Trusting God With Your Finances

To be completely transparent, this is a very hard thing for me to admit. I know I am not alone, but it's not something I am proud of.

You know the feeling when you can believe in someone, but still not fully trust them? Trust them to deliver what you need or what you want? Trust them to do what they say they will? Or maybe...it's that you don't trust that they always have your best interests at heart?

Well... this is actually how I feel about God at times. And believe me, it pains me to say that...but it's the truth.

And every time these feelings begin to creep in, God sends me a sign. A sign to prove to me how completely incorrect I am. He takes the time to prove His love time and time again.

Sometimes, He even calls me to challenge Him. To test Him like He tests me. And when God calls you test Him...you know that your relationship is on a whole other level.

I'm not sure if you are going through something at the moment, but I want to share with you the same thing God has shared with me. As much as I wish trusting God was always easy, to be completely honest...it's not. For awhile, I've been struggling with doubting God with our finances.

As I was waiting for church to start a few weeks ago, I found myself praying to God. Praying to God for forgiveness for me not fully trusting Him with our finances and asking Him to show me how to be more trusting. Now, I don't know about you...but God works in mysterious ways and I don't believe in coincidences. That service was exactly God's message to me. It was about tithing. And to be truthful, I used to view tithing as a way for the church to get money...but that weekend, God spoke to me in a way that changed that.

When the Pastor spoke about tithing not being about giving the church your money, but about fully trusting God with your finances...I felt like I had the wind knocked out of me. That the money we make and earn is not ours to begin with, that God is the true owner. That we are just stewards of all that God blesses us with. Talk about a life-changing perspective.

God not only answered my prayer that day, but he called me to test Him. That day my husband and I decided to fully trust God with our finances and go all in. That day we decided to give God what has always been His first. No matter what.

And just like that...I felt like I did when I first decided to start my business. Feelings of nervousness, but excitement and joy for this new journey. Just like God called and lead me to become a Life and Fitness Coach to help change lives, now He's calling me to put that same trust in Him with our finances.

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. <3

-Becky