- Living within your Means
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Living Within Your Means
Times a Tough- evrey thing has gone up- if you are on a fixed budget its hard- Its hard to live on what you get.
You Have Got to live Within Your Means
LIVE WITHIN ONE'S MEANS is to spend money only on what one can afford. - within a person's budget or the amount of money that they have.
To Live on what you have.
What Are Your Means ??? What Do You have?
- Matthew 4:4 (NKJV) 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
Word- Rhema spoken Word
Proceed- leaves His mouth , comes from Him
What Are You Living On- What Sustains You
Bread Alone- Living only at the natural level- Living only at a natural way of thinking Living only at a natural way-
Isaiah 55:2 (NKJV) 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
Natural or Supernatural Means- Isaiah 55:8–11 (NKJV) 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth, It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Living Your Way or His Way?
You Will Live The Way You Think
Thinking Your Way or Thinking His Way
Natural Is Lower
Higher- Elevated Position or Dimension
God Doesnt Think Like Us
Gods Word - Creates
Waters
Produces Fruit
Multiplies- If you sow it it will multiply
Accomplishes- achieves the goal
Prospers- Brings Blessings
Leads From Desert- Isaiah 43:19 (NKJV) 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.
Gods Words- Verbalise His Thoughts & Ways
God Gave You Ears- The greatest designer in the universe has a purpose for giving you your ears
Why?= Main Reason- To be able to hear. Hopefully you are using them right know to hear what Im saying.
Hearing Is one of the 5 senses that help us interprete our enviroment and the world around us.
Hearing & Faith
Faith Has 2 Sides- Listening and Speaking
Confession or Speaking out in faith is very important.
But So is Hearing/ Listening
Romans 10:17 (NKJV) 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Faith- the ability to believe god for something that doesnt yet exist. To believe in or for something you cant see.
Hearing- the ability/faculty to hear the information, news, report. To have heard the message.
Illustration- Had my hearing tested and found out I have excellent hearing. It shocked Peka because she thought the reason I didnt hear/listen was I had issues with my hearing.
I had developed the skill of zoning out my wifes voice. I had forgotten the importance of listening to what my wife thinks is important.
Zoning Out Gods Voice-
Whats Zoning Out Gods Voice?
Your Problems- Your Lack - What you Want- What The World Says
Romans 10:17 TPT. Faith, then, is birthed in a heart that responds to God’s anointed utterance of the Anointed One.