Be aware of the cautions about growing indebtedness.

Read the following verses.  Think and pray about the verse that applies the most to your life.:

Proverbs 22:7 Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.

Romans 13:7-8 Give to everyone what you owe them…Pay all your debts, except the debt of love for others. You can never finish paying that!

Psalms 37:21 The wicked borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers.

Deuteronomy 28:12-15, 43-44 The LORD will…bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God…you will always be at the top, never at the bottom…However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands…the alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

Proverbs 21:5 Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

Proverbs 22:27 If you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

“When I put Christ and His Word as the Master in charge of my finances, He took far better care of me than my Master Charge ever did.”  Brian Kluth

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Little Girl Yelling, “God, I want my quarter back!”

At church one day, my friends Tom and Jean were trying to get their 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, to put a quarter in the offering plate. But Amanda squeezed her fingers tightly around the quarter and would not let it go. Much to the embarrassment of her parents and the snickers of people around them, they finally had to carefully pry each of her fingers off the quarter before it finally clinked into the offering plate. Later that afternoon, Jean heard Amanda playing on the back yard swing. Every time Amanda got as high as possible on the swing, she'd yell at the top of her lungs, “God, I want my quarter back! God, I want my quarter back!” Have you ever felt like Amanda? Do you sometimes have a hard time giving to God? You, too, can become a joyful giver without anyone having to pry your fingers off of what you’re so tightly holding onto.

This is a true story in a series of radio spots by Brian Kluth of www.GiveWithJoy.org and www.kluth.org

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