Lesson 7 - Trusting God for Our Finances

Objective: To learn how to trust God for our finances and ask Him to supply our needs.
Read: Proverbs 3:5-6, John 10:10, Matthew 6:33-34
Memorize: Psalm 12:6

6 The Lord’s promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.

Recognize That God is Worthy of Our Trust
Realize That God Wants You to Live a Full and Abundant Life.
Substitute Faith for Fear
Ask God to Supply Your Needs
Keep your Heart & Motives Pure
Take a Step of Faith
Life Application

Changing economic conditions exemplify the instability of finances throughout the world. Instead of placing their trust in the Lord who promised to meet all of their needs, most Christians trust in their investments, savings, and retirement plans to ensure security and happiness - only to find their hopes dashed when financial reverses deplete their assets. Many are wasting their lives trying to achieve financial security in a volatile world.

Our heavenly Father, on the other hand, wants us to enjoy a full, abundant life free from the cares and stresses brought by confidence in money and other material possessions. Rather than trusting in a worldly system that cannot assure our welfare or relying on our own weak capabilities to provide for our needs, He calls us to depend entirely on Him

Permit me to suggest a plan that will help you release your faith in God and develop your trust in Him for your finances.

Recognize That God is Worthy of Our Trust

Read Psalm 12:6 . 6 The Lord’s promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.

How much can we trust God?

What will happen if you make God’s promises the foundation of your financial security?

Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

List the financial areas that are hardest for you to put into God’s hands. Prayerfully dedicate them to Him.

Realize That God Wants You to Live a Full and Abundant Life.

Read John 10:10.

10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

How does this promise apply to financial freedom?

Does abundant life man having all the money or possessions you want? Why or why not?

Do you feel you have abundant life right now? If not, what is keeping you from it?

Substitute Faith for Fear

How does fear interfere with your trust in God?

Read II Timothy 1:7.

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

Contrast the two kinds of spirits mentioned.

Write down the financial areas that make you fearful. Surrender these to the Lord.

Ask God to Supply Your Needs

What is the difference between needs and wants? Be specific.

Why do we lack good things?

James 4:2-3 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

John 15:7 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!

Faith requires action. According to I John 5:14-15: As an act of your will, ask God to supply your needs and expect Him, as an expression of your faith, to provide for your needs.

14 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

Keep your Heart & Motives Pure

What wrong motives do we sometimes display?

James 4:3 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

What is the result?

Write down the wrongful motives that you have. Then, confess them to God and claim the power of the Holy Spirit to help you rely on Him to supply your needs.

Take a Step of Faith

What is essential to your Christian walk?

Hebrews 11:6 6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.

One way to enlarge your faith is to make a “faith promise” – one that is greater than you are capable of fulfilling according to your present income. It is not a pledge that must be paid. Rather, it is a voluntary “promise” based on your faith in God’s ability to supply out of His resources what you cannot give out of your own. You give as God supplies.

Describe a time in which God led you to give above your means. What was the result?

If you have never mad a faith promise, you may want to do so now after prayerfully considering various worthwhile investments you can make for God. Keep a careful record of your giving and how God supplied your needs in a special way.

Life Application

Read Luke 6:38.

38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.

How does this verse apply to financial freedom?

Suppose a new Christian confides in you that he is afraid to give God control over his checkbook. How would you advice him?

Review the steps to trusting God for your finances. Which of these steps are weak areas in your life? Why do you find them difficult? What could you do to strengthen them?

Prayerfully consider a faith promise God would have you make. Write that promise here.

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