Aligning Your Plan

#1. Prioritize God’s wisdom over others’ opinions.

• Proverbs 2:3-4 - Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

#2. Be content with what you have right now.

• Proverbs 15:16 - Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.
• Proverbs 15:27 - Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

#3. Live within your means.

• Proverbs 13:7 - One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
• Proverbs 28:25 - A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.

#4. Resolve to be diligent in all your work.

• Proverbs 6:6 - Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
• Proverbs 10:4 - A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

#5. Avoid chasing fantasies for your financial security.

• Proverbs 12:11 - Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
• Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

#6. Avoid debt as much as possible.

• Proverbs 22:7 - The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
• Proverbs 22:26-27 - Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

#7. Create a solid plan for future prosperity.

• Proverbs 21:5 - The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
• Proverbs 23:5 - When your eyes cast on riches, they are gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings flying like an eagle toward heaven.

#8. Leaving an inheritance to trustworthy people is a good thing.

• Proverbs 13:22 - A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
• Proverbs 27:23-24 - Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, for riches to not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

#9. Never place complete trust in your wealth.

• Proverbs 18:11 - A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
• Proverbs 11:28 - Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

#10. Don’t mistake your wealth to be your worth.

• Proverbs 22:2 - The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all.
• Proverbs 22:4 - The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

#11. Money cannot buy the most important things in life.

• Proverbs 19:14 - House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
• Proverbs 10:16 - The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

#12. Prioritize generosity as you use your blessings to bless others.

• Proverbs 3:27 - Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
• Proverbs 11:24 - One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

#13. If God has blessed you, don’t dishonor Him.

• Proverbs 3:9 - Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce.
• Proverbs 22:1 - A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

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Financial Proverbs

• Wealth in Wisdom - 2:3-4; 3:13-14; 8:10-11; 9:10; 15:16; 16:8; 16:16; 17:16; 20:15
• Hard Work - 6:6-8; 6:10-11; 10:4-5; 12:11; 13:4; 13:11; 14:23; 20:13; 21:5; 24:33-34; 28:19
• Rich & Poor - 10:15; 13:7-8; 13:23; 14:20; 17:5; 18:11; 18:23; 19:7; 21:17; 22:2; 28:3; 28:6; 28:11
• Greed - 1:19; 15:27; 22:16; 22:22-23; 23:4; 28:8; 28:20; 28:22; 28:25
• Provision - 3:5-6; 11:26; 11:28; 19:14; 30:7-9
• Giving - 3:27; 11:24-25; 14:21; 14:31; 19:17; 22:9; 28:27
• Wealth - 3:9-10; 8:18-21; 10:22; 14:24; 19:4; 21:6; 22:4; 23:5
• Debt & Lending - 11:15; 17:18; 22:7; 22:26-27; 27:13
• Stewardship & Investments - Prov. 10:16; 13:22; 20:21; 27:23-24; 31:16; 31:20
• Righteous Living - 10:2; 11:4; 11:18; 13:21; 15:6; 17:3; 19:1; 22:1