![]() You become a slave to their lifestyle.” “It’s not that we’re against nice things. ![]() “This keeping up with the Joneses mentality has error, because the Joneses are most likely in debt to have all those nice things. “Don’t let the fear of man and comparison, drive your behavior.” “Who are we going to honor with what we have? Is it going to be money, status and the pride of life that we’re going to be living for or to fear the Lord and the way He tells us to manage finances?” - AndreaĬlick over to Andrea’s ministry page to sign up for her 5 day comparison devotional. “When you begin to slay all those things down and cut them all down, you begin to see what kingdom of God looks like and feels like and the things you can do in His Kingdom and see it grow and flourish not just in you but how it’s going to propagate through the Kingdom conquering comparison and marriageĤ2:00 comparing yourself to how others live in marriage and the danger of that. “You have to give every dollar a name, every dollar has to be on mission, on task, on paper, on purpose.”Įlliott goes into what the debt snowball is and how to celebrate some little wins and how to get the snowball to roll of paying debt off. You start with a quick start budget that has different categories and list of your debt and start plugging in numbers. God really had to correct me, it’s “us, we, ours, it’s together.”ģ6:00 quick overview of how to even create a budget. “I had a pronoun issue, when I would say “I go to work and this is my account”. God says to be fruitful and multiply, 1x1 is 1.”Ģ5:00 talking about having a budget meeting committee together and seeing where you can and cannot spend. Tithing is biblical principle, not a marriage principle.Ģ1:00 thoughts on separate bank accounts in marriage. tithingġ8:00 we talk about tithing and offering. peace and cutting up credit cardsġ6:50 the feeling of peace and freedom that came from cutting up their credit cards and not owing a single thing to a single lender. It’ll take 3 months to get the framework and foundation of your budget. They give couples 90 days to start and it’s okay if you mess up. A lot of people can feel it’s restricting but the truth is when they come together in agreement that this much money is going to “xyz” it helps a lot.ġ1:30 It takes time to work up to creating a budget and it takes time and grace. They’re saying once they set that budget, it empowered them to spend. “We are a manager of what God entrusts to us.” - Elliott budgets ![]() ![]() God began to show them through the Scripture His ways of managing the money He has given. “It’s really hard to stay on task and stay on mission if you don’t know what the task and mission is.” As Elliott was driving one day, he heard a man on the radio say, “The only way to know financial peace is to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.” - Elliott Something they weren’t doing and something 78% of the couples they coach and work with aren’t doing is a consistent budget. Because I didn’t know where to turn I began a process of prayer.” - Elliott. “It really broke me and I realized I really had no idea how to honor God with my finances. In the first year of their marriage Elliott shares it was when Andrea, his wife, came to him saying they needed groceries and they had nothing in the checking account or savings that he realized something had to change. Now he does it as a practice and is starting a financial peace podcast which you can follow or schedule a consult with him regarding anything discussed in this month’s episode - schedule here. Elliott has been a coach for the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace course for 6 years and was officially certified in August of 2019. This month’s episode kicks off with Elliott and Andrea Johnson sharing their journey to financial peace and honoring God with their finances in their marriage.
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