My Balanced-Part 6

I am over a week late in this blogs update.  For those of you that frequent it-especially that bot that said she loves my blog.  I am so sorry.  Without further ado, here is "My thoughts" on Balanced-Part 6.  

Scripture:

• Malichi 3;7
• Matthew 6;24, 28-33
• Mark 12;43

Music Selections:

• Unknown
• Blessed be your name-Tree 63
• Be my everything-unknown

*All songs led by Kristin Stanfill

Andy began the final part of "Balanced" by telling us all that the main question he got from the entire series was "what did Sandra where to the Obama prayer service.  He told us it was a $300 suit from Dillard's.

He then brought out a list of the "5 things we(Humans) do with our money.

1. Spend it-which was for-ME
2. Repay Debt-Again-ME
3. Pay Taxes-AMERICA
4. Save-Again-ME
5. Give-God/Others

He says

"the way we prioritize our money represents an open or closed door to God.  This is the "Closed door"

the open to come soon.  Even though we put God last in this scenario we still ask for help when things go wrong.  

Andy says that more times then not the moment we surrender our money to God, we will in fact have more money.  Now I am not sure if I believe this exactly, or what it even means exactly, but I figured I would give it a shot.  So far so good.  I'll let you know in a month or so if this continues to be the case.  The Idea of giving is not about having our money.  It is about having our hearts.  When God has our heart ahead of our money-he helps us .

Therefore, Andy says, Flip the list:

1. Give
2. Save- and these-
3. taxes
4. debt-go down, thus giving us more to 
5. Spend.

Interesting thought.  Makes sense.  Why not try it.  try to get God involved in our financial lives we  should "Give" "Save" "live" and do this all in a percentage. God is not impressed with $$$.

My small group discussed that it is better to give a % as opposed to an amount because that we were are able to see our giving go up, instead of staying the same.  

Andy closed by saying

"if we seek God first in the area of our finances-then everything else in life will fall into place."

 It should be interesting over the next few months to see if this ends up being the case.  I hope so.