MondayMONEYDevotion When did earning, giving, and paying become something you only get through? You can finish the work. Give the gift. Pay the bill. And move through all of it without stopping to notice what God has made possible. God is a God of joy. That joy belongs in how you handle money, too. 💼 Enjoy the work of your hands. Earning money does not have to be a joyless activity. There is something worth noticing in the ability to work, to use what you know, and to contribute something through your day. Ecclesiastes speaks about enjoying the good of your labor as a gift from God. The work of your hands is more than something to endure until the payment arrives. Pause long enough to recognize the gift in what you get to do. 🤲 Give with an open hand. If you choose to give, let the giving carry joy. Let your smile carry the love behind it. You do not have to make a gift feel heavy for it to matter. You can offer it freely, with warmth, so the person receiving it receives the love along with it. The amount is not the whole story. The spirit in which you give matters, too. ⛽ Notice what the payment makes possible. Before the complaint about the price of gas, pause. If you have the means to fill the tank today, notice what that allows you to do. The same is true when you buy groceries, pay a bill, or provide something your children need. There is provision in the ordinary things that can become so familiar you stop seeing them. This is not permission to spend beyond what you have. It is an invitation to recognize what you have been able to do with it. For your next money decision, take one small pause. Name what the work, the gift, or the payment makes possible. Let gratitude have a place in the moment. ✨ Prayer Father, help me recognize the joy in what You have made possible. Help me enjoy the work of my hands, give with an open heart, and receive everyday provision with gratitude. Let that joy show in how I speak, how I give, and how I handle money. Amen. “For the joy of the LORD is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10, KJV.

Sabbath RestMONEYReset 🍞 What if the extra was not an invitation to do more? In Exodus 16, God fed Israel in the wilderness. On ordinary days, every person gathered what was needed for that day. When some people tried to keep more for tomorrow, it spoiled. But on the sixth day, God told them to gather twice as much. That portion lasted through the Sabbath. God did not simply give more food. He made provision that would survive long enough for His people to rest. Then some people went out on the seventh day looking for more anyway. There was nothing there. The question in the passage is not, “Why are you greedy?” It is, “How long will you refuse to keep my instructions?” Sometimes you receive more than you expected. A bonus. A gift. A discount. A client who pays in full. A month that closes stronger than you planned. The temptation is to treat that extra as a new requirement. You quietly change the number you believe you have to produce every month. If your plan works at $10,000 and $14,000 comes in, the extra $4,000 is not automatically a new floor. It may be provision. It may be room to give, prepare, enjoy, or rest. This is not an argument against work. Work is good. It is an invitation to stop confusing every blessing with a new quota. God gave enough for Friday and enough for Sabbath. The double portion was not pressure. It was permission. This week, notice the extra. Before you spend it, chase it, or turn it into your new normal, pause and ask: What would it look like to receive this as provision? Scripture: Exodus 16:4-5, 19-20, 22-30 ✨Prayer God, thank You for knowing what I need before I know what to ask for. Teach me to receive what You provide without turning every blessing into pressure. Help me resist the urge to label your blessing as what I deserve. Give me wisdom to plan, courage to rest, and gratitude for enough. Amen. ✨Reflection questions Where have you quietly turned an unexpected extra into a required amount? What would “enough for today and enough to rest tomorrow” look like this week?

ThursdayMONEYTestimoney 📚 I wanted to bring gifts for three children before they traveled. Buying gifts was not in my budget. So I prayed before I reached for a card. As I looked around my home, I saw three meaningful books I already owned. Each one suited one of the children. They were not random leftovers. They were thoughtful gifts, already in my care. I did not have to create pressure to prove that I cared. I did not have to put generosity on credit. I chose to give from what I already had. That changed the feeling of it. Giving from fullness feels different from giving out of obligation, appearances, or fear of showing up empty-handed. Sometimes presence is the gift. Sometimes what you already carry is enough to bless someone else. Before you buy a gift this week, pause and ask what is already in your care that you could share with thought and love. ✨Prayer God, help me see what You have already placed in my hands. Teach me to give freely, without pressure to perform or pretend. Show me how to care for people from a full and honest place. ✨Reflection question What is already in your care that could become a meaningful gift for someone else? What can you item can you write on, speak to, draw on that will capture your uniqueness and theirs?

I forgot I went paragliding before. So I have this habit of forgetting things, experiences that I had until I'm in it again. A friend invited me to go paragliding with her and my first response was, "something new. I've never done that before." 😆 🤣 😂 And I was telling the truth, because at that moment, I'd completely forgotten that I had done it about six years ago to celebrate another friend's birthday. It wasn't until I saw the picture of paragliding that I was like, "oh yeah, I did that before." 🤦🏾‍♀️ Have you ever had any of those moments? Someone asks you to watch a movie with them and you're like, I've never seen that movie before. Then halfway through the movie, you can tell them everything that happens the rest of the movie? ⚠️ Spoiler Alert