1. Need vs Want: Materialism
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’ So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
Hebrews 13 v5-6

3. Materialism:
“a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort to be more important than spiritual values.”
Oxford Compact English Dictionary

4. Affluenza:
“that strange desire we feel to spend money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t know”

5. “I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God.”
David Livingstone
“I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess”.
Martin Luther
“There are two ways to get enough: One is to accumulate more and more, the other is to desire less.”
GK Chesterton

6. I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances
I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength
Philippians 4 v11-13

7. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’
Hebrews 13 v5-6