Title: Financial Drift
Series: Drifting
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. —Hebrews 2:1 (NIV)
What are the signs of fiancial drift?
What are the dangers of financial drift?
The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender. —Proverbs 22:7 (NIV)
10 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12 And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? —Luke 16:10-12 (NIV)
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. —Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and he will reward them for what they have done. —Proverbs 19:17 (NIV)
There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land. —Deuteronomy 15:11 (NIV)
Answers for financial drift:
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2) Begin a
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4) Be a
One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.25 A generous person will prosper;
whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. —Proverbs 11:24-25 (NIV)
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. —Malachi 3:10-11 (NIV)
5) Be
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 13:5 (NIV)
Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” —Luke 12:15 (NIV)
Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless. —Ecclesiastes 5:10 (NIV)
A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children,
but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. —Proverbs 13:22 (NIV)