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My name is Christina July, and I make personal finance content. I talk about finances from my own personal perspective. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I share my thoughts, I share my processes, and I also share my numbers every now and then because why not? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But today's video is a bit chilled, the weather is just all over the place. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, I want to have like a conversation between friends. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I want to share my mind with you, but I still want to talk about money, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I want to talk about managing your money wisely and managing it in a way that honors the Lord. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Because in today's world, financial instability is a real concern for a lot of us. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
We don't know what's going on, we don't even know what's about to happen, we don't know what to expect. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And so, as believers, our confidence cannot be found in the economy because no, our confidence should rather be found in something that's more stable, that's never changing, like odd or like God's principles. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, I'm in IT, right? I'm a business analyst, and we talk a lot about automation in our space. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Automation is creating systems and software that uses instructions to create like a repetitive process or repeated process. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, now with that in mind, biblically speaking, principles are God's automation, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That the outcome of certain actions has already been programmed into the action, and that is why I'm saying that for us as believers, instead of having confidence in the economy, we have confidence in this automation that the Lord has set up for us. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That if we align ourselves with it, there are guaranteed outcomes at the end for us, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, you would actually be amazed at the number of financial lessons that you can learn from the Bible, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And one common principle that's in the Bible is in the book of Luke. And it says, give and you will receive. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And your gift will return back to you in full, pressed down, shaken together, overflowing, running over, poured onto your lap. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Right. And the Bible goes on to say that the amount that you give will determine the amount that you get back. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And this extends far beyond just money. The idea here or the lesson is rather to give your need. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I learned this quite recently. If you never want to like shoes, give away shoes. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
If you never want to like food, give food. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
If you never want to lack money, then you give money. And it sounds counterintuitive, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That in order to give, you have to, I mean, in order to receive, you have to give. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Because we kind of view giving as like a loss, like a minus. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But there's a story in the Bible, in the book of 1 Kings, chapter 17. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And the story is of a prophet. His name is Elijah. And this widow who is from Zarephath. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, I'm just going to tell you guys the story in short. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
The Lord says to Elijah the prophet that go to the widow in Zarephath. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
She will give you food to eat. He goes to the woman and he asks for water and he asks for bread. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And the woman is like, I ain't got no food. I don't have bread for you. And she says, as you see me, I am gathering. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I'm gathering wood so I can go make fire. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So I can use the handful of flour that I have left and a little bit of oil that I have left to make bread. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I'm going to take the bread and I'm going to chow it with my son. And then after that, we're going to die. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like she literally says, we are going to eat and die because that's all that they have left. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, the prophet says to her, do exactly that which you are planning on doing. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like, gather the wood and make the fire and make the bread, but give me the bread to charm. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, the woman actually does that, and then the word of the Lord comes to her to say, which is like a miracle, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
To say that the jar of flour that she had the little bit of flour in and the jar of oil that had the olive oil, it will never run dry. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like, she will never lack those things that she gave. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Literally, the Lord promises her that those things that you gave, you will never lack those things until there is rain in the land. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, if we just bring it home a little bit, if you have a hundred rands in your wallet, and let's say, | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
for instance, you need to pay for like your child's school fees at the end of the month, and you don't have the money, you just don't have the money according to this principle. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
The best thing that you can do with that 100 rands is to give it away. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, this would require faith, and you can obviously do whatever you want to do with your money because it's your money. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But the thing is, if you step outside of this specific principle, then you cannot really expect the outcomes that come with the principle because you are not aligned with the instruction of the principle. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
It says give and you will receive. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
If you don't give, you can't necessarily expect to receive because it's automation, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, another cool thing about principles and biblical principles is that they work for literally everyone, even if you don't believe in God, don't believe in the Bible, because it's automated, it's a principle, it's gonna work even for you who is not a believer. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Now, some misconceptions that I want to talk about next around prosperity, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Which has often led people to like the gimmicks that we see in church and the greed and the guilt. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Because some people will say that if you are really blessed, then you must be rich. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And then you also have other people who teach poverty like it's a sign of holiness. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But the thing is, the Bible doesn't teach either of those two extremes. Like the Bible does not teach none of that. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
To equate being blessed with money is shallow because you can be blessed in many other ways. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
The Bible actually specifies sometimes when it's talking about how a person is blessed. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like it would say Abraham was blessed in cattle and silver and gold. That is what he was blessed in. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Solomon was blessed in wisdom, riches, and honor. That's what he was blessed in. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And so you can be blessed with a variety of things. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So to equate being blessed with money is also off because you have people who have money, but they're not really blessed. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Do you know what I mean? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So even this thing of poverty being equated to holiness also does not make sense because even Jesus Himself had money. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So let's just not go there. There's nothing cute about poverty. There's nothing that is a representation of Jesus. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like this poverty does not represent Jesus in any way, except that he was stripped off of everything. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So we cannot experience poverty. That's the only time Jesus Christ was poor when he had everything taken from him. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like the whole of him, right? So poverty is also not a sign of holiness or godliness or righteousness. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But now, money and people thinking that money is evil, right? Money is not evil. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Even the Bible says the love of money and having then your money being like an idol to you. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
What matters about money is how you use it because money is a tool, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And just like any other tool in a toolbox, number one, it's there to accomplish a specific task, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You put it in there because you need it for something. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And if you don't need it, chances are you're not going to have it. You know what I mean? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So it being a tool, it's there to accomplish a specific task. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And it will not hold value beyond its ability. To facilitate actions towards that goal, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I hope it makes sense. Like your screwdriver, it's there to just do one thing. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And if you're going to use your screwdriver to dry your hair, then it doesn't have value because that's not what it's made for. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know what I mean? And again, like any other tool in your toolbox, it makes sense that you know how to use it. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know, so the screwdriver thing again, you, why do you have a screwdriver in your toolbox if you don't need it? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And why do you have a screwdriver in your toolbox if you don't even know how to use it? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And then if you go back now to money, why should God give you billions if you don't need them? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And why should God give you billions if you don't even know how to use, like use them? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You don't know how to manage your money. So that's probably why you don't have it. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That's probably why you are in debt because you don't know how to manage it. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And why you probably don't even need it. Like what you are trying to do in life does not need billions. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You probably just need half a million to make it and that's it. And you have enough. You are fine. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And then you have people with big visions out there that really require billions. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Like I'm trying to save the world and end world hunger. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And that is probably going to be the reason why God gives you those millions because you need them for what you want to do. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And also you're going to have to know how to use it. So true financial fruitfulness is not in the chasing of wealth. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
It's about also knowing how to use what God has given us wisely. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
The Bible says that you need to honor the Lord with your wealth and honor the Lord with your first fruits and honor the Lord with your crops. Right. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, it means that we need to be able to recognize that everything that we have comes from God, and we need to be able to use it responsibly and also bless other people through generosity, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, the Bible teaches that generosity isn't just about giving more and giving more and giving more, it's about reflecting God's heart, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And it will also shift your mindset from lack to abundance. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
There's a scripture that I want to read because when the year started, I decided that I was sort of like led to start a Bible study group. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
We read the Bible every single day. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
We're not religious about it, but we're trying to build the habit of carving out time every single day for the Lord to spend with the Lord. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And the aim is to have read the whole Bible in 2025. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, by the end of 2025, I need to be able to say, I know every single thing that's in the Bible, I've read it, right? | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Maybe I don't remember it, but I've read it. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, the last two days of February, um, we read two chapters of Ruth each day. | christina | Not supported with pagination yet |
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