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  Overcoming Financial Struggles “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income.” Ecclesiastes 5:10, ESV “The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.” Anonymous “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” Democritus “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” Coco Chanel “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield      In our previous post, Biblical Finance (Part 1): Navigating Financial Struggles with Faith and Wisdom, we explored the biblical principles for managing financial trials. Financial struggles often expose where our trust truly lies, whether in the fragile security of wealth or the eternal provision of God. Scripture calls us t...

  Navigating Financial Storms with Biblical Wisdom “Too many people spend money they earned...to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” Will Rogers “Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” Warren Buffett “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King Jr.      There are few areas in life where the grip of fear and uncertainty can be felt as tangibly as in matters of finances. The world teaches us to build security through material gain, positioning money as the solution to most problems. Yet, time and again, we are reminded that no amount of wealth can truly insulate us from the storms that come. The economy shifts, jobs are lost, unexpected expenses arise, and with them, anxiety over how to stay afloat. But for those of us in Christ, financial struggles take on a deeper meaning. They become opportunities to look at where our trust has been placed, and wheth...