How do you move from wherever you are now to financial freedom?

Gary Keesee • April 14, 2021

Reading Time 4 mins 30 secs –


God wants you to be able to:  


 

Dream dreams — BIG dreams!.


 

Walk out the calling He has on your life.


 

Do the things He prompts you to do, like pay for someone’s gas or groceries, sponsor a child who needs help, advance the Kingdom….

 
How much time do you spend doing any of these things ⇧⇧⇧ when you’re worried about paying your bills or having enough just to get by each week?
 
So many people are under great stress in their financial situations because of debt.


Debt steals your peace by demanding more and more of your labor, of your life.


Debt keeps you from fully serving God.


Debt keeps you from following the path God has for your life.


Debt keeps you enslaved.


That’s why I talk about money and finances.

 
The enemy has schemes and tricks designed to put us into servitude to debt or anything else we’ve made a master in our lives.
He wants us strapped financially so we don’t have the freedom or time to have relationships with God and the people we love, or to do what God is calling us to do.
 
I talk about money and finances because
I care about your freedom, friend— your freedom to follow God, to make choices, and to pursue your dreams and your God-designed destiny as YOU desire, not as your bills and debt dictate.

That’s why you’ll also frequently hear me share my story.  
 
The Bible says that God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). That means He doesn’t play favorites.
What God has done for Drenda and me, He will do for you.

Research tells us that most people need to hear/read/see a message between 18 and 20 times before they really get it. So Drenda and I keep sharing—for you and for anyone who hasn’t heard the Good News of the Gospel and the Kingdom principles that completely changed our lives, so that
you can GET it and live FREE too.
 
See, Drenda and I know what it’s like to feel hopeless.

When we were first married, we had no money. In fact, we borrowed $500 from a friend to even get married, so we really started out in debt. We lived on commissions from my work at an insurance company, but my commissions just weren’t enough to keep up with life.
 
Not knowing better at the time, we started using credit cards to buy what we needed. Then, when we ran out of credit card options, we used finance company loans to consolidate those cards. When money got tight again, we’d get new credit cards.

We also had two car loans. Then, of course, we bought a house, which we didn’t really qualify for. Drenda’s parents loaned us the down payment, and my boss wrote a letter, which actually exaggerated our income, to the mortgage company. The mortgage company approved the loan. But when the first payment came due, we didn’t have it.
 
We scraped by. And when things broke, we used more debt.
 
Then, there were taxes. Working on commission means you pay your own taxes, and since we didn’t have the money to pay them, I didn’t file. I really thought I’d get around to it when the money was there. But the money just never was there.

Eventually, we had to file, and we ended up owing thousands of dollars, which led to tax liens and extreme stress.
 
After just six years of marriage, we had accumulated 10 maxed out and canceled credit cards, two car loans on old run-down and broken cars, three finance company loans at 23% interest each, judgments filed against us, and thousands of dollars in tax liens. On top of that, we owed our parents tens of thousands of dollars, which we had borrowed from them just to survive.
 
Life was horribly stressful, and I was having trouble coping.
 
I ended up having panic attacks and being put on antidepressants. One day, I woke up to find my body paralyzed. I couldn’t move. Fear had a death grip on me. I lived so stressed out that I even became afraid to leave my house. Drenda even began to plan how she and our children would survive.
 
It was hell on earth. I wasn’t living life. I wasn’t at peace. I couldn’t even rest, let alone dream dreams, walk out the call God had placed on my life, or do even little things to help others financially. I had no freedom.
 
Fixing our situation looked impossible. We were beyond desperate. We knew we must have been missing something.

And that was when God revealed several life-changing things to us.

First, He told me that we trusted debt and the world’s system more than we had trusted in His Word and His Kingdom.

God said,
“Take the time to learn how My Kingdom operates. Most of My church is in the same situation that you are … I want my people free financially.
 
We went from financial ruin to being completely debt free over the next two and a half years!
 
I can’t even describe how that feels. We went from feeling completely hopeless to the elation of being able to pay cash for our new cars, building and paying for our dream home, and prospering at a level where we were actually giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to various ministry projects around the world.
 
We’re not exaggerating whatsoever when we say our lives drastically changed. Our memories of those nine dark years gave us a passion to teach people about the Kingdom of God.
 
Drenda and I are on a mission to help people all around the world experience the same financial freedom that we experienced.
 
YOU can be financially free too.
 
That’s why we frequently share our story, and why I frequently talk about money.

 
As a friend of Faith Life Now, we want to help you.
 
Financial freedom doesn’t just happen. We’ve been there. There are some steps to take. It will take some work. There will be a price involved, and it may take you some time.
 
But know this… Your FREEDOM is worth it.
 
So, how do you get there? How do you move from wherever you are now to financial freedom?
 
#1      You have to learn what the Bible says about money and how to apply the financial
            principles of the Kingdom to your life.

 
Matthew 6:33 tells us that if we seek His Kingdom first, “all of these things will be given to you as well.” If we take the time to see knowledge regarding His Kingdom and how it works, then we can access it and walk in it. For your life to change financially, you must take the time to study, write down, dissect, and understand the function of the laws that govern the Kingdom of God, specifically in the area of finances.

#2      You have to make important practical decisions to change your financial future.
 
We are born into a world that survives through the debt system. It's natural to trust it to meet our needs—especially when the going gets tough. In order to operate in God’s system, we must turn away from that system and learn to exercise faith in God’s Kingdom.

This can be YOUR YEAR!

 

 

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 Take steps today to live financially free; to build the life you want; to make 2021 your best year yet—the year you experience financial freedom.
 
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