Create a mindset for thriving

The first step in being financially healthy is to start thinking about your finances. How you think about money can help you and your family thrive or dive. This first lesson will help you to start thinking about your finances and how to begin managing them.

Start here:

Step One: Click the arrow above to watch the video
Step Two: (optional) Read the prayer below
Step Three: Download and go through the Work It Out questions
Step Four: (optional) Watch the sermon clip from Pastor Matt
Step Five: Mark complete, and you are ready for the next lesson

A prayer for you as you begin this lesson:

“To whom much is given, much will be required” is a phrase most of us are familiar with. When it comes to your finances, do you view this as a “gift” from God that needs to be handled with responsibility and intentionality, or do you clutch to your finances as something earned or deserved? Before you watch this video, begin with this prayer: Lord, I recognize that You are a giver of gifts–good gifts–and I want to be more attentive to Your provision in my life. Help me to handle what You have given me well, so that I might honor You in my life and in my finances. Help me to clutch on to You, Lord, instead of my finances; help grow my trust in You through this process. In Jesus’ name, amen.

About The Resources:

Work It Out Questions : Questions for you to work through individually, as couple, or in a group.
It’s Okay to Not Know How to Handle Money  (Video Clip): It’s Okay to Not Know How to Handle Money (In his sermon on finding financial advice in the Bible, Pastor Matt Brown tells us that it is okay to not know how to handle money—but it isn’t okay to stay ignorant.)
90% of Americans say money impacts their stress level– (Article): A survey from Thriving Wallet, a project backed by Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global and Discover, found that 90% of Americans say that financial considerations have an impact on their stress levels.