4 Ways to Improve Your Finances 1. Make a decision to trust God completely with your finances. Until you can trust and do everything His word says about your money, you will most like always struggle with a lack of it. 2. Begin to understand Gods position on money and how we as Christians should relate to it. The easiest way to figure out what God has to say about our money is by reading the Bible. I recently narrowed down the 20 verses Christians should know about money and how it relates to every decision we make. Once you

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I must say that my husband and I have a great system for organizing our bills. From the way we used to argue about how to manage the finances I could never have imagined we’d be on the same page using the same system. Early in our marriage I tried all kinds of elaborate systems especially those that included spreadsheets and programs but my husband hated them. He felt they were too time consuming and didn’t like having to boot up the computer every time we needed to manage our finances. As I learned more about his style I came

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I was going through my budget binder this morning and thought about you all. I can remember clearly our decision to become a one income family and all the effort that went into making it a reality. One of the things that really helped us make the transition was getting a clear picture of our finances. One of the first things I had to do as a stay at home wife was learn how to budget one income. We were a two income family now living on one income so some changes had to made. The first thing I addressed

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Germaine and I are consumer debt free and our goal is to be completely debt free by my fortieth birthday. Creating and tracking our budget using online and offline tools has helped us stay remain focused and visually see where we were with our goals. Utilizing several resources and practicing discipline have both played a fundamental part in where we are wit our finances. Ignoring your finances is not going to make financial problems go away so today I’m sharing 4 financial planning resources that will help you set goals, track spending and hold yourself accountable. 4 Resources to Help

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