Yahweh’s Money®️: The Crossroads of Religion & Money

Faith Over Fear: Understanding God's Role in Financial Stability with Tanisha Allen

• Crusaders for Change, LLC • Season 3 • Episode 77

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With headlines dominated by bank failures and economic crises, where do we place our trust? Let us lead you back to faith, focusing on Psalm 20:7 as a spiritual anchor: "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God." 

True security is found in a steadfast reliance on God's provisions. Get ready for rapid-fire questions, personal anecdotes, and spiritual reflections, all designed to inspire you to lean deeper into your faith amidst life's financial storms. 

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  1. Trust in the Eternal: Tanisha and I highlight the importance of placing trust in God rather than transient worldly systems. You are reminded that true security stems from faith, not just financial stability.
  2. Vigilance Against Scams: We emphasize staying alert to protect personal finances in an age where scams and fraud are rampant. Regularly checking accounts and staying informed can help safeguard assets.
  3. Community and Faith: The discussion underscored the invaluable role of community, particularly credit unions, in providing not just financial but also emotional support. Trust in God's plan and engage with supportive financial communities to navigate uncertainties.

Episode References:

  1. Genesis 3 - Tanisha refers to this when mentioning how God declared victory over sin at the very beginning, providing insight into trusting God's long-term plan.
  2. Proverbs - Though not quoted directly, the sentiment of trusting God over worldly wealth, as discussed throughout the episode, aligns with many teachings in Proverbs, especially regarding wisdom and the futility of relying solely on material wealth.
  3. The Book of Daniel - Tanisha mentions this book, drawing a parallel between historical kingdoms' fall (specifically referencing Nebuchadnezzar) and current worldly systems, emphasizing not to put trust in earthly power structures.
  4. Love of Money as the Root of All Evil - Though not cited with a chapter and verse in the transcript, this is a commonly referenced scripture from 1 Timothy 6:10, which is discussed in the context of putting faith and hope in money.

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Tanisha Allen:

I know that I don't have to put my heart and faith in the temporal treasures of this world, because our true treasures are with God and our true treasures are stored up in heaven. Right, that's our financial security. God is going to take care of us no matter what, and that's for every income level, every class level and all of that. Like I don't, I don't want it to come across as like for those of us that have financial security, we're the ones that don't have to worry, because I've been on the flip side, where I haven't had financial security, I haven't had money and my faith still had to be strong. Even more so, and even more so. Yeah, be told. Usually the ones that don't have the financial security have more faith. They have to. Usually the ones that don't have the financial security have more faith.

Shay Cook:

They have to.

Tanisha Allen:

They're the ones that are getting through these times.

Shay Cook:

Yeah, because we've been comfortable. And those that have been comfortable are like, ah, and the people are like man, I've been through this before Like I'm in this now. What are you talking about? I ain't got no money in my bank account now. What are you talking about? Account my count's negative. What are you talking about? Ever felt those awkward vibes when religion and money come up? You're not alone.

Shay Cook:

Welcome to Yahweh's Money, the podcast where we tackle the crossroads of faith and finance. I'm Shay Cook, an Accredited Financial Counselor and the CEO and Founder of Crusaders for Change LLC. Join us on our journey as we discuss topics like tithing, saving and conquering debt through religious perspectives. Let's get started.

Shay Cook:

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Yahweh's Money. The amazing Tanisha Allen is joining us again on Banking, on God Security Beyond the Systems. Oh, I love that. Hey, Tanisha girl, how are you doing today? I'm good. How are you? I'm here, I'm making it. You know, I'm blessed, I'm good.

Shay Cook:

There's life is lifing, everybody want to add an ING to everything. So, you know, I'm here and I'm glad to be here with you again to talk about banking on God Because, honestly, in these times and any time, honestly, that's when you only should be banking on God, you should be dependent on God. I know, in the previous episode or recent episode with Adriana, she's like you only have two choices despair or dependence. I was like, yes, girl, dependence, I'm just here because, if not, you're going to be despair, you're going to be in shock, you're going to be just all over the place and we don't want that. So you know, but it's real, with these banks and economic issues going on right now. Right, I mean, bank failures are real, economic crises, they shake the world, but the security is, or, but our security is, in Christ. Right, let's talk about where to place our trust.

Shay Cook:

The main scripture for this episode is Psalm 27. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord, our God. I mean amen, I mean every time I see that I'm just like Lord, I'm just so thankful to God and just everything he's doing. Did you want to speak on that before we get into the rapid fire questions, it's truth, it's questions, it's truth.

Tanisha Allen:

I mean, we place like so much trust in our worldly things and it's like why, when the world didn't create itself, you know, the things that we put our trust in didn't create itself. Give me God all day, every day, every day, all day.

Shay Cook:

I love that, because all this stuff temporary. You can't take none of it with you, so I don't even know why we stressing about it. You're going to die. You're going to wake up, hopefully in heaven You'll be like all that stuff I was worrying about. I don't even know Exactly. All right, let's get into these rapid fire questions. So have you ever worried about your bank account being safe?

Tanisha Allen:

Yes, Really Wow. I've worked in banking for so long that I know the ins and outs and I know things that can happen, that shouldn't happen and all of that you know. Most of the time I try not to fear too much what's happening in my bank account because I really don't have control over the majority of it, right Like, I try to control what I can control, but the way that scammers and stuff are set up nowadays, you always got to kind of keep an eye on your bank accounts, make sure you're not giving out too much information and somebody take information, the way fraud works, somebody swipe your card. All of that the way the world is going now and people getting access to our personal information that shouldn't have access to our personal information.

Tanisha Allen:

You never know, I take a look at my account every single day and I'm just like you're still there, thank you.

Shay Cook:

Exactly Right. Yeah, you got to look at not only your bank accounts, with your savings and checkings and all in between there and beyond that, but it's the credit cards too, all the things attached to the bank, all of the lines of credit, everything, because it's just out here. I've never really worried about it. I worked in the credit unions for a while there too, but in this present time, with all of the scams and spam and oh my God, the texts that we're getting, I'm like, oh my God, they're talking about tolls, they're talking about this. I need to go check on my account because they might've gotten access. It's just crazy. And one time they had done I was at Thanksgiving two or three years ago I was going through my email and I saw somebody had bought an Oculus through my personal account, but they used my business card. I'm like, what in the? It was just crazy. So you definitely got to be vigilant, wow. So next question what would you do if bank froze your accounts today or tomorrow?

Tanisha Allen:

Look, I probably would just take a day to be like you know what. Let me give them some time to figure this out. And then, if it was something, take a day to be like you know what, let me give them some time to figure this out. And then, if it was something that was going to be prolonged, then that's when I got to start looking at. Ok, what do I have? You know, is it all accounts? Is it every everything I own is frozen. How much food do I have at the moment? Oh yeah, the day before I was going to go grocery shopping, I probably would start to kind of just like OK, assess the situation. How much of my financial life is frozen? What do I have access to? Is it just me? Is this worldwide? You know, I'm blessed enough that I have my parents still. Ok, guys, can you help us out if we need?

Shay Cook:

it.

Tanisha Allen:

Exactly yeah. Worst case scenario the military still does, I think, interest-free loans for emergency.

Shay Cook:

They do. They have their emergency relief societies, yeah, so depending on what's happening.

Tanisha Allen:

There's some steps that I could take. I should go back. My very first thing is I'm going to God and be like okay what's happening?

Tanisha Allen:

What do you need me to do? What should what do you? What's happening? What do you need me to do? What should you be? What am I supposed to learn? Situation you know, was I spending too much? And this is a way for you to tell me yeah, yeah, you know, are you blocking something major from happening? Was there fraud or something that was about that? God is like let me put this in place, because stuff like that happens too. You know, god will use something that isn't necessarily great to prevent further harm or further damage. So I would be prayerful to ask a whole bunch of questions to assess my situation.

Shay Cook:

And see I'm crazy. So I'll be like what in the is going on? I start calling people like what is your account froze? Is it because my account froze? Or I'd call my husband, probably my daughter. Be like, check your accounts, mom and dad. Everybody texts everybody. I go crazy. I I'm like I'll be like okay, like in the midst I'll be like Lord, what's going on? But then I'm trying to figure it out. Go to the news. That's me. I'm like all over the place, like I'll be my husband. Be like all right, let's calm down, I can see it already because I'm girl. What's going on out here?

Shay Cook:

I know when I went crazy when there was no internet in the neighborhood, I was just like oh my God, I can't work. Oh my God, I need internet. I'm trying to use my hotspot. But because the internet was out, everybody's using the hotspot. I mean. So I can only imagine if my bank accounts were frozen. I don't know. I'm crazy, I'm dramatic and I know somebody would probably have to knock me out a little bit and I wake up and be like it's just like all right, why did you knock me out? Because you were acting crazy. So like, and then now let's figure it out. Then I'll get into the more rational mind of it all, like all right, lord, like you said, and then like try to research and see what's going on and then ask family if I need to or pull from another account or whatever the situation is. But yeah, all right. Last question how does faith change the way we think about financial security?

Tanisha Allen:

Well, as much as I would like to say that, like, okay, we go to God first for everything. Right, I know that a lot of times that isn't our initial reaction. But once we recognize, once we kind of get over maybe the initial shock or the initial scare, you know we should be comforted by the fact that we have our faith in God and Christ and we have the Holy Spirit that he's able to tell us on the inside like, okay, it's something I truly need to stress about. Is this something I really need to worry about? God will consistently remind us and he does this in the Bible over and over again about who we should have our faith and our trust in right. Like you know, he's constantly telling us not to fear. He's constantly telling us to trust in him. You know we constantly are able to see his hand in different things, including the world, the government, secular society and all of that.

Tanisha Allen:

The Bible tells us stories in almost every generation that the Bible covers, of God being the one actually in control, god even manipulating and using people in government or the government itself in order to carry out whether it's his judgment or whether to carry out his blessings, and because of that, it is a reminder to us that the little things or the day-to-day things don't really have to have us up in arms. We're human, we are born into sin, so we know that it's going to be stressful and we know that we're going to probably be anxious and all of that. But these worldly systems are not a surprise to God. The way that they've been put together are not a surprise to God. Honestly, a lot of times, you know, we forget the different prophecies that's been provided to us in the Bible because we will sit there and look outside and be like, okay, I read this before.

Tanisha Allen:

I know that I don't have to put my heart and faith in the temporal treasures of this world, because our true treasures are with God and our true treasures are stored up in heaven. Right, that's our financial security. God is going to take care of us no matter what, and that's for every income level, every class level and all of that Like. I don't want it to come across as like for those of us that have financial security, we're the ones that don't have to worry, because I've been on the flip side, where I haven't had financial security, I haven't had money and my faith still had to be strong. Even more so, and even more so. Yeah Be told. Usually the ones that don't have the financial security have more faith.

Tanisha Allen:

They have to, they're the ones that are getting through this time.

Shay Cook:

Yeah, because we've been comfortable. And those that have been comfortable are like ah, and the people are like man, I've been through this before. And the people like man, I've been through this before Like I'm in this now. What are you talking about? I ain't got no money in my bank account now. What are you talking about? Accounts froze, my account's negative, what?

Tanisha Allen:

are you talking about? It can only benefit me, because nothing coming out now.

Shay Cook:

That's real, though. That's real. I got family members out there still be having negative NSFs and all that. You know, whatever it is, but it is. You got to go through what you got to go through, all right, well, cool. I love that rapid fire section. Yes, I told the last uh, our guests that we're going to get us a um jingle for rapid fire, something like that.

Shay Cook:

I don't know, yes, so let's talk about this, this main discussion of banking on God. So why putting faith in money is risky? I mean, I've seen a lot of people from higher ups. We've seen the videos, the documentaries about those billionaires and millionaires that have literally I'm going to go all the way there y'all that have committed suicide because they put all their faith in their money instead of God. And then they're like, once they lose it, the market crashes and they ain't got no more money. They're like ain't nothing to live for, let me go kill myself. You know that's real, and not even thinking about the family on it and I'm sure they are they're like how am I going to protect my family or provide for my family if all my money's gone? But that's because all of their faith was, was in money.

Tanisha Allen:

Yeah, so we know the famous scripture. It'll get misquoted all the time. Right Money, yes it's all misquoted. The love of money. Yeah, exactly it's this reason here, right? It's because if we're putting our trust and our hope and our faith in money itself, money is. It can't do anything on its own right.

Shay Cook:

It's a tangible tool. It's a tool.

Tanisha Allen:

And so we have to use it and we have to decide how we use it in order for it to have any type of quote unquote power.

Tanisha Allen:

And so if we give it all of this power and we assign it this worth that it isn't valued at right, like a dollar bill is valued at a dollar.

Tanisha Allen:

I should not put into that dollar bill the worth of my life. I shouldn't assign that dollar bill the worth of my family, and that's what we do when we are. You know I'm not going to spend time with my family because I'm about making money and you know, excessively right, because we're still called to obviously take care of our households. But when we assign more value onto a dollar than we assign to our faith, that we assign to our relationships, that's where you start to see that slide of, we lose ourselves mentally, like if we're going all the way there and we're talking about people that are taking their lives because they've lost money or the depression that normally follows after there's been like a huge financial hit, it's because we are assigning entirely too much worth to actual money when in reality, you know we need to find our worth and our value in other things, first and foremost, jesus Christ right.

Tanisha Allen:

And then after that, it's our family and our households, and then you know our purpose things. After that, it's our family and our households, and then our purpose things like that, our community, and I'm a firm believer that when you do that, what's meant to be yours will follow.

Shay Cook:

Whether that's.

Tanisha Allen:

You're meant to be a millionaire. I don't think anybody's meant to be a billionaire, but if you're meant to be a millionaire, God is going to bless you with that, If you're meant to be a thousandaire God is going to bless you with that you know.

Tanisha Allen:

If you're meant to just live with what you currently have, that might be paycheck to paycheck God is going to give you what you can handle, but God is also going to give you what you're meant to have If you're, you know, living within his will and doing things in the order that he asks you to do. There's not many success stories of millionaires and billionaires out there that are living for the world and putting their hope and faith in money and it worked out successfully.

Shay Cook:

Yeah, it really isn't. Yeah, I'm sitting here trying to think there's not many and if you are, if you guys are listening, please chime in. But yeah, wow, you said so many good things and so many points of just putting our faith in something like money. I mean, I'd rather put it in man than money. I mean, even starting with want to put it in, should put it in God, but not even in people. But people really do put it in money and then we'll have people slave for this thing and work so hard and they don't pay them fairly and all the things that go with it so they can keep all that money in their pocket.

Shay Cook:

I mean, it drives me crazy when I hear about these CEOs of these companies, these owners, these, you know, and they're like ripping the staff off and just wanting to pay the minimum wage, like this whole thing of not wanting to go to $15 an hour. Like $15 an hour ain't going to get you nowhere either, but still, at the federal level it's still. I think $7 or $8 an hour is the minimum rate, just like, yeah, $7.50. It's crazy. I mean, who can live in anywhere in this world? For at least, especially in America, I don't care if you're a missus, the in the poor deep mississippi, alabama, or even in the rich parts of you know, la, or wherever you know, miami, and we can go up in california and boston, new york, I mean the list goes. Shoot this area of dmv like hawaii number one. Ain't nobody living off of 750 an hour, me, you know. They're putting all this faith in the money and taking away from people and that's not fair. It's not fair at all.

Tanisha Allen:

I think that we can dive deeper into it. Right? Because not only just faith in money. Now we're talking about being prideful and being greedy, because all of that is attached to that love.

Shay Cook:

It is all attached.

Tanisha Allen:

So it's like you know well, I can't help the people beneath me because it's taking from my pie, even though my pie is at a million plus dollars. You know I can't help anybody beneath me because then I'm going to be. You know I'm not going to have my million dollars. You'll have more than you need, more than you could possibly spend in this lifetime, but you still feel like it's not enough. Yeah, it's all about greed.

Tanisha Allen:

It's all this hoarder mentality, honey, that you know, and it's not even you know. Most of us don't have it in cash that we can see it right. Most of it is a digital number in our bank account. But it's just like this mindset of I have to hoard it all, I have to keep it all, I can't do anything with it. We now are seeing, I think you know, quite a few billionaires are taking the pledge of where they're not taking any of their money with them or they're not going to leave their estate much, and we see them giving away so much money at this point in time and it makes me think like, okay, what if, instead of the time that you took to earn all of that money, because most of it was done on the backs of other people what if you just paid your?

Shay Cook:

people fairly. Girl, I knew you were going there. What if you just paid your people fairly? Instead of taking the millions of dollars of bonuses, why don't you just pay your people? Why don't you give them the benefits they need to live a quality of life? That is just, oh my God, monumental. That is just wow. People, I mean. I'm sitting here thinking that. I mean, even looking at the title of security beyond the systems, like you know, you're so. These people are so stuck in their systems and their mind and their pride and, like you said, in their greed. How about you just share the wealth, like from the beginning? What?

Tanisha Allen:

do you have to lose? You know what? I'm saying You're no longer a billionaire, but now you're a millionaire. Is it giving you access? And it does right. There's obviously rooms that people are able to walk into. Yeah.

Shay Cook:

People are able to buy governments and I was about to say control elections buy presidents there is some power there, don't make it right.

Tanisha Allen:

Don't make it the right kind of power, because I mean, hello God, don't like that either so that's what I was going to say is the fact that you have access to this type of power, but we also know that that's not the type of power that you need access to. You have access to this type of power, but we also know that that's not the type of power that you need access yeah, yeah, you need access to the power of the holy spirit, which you can't buy.

Tanisha Allen:

You need access to the power of jesus that you can't buy. You need access to the power of god that you cannot buy. So it's like, if you can't buy, where the true power is and the power that you are able to buy, there there's nothing even in there. It is worthless. So you're spending all of this money and I sit there and I think of the book of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar and the prophecy that was given to him as far as, like, you're gonna see your kingdom fall and this is how it's going to fall. You're gonna get so prideful, you're going to become this type of person and we watch it happen in the book of Daniel.

Tanisha Allen:

I will say, like it is very similar to what is happening today and this is where, like, I fall back on, like I don't have to worry too much because I know the judgment that comes from that.

Tanisha Allen:

But one thing that we do have to recognize is that it's going to be troublesome. It's going to be difficult. The people are going to suffer, unfortunately, but at the end of the day, because our faith is in Christ, because you know, god has already declared the victory, and he declared that as soon as sin happened Genesis 3, at the very beginning, he told us that we had the victory and how we were going to get the victory. And that's what the rest of the Bible is about. It's giving us the vision of that victory, and we'll obviously see it with the second coming of Christ as well. So that reminder is like I don't care what happens in this world. I've seen it before. If we have read our Bibles, we have seen it before. We know that these kingdoms are going to fail, no matter how big they get, because every single kingdom has been the greatest kingdom at some point in time and it has failed.

Shay Cook:

That's why my daughter always talks about that 250-year cycle of kingdoms falling. And we're almost there. Y'all Like I think America is 249, 248, 249. I don't know the numbers, but I know we're getting close there and I mean so. No matter when that falls, no matter if the banking systems fail, we have the victory through God. What?

Tanisha Allen:

was it 2008? We saw through a banking crisis before? We sure have, yeah, you know where the banks were too big to fail.

Shay Cook:

They failed. They failed and we had to bail them out. The government We've done this, the government that they're trying to shut down had to bail you out, right.

Tanisha Allen:

And all of the agencies and stuff that came out of that, to prevent it from happening again.

Shay Cook:

Shutting them down, and they're shutting them down too. Rip CFPB.

Tanisha Allen:

Yeah, we're doing these things without a regard to what has happened in history. We are repeating history because we don't want to honor history, we don't want to remember history, but none of it is new. There is nothing new under the sun, the banking systems, our financial systems, our government systems. Don't put your faith in it. Use them. There are tools, there are resources. Use your god given wisdom with those systems, but they are not permanent and they won't be in heaven.

Shay Cook:

I don't really think that we'll be in heaven swiping debit cards like no, there you go cash out Venmo, paypal and Evan, and I'll be happy about that because it's too many electronic systems that can't keep up with everything. But I mean even just talking about all this practical ways to build security beyond the banking system, I mean we can say, oh well, let's go back to putting money under the mattress. But there's a lot of people, like we were talking earlier before the episode, it's like people are still scared to use the banking system. They don't trust it. There's a lot of unbanked black and brown people out there, and I'm sure even beyond that, are just like no, I don't trust y'all. I don't trust y'all, and sad. I mean I've always had a bank account since I was younger. My parents made sure we did, but it's real out there. I mean because 500 banks have failed since 2001, reminding us that financial security is not guaranteed.

Shay Cook:

But what would you tell your client if they're like Tanisha? You know I'm scared, I don't know what to do. I don't want to put my money in the bank, or even a credit union, which I'm trying to tell people to lean more to credit unions because they're community owned. I really am a supporter of the credit unions and no disrespect to a bank. I have to use banks for the business, but when it comes to personal, I use both. But yeah, what would you tell a client? Do you know how often house fires happen? That's a good one.

Tanisha Allen:

That's a good one. I mean you honestly, if we're going to fight fear for fear. What's more common?

Shay Cook:

Yeah, a house fire.

Tanisha Allen:

A house fire, You're right If you have all of your cash under your mattress or all of your cash in the back of your closet or all of your cash in your house somewhere. Mm-hmm, if your house was to catch fire and I know it's difficult to understand because you know, oh, that can never happen to me It- happens.

Shay Cook:

Has anybody?

Tanisha Allen:

in your neighborhood caught fire, you don't have to be responsible for the fire happening. For your life to be impacted by a fire, right? We had here in Hawaii not too long ago. It was actually on New Year's Eve. There was a fireworks explosion in a neighborhood. Fireworks are illegal in Hawaii. You shouldn't do fireworks anyway here, but somebody did. They were in the street, it blew up, but it went in the direction towards where they had all the other fireworks. Oh God Guys, it wasn't just their house that was destroyed. Yeah, it was all of the houses in the area. If you're next door to somebody doing something foolish, or even if it's just an accident or like a driver event or something catches on fire, it can still impact your house. If you're the one that has $500,000 stuffed underneath your mattress because you don't trust banks, you have now just lost all of that money.

Shay Cook:

You're probably don't got no insurance. Yeah, we were thinking the same thing.

Tanisha Allen:

There is. You know, there is no guarantee you might be able to get a little cash back if you can get an insurance company and you get some amount of payment, but I can guarantee you won't be anywhere near what. So we have to think in terms of that. A house fire is probably way more common than you know, the bank collapsing or whatever To that. You know, a lot of times people may not have a choice. They may not have options. There are starting to become more and more alternatives out there, or are major banks that you may be able to do.

Tanisha Allen:

Like you said, I'm a big believer in the credit union. Credit union is in the community. They're the ones that build relationships with you. If you go inside of your credit union and talk to them, most of the time you can walk out with a bank account. Now, of course, depending on what your history is and stuff, if you've abused bank accounts and stuff like that, it's going to be a lot harder, but those are the consequences of your actions. That's where now you have to start kind of building trust again in the systems, and you may have to use something like a cash app or those other platforms like that, but if you can get a bank account and you have access to a bank a hundred percent, I'm telling my clients to do it.

Tanisha Allen:

On top of that is if there's any type of emergency and part of what we do as financial counselors is having to kind of walk through emergencies with people A lot of times it's not those big banks that's going to be able to help you get out of that situation.

Tanisha Allen:

A lot of times it's your local credit union that you walk in the door and they recognize you and you're able to sit down and tell them you know what? I have a surgery coming up and this is the deductible and I just don't have it. How can I get some help? Or you know, my car just broke down. There's no way I can fix it. I need a small loan in order to you know help, but I need a decent interest rate. Those are things where you can walk into a credit union that you have a relationship with and talk to them about it, and they're able to do a lot more than a bank that, unfortunately, only sees you as a number. That's where community is important and this is where our faith comes in right, and that's where community is important and this is where our faith comes in right. Our faith tells us that we need community and that we need to lean into community.

Shay Cook:

And you know, we can get that more often from a credit union than a bigger bank, and that doesn't mean that there's not some good banks out there. But I think those community banks are just, you know, there's some really good community and some bigger ones out here. It's all depending on where they're at, because, you know, that can be a big thing too, like different branches and locations, and the service is not always standard. So you know. So, wow, well, that was great. So you know, true security, as we've been talking about, comes from God, not financial institutions, y'all right. So I would suggest, you know, diversifying your financial safety net and just trusting in God's provision. So, you know, maybe having a bank account and a credit union account, you know, and diversifying from there in different ways. But yeah, there is number one is God, trusting in God's protection and provision. So any final thoughts? Last thoughts?

Tanisha Allen:

I will just say you know we're not saying not to keep any cash on hand. Yeah, exactly, I think it is beneficial to have some cash. My thought process with it is what am I comfortable with losing? If I was to keep it on hand, whether that's on my person and somebody steals it, or if it's at home and, like you say, catches on fire or something like that, what am I comfortable with losing? And I don't mean like I'm not even comfortable losing a dollar. Give yourself a certain amount. How much would not break the bank per se? How much are you truly comfortable with If you lost it, it wouldn't be painful and that is the amount that you keep at home.

Tanisha Allen:

For those of us that live anywhere near where we get impacted by hurricanes and stuff like that, most of the time we have to have some type of cash in our emergency packets just in case the ATMs go down. So that's what you wanna keep in mind. We also don't wanna have our lives ruled by fear. So if you're afraid of banks or afraid of different things happening with the economy, the way that it is, all of that, just take your fears directly to God. Tell him exactly what you're afraid of, ask him to identify and address each one. Where's the fear rooted in? How can you just get rid of the fear? How can you pray away the fear? How can you read scripture over the fear? Just go to God with all of your concerns and your fears, and he will truly provide you with peace.

Shay Cook:

You know, the system may not change.

Tanisha Allen:

You know things may not change immediately or right away, but he's going to at least be able to provide you with the peace. I can guarantee you that I agree with that.

Shay Cook:

I would just add in these last thoughts that there are fireproof safes so you can invest in one of those. I've always had one, and then they got the small ones and they got the big ones. I've always had one, and then they got the small ones and they got the big ones. I even got my daughter one. But I would also add yeah, lately I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety, a lot of just being afraid and dealing with fear, and only thing that's gotten me through this time right now, is meditating on his word and on him, period. I'm in the bed at night and I'll keep sharing this until I cry, until I die, because I know I'm human and we.

Shay Cook:

What they say fear is being afraid is mentioned in the Bible a lot because it's a real human emotion y'all and we have to recognize that and not have stigma about talking about it. We are fearful animals and people, human beings, and for me, for Shea Cook, what gets me through is meditating on the word. That is the only thing that gets me through. Ain't no alcohol, ain't no other vice get me through. The meditating on the word, that is the only thing that gets me through. Ain't no, alcohol ain't no other vice get me through the fear and anxiety like that.

Shay Cook:

So I just want to leave that with you guys and hope all is well, praying for everyone in this nation and thank you for joining us. Again. A big thank you for listening to this episode. We hope you found today's chat about the intersection of religion and money insightful. We would love to hear your feedback. Hit that subscribe button or follow the podcast and please feel free to leave us a review. For the latest Yahweh's Money content, visit us at crusaders4changeorg or find us anywhere you listen to podcasts. Until next time, stay financially fit and spiritually inspired and remember it's always better Yahweh's way.

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