Finances (Flourish & Thrive)

Recap / Introduce Series

2 Keys to Financial Health and 2 Outcomes of Financial Health

Contentment is Key to Financial Health

Scripture: Philippians 4:10-20

Philippians 4:10–20 NLT

How I praise the Lord that you are concerned about me again. I know you have always been concerned for me, but you didn’t have the chance to help me. Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Even so, you have done well to share with me in my present difficulty. As you know, you Philippians were the only ones who gave me financial help when I first brought you the Good News and then traveled on from Macedonia. No other church did this. Even when I was in Thessalonica you sent help more than once. I don’t say this because I want a gift from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness. At the moment I have all I need—and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus. Now all glory to God our Father forever and ever! Amen.

Proverbs 30:8–9 NLT

First, help me never to tell a lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.

Stewardship is Key to Financial Health

Proverbs 21:5 NLT

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

Proverbs 21:20 NLT

The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get.

Proverbs 13:11 NLT

Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.

Proverbs 10:16 NLT

The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.

Proverbs 10:4 NLT

Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.

When we are are financially healthy, we experience abundance

When we are financially healthy, we exhibit generosity

Proverbs 21:13 NLT

Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need.