#77 - Kingdom Prosperity #43

A few more practical principles for achieving Kingdom Prosperity in your life, especially in a marriage:

5. Set your pride aside and check your ego at the door - One spouse or the other will be better at some things than than the other spouse, including your finances. So the other spouse should yield to that and let the spouse who is better at it manage the couples finances. However, both Husband and Wife need to be or get into agreement on how their financal blessings will be used.

6. Be Flexible - When you marry your spouse and you probably have different views in some areas of how to manage your finances. And though you should and may have talked about managing your finances before the marriage, you need to be flexible in the marriage and manage your finances God's way, not your way or your spouses way. The requires being flexible and letting go of your way and yielding to God's way which sometimes will be how your spouse wants to manage your finances compared to your way.

7. Openess and Honesty - To be effective financial Stewards in a marriage, Husband and Wife need to be open and honest about what each brings into the marriage financially, and how each feels about how both have agreed to manage their combined finances. Yes, you need to yield to God's will in that area, but you will be more successf if each spouse shares how they feel about that without harboring anything internally, so each spouse can support the other to work through those issues.

8. Patience and Humility - To be an effective financial Steward in a marriage each spouse needs to be patient and humble with the other regarding the management of the finances in the marriage. For example, if its been agreed that the wife will develop the budget and then after there is agreement on the budget pay the bills, the husband can't murmur or hold resentment because he thinks he could do that better than the wife is. If that is what God directed the couple how to handle those aspects of the budget and husband and wife got in agreement on that, then be supportive of the wife husbands rather than be upset, murmur or even hold resentment toward your wife, offering assistance when asked and not forcing your will in this matter,