How would you like to know what your driven-money is driven by? The two most anxiety stimulating topics we have is about money or sex. Both reach into the most personal spaces of our identity. For someone to talk about that space touches us in our biological nervous system. To become vulnerable and transparent about these topics reveals our emotional fragility. Why? Our primal brains are asking, “Am I safe?”, then “Do I belong?”, and finally “What can I learn?”, in that exact sequence. Money and sex makes us feel vulnerable, exposed and threatened. Because of our griefs, losses and traumas - that have been sustained over a lifetime - we are embedded with coding in our subconscious processing. Have you ever wondered why you feel such shame around your imperfections with money? What if we could help you separate from the shame-voice by safely exploring the neuroscience behind why you spend the way you spend, or save the way you save, or give the way you give? Every Jesus-follower I have ever met wants to be great managers of money, but feel they are flawed and disappointing to God. It’s time to open our hearts to Jesus’ teachings about our challenges with money and let His healing graces restore our souls!
If you can't make it next week or in person, tune in by live stream at mylifepointe.com/sermons .
BEGINS: March 1, 2020
WHERE: LifePointe Church | 2080 E 151st Street | Olathe (Kansas City)
TIME: 10am
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PROVERBS 4:23 NIV Above all else, GUARD YOUR HEART, for EVERYTHING YOU DO flows from it.
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LUKE 6:45 NKJV (Jesus said) A good man out of the good treasure of his HEART brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his HEART brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the HEART his mouth speaks.
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MATTHEW 15:19-20 NKJV (Jesus said) For out of the HEART proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 These are [the things] which DEFILE a man…
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Soft / Hardened
Good / Evil
Strong / Weak
Understanding / Deceived
Whole / Broken
Desires / Lusts
Cheerful / Heavy
Wise / Foolish
Upright / Unyielding
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MATTHEW 6:21 NKJV (Jesus said) For where your TREASURE [RICHES; MONEY] is, there your HEART will be also.
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1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 NKJV (Paul said) But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the LOVE OF MONEY is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their GREEDINESS, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Chronic self-defeating and self-destructive financial behaviors are not driven
by our rational, thinking minds; they stem from psychological forces
that are outside our conscious awareness and their roots run deep into our past.
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1. RIGID AND/OR DISENGAGED FAMILY SYSTEMS
2. ABANDONMENT
3. PARENTS WHO WERE EMOTIONALLY ENMESHED WITH CHILDREN
4. A HISTORY OF TRAUMA (INCLUDING FINANCIAL)
5. ABUSE (PHYSICAL, VERBAL, SEXUAL - OVERT AND COVERT)
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It isn’t a moral issue to have a behavior disorder;
however, it is a moral issue to continue the disorder
without addressing and reprocessing the root causes.
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Out of everything we talked about today,
what is your ONE NEXT STEP that you need to take?
ASSESS THE “ROOTS” OF YOUR PRESENT CHOICES
RE-SURRENDER TO GOD’S FINANCIAL PLAN
PURSUE EMOTIONAL HEATLH TOWARDS MONEY
