Keys to Financial Freedom REVIEW WEEK 1: It’s ALL God’s stuff! Give to God FIRST WEEK 2: We are STEWARDS AVOID debt WEEK 3: Change your thinking

Keys to Financial Freedom REVIEW of WEEK 3 RENEW YOUR MIND! Be TRANSFORMED that you may prove God’s perfect will for you RE-THINK your TRUE WORTH and the VALUE your time To God To yourself Give that worth to your employer when on the job

Keys to Financial Freedom REVIEW of WEEK 3 WORK “AS TO GOD”! Your REAL employer is God Develop consistency outside the physical presence of your employer Prov 6:6 (NKJ) Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, 7 Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler, 8 Provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.

Keys to Financial Freedom WEEK 4 The DEVOURER sets TRAPS AVOID THE TRAPS… THEY HAVE CHAINS! He “chains” God’s resources to HABITS Prov 23:21 (NKJ) For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Keys to Financial Freedom THE DEVOURER SETS TRAPS A HABIT that becomes a chain: OVERSLEEPING Prov 6:9 (NKJ) How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep 11 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

Keys to Financial Freedom THE DEVOURER SETS TRAPS A HABIT that becomes a chain: LAZINESS Prov 24:30 (NKJ) I went by the field of the lazy man, And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; 31 And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down. 32 When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction: 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest; 34 So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

Keys to Financial Freedom THE DEVOURER SETS TRAPS A HABIT that becomes a chain: OVEREATING Prov 23:21 (NKJ) For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Keys to Financial Freedom THE DEVOURER SETS TRAPS A HABIT that becomes a chain: DRUNKENNESS Prov 23:21 (NKJ) For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. Other parallel ESCAPES: Drugs, tobacco, some “medicines”

Keys to Financial Freedom THE DEVOURER SETS TRAPS A HABIT that becomes a chain: UNCAPTURED THOUGHTS 2 Cor 10:4 (NKJ) For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Keys to Financial Freedom THE DEVOURER SETS TRAPS A HABIT that becomes a chain: “FREE MONEY” 2 Sam 24:24 (CEV) But David answered, "No! I have to pay you what they're worth. I can't offer the LORD my God a sacrifice that I got for nothing." So David bought the threshing place and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver.

Keys to Financial Freedom LEARN TO BE CONTENT A HABIT that becomes a chain: GATHERING “STUFF” Phi 4:11 (NKJ) Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content 1 Tim 6:8 (NKJ) And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

Keys to Financial Freedom BE AN EXAMPLE A HABIT that becomes a chain: NOT REALIZING OTHERS ARE WATCHING 1 Tim 4:12 (NKJ) Let no one despise your youth (or whatever your situation or excuse!), but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.