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Week 6 - FINANCIAL DISCIPLESHIP |
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"Heaven, not earth, is my home"
Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle
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This 40-day journey explored an area of our Christian life that we rarely discuss - how we view, manage, and relate to finances. Approaching this topic with
"Financial Faith" transforms our lives by saturating our convictions, our habits, and our attitude with God's power, grace, and principles.
God never intended faith to be an intellectual exercise but rather an adventure that brings us closer to him and helps us to live like Jesus.
Discipleship is always counter-cultural and often counter-intuitive. This material world targets us with a message that markets self-indulgence, discontentment, and consumerism - all aimed at "conforming us to the pattern of this world." Yet, these worldly principles promote ineffective and unhealthy financial habits that include poor (or no) financial planning, living beyond our means, accumulating debt, and underestimating the power of both saving and giving.
In the Bible, God conveys effective, time-tested, universal, and practical financial principles. This Kingdom Training class challenged us as disciples to reexamine our preconceptions and practices by applying
God's biblical principles in a way that invites God into every area of our life.
Week 1: The earth is the Lord's and everything in it
Week 2: The faithful servant of God is a prudent and diligent manager
Week 3: The borrower is slave to the lender (so get out of debt!)
Week 4: We have been made rich so that we can be generous - like God himself!
Week 5: God expects us to have a financial plan that is God's plan, not ours
Week 6: Financial Discipleship applies these principles to our lives
In this final week of Financial Faith Bible studies, we apply these biblical principles to our personal discipleship, our family, our career, our dreams, and our decisions.
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Day 38 : My Job (for students, that is schoolwork) |
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1. Created to Work.
Genesis 2:15
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
2. Satisfaction in our Work.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?
3. Don't Overwork!
Proverbs 23:4-7
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
6 Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
4. No Excuse for Idleness.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
5. Wholehearted work for our true Master.
Colossians 3:23-24
23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,
24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
6. Integrity.
Ephesians 4:28
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.
7. No Compromise.
Acts 5:29
Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!
Pray, Dream, and Grow (about your work/ career)
1. God wants us to have a clean slate and clear conscience. Pray about and confess any work- related compromise that Satan is using against you (includes cheating in school).
2. What is your dream job that would apply your God-given talents and be satisfying?
3. Find a spiritually-minded mentor and discuss how you can use your career for God.
4. Write yourself a glowing, inspiring performance evaluation from your true boss, Jesus. Live it!
5. Pray that God will help you apply all of your ambition and influence at work in a way that glorifies him.
6. Is there any way you feel like you could apply your God-given talents more to the Kingdom?
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