"I need to get my financial life together before God can really use me."
How it sounds in your head: You can't lead others when you're this much of a mess. Get out of debt first, build savings, prove you can manage money, THEN God can open ministry doors. You're disqualified until you've got this area handled.
"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty."
-- 1 Corinthians 1:27Source: Religious qualifications that make God's use of you dependent on your financial order - contradicts how God used broke disciples.
Leadership books say you can't lead where you haven't gone. How can you teach financial peace when you're broke? Seems hypocritical to minister from financial chaos.
Peter said 'silver and gold I do not have' yet healed a lame man in the next breath. His lack of money didn't disqualify his ministry - he operated in a greater wealth (Jesus' name) while personally broke.
I REFUSE the lie that I must fix my finances before God uses me. IT IS WRITTEN that God chooses the weak and foolish to shame the strong and wise. Peter was broke and healed the lame. IT IS WRITTEN that I am chosen, a royal priesthood, RIGHT NOW in this financial state. God's calling isn't contingent on my bank balance. I am qualified by HIS blood, not my budget. The Father used Jacob the DECEIVER and Abraham the LIAR - my mess doesn't disqualify me from my destiny.
Your Father is preparing to use you RIGHT NOW in your chaos, not after you organize it. He put Moses in charge of a nation when he was a murderer on the run.