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Financial freedom has nothing to do with how much money you have in your pocket. Yes, it would be nice to know that you don't have to worry about how you are going to travel to visit Grandma who lives across state lines, but in reality money doesn't give you what you want, it is simply a tool with which to manage your life. Happiness doesn't come from material possessions, it comes from eternal gifts, that never fail and do not die.
The rich actually have just as many problems as the poor. In fact, the poor may have less burdens, if they are in good health and live close to the people they love!
Remove yourself from perceived reality that the only happy people in life are those with large amount of material possessions. A nice home with a mortgage, a few vehicles and various wives to boot. Learn to make friends with "the wind".....the wind is good. You can know what it will do. God is everything to you, but he is not in favor of people that constantly live in false reality. God doesn't want people to argue with "the wind." People who are aware, have stopped arguing with "the wind".
People seem to believe that to control people with money, they will get what they want in life, but in reality people don't need money to buy things they don't really want! To feel loved is more important to have "things" and to control others with "money" or "material possessions." People can sense a sort of character weakness and poor judgment in the people who essentially worship the material possessions and money.
Give and it shall be given unto you. Eternal poverty only exists because a man says to himself, I have enough saved for the future, and then disaster in one day strikes. Consider the story of Job, he had everything, but the Lord took it away. Did Job choose to sin because of these horrible events that came upon him? No, he did not sin, and then the Lord blessed him. Job's material possessions were an illusion! Was he homeless for a while? We don't know, but we do know that he regained what he had lost.
Essentially, it is freeing to live on less in some way or another. Make a list of places where you may sell stuff. If you have a little shed, you can simply resell stuff. To constantly need to lug those "things" around would be a burden, why not sell those things and then "give away" money that you do not need for the purposes of your life.
Learn various frugal means of going through life, like advice from the book, "Tightwad Gazette"
The only time I can say to be aware of situations where people can get "carried away" with living frugal life, is if there is a severe cult-problem or a severe persecution against a certain people group. Being "poor" doesn't mean life makes you holier, as there are times where the "friends" you think you have, depart from you, simply because you are on a lower income, but the true friends stay around. Living in a "tent," or living under the roof of a home you don't own, doesn't make you less of a person, it means you understand reality.
Essentially to get money, people will do certain behaviors to "keep" their job, but in reality money is a secondary effect of what you truly need in life. The greater needs being companionship, love, kindness, joy, security, sanity and other positive conditions in life. These are things you can receive by repentance and obedience to the word.
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