Establishing Your Purpose in

Finances
Episode 7

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 Welcome to Establishing Your
Purpose. The show that helps
you to discover and achieve your
purpose through each of the five
life areas of Faith, Health,
Relationships, Career and
Finances.

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 Today, we will discuss how to
incorporate your purpose into the
finance area of your life.

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 Definition Of Finances
• Means to an end, not an end themselves
• Management of the means, monetary affairs
• Forms: income, increase,
• Sources: career, gifts, vocation, bequests
• Uses: Tithes, Offerings, Alms, Sustenance

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 Uses
• Purpose requires action, focus on
uses/management
• Means, facilitates purpose.
• Finances and Purpose: Needed so you are
prepared to act at the appointed time
• Not just for rainy days.
• But particularly for God-given opportunities
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 Tithes
• Firstfruit acknowledges the source and the
covenant
• Commitment of the covenant
• Shows gratitude and faith in Source
• Sustains ministry ongoing so that those
dedicated and focus on supplying spiritual
needs
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 Offerings
• Gifts of thanksgiving and appreciation
• To God through those He uses
• Each time gather and come before Lord
bring a gift of thanksgiving in proportion to
how God has blessed you.
• Deuteronomy 16:16-17

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 Alms
• Giving help meet specific needs
• Other charitable gifts to help those in need
• Remembering someone always worse off
than you.
• Grateful that you have sufficient

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 Sustenance
• Necessary Sustaining your life
• Needs
• Desires (which are of God)
• Not just bills
• First three (tithes,offerings, alms) easy
grasp
• What to do with the balance?
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 The other tithe
• Remainder is to be sowed back into your
life according to your purpose
• There is another tithe. World save at least
10% of income? It’s biblical
• First tithe to the church, the second tithe to
your personal ministry or purpose
• Should be 20%

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 20% Uses
• Aim to save 20% income until you establish
your purpose
• Invest in building yourself up for purposes
God ordered
• Education, organization, physical
preparedness
• Whatever you need to fulfill, that’s what
God has given provision for.
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 God’s Investments
• God invests in You, Deposit of Spirit
• Col 1:27, Christ in you, Hope of glory
• Glory occurs when you allow Him to work
through you to fulfill your purpose
• Plants you in experience => value to mature
you

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 God is an Investor
• Parables of fig tree,
• John 15 the vine, branches and gardener
• If God plants you, He expects you to
produce
• Supplies required resources for fruitfulness
• We are required to employ them towards
fruitful purposes
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 Where to Start?
• Start from where you are
• Not saving today? Evaluate spending.
• Even if can start with $25 or $50/ month it adds up
• Evaluate your activities. Does all your spending
help bring you closer to or farther away from your
purpose? Don’t waste time or money on things
that don’t move you into your destiny

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 Cont.
• Create and Stick to financial savings plan
• Objective: Preparedness for opportunities
• Live today, not for tomorrow
• Ex: Many so pressed, we block out now and
think only about hurrying to get through to
tomorrow.

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 Cont.
• Bear down trying to get to future point of
rest
• Ignoring the lessons and value provided in
our today's
• Delivers only marginal results instead of
success we truly seek
• Take full advantage of each day for there is
value
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 Cont.
• Monitor daily spending activities
• Record them over next month
• Determine what is really essential and what
can be done away with so that you have
more money to invest in your purpose

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 Financial Management
• This is part of being a good steward which
is wisely managing and employing the
resources, financial and otherwise, entrusted
to you.
• Start also by paying bills before and no later
than they are due. May require some
personal sacrifice upfront but has results

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 Results of Good Management
• Far less stress
• Stress is a big distraction and weight
• Slows down and may confuse
• Controlling current finances puts you in
charge of your money. Not your money in
charge of you.
• Parable of talents: More given to those that
exercise wisdom over what they have
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 Timing
• May already be there
• May take year or two to rebalance financial
picture
• Make commitment to do it because too many of us
have missed great opportunities and additional
income because we abused what we did have.
• Make commitment to investing in yourself. God
expects it.
• He invests in you and gives you resources to
invest in the more tangible things you need to
fulfill purpose. Use your God-given resources in a
way that glorifies Him through your life.
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 Hope you enjoyed this episode.
Join us next time as we talk about
how to move forward starting
from where you are today.
Make sure get tape series and
anyone you are in covenant with.
You need to know your purpose
and begin pursuing it. The tapes
will help you get there.
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 Until then, be blessed in all
things according to your purpose
in God.

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