This Week’s Experience – 3/12/2023

Message

EARN all you can. SAVE all you can. GIVE all you can. ENJOY it all.

“Nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

-C.S. Lewis

Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. Instruct them to do as many good deeds as they can and to help everyone. Remind the rich to be generous and share what they have. This will lay a solid foundation for the future, so they will know what true life is like.

-1 Timothy 6:17-19

1. I must learn to enjoy the towards financial freedom and any I’m making towards it.

So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.

-Galatians 6:9

2. I must learn to be .

I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.

-Philippians 4:11-12

3. I must learn to in order to experience financial joy.

“The Sabbath is an invitation to trust God with all the things on our to-do lists. It’s an opportunity to say, God, this seems urgent and important, but I choose to let it sit until tomorrow and instead rest and enjoy this day that You have made. I choose to trust that You are fully in control and that You will work out all the things on my plate."

-Bob Lotich

“The rest of God…is not a reward for finishing. It’s not a bonus for work well done. It’s sheer gift. It is a stop-work order in the midst of work that’s never complete, never polished. Sabbath is not the break we’re allotted at the tail end of completing all our tasks and chores, the fulfillment of all our obligations. It’s the rest we take smack-dab in the middle of them, without apology, without guilt, and for no better reason than God told us we could.”

-Mark Buchanan

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

1. Name an area of life where you saw small daily progress but over time that progress was significant. Can you see how that might happen for you financially if you make the right decisions?

2. In what ways do you become discontent about money? What can you practically do about that?

3. What scripture, story or quote stood out to you in this message?

4. What next step is Jesus asking you to take as a result of this
message?