Please join us this week as we continue our series, Margin. This week executive pastor, Scott Drummond, talks about the benefits of living with financial magin. We hope you enjoy it!
Financial Margin Message
How many live occasionally with financial stress?
See how normal this is for us?
Financial margin is having $3000 come in for the month and spending $2500. You are left with $500 in margin
If you get n $3000 and spend $3000 how much margin do you have? 0
If you get in $3000 and spend $3500 you are over the edge
Margin – the distance from where you are to the edge of the cliff
Freedom to give without stress
Money to purchase time margin
Money to do something you have wanted to do
Ability to be at rest
Most people do not have financial margin
Prov. 21:20 The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down
But a foolish person lives paycheck to paycheck
This is not dependent on income
In the house of the WISE is more than enough
Wise way and foolish way of doing things
friend – wealthy friends not living with margin
Fighting to keep up with their lifestyle
Other friend – plain, house…peace in this home
Most people with an untrained eye would say, “they are not rich”
But that is wrong.
Home with margin is rich in what matters most
Verse.
I timothy 6 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Godliness with contentment is great gain…
Cultures definition of happiness
Most of us have lifestyle way past margin
Its not an income problem, it’s a lifestyle problem
Not a lifestyle problem but a spiritual problem
Matthew verse… 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
So what do we do?
Earn more or spend less…
But you are smart and already know that.
The problem is a deeper root problem
How do we create margin?
You must put God first in your finances
Tithe – you will experience God’s blessings
Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
2 key principles:
1. When we bring our first and our best, God will bless the rest
Tithing builds our faith
2. When you put God first you will be supernaturally content
Proverbs 15:16 Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.
Better, better, better, better
When you realize its better you do things different
You will end up with more of what matters
Proverbs 8:18-19
18 With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.
19 My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.
Gave away cars, sponsor children,
Better, better
