Money Milestones:
Milestone 1- Spiritual maturity that causes God to bless me and protect me from sin’s curse.
Milestone 2– Save $1500 for a minor emergency.
Milestone 3– Max out your 401k.
Milestone 4– Pay off all debt except your mortgage.
Milestone 5– Save 3 to 6 months of living expenses for a job-loss emergency.
Psalm 127 – Great families, communities and nations become so through honoring God!
Psalm 127:1-5
1 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. 2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves. 3 Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. 5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
- Heritage – something inherited from another
Bringing out the Best in Our Family requires:
- Creating a SAFE place.
- SEEING and nurturing potential.
- SOOTHING others amidst problems.
- SECURING our relational atmospheres.
Seeing and Nurturing Potential Blessing
1. Model biblical STYLE.
Style – a manner of doing something
1. Our Style as an Individual Matters.
Proverbs 11:30 (ESV)
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
- Our Style as a Church Matters.
Luke 23:34 (NKJV)
John 17:20-21
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Ephesians 6:4
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
2. Nurture individual SEEDS.
Proverbs 29:15
. . . a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.
Psalm 112:1-2, (KJV)
1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Psalm 25:12-13; Isaiah 1:2-4-(NLT)
Proverbs 11:21 (KJV)
. . . the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
What does it take for a seed to flourish?
- A seed must be good not corrupted.
- A seed must be planted in the right place.
- A seed needs appropriate nurture.
3. Celebrate Spurts
Matthew 12:33
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
Proverbs 29:18 (MSG)
If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
4. Stay faithful through
Hebrews 13:7-8 (NLT)
7 Remember your leaders who taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Questions:
- What did you hear from the Holy Spirit?
- What will you do because of it?
- How can we pray for you?