I have to say that I always have been spoilt to a point. I have struggled with money before, but always had a reliable income coming in. Now that its just me, its definitely been a lesson, but I don’t think it’s a bad lesson at all. The good Lord above made me to where I always have loved financial stuff, considering I did go to college for Accounting and had a job for 7 years to where it was my focus to keep a business ran.
I’m taking it on like a challenge. I’m trying to figure out ways to keep my sanity and yet, not be in the hole. I’m also trying to figure out what profit I have sitting in my garage or house that I don’t need.
It was never my ideal of a life to have, but in my heart I feel like it’s not going to be forever. I am really seeing what the value of a dollar is now and also not going and blowing money on random things or eating out. I look around my house when it comes to food and really see money and edible desirable food, instead of going and getting a quick meal. It’s only been a couple of weeks, but I’ve had time to focus on what’s around me and where my life is going.
I see now where my friends didn’t have money to go and do things or I see where I wasted so much money at. I am very thankful though that the Lord opened up doors this year and set me up financially. He did open a door up for a new job which made more money, he did open up doors for my dream vehicle with a good monthly payment, he did open up doors to refinance my house and also helped me pay off my debt. If God never opened up these doors and if I didn’t have the faith to walk through them, I would be in high debt probably close to filing bankruptcy, a car that’s on its last wheel pretty much and then no way of fixing these problems. I am so thankful and blessed that God took care of me, just like He promises in the Bible. I am by no means bragging, but I do want others who may be reading this and may be struggling financially to seek Gods help. Remember that he is our Father and we are his children and he will take care of us, but we also need to have faith and trust that He will.
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I bought this sign awhile back and when I read it, I cried.
I really felt like maybe everything that my parents taught
me, God knows I'm ready to be used.....I am so thankful
that I was raised in a godly home and was raised to have
a close relationship with God.
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I won’t lie…..some of those doors were scary to walk through, because it was the unknown and it was not really what I wanted. When God laid it on my heart to apply for a job where I work, it wasn’t the position that I have now. I applied for a completely separate position than the one I have. I always joke with people and tell them that I didn’t apply for this job, because I didn’t, but God put that paper work in the right hands. I cried when I let my old boss know I was leaving, they were like my family. I was scared of the unknown and I was scared of the atmosphere. I wasn’t going to be able to be in my bubble, but I also knew God is going to put me in a place that hopefully I can be an example too and can be used for His kingdom.
It was hard to apply for a big loan. When I did, I wasn’t planning on applying that day, but I knew I needed too once I talked to the mortgage broker and it was a bigger loan that what I was wanting. But did you know….that loan was almost perfect amount of what I needed to help pay off debt and also put a big down payment on my car? Did you also know that the amount I save a month from credit card payments is also roughly around the same amount I pay for my new car and with Insurance?
I cant keep reminding myself of how good God is. I keep thinking that He always knew when my grandpas last day on this earth was going to be and He knew what I was going to need. Even though I didn’t know why or how, looking back I see how God worked…..for me. He loves me that much! He loves YOU that much!
I know that the times are going to come, especially now that the Holidays are coming up, to where it’s going to be challenging and even emotional, but God know what’s going to come and I’m trying really hard to just take it one day at a time. We hear that all the time, and it can be so hard, but why worry about tomorrow?
One set of scripture verses that I keep reminding myself is Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
I think that is a very good set of scriptures to remind us who may be struggling or even if we arnt struggling with those things, because we can apply it to worrying. Live in today and allow God to use you TODAY, tomorrow ask God to use you TOMORROW, but right now your’re in THIS moment and now is when God can change your heart or your situation.
