Once you've sought God's guidance and direction regarding your financial priorities through prayer, you need to exercise your faith believing God has answered your prayer.
So start by making a list of everything that comes into your mind that might be a financial priority for you. At this point it doesn't matter how long the list is or if everything on it is from God. But do consider the principles covered in previous Posts related to giving, saving, debt, etc. as you make out your list.
Now as you move forward you will be able to shorten the list, and God's discernment will guide you in weeding out what is not from Him. As with prayer, husbands and wives should work on this list together.
You also need to keep exercising your faith daily by thanking God for giving you wisdom, guidance and direction regarding your financial priorities.
After you've got your initial list of priorities, you need to start fine-tuning it with the help of others and resources available to help you do that. But not just anybody or any resource. Go back to God in prayer, specifically asking Him who you should seek counsel from and what resources to avail yourself of. Some scriptures to help you with this are Proverbs 37:30-31, Proverbs 6:20-22, Proverbs 15:22, Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 8:11 and Proverbs 13:15, all of which speak to seeking wise counsel which we'll talk more about in the next Post.
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