somebody who ismaking a very, very meager
living, the difference is huge.
The one who's making a meagerliving is already accustomed to
making concessions, to living amodest lifestyle, to not being

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sure what will come tomorrow.
The other individual is theexact opposite.
He has all the hope and he hasall of the expectations that
tomorrow will be the same as itwas today or yesterday.
So it's very, very difficult,my friends.
It doesn't mean you have to bedestitute to fall into this
category.
It says similarly when theearnings of a person with trust

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are limited and amount tonothing more than enough for his
food, it is appropriate for himto think to himself and say the
one who arranged my nutritionfor me at my mother's breasts in
the beginning of my existence,when I was an infant, providing
the amount of milk appropriatefor my needs and sufficient to

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nourish me each and every day,until he exchanged my mother's
milk for something better for me, I was weaned.
He knew exactly how much milk Ineeded and for as long as I was
nursed, and I was not harmed inthe slightest by the fact that
the milk came in limited amounts, with just enough being
released at each feeding and nomore.
So too, I will not be harmed inthe slightest if the form of

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sustenance to which he hasassigned me now comes to me in
limited amounts, precisely inaccordance with my needs, with
no surplus until the end of mydays.
My friends, let's discuss.
What is he saying over here?
He's saying very simply thatit's the same God who brought
you into this world.
It's the same God who wiredyour brain perfectly.

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It's the same God who gave youopportunities that put you into
a community that you're in, thatgave you the parents that he
gave you the siblings, thesurroundings, the friends, the
schooling, the education all ofthese things that he gave you.
The one who keeps pumping yourheart and gives you clear
eyesight and clear hearing, andall of your senses are working.

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It's the same God who gave youthe ability to experience the
joy of bringing a human lifeinto this world, maybe multiple
times.
It's the same God who hasshowered you with all of these
wonderful opportunities, all ofthese wonderful events, these
milestones that you've got toenjoy and to celebrate all of
these wonderful things that Godgave you.
It's the same God that isholding back from you the

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amounts that you would like.
Why?
Because he knows better,because he understands that
what's important is not what youthink you need, but what he
knows you need.
Just the same way that an infantis fed, when the mother knows
that this child needs to eat,the mother puts the child on a

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regimen.
I know when I need to feed thischild.
I know what is a reasonableamount for this child to be
eating.
I'm monitoring his health.
I'm monitoring his weight.
I'm making sure that he'sconsuming properly.
She determines it doesn'tmatter if he cries randomly.
She's not just going to stuffmore food in his face or she
shouldn't, because that wouldpotentially harm the child but

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she would figure out what theproblem is.
It's not food, because I knowI've given him enough and after
he's done eating, he's perfectlycontent because he knows he
received enough to satiate him.
It's the same thing we crybecause we want more, but God
says no, no, no, no.
Right now it's not for you.
You've had your fill.
You need to focus on otherthings.

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Right now, money is not yourfocus.
You need to focus on the otherthings that are equally and more
important, like all of yourrelationships, like doing the
commandments, like making thisworld a better place, like
assisting other people with yourtime and your resources.
Do the things that you need todo in order to achieve your
fullest potential in this worldand guess what?

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You've already gotten theamount of money that you need,
even if it means that you justhave enough to eat to sustain
yourself for today.
That's all you need, and we'vesaid before, to eat to sustain
yourself for today.
That's all you need, and we'vesaid before, in order to sustain
yourself for one day.
It does not take much, myfriends.
I don't know about you.
I've been around a long time inmany different places and I've
known lots of people.

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I have yet to have knownsomebody who's died of
starvation.
In this day and age, it doesnot take much to sustain human
life, and if that's all you'regetting, you still have to sit
back and go.
Wait a second.
There's a reason for this.
My God, who loves me, the Godwho does everything for me, who
gave me all the good, is thesame God who's doing this now.
Why Did he suddenly become bad?

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Did he suddenly decide that hehates you?
God forbid.
Obviously not.
It's the same God with aninfinite love for you.
He has a love for you and apatience that is infinite
compared to your earthly father.
Think about it as an earthlyfather the love that I have for
my children.
All I want for them is tosucceed.
All I want is to see them happy.

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So does it make sense that Ishould sabotage their lives,
that I should make theirexistence more difficult than it
needs to be, obviously not.
The opposite is true.
I want them to be content, Iwant them to be happy, I want
them to enjoy this life, I wantto see them succeed.
When they succeed, I'm happy.
And if that's me, as a fatherof flesh and blood, limited by

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time and space and my abilitiesand my resources, how much more
so.
An infinite God, who has all ofthe resources and loves you
infinitely and wants to see yousucceed infinitely.
It's the same thing, my friends.
So you have to understand.
It's that God, the one wholoves you infinitely and has all
of the resources, infiniteresources, to give you.

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He's withholding it from youtoday because it's going to be
to your detriment if he releasesit to you.
So you have to understand that.
And the only way to understandthat, my friends, is with
gratitude.
How does gratitude play in?
It allows you to stop andreflect.
It forces you to stop and lookback at your life and think of

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all the good that he's done andall the wonderful things that
you've had.
I heard stories in the past ofgiant, righteous people who've
given examples of where Godforbid they get into a car
accident and, as a result of thecar accident, they have to have
a leg amputated.
So they lost a leg.
And instead of spending therest of their lives thinking

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about the fact that they nolonger have that leg, what they
spend their time thinking aboutis all of the years, the decades
that God gave them the use ofboth legs, that all they end up
doing instead is spending yearsand decades thinking about the
legs that God gave them, thatwhen they had both legs, life

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was amazing.
And today they still have oneleg.
They think about the thingsthat they've had and the things
that they still have.
They do not focus on the thingsthat they want that they don't
have.
My friends, it is a paradigmshift.
It is a shift in thinking.
If you can do that, if youcould train your mind to think
that way, to focus on thepositive and not on the negative

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, then you live a life ofeuphoria, you live a life of
godliness, you connect to himand then you can pass that on to
those around you, because thatkind of stuff oozes.
That kind of stuff.
It's by osmosis.
People who are around you, theystart to get that vibe from you
and they realize that nothingcan bring you down, because

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everything has a silver liningand you choose where you focus
your attention.
My friends have an amazingShabbat.
It's that day, again it'sShabbat TGIF, and tomorrow it's
Shabbat TGIS.
Have an amazing, amazingShabbat Disconnect to connect,
and we'll speak again on Sunday.