2. STRAPPED 3
THE MONEY STARTS HERE
SAVINGS AND INVESTING

3. Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and
be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or
ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6:6-8
In the house of the wise are stores of choice food
and oil, but a foolish man devours all he
has. Proverbs 21:20

4. WHAT WILL WE SAVE FOR?
• EMERGENCIES.
• PURCHASES.
• FUTURE.
PRIORITIZE YOUR MONEY
• TITHE 10% TO GOD.
• MINIMAL LIVING EXPENSES.
• BUILD EMERGENCY FUND.
• PAY OFF DEBT.
• INVEST.

5. TWO WAYS TO MAKE MONEY
1. PEOPLE MAKING MONEY.
• WORK, WORK, WORK.

6. Find multiple sources of Income.
Employment
Self Employment
Business
Investment
…If a man will not work, he shall not eat.2
Thessalonians 3:10

7. 2.MONEY MAKING MONEY.
The man who had received the five talents went
at once and put his money to work and gained
five more. Matthew 25:16

8. RULES OF INVESTING
1. DON’T INVEST IN THINGS YOU
DON’T UNDERSTAND.
By wisdom a house is built, and through
understanding it is established;
through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare
and beautiful treasures. Proverbs 24:3-4

9. High Risk - Business, Stocks, Equity funds
Investments - Bond Funds, Balance
funds(Mutual funds)
Savings - Time deposits, pension plan,
Educational Plan
Basic Protection - Health Plan, life and non life
insurance, Life plan.

10. 2. DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN
ONE BASKET.
Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do
not know what disaster may come upon the
land. Ecclesiastes 11:2

11. 3. DON’T TRY TO GET RICH QUICK.
People who want to get rich fall
into temptation and a trap and into
many foolish and harmful desires that plunge
men into ruin and destruction. 1 Timothy 6:9
…he who gathers money little by little makes it
grow. Prov 13:11

12. Money + Time + Consistency = Wealth.

13. What you do with what you have reveals what
you believe.
Jesus invested in people! Invested in God’s
Kingdom!

14. How to invest your money wisely?
Power of Compound Interest
The Rule of 72
72% = number of years for money to double
4% Money Doubles Every 18 years
Age 24 100,000
Age 42 200,000
Age 60 400,000

15. 8% Money Doubles Every 9 years
Age 24 100,000
Age 33 200,000
Age 42 400,000
Age 51 800,000
Age 60 1,600,000

16. Joseph collected all the food produced in those
seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored
it in the cities... Joseph stored up huge
quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it
was so much that he stopped keeping records
because it was beyond measure.
Gen 41:48-49