76% of americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck approximately 62% of americans have no emergency...

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76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck

Approximately 62% of Americans have no emergency savings for things such as a $1,000 emergency room visit or a $500 car repair

Faced with an emergency, they say they would raise the money by reducing spending elsewhere (26%), borrowing from family and/or friends (16%) or using credit cards (12%).

FINANCES

51 % divorce rate in marriage in the US

Only 17% of surveyed couples classified them selves as happy

Nearly half of women aged 15 to 44 years old "cohabited" outside of marriage between 2006 and 2010. "Cohabiting couples may be waiting for improved financial stability before they make a decision to marry

MARRIAGE

Only 14 % of U.S. workers believe they have the perfect job and more than half want to change careers

Nearly 80 % of workers in their 20s said they wanted to change careers, followed by 64 % of 30-somethings and 54% in their 40s.

In New York City 62 percent of workers were somewhat interested in changing careers, compared to 67 percent of workers in Atlanta and 60 percent in Los Angeles.

CAREERS

Most of the switchers who changed their house of worship without making a residential move (58%) say their old church failed to engage their faith, or put their talents to work, or it seemed hypocritical or judgmental.

But 42% of the people say they switched because another church offered more appealing doctrines and preaching or the preacher and church members' faith seemed more "authentic.“

After years of examining megachurches, is that 80% of the people who join, including those who go through new member classes, are gone within the first two years.“

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

(Jas 1:5-8) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and

upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven

with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

I.The Definition of Faith

A.It’s a hope of unseen things

B.It’s a set of beliefs

C.It’s a motivation

I.The Definition of Faith

II.The Degrees of Faith

A.It is fundamental on how we deal with God.

B.There are levels of degrees

C.There are additions to your faith

(Rom 1:17) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from

faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

I.The Definition of Faith

II.The Degree of Faith

III.The Double

Mindedness of Faith

(Jas 1:5-8) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and

upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that

wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double

minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Worldview or Faith

1. Finances

FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. God is the source of our finances

(Php 4:19) But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches

in glory by Christ Jesus.

(Pro 8:20-21) I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the

paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love me to inherit

substance; and I will fill their treasures.

FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. God is the source of our finances

b. Giving Essential to our finances

(Luk 6:38) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and

running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure

that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

(Mat 6:20-21) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither

moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will

your heart be also.

FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. God is the source of our finances

b. Giving Essential to our finances

c. Savings are Prudent to our finances

(Pro 21:20) There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of

the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. God is the source of our finances

b. Giving Essential to our finances

c. Savings are Prudent to our finances

d. Avoid unnecessary debt

(Pro 22:7) The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to

the lender.

FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. God is the source of our finances

b. Giving Essential to our finances

c. Savings are Prudent to our finances

d. Avoid unnecessary debt

e. Contentment is necessary to our finances

(Heb 13:5) Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be

content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave

thee, nor forsake thee.

1. Finances

2. Marriage

MARRIAGE FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. Your marriage is a

picture

(Eph 5:22-25) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the

husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of

the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself

for it;

(Eph 5:31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one

flesh.

(Eph 5:32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

MARRIAGE FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. Your marriage is a

picture

b. Each partner has a

role

(Eph 5:22-25) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the

husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of

the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself

for it;

1. Finances

2. Marriage

3.Children

PARENTING FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. Kids are a

responsibility

(Pro 22:6) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not

depart from it.

(Col 3:21) Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be

discouraged.

(Eph 6:4) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them

up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

1. Finances

2. Marriage

3.Children

4. Church Attendance

(Heb 10:25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,

as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so

much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. You are the

church

(Rom 16:5) Likewise greet the church that is in their house.

Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the

firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

(Eph 1:22-23) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave

him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is

his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP FAITH PRINCIPALS

a. You are the

church

b.The home is more important than the geographical church

(Gal 5:16-18) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the

flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye

would But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

(Gal 5:19-21) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,

fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,

emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,

and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of

God.

(Gal 5:22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith,

(Gal 5:23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

1. Finances

2. Marriage

3.Children

4. Church Attendance

5. Emotions

1. Finances

2. Marriage

3.Children

4. Church Attendance

5. Emotions

6. Career

1. Finances

2. Marriage

3.Children

4. Church Attendance

7. Morality

5. Emotions

6. Career

1. Finances

2. Marriage

3.Children

4. Church Attendance

7. Morality

5. Emotions

6. Career

8. Life and Death