A Prosperity Wheel -For the New Year 2008

The New Year 2008 offers a fresh start and new opportunity to grow spiritually and in Stewardship.  As you open up yourself to God’s plan, why not do something that is very practical and visual:  make a Wheel of Prosperity for the whole family and perhaps each individual.

Get a large piece of paper and draw a large circle on it.  Inside the circle, at the center, draw a smaller circle.  Label smaller circle “God”.  Draw four even quadrants over both circles to divide the circles:  “Family Life”, “Social/Recreational Life”, “Business Life” and “Spiritual Life”.   Identify goals for each area of your life, using pictures (clip from magazines).  Example: More Bible study – picture of a Bible.  If you can’t find suitable pictures, draw one as best you can. Then, mount your Prosperity Wheel in a visible place, such as inside a closet door, or keep it personal if that is what you desire.  Each child can make one, and substitute business life for “School Life”.   Pray together as a family about which goals are most important.

Benefits: First, the wheel will remind you continually to keep God at the center of your desires, also to ask God often to direct your goal setting and to help in achieving goals that are God-ordained, authorized or approved.  Next, the wheel is likely to compel you to adjust priorities in your life.  An abundance of goals in one area, but little to nothing in another should cause you to adjust the lopsided wheel.  If the wheel is unbalanced, it might break. Always begin to view the wheel from the word God, spending a few moments dwelling on the goodness of God and his many benefits to you.  Seek the Lord’s wisdom about the other areas of your life. Third, the wheel allows you to view your total life at a glance, helping you see if you are living a balanced life. 

Let the wheel help you with Visualization, Expectation, Motivation, Meditation and Realization.  It is not enough to believe in or visualize prosperity, eventually one must do the things the Lord calls us to do, living out His plan.  We must obey God’s plan and principles as set forth in His Word.  In the area of financial stewardship, obedience includes a desire and willingness to work, a desire and plan of action for getting out of debt, and your tithes and offerings delivered into God’s storehouse on a consistent basis.  Prosperity is rooted and established in your having a relationship with God.  God longs for you to understand and engage in sound financial stewardship.  Even more so, He longs for you to experience wholeness (a complete circle) and He longs for you to know Him. 

BAUMC Stewardship wishes you blessings for a Prosperous, Healthy 2008.

Source: “Understanding Financial Stewardship” by Charles Stanley