About a month ago as I was purging some files and documents, I ran across some old check payment records. I peruse them and just sat with amazement at how little my telephone and utilities bills were. What happened, I wondered? What services is the phone company providing me in 2011 that had caused my bill to triple in just ten years? The electrical wiring to my home is the same. The caller ID and call waiting features were still in tact, no mystery here. So what caused, or why has my phone service skyrocketed? Why it is that most of my utilities cost about $100.00 each per month? What happened?
Once I finished shredding the stack of documents, I began to talk to God about what I had just noticed. I asked the Lord to help me be a better steward in my finances. I asked him to guide me in the principles of debt reduction and help me get control of my finances. I repented for not being a good steward over what he had given me and decided at that moment to contact any creditors where I had a past due balance or was unable to make payment. I had to be honest with myself about where I was and about where I wanted to go. The Word of God says that the “truth will make you free” and “to owe man nothing but to love him.” My truth on that day was that I was not controlling all of my finances and that if I owe a creditor, I had to make it right with the truth and my ability to pay.
Plain and simple!
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