Your Daily Prayer. Your Nightly Prayer. Your Daily Bible Verse. The Crosswalk Devotional. Encouragement for Today. See All Devotionals. Spiritual Life. Bible Study. Divorce and Remarriage. Christian Music. Contact Us. Plus Forums. Published Feb 04, Dear Roger and Brie, I can hardly check the news, go to the grocery store, or get a tank of gas without huge anxiety.
My family and I are barely making it financially after the last four years of inflation. And now? Please help me! He was extremely careful with finances, walking with biblical principles and trusting God to provide. When I was a child, I remember him counting out dollar bills from a white envelope to pay for supper. The other day, Mom found his financial logbooks, and I was totally inspired! Roger How can we survive economic setbacks? Do you fear the economic future of our country? There are only two approaches for meeting future financial needs including emergencies.
One way is to save a part of every dollar of income that comes into our hands to meet those needs. Another approach is to spend all we make as we make it. Principle 1: Spend according to your existing resources, not your desires.
If we go through life attempting to pay for our desires, we will ultimately crash and burn. He said that by our inflated, national debt and outright luxurious selfishness we are holding the rest of the world economically hostage.
Since the early s, our country has increasingly built our economy on what we desire rather than on what we can afford.
