Slugs

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• 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 66-8

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• Job 1 for every created thing is to give God
  glory.

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• Foresight, industriousness and wise savings are
  key to our financial health and instrumental in
  us becoming all that God designed us to be.

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• This biblical counsel may be thousands of years
  old, but it remains true because Gods Word is
  enduring.

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• What is the connection between your work and your
  spiritual journey?

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Foresight
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Foresight

• Acknowledging Gods sovereign plan, we are still
  to act with wise plans that anticipate for the
  future, and then to put our efforts to the task.

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Industry
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Industry

• God hardwired us for meaningful work as a
  blessing.

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• How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When
  will you get up from your sleep?...A little
  sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
  hands to rest and poverty will come on you like
  a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
  Proverbs 69 2433-34

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• Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands
  bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a
  wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a
  disgraceful son.
• Proverbs 104-5

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• Your income and savings level have nothing to do
  with your salvation in Jesus Christ or your
  acceptance and standing here at Bridges.

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• He who works his land will have abundant food,
  but he who chases fantasies lacks
  judgment. Proverbs 1211

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Savings
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Savings

• Do not wear yourself out to get rich have the
  wisdom to show restraint.
• Proverbs 234

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• Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
  earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
  thieves break in and steal. But store up for
  yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and
  rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not
  break in and steal.
• Matthew 619-20

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• Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
  as working for the Lord, and not for men.
• Colossians 323