Prioritize your finance? The journey to Destiny includes every part of your life, especially your finances. Financial advisors will tell you they can look at your bank statement and know where your priorities lie.
What does your bank account say about you? Do you look like a million dollars with only a few dollars in the bank and nothing saved for retirement?
Are you barely making minimum payments on your credit cards? Are all of your credit cards at their maximum balance?
Financial advisors have a saying that if you are sitting on your assets, your priorities are all wrong.
In other words, if all of your discretionary income is spent on expensive clothes or cars or handbags and you have no money saved for a rainy or retirement, your priorities are misplaced.
Prioritize your spending so that all of your money is not blown on things that depreciate. Think about the mobile phone you have.
If you have one of the latest smartphones, you probably paid a premium price for it. How much is it worth now? Technology changes quickly, so the phone you paid $350 for a year ago is only worth $150 now.
Look at how you spend your money. Are you obsessed with the latest electronic gadgets? Can you drive a car for years after it’s paid for?
Can you wear clothes that don’t come from certain stores? There’s nothing wrong with shopping for quality, but the clothes you wear and the car you drive can never make you great.
Destiny has nothing to do with impressing other people with the things you own. You don’t need an image that you created in order to reach Destiny. You are created in the image of God, and that’s the only image that matters.
Many people choose to invest their time in looking like they’ve made it, rather than investing time in the things that will help them achieve genuine success.
They invest in depreciating assets so that they can “keep up with the Joneses,” only to find their house repossessed. Is it more important to have the latest luxury car or to send your children to college?
Prioritize your spending so you can be free to travel the road of Destiny. You can’t be free to pursue Destiny if you’re a slave to debt and spending.
Choosing to live your dream may mean quitting your job to pursue your calling. But if you’re up to your ears in debt, you can’t walk away from that job.
If you owe everybody in town, you’ll never save enough money to buy the dream home you want.
Your dream may be to send your children to a private school to broaden their opportunities, but you probably can’t afford it if you’re spending money on the latest style of athletic shoes or expensive kids’ birthday parties that your children may not even remember.
Prioritize how your money is spent and be a good steward of the financial blessings you have already received, no matter how meager.
Show God you can be trusted with the small amount given you, and the Almighty Provider will give you more. If you’re wasteful with small sums of money, you’ll be wasteful with large sums, too.
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