Review this week's message.

Key Thought: Financial wisdom is the ability to apply what the bible says to our finances.

Start talking. Find a conversation starter for your group.
• What’s one of the most unwise financial decisions you’ve ever seen someone make? • What does it look like when a person or company is consumed with love for money?

Start thinking. Ask a thoughtful question.
• What could happen if you made money work for you instead of working for money? • How could God’s blessings come into our lives if we embrace biblical financial teachings such as tithing, saving, and creating multiple streams of income?

Start sharing. Choose questions that create openness.
• Is there a reason you believe you can’t follow the 10/10/80 rule? (give 10% in tithe, 10% to savings and live on the 80%) • If you are following the 10/10/80 rule, share how it has blessed your life.

Start praying. Be bold, and pray with power.
Father God, thank you for loving us. Thank you for providing us with the teaching we all need to continually improve our knowledge and wisdom in the area of our finances. Today, right now, we ask that you partner with us when it comes to every penny we receive and more importantly every one that we spend. Please renew our minds, grow us into financial warriors and allow us to achieve financial freedom so that we can be a blessing to others in a manner that shows the world how much you love us, and how much you love through us. We ask all this in your Son’s precious and mighty name. Amen.

Start doing. Commit to a step and live it out this week.
• Commit to creating a budget this week and ask for accountability in sticking to it. (If you already do this, commit to helping someone else in the group to do the same). • Ask God to add his Super to your Natural in a specific area of your finances where you struggle and then believe He will do just that.

Scriptures

Key Quotes

“We need more backbone and less wishbone.” Joyce Meyer “Money isn’t the root of all evil, the love of money is.” David Crank Debt stands for “Doing Everything But Thinking” David Crank “One idea from God can change your life.” David Crank

Scriptures

“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.” Proverbs 22:7 (NIV) “He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.” Psalm 113:7 (NIV) “So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion-and give your neighbor no rest!” Proverbs 6:3 (NIV) “The poor and the oppressor have this in common: The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both.” Proverbs 29:13 (NIV) “Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.” Proverbs 21:17 (NIV) “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.” Luke 4:18 (NIV) Read also 2 Kings 4:1-7 Message by Pastor David Crank of Faith Church in St. Louis Missouri.