Worried about money?

Psalms23 · #1 07-12-2009, 10:32 AM

As humans and as sinners, we worry a lot. There is something that we are always worrying about. One of the things that we worry about is money. How am I going to pay this bill, how am I going to be able to fix my car, how am i going to pay for this, pay from that...I have no money....Dont worry, like on every piece of money...It says, ""in God we trust." So just trust in the Lord, pray about it and God will provide!

God Bless,
Aaron

Kelly · #2 07-12-2009, 12:08 PM

Amen Aaron! So true!

confused · #3 07-12-2009, 07:53 PM

i just want to thank you SO MUCH for putting this up here.... i needed to see this, and it was no accident.

i had just been praying today for God's wisdom concerning my money situation... looming student loan repayment (starting next month!! ah!!!) and no job equal a good combination to worry. i almost literally have nothing in the bank.
i ask for prayer, and will earnestly pray for others in the same boat.
The Lord reminds me constantly i am not the only one that has student loan debt!! lol
something amazing will happen. i know it.

may i/we never forget whose house we live in, because he is mighty to provide everything we need, above what we could ever imagine.

He who has called us is faithful.

though it is constantly on my mind, thank you for the reminder to give it to Him.

Kelly · #4 07-12-2009, 08:43 PM

I'm basically in the exact same boat! Although I'm currently paying off my student loans and only work 4 days a month! I also receive Social Security because of my disability and since I don't have a full-time job, but they just recently hit me with a pay cut of over $300 per month! I can't complain of course, because I do get SOMETHING from them and without it I WOULD be broke...it's just so hard because I'm at a point where I have more going out than I do coming in and that's JUST in my bills. Factor in having to buy my own groceries here and there, and random things I need to pay for and you've got a recipe for PANIC ATTACK!

I'm basically surviving on what LITTLE savings I have (we're talking only a few hundred).

But God has so faithfully provided up until this point. If I hadn't received the few random blessings I have in the past few months, I'd be living off of my overdraft protection right now! (And I've done that before!) So it would be wrong of me to think that he wouldn't provide for me from this point on!

drake71449 · #5 07-12-2009, 09:42 PM

well it says that we should cast all of our cares on him for he cares for you!.....this is a burden that we could place on the lord and take his yoke upon us....for his yoke is easy and his burden is light!

Convicted · #6 07-13-2009, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by confused

The Lord reminds me constantly i am not the only one that has student loan

Eh, student loans. That's one reason I'm reluctant to just rush off to college. I personally think that education should be free, but we don't live in a perfect world >/.

On the topic at hand, I think Jesus gave us some good advice on this:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nore gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therfore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:25-34

"And my God shall supply all your need according ot His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

drake71449 · #7 07-13-2009, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Convicted

Eh, student loans. That's one reason I'm reluctant to just rush off to college. I personally think that education should be free, but we don't live in a perfect world >/.

On the topic at hand, I think Jesus gave us some good advice on this:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nore gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therfore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:25-34

"And my God shall supply all your need according ot His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

well said...very well said!

LauraA · #8 07-13-2009, 10:13 AM

We all go through times of financial stress. It's a heavy burden to carry, but in the end, we all come through it one way or another....always by God's provision and grace. I'm praying for all who are going through this.

revelation21ready · #9 07-13-2009, 11:49 AM

Amen to that Aaron! Ive been through lots of rough times and the Lord has always provided for me..Thank You Lord!!!...It hard not to worry since we all struggle....But if you put God in the center of everthing Life is so much better!

confused · #10 07-16-2009, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Convicted

Eh, student loans. That's one reason I'm reluctant to just rush off to college. I personally think that education should be free, but we don't live in a perfect world >/.

o my yes. i have always thought that.

Not to go off on a tangent, but, I think its crazy that because I wanted a good, quality education, from a good, quality college, that I have to be in debt for 20 yrs. Yet, there are people with no education working min wage doing better than me. Drug dealers on the street doing better than me. Heck, there are some people with NO jobs doing better than me because they live off the system.
It bothers me.