Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes

with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Continuing our series today,

the struggle is real, and today's topic is certainly a struggle for many of us. I recently

asked my social media family, what's one of your biggest struggles? And I was overwhelmed by how many

people answered money. I don't know why,

but I wasn't expecting that one really, but certainly in our family's life, in my family's life,

in our marriage, finances have not been easy. We've had some deep valleys and some smoother times.

And listen, compared to many in the world, I know we are rich, though we're of average class

financially. But regardless of where any of us are,

money is something so many of us struggle with. How to manage it, how to feel about it, what God

thinks about it, the whole thing. I want to talk about it a little on today's show, so here we go.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some

have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. 1 Timothy 610.

It's a familiar verse that often gets misquoted, misunderstood, and just generally abused, I think.

Most commonly is when people leave out the words love of

and just say money is the root of all evil and leave it at that. Money is not evil in and of itself.

We know this, right? Because we survive off making money and using money to pay for food and a

mortgage and things like this. Money does not have a soul, so it can't be evil in and of itself.

It's the love of money, the desire for it, which causes us to walk away from God or compromise

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