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Hi, I'm Cailyn! I'm a Child of God, wife, mother, educator, coach, advocate for financial freedom, and much more! I'm an individual just like you sharing my financial journey and knowledge from experience and TONS of research. My hope is to connect with you through my blogs, vlogs, and socials to help you live the financial life you have always dreamed of.

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Okay, let's get to it! Today, I will cover defining your financial freedom, why it's important, and what the Bible says about it.

Defining Financial Freedom & Why It's Important:

You have to know where you're going before you can get there. And if you don't know what financial freedom looks like to you or means to you, it's going to be a lot harder to get there, and it's going to take a lot longer. Not to mention, it will be by accident.

How do you define your financial freedom? Get out a piece of paper, imagine what financial freedom is, and start writing things down as they come to mind. Be sure to be as specific as possible, make it emotional, and remember money is a tool not the goal. After you define financial freedom, whatever that looks like to you, you want to keep that on the forefront of your mind at all times. Congrats! You just took your first step in your journey to financial freedom.

Everyone should have a money plan and enjoy the joy of financial freedom. But does the Bible encourage that?

What The Bible Says About Financial Freedom:

Remember this is my journey and my perspective. The Bible can be interpreted in many ways so I'm not saying this is exactly what it means. However, I hope it resonates with you and we are able to connect through this article.

Okay, so these are some of my findings about what the Bible says about financial planning and financial freedom as a whole.

Before I wrote this article, I actually looked at the verse of the day and I have to share this with you because this is crazy. The verse of the day is Proverbs 11:25 NKJV "The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself." It was so crazy that I was doing this video on financial planning today and that happens to be the verse of the day! So I was like ohhh, I have to add this verse in there. It goes with my topic a little bit but not exactly. So what does it mean? How I interpret this verse is a generous person will prosper. I want to point out that it is harder to give when you don't have a money plan with giving built in, and you don't have any extra money to give. I believe it's really important to get to a point to where you can be super generous. You can always be generous, don't get me wrong, but I think it's really good to get to a point where you can add being generous into your money plan. And then of course it can increase and increase year after year. So again, what does that verse mean? I believe it means a generous person will prosper. And how does that happen? I believe the first answer is you have to believe and understand that God is the source of all that we have and He cannot be out given. And with that belief, it allows you to give freely a lot more. Yes, we can always be generous, but before we can be more and more generous, we have a responsibility to take care of our family.

Another verse that I want to share with you is Proverbs 21:5 NKJV. It says "The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty." What does that mean? Hasty means impatient or hurried. So what this verse is saying is that the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty. So having a plan is important. But those of everyone who is hasty, who is impatient, hurried (AKA get rich quick schemes) surely to poverty. Whenever you're planning your financial freedom, remember it's going to take time. It's not going to happen overnight. And if you are impatient and it is hurried, you will be surely led to poverty, which is the total opposite of why you're making this plan.

Next verse, Proverbs 15:22 NKJV "Without counsel, plans go awry, But in the multitude of counselors they are established." What does this mean? I'm not saying you have to go hire a financial coach, I'm not saying you have to go hire my business for help, that is not what I'm saying AT ALL. What I'm saying is without counsel, plans go awry. What does awry mean? Messy, crazy, disastrous. However you want to say it. But in the multitude of counselors, they are established. So, to me, that means, that you shouldn't be making plans rashly or without seeking useful input from others. An influencer you found online who you don't know or trust is NOT useful input. You want to seek input from people you trust and people who are a step or ten ahead of you in the financial journey. Not one single person can see every single perspective all by themselves. You need perspective from others who you trust. If you're living in a paycheck to paycheck, find someone that's not. Find an influencer that you trust. Take a course that you trust. Do something to get some help and different eyes on your situation. What does it mean if you don't have counselors? It could mean you're prideful or you have an exalted opinion of yourself if you're trying to do everything on your own.

Okay, that is all for today, but that is very little of the verses available about financial planning in the Bible. You should be making a money plan to get you to financial freedom. But how do you plan? How do you create a money plan without even knowing what your end goal is? That's why you start with defining your financial freedom.

What can cause someone not to achieve financial freedom? There's a few different things, but through the Bible and what I've gathered it all points back to greed and debt. Your greed is going to be selfishness creeping in. And debt is going to keep you from financial freedom. There's a lot of arguments of good verse bad debt, however, the Bible makes it very clear that if you have debt you are enslaved to the lender. Some debt circles back to greed in the sense of you go into debt to have immediate gratification for something you want now instead of waiting, working, and saving for it. Immediate gratification also hinders the development of discipline and self-control, especially when it comes to credit cards.

To Finish Up:

My goal for you today was to realize that the first step in financial freedom is defining it. My goal for every blog I write is to educate you in a way that you can immediately implement in your life, in your own way and be better off in your financial journey.

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