Faithful Financial Living
For Budgets And Spending Plans To Be Implemented Properly, You Will Need Both Checking And Savings Accounts. The Checking and Savings accounts are the engines that will drive the train to financial security. They both have their specific roles to help you become debt-free and on the road to financial freedom. In this blog I […]
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The Name Jesus Is Loved, Hated, Misunderstood, Disdained, Judged, and Invokes Many Other Feelings. For me, I just did not know him, what his death meant or why it was so needed. Yes, I understood in my mind that he died for our sins, but I did not understand this in my spirit and soul.
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Why I Needed To Create A Spending Plan. Now that you have created your budget, it is time to create a spending plan. If you haven’t read my last two blogs on creating budgets called Budget: Love and Selflessness and Setting up a Budget for Beginners take a few moments to catch up. You will need a budget to
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I have encountered many who profess to be Christians but have never read the Bible or have only read certain parts of the Bible. My question is how can you be a follower of Christ without reading about what Christians are called to do? Christians and the Bible go hand in hand. Stating that
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Jesus Came To Fulfill The Law Each year I try to read a different version of the Bible. Mainly to change it up a bit but also to get a different perspective of the writings. The doctrine is the same, but some Bibles are easier to read. Some versions let me see a passage clearer
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It Has Been Said Whoever Controls The Marbles Controls The Game, however, I believe this is not true when budgeting for a household. I believe a budget should be made up of love and Selflessness. During my first marriage, my ex-husband controlled the budget which also included my paycheck. Therefore, the things I wanted to
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But Test The Spirit To See Whether They Are From God, 1 John 4:1 Per Frances Chan in his book Letters to the Church, “encouraging signs of growth is when people rarely talk about a great ‘sermon’ but often discuss what they’ve discovered in their Bible reading.” While reading this book in my Bible Study
Be Still And Know That I Am God. Psalm 46:10 As we face the uncertainty in our life due to the Corona virus, I am comforted by knowing that God is in control. The Lord has set us down. He wants us to be still and know that He is in control. I for one
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God speaks about money more than 800 times in the Bible. Money and our possessions are the 2nd most important topic after God’s Kingdom and how to get there. However, the Bible teaches us that debt is not good and should be avoided. In fact, the Bible likens it to slavery. We are a slave
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As I Sat On The Beach Reflecting On The Journey, we took to arrive at our dream vacation in Hawaii, I realized the road previously had a lot of twists and turns. We were drowning in debt, house poor, and just trying to stay above water before getting serious about our debt. Now we are sitting on
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The Key To Creating And Living Your budget Is Your Mind Over Money. You must keep your mind on what you plan to do with your money to create a mind over money budget. When spending money, we should always be mindful of our budget. Begin thinking frugally. First, start allocating funds to savings. Always pay
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After Years Of Budgeting To Eliminate Credit Card Debt, student loans, our car notes and building up wealth. It was time to seriously consider getting completely debt free. Our last financial goal is to pay off the mortgage. Once again, I had to review our budget to determine how we can achieve this goal within
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I Got My First Credit Card After Finishing College Debt Free. The more I spent and paid only the minimum payment the more the bank increased my line of credit. All seemed fine for a while the minimum payments were affordable. I was becoming a little concerned about the debt escalation but not enough to
I began setting up a budget from the day I began working. I remember my mom at the kitchen table with a piece of paper and a pen working on hers using her weekly paycheck. Mine is a little more sophisticated, my budget planning consists of using spreadsheet after spreadsheet, year over year. I create
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Hello World! Welcome to my new and improved blog website. I previously wrote blogs on BudgetSpendLive.com and Forth-telling but it became really difficult to maintain two really great blogs. Therefore, I have combined my love for blogging about budgets and faith into one great blog. BudgetingFaithfully.com will now provide all this great content. New Website With