 The second thing that makes us a prosperous soul on inside is when we move from tipping to tidying. That means when we put God as the Lord of our finances. The challenge that we have as Christians many times is that when we begin to envision and begin to have positive view about our future even though when things are hard, the mistake many people make where many times these promises don't work is this is when people begin to read a lot of books about money and they begin to read a lot of go to seminars they're like yeah that's it i'm gonna invest i'm gonna you know start a business i'm gonna do this with my finance i'm gonna cut the plastic the credit cards out i'm gonna stop you know buying these things i'm gonna put my money to bring me more money and they get all pumped with this new vision and new ideas but they never make it to step number two it's when you think that putting yourself in charge of your finances will make you a prosperous person and not allowing the god who gave you the very brains which can fathom those ideas to be the first and your best partner many of us we accept Jesus into our heart as our savior but we will never accept him as the Lord in the area of our finances because accepting Jesus as the Lord in the area of your finances cannot be done verbally and cannot be done with saying a prayer it can only be done by an act of actually putting him first in your finances not your mouth but your finances and then god begins to be in charge of the rest of the things same thing happened to Bartimaeus when he got his vision the first thing that he did surprisingly he didn't go back home look for his parents or look for his brothers and sisters and say guys i can see surprisingly Bartimaeus didn't go to a library and quickly started typing his resume he didn't go and start to start writing books so he can become a best seller and he can quickly make money the bible says the first thing when he got his vision he didn't run after money he said ah we're gonna run after jesus that means when a person gets a positive vision they have to put jesus first in their finances and the way we do that as christians is by this principle discipline and an act of obedience we called tithing now there's a difference between tithing and tipping i'm gonna give you the difference tipping is what people do who don't put jesus first in their finances now some are still christian and some are still going to heaven but tipping is this it's whatever i have extra or i don't need or left over i hand it over to god that's tipping you can only do that to someone who is not the lord of your life tithing is not extra left over i'll see at the end of the month whatever's in my wallet how i feel it tithing is this when the check comes in you go to the bank or it gets deposited 10 percent gets immediately pulled out without even second thoughts put into an envelope sealed and you don't even entertain one thought i wonder what i could buy with those money but you only have one thought running in your mind the person i'm linking up with is the maker of heaven and the earth the only reason i have a heartbeat is because he made it the only reason i'm able to give that because he gave me that opportunity and he is not a taker he has so much he doesn't need my money but i need his mercy and blessing on the rest of the 90 percent he's watching this he knows this i'm making a deal i'm not an idiot i'm a smart person i want to partner with the richest the wisest and most generous and i choose to partner with him