Money Matters

It is no surprise that financial matters are of the utmost importance within someones life. If you misuse and abuse it, it will flee faster than a dust particle in the wind. However, if you become a good steward over your finances then they will be there to take care of you.

Once you become married, then everything that was mine and yours becomes ours as a couple. This is especially true in the case of money. Your income becomes your spouses income as well as your debt becomes your spouses debt. If you try to fight this, it will open the door for strife and prevent oneness. God teaches in countless scriptures that we are to be one with our spouse.

Never put money above God. In Ecclesiastes 5:10, " Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless." and Hebrews 13:5 says, " Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with was you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you;never will I forsake you.' "

If one of you is better at paying bills then they should at minimum share with the other transactions. Follow these basic rules-

1.) Understand that labor is necessary. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 says, " For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." Nothing is for free,

2.) Pay your full tithes from the first 10% of your income.

3.) Remember, everything is up for discussion.

4.) Bills do not miraculously disappear. Live below your means, pay off your debt, save, budget, don't try to keep up with the Jones'.

Don't love money above God. Matthew 6:24 states, " No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other. or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."