This Week’s Experience – 2/16/2020

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Order of Service

Music……………………..Worship Team
King of Glory
Welcome……………………….Bill Butler
Music……………………..Worship Team
Who You Say I Am
Raise a Hallelujah
Living Hope
Message……………..Gilbert Thurston
Savers vs Spenders
Offering & Announcements
Music……………………..Worship Team
King of Glory
Dismissal……………………..Bill Butler

Message notes

Take a lesson from the ants, you lazy people. Learn from their ways and be wise! They have no leader to make them work, yet they work hard all summer, saving up food for the winter.

-Proverbs 6:6-8

The wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spends whatever he gets.

-Proverbs 21:20

Things I Must Save For:

1.  I must save for .

2.  I must save for major .

3.  I must save for the .

Prioritize Your Dollars

: 10 percent to God.

Pay second, a minimum of 20 percent.

1. First build the fund.

2. Next pay off .

3. Finally, build .

The remaining 70 percent goes to expenses.

Two Ways to Make Money:

1. Linear Income:  making money.

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

-2 Thessalonians 3:10

2.  Residual Income:  making money

The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more.

 -Matthew 25:16

Number of Dollars Per Day Invested at 12%

 

 

$1

$5

$10

$25

Y

5

$2,484

$12,420

$24,841

$62,103

e

10

$6,998

$34,984

$69,971

$174,926

a

20

$30,093

$150,446

$300,902

$751,834

r

30

$106,317

$531,514

$1,063,063

$2,657,641

s

40

$357,884

$1,789,187

$3,578,491

$8,946,168

 

50

$1,188,155

$5,939,992

$11,880,375

$29,700,743

Money + Time + Consistency = .

 

Money earned little by little will grow and grow.

 -Proverbs 13:11

Biblical Rules of Investing

1. I shouldn't try to get .

The Rule of 72:

If I earn 7.2% interest, my money will double every 10 years.  If I earn 10% interest my money will double every 7.2 years.

2. I shouldn't put all my .

Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what
disaster may come upon the land.

-Ecclesiastes 11:2

3. I shouldn't invest in things I don’t .

 

Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.

-Proverbs 24:3-4

LIFE APPLICATION
To discuss during the week with your family or Life Group

1.  Do you consider yourself more a spender or saver?

2.  What one idea from today's message stood out to you?  Why did this idea grab your attention

3.  How are you investing for the future?  What steps will you need to take to improve the way you invest?

4.  What are your long-term financial goals?  How are you doing in your progress towards these goals?

5.  How would you advance God's Kingdom if you were financially rich?