My attitude toward money is that it can be used for good or evil. Money has helped our family to learn to be unselfish as we help others who are in need. It has helped us to visit different places throughout the world and see and learn from other cultures. Money has also helped us to do are part in building up the kingdom of God. My wife and I love the scripture from Jacob 2:17-19:
17 Think of your brethren like unto yourselves, and be familiar with all and free with your substance, that they may be rich like unto you.
18 But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God.
19 And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good—to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

We have been blessed with significant means and we have tried to do as Jacob councils. What a blessing it is to be able to help others and by so doing we draw closer to God. We could live a much more luxurious lifestyle based on our income and savings, but we choose to live debt free, no house payment, no car payments, or any other payments. We definitely do not want to live as slaves to debt, and only desire to do what the Lord wants us to do. We are not perfect, our attitudes at times are worldly and carnal, but we try our best to live without allowing the love of money to dictate the way we live. 

The following are rules to follow in order to prosper:
Rule 1. Seek the Lord and have hope in him 
Rule 2. Keep the commandments, that includes the temporal ones, tithing and fast offerings. 
Rule 3. Think about money and plan how you can become self-reliant. 
Rule 4. Take advantage of chances for learning so you will not be ignorant of these matters. Education, as President Hinckley has taught us, isthe Key to Opportunity. 
Rule 5. Learn the laws upon which the blessings of wealth are predicated. 
Rule 6. Do not send away the naked, the hungry, the thirsty or the sick or those who are held captive.

Concerning these rules, King Benjamin taught in Mosiah 2:41:  And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.

As we put our trust in God, He will definitely direct our paths to be instruments in His hands in sharing all that He blesses us with.




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