Budgeting

Prudent financial management involves understanding one's resources to meet needs and achieve goals, while orderly planning and wise counsel are essential for successful outcomes and a life that reflects God's peace.

Know your financial condition

To be able to provide for needs

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. (Proverbs 27:23-27)

To be able to successfully accomplish objectives

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, (Luke 14:28-29)

Our lives should exhibit order

Let all things be done decently and in order. (1 Corinthians 14:40)

Lord is not a God of confusionr

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. (1 Corinthians 14:33)

Planning encouraged

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. (Proverbs 20:18)
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. (Proverbs 21:5)
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. (Proverbs 24:3-4)