{"id":4895,"date":"2011-09-14T05:43:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T10:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2011-09-13T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T02:34:25","slug":"dave-rave-my-5-money-mantras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-my-5-money-mantras\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave – My 5 Money Mantras"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daverave\"It\u2019s been a lot of fun for me to join with Dave Ramsey and thousands of other churches across America these past several weeks, talking about taking back the economy, and stop waiting for someone else to fix us.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this series called, \u201cGreat Recovery\u201d we\u2019ve been talking about the six basic beliefs that can rebuild the nation.\u00a0 One of those is to deal with money God\u2019s way.\u00a0 In the process of writing this series, I\u2019ve come up with my own five basic money mantras.\u00a0 I offer them here for you in the hopes that you\u2019ll write your own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Every dime, every dollar, every day is a gift from God.<\/strong> I never forget that because I don\u2019t want to take the resources that God pours into my life for granted. The minute I do, pride and hubris threaten my very existence.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. I\u2019m not an owner, just a manager.\u00a0<\/strong> The truth of the matter is, everything I have; my car, my house, and all my other possessions that I think I own are just mine temporarily.\u00a0 They are passing through my life, and I\u2019m a manager. My future is not only the fact that I can accumulate a lot of stuff, but I can manage what I have that allows them to be a blessing.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. I am blessed to be a blessing.\u00a0<\/strong> God has poured all these resources into my life so I can use them to help other people. I\u2019m not just a consumer and a taker, I\u2019m a maker and a creator, a giver.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. I\u2019m only responsible for my stuff.\u00a0<\/strong> I find myself related to people who live lives I don\u2019t approve of.\u00a0 The good thing is I am not responsible for their choices and behaviors.\u00a0 Yea God!\u00a0 Neither am I responsible for yours, and neither are you responsible for others – not even your own children.\u00a0 So the truth is, I accept responsibility for my stuff.\u00a0 I can\u2019t accept responsibility for yours, or the government\u2019s, or someone else around the world. All I need to do is focus on my personal responsibility.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. There will be a test at the end that benefits.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you believe the Scriptures, and I do, we\u2019re told that there\u2019s a point when man wants to die and after that, the judgment.\u00a0 I like what Don Henley said. \u201cIn the good old days, words like sin and satan had a moral certitude. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Today, they are replaced with self-help jargon; words like dysfunction and anti-social behavior discouraging any responsibility for one\u2019s actions.\u201d\u00a0 Amen, preacher Don. I want to be able to stand before God at the end of my life and hear Him say, \u201cWell done, thou good and faithful servant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It\u2019s been a lot of fun for me to join with Dave Ramsey and thousands of other churches across America these past several weeks, talking about taking back the economy, and stop waiting for someone else to fix us. In this series called, \u201cGreat Recovery\u201d we\u2019ve been talking about the six basic beliefs that can … Continue reading “Dave Rave – My 5 Money Mantras”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}