Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and inspiring

wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage.

Here's your host, Bella Rose.

Hey there, and welcome to the show.

I am Bella Rose, and I'm really honored that you spent the time to listen to me today on the podcast.

So essentially, what I want to talk about today is money versus marriage.

Now, this is not an easy topic to talk about in this day and age because

um as a society, money trumps all other goods. I mean, the whole idea of the quote,

American dream is to, you know, go from rags to riches, isn't it?

But is that biblical? Is that a biblical notion? I mean, my husband and I have actually

taught and facilitated financial stewardship courses.

And we ourselves are very budget-oriented and very frugal.

So much in our life is very creative to save money.

But at the same time, what we are not skimp, what we do not skimp on is what we believe are most priority in our lives.

And one of those things is tithing, which we believe is God's order of things, that that's first and foremost where we put our money

is 10% to our spiritual community and secondly is wisdom so after that you know that our money

is really in service to our values. And so when I talk to women on this podcast and in my coaching and, you know, all of the different speaking engagements,

what I do is say that, you know, all of the different speaking engagements. What I do is say that, you know,

your priorities should be this way. First God, then loving his people. And your first priority

is your husband. Second is your kids. And then comes the rest of your ministry, whatever that

looks like for you.

And then after that comes your work, your career, the way you make money, should be after

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