
Financial Peace For Your Family
SOMETHING FOR YOU…NOT FROM YOU
“Do not worry.” (Matthew 6:31-34)
WHAT’S YOUR GOAL?
“Father, show me how to honor You with Your money that You entrust to me.” (Haggai 2:8; Deuteronomy 8:18; Proverbs 3:9)
FINANCIAL PEACE FOR YOUR FAMILY
Proverbs 21:9 Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Luke 14:28 “Which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?”
Genesis 2:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
QUESTIONS FOR LIFE
1.Have you been praying this prayer this past week?
“Father, show me how to honor You with Your money that You entrust to me.”
If so, can you tell about ways that God has begun to answer that prayer?
2.Can you tell about times this past week that you consciously brought to mind that your money is not your money, but God’s money? If so, what difference has that made?
3.In the past, have you and your spouse (if you’re married) argued about money? If so, did those arguments tend to solve the problem or make it worse?
4.Would you say that you’re knowin’ where it’s goin’ or not? Please explain your answer.
5.Have you and your spouse planned for how you will spend? Save? Give? If so, please tell about your experience. If not, can you tell about how that’s going?
6.Can you tell about times your kids argued with you about money?
7.Can you tell about your successes and failures in teaching your kids about money and how to make it?
8.What did you think about the suggestions made in today’s message concerning how to help kids stop arguing with parents about money?
9.If you’re a grandparent, what do you think you can do to help your kids and/or grandkids concerning today’s topic?