Dear Kids,
Your dad and I keep learning financial spiritual lessons.
Both of us, in our past, haven't been great with our finances. Your father was negligent in reporting taxes when he was single and doing various business ventures (along with issues with partners and other things), and I haven't always been great about paying back my debts or being financial responsible. It's a weakness for both of us... but we can make the weakness into a strength~ We are doing our very best to make sure you learn these important financial lessons early in life.
We both grew up with a lot of scarcity in our homes and in our thought training and blueprint training. More than anything, our parents didn't achieve financial abundance themselves, and passed on various things to us. That is NOT to bad mouth your grandparents, all of them have abundance in many other areas of their lives, but not in finances... that is just a fact.
So this financial journey of ours has always been a very stretching experience for us. We hope to break the chains.
I had another interesting study this morning and related it to finances that I want to tell you about. I am reading in Mosiah, chapter seven. It is about a people who were put into bondage. There are SO MANY correlations with what we are experiencing and being taught, I needed to write it down to make sure I don't lose any thoughts while it's fresh.
Vs. 25: "For if this people had not fallen into transgression the Lord would not have suffered that this great evil should have come upon them."
How is this a PERFECT mirror for us right now? I am going to rephrase...
"For if Brent and Andrea had not fallen into financial negligence and stewardship transgression the Lord would not have allowed, through the effects of free agency and the power of creation, that this great evil of financial bondage should have come upon them."
We are learning lessons of abundance and scarcity YET AGAIN. These lessons are familiar at this point, but obviously there are some things that need to be engrained in our hearts and minds so we can in the future help and teach others. We are tight financially again. We are NOT in survival (thank heavens). The survival years were SO refining. But we are learning again about financial stewardships and the power of our creation and free agency involved in them. The IRS thing came back on our shoulders because of negligence on our part to cover all our bases. It was NOT an on purpose mistake of trying to deceive, it was very innocent, but non the less, our offer a few years ago was rejected and now we need to figure out how to get past it AGAIN. We started thinking in scarcity about 6-9 months ago, and here we are, manifesting what we have been feeding our lives in this way.
This has EVERYTHING to do with God and teaching us about these lessons. God and Christ are the Father of us. They are the ones who put these principles into place. It's not something they "did" to us to punish us, rather they are allowing us to grow within these principles and universal laws that they are in charge of.
Vs. 32: Now the promise of the Lord is fulfilled and ye are smitten and afflicted.
Rephrase: Now the promise of the Lord inside of free agency principles is fulfilled and you are smitten within the framework of God's laws.
Vs. 33: But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.
This verse is so beautiful to me right now and has struct me so powerfully.
Rephrase: But if you, Brent and Andrea, will turn to the Lord with FULL purpose of heart within your financial stewardships and counting every dollar as you have been commanded to do, and put your trust in HIM and serve HIM within your personal revelations and commandments with all diligence of your mind and thoughts, if you will do this, HE WILL, according to His own will and time table of financial abundance, deliver you out of financial bondage.
Even though we are unprofitable and weak servants, that Lord will and can still use us for HIS purposes and it will be according to HIS timetable. He will deliver us... but this is a conditional promise. The visions we have had about our financial future are CONDITIONAL promises based on:
1. Turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart within our financial stewardship and counting every dollar.
2. Put trust in HIM and serve HIM within the personal revelations and commandments He has given to us about how to handle our lives and our stewardships.
3. Diligence in our minds and thoughts... DO NOT GIVE UP.
I wrote about the powerful revelation I had at the homeschool moms retreat last year. "You are where you are today because of the work you have put into your life 5-10 years ago. DON'T give up! Keep on the path of self improvement and working with the universal God creation principles!"
It's amazing to look back a year ago when that powerful revelation came and to see how easy it is to create the things that you are trying to avoid as well! We went into scarcity IN OUR THOUGHTS FIRST and then we started manifesting scarcity. We were negligent in the personal revelations we received about our morning routine and our habits and our "counting of every dollar" as a stewardship. I'm so grateful for this lesson, because it means that the Lord has given it to us for our benefit and learning.
We can turn this around with the Lord's help. I know it. I have faith in that promise, upon my faithfulness and diligence. I have faith the Lord wants all the things to come about in our lives that we have had visions about. We must keep diligent on this path. Don't give up! I know all of these things are just around the corner. I can see it and feel it and taste it. But it is FOR THE LORD'S purposes for our lives. We keep our part, He will keep His.
I love you kids. I know that you will have similar lessons in your lives. I hope that when you read about our experiences that it can help you along your path and journey as well.
I love you,
Your Mom
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