Joyce: Right. That’s what I had to do then.
Lisa: It was a season of faithfulness.
Joyce: I think a lot of times people will maybe overspend. “Well, I don’t want to live on thirty-five dollars a week for groceries, so I’m just going to put it on a credit card. I’m going to get those steaks now, and I’m going to get that fresher bread now.” So people today just charge a bunch of stuff because they don’t want to wait, and that’s not being faithful either. You have to be faithful with what you have, and you have to be willing sometimes to say, “I’m not where I want to be but I’m going to get there.”
Lisa: And you kept that in front of you.
Joyce: I kept that in front of me. I started with the complaining, and the murmuring, and the being jealous of other people who had more than I had.
Lisa: Taking it from your account is how I saw it. I was like anytime anybody else got blessed, they must have taken it from my account and now there’s nothing left for me. That was horrible. Joyce, what you’re saying is so crucial that people get it because I believe that we always have to live in a place where we are not borrowing off the future; that we are living with wisdom. I think a lot of Christians say, “I’ll just charge this by faith,” and then that’s not faith. We had little envelopes and whatever was gone was gone; that was it.
Joyce: That’s right. When we come back, I want to talk about another really important area: Relationships. I think a lot of times we’re in relationships, in a marriage, with our children, or even family and friends, our boss, or whatever, where you think: This is never going to change! And you just want to give up. We’re going to talk about that when we come back. We’ll be right back after this break to talk about not giving up on people.
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