Well I've spent some time reviewing the Generous Life book and it really brought me back to remembering what it was like before I started fully trusting God with the finances. WOW!!!! it's actually pretty scary to think about what that felt like. I mean back then, when my finaces were absolutely aweful, it was a scary to think that the God I loved was requiring that I give him 10% of all that I earned and then trust Him for the rest. It will really force you over the "do I really believe in God" line. Then I read in the Bible where it said to test God and see what He would do... I guess that my finances were so bad that I didn't really have any other options... so I started paying the tithe. You know what it was still hell! But as I went along God kept showing me more and more about serving Him and about how to handle the money that I had and you know what everything started to turn around.
There's some really cool advice about giving on pages 9 & 10 and then Day 3 is all about being a steward of what God gives us. The truth is that I don't own anything... it's all His, and when I screwed it up it was my mess until I started truting Him... then it became His mess. This is my favorite verse from Today.
Romans 14:7-8 "None of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord."
It's all or nothing! Live Life Out Loud! I love it... but it doesn't come easy. It's the toughest thing you will ever do.
Bill
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