How to Build Wealth God's Way
Avoid the Gambling Trap
Selected Scriptures
Dr. Ernest Easley
We are currently in a series of messages under the heading: BUILDING WEALTH GOD'S WAY, and I hope you're taking good notes.
Over the last few weeks, we've been focusing on several devourers of wealth we need to embrace, like making God your financial partner and developing the art of saving money. Those are two principles we certainly need to embrace.
Then we saw how building a strong marriage and avoiding divorce helps enable us to build wealth. You can save money by dating your spouse rather than divorcing your spouse. We certainly need to embrace the principle of building a strong marriage.
And then last time together we saw what God says about investing and how we need to educate ourselves on what it means to be an investor. Again, this is another principle we need to embrace to build wealth God's way.
Now today we come to the fifth principle for building wealth. It's not one to embrace in your life, but rather, it's one to exclude from your life. This devourer of wealth has been referred to as a "hidden addiction," and an estimated 9 million American adults suffer from it.
Studies have found spouses married to someone with this hidden addiction are more likely to experience domestic abuse, and they double the national average for divorce.
A study of nearly 300 homeless individuals showed that 23% had embraced this wealth devourer. Among Americans, it creates a financial debt between $10,000 and $50,000 while another 21% have created a debt between $50,000 and $100,000. 3% of Americans have created more than $300,000 worth of debt.
If that's not bad enough, those embracing this wealth devourer, 60% struggle with alcohol, 69% experience serious anxiety or symptoms of depression.
For those embracing this wealth devourer, consider the cost: you are twenty times more likely to be alcohol or drug dependent; eight times more likely to have been ar ...
Avoid the Gambling Trap
Selected Scriptures
Dr. Ernest Easley
We are currently in a series of messages under the heading: BUILDING WEALTH GOD'S WAY, and I hope you're taking good notes.
Over the last few weeks, we've been focusing on several devourers of wealth we need to embrace, like making God your financial partner and developing the art of saving money. Those are two principles we certainly need to embrace.
Then we saw how building a strong marriage and avoiding divorce helps enable us to build wealth. You can save money by dating your spouse rather than divorcing your spouse. We certainly need to embrace the principle of building a strong marriage.
And then last time together we saw what God says about investing and how we need to educate ourselves on what it means to be an investor. Again, this is another principle we need to embrace to build wealth God's way.
Now today we come to the fifth principle for building wealth. It's not one to embrace in your life, but rather, it's one to exclude from your life. This devourer of wealth has been referred to as a "hidden addiction," and an estimated 9 million American adults suffer from it.
Studies have found spouses married to someone with this hidden addiction are more likely to experience domestic abuse, and they double the national average for divorce.
A study of nearly 300 homeless individuals showed that 23% had embraced this wealth devourer. Among Americans, it creates a financial debt between $10,000 and $50,000 while another 21% have created a debt between $50,000 and $100,000. 3% of Americans have created more than $300,000 worth of debt.
If that's not bad enough, those embracing this wealth devourer, 60% struggle with alcohol, 69% experience serious anxiety or symptoms of depression.
For those embracing this wealth devourer, consider the cost: you are twenty times more likely to be alcohol or drug dependent; eight times more likely to have been ar ...
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