Financially free Indeed
By Minister GARY O SHIELDS SR.
Part 6
8/24/2025
Financially free Indeed
The last step in laying a strong foundation
Now lets get Perfectly clear in how you really feel about money and Why.
MY PURPOSE… is to be a bridge between the have and the have nots to offer the information, and opportunities required to reconcile these 2 groups of people financially in the(1) body of Christ,(2) for black and brown people( who have been marginalized the most) and (3)to those who desire to leave an inheritance for their children's children in turn creating generational
MY MISSION… is to teach God's people how to be free indeed financially, through the means of their passive income replacing their monthly expenses one bill at a time.
MY ASSIGNMENT… is to teach a series of biblically based wealth building classes that are passive, and grounded in numbers not opinions, or emotions, so that God's children can become financially free indeed by replacing one bill at a time with cash flowing investments. (IE cash flowing assets.)
Now let get Personal about you and money
36 questions about you and your money
1. How do you really feel(not think) about money?
2. Do you like money? Not like money? Do you care about having a lot of money? If so why Are you afraid of having a lot of money? If so why?
3. If you don't like money, or care about money why not?
4. In your past how did having a lot of money hurt or help you?
5. What's one of your fondest memories that you have about having enough money to _____________________________
6. What's one of your most painful memories about not having enough money to__________________________ Or because you had a lot of money,( that is in having a lot of money it caused you pain?)because ______________________________happen
7. How was money treated in your family?_______________________
8. What statements were made about money in your household growing up were they positive or negative?________________________
9. How did those statements and experiences shape how you spend your money now?_____________________________
10. Were your parents savers or spenders, and how did that affect you as an adult?_____________________________________
11. Were your parents investors? Were they successful at investing or did they fail at investing, and how did that affect you as an child?__________________________________
12. Were your parents hard workers, lazy, or in between?________________________
13. Where are your parents on any type of government subsidies? If so for how long, and how is that affecting the way you see and spend your money now?__________________________-
14. Have you ever known anyone that was financially wealthy? Who are they?____________________________
15. If you know someone who is rich financially, what's your perception of them? Are they an inspiration to you or not?-
16. If yes why?____________________
17. If not why not?_________________________
18. Do you know their story?___________________
19. If not why not?______________________________
20. What does rich and wealthy mean to you?_________________________
21. Do you want to be rich and wealthy? Yes or no
22. If not why not?__________________________
23. Do you plan on retiring from forced labor? Or do you plan on working for the rest of your life? If yes why?______________________________
24. What do you plan on doing with your time after you retire?________________________
25. Have you met with a fee base financial planner to work on exit plan? If at some point you plan on retiring._________________________
Investing
26. Have you ever invested before?____________________
27. If yes, what was your experience?_____________________
28. Does investing interest you?________________________
29. If yes what are you investing for?_______________________
30. If no, who do you expect to take care of you when you can no longer work? Get laid off or Fired______________________
31. What's your time horizon for investing?____________________
32. How much can you consistently invest for a minimum of 5 years, without taking your money out of the market?_________________
33. What's your risk tolerance when investing? Are you a hands on investor or a completely hands off investor?_____________________
34. How much time are you willing to invest in studying your investments and managing you're spending?___________________________
35. Are you financially free? If yes, congratulations please write a paragraph about how you thought about money in order to arrive at your individual financial promised land, and how you are going to help others to learn what you are experiencing now.___________________________
36. If not, do you plan on being financially free? And if so, what are you going to do today so that you can experience your birthright of financial liberation if you are a born again disciple of Christ and living your life to the best of your ability to be good right and true.___________________________________
In conclusion
Habakkuk 2:2:4 states
2 Then the LORD answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.
4 “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.
And Proverbs 29:18 states
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
But please note ( and this is a big but) we will never consistently work towards a vision that we feel is impossible for us to accomplish.
So we rationalize it a way, and as Myron Golden says we tell ourselves rational-lies to excuse us from putting in the mental hard work necessary to figure out how to accomplish our hearts desires.
Clarity is power
Over the last five months, I have endeavored to help you get crystal clear concerning the truths about you and your money. John 8:32
Going forward I will teach you some basic knowledge and the language that you will need to know in order for you to become a successful investor,in the way in which I became wealthy.
Please note you must pray for a continued desire,(when the markets get rocky, and they will) not to panic sell, but rather be patient, discipline and persevere in order to obtain, and manage the wealth that the Lord has promised his children that are faithful. As Proverbs 8 17:19 clearly reminds of which states17 I wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:24,Christ being the wisdom of God) love those who love me,
And those who seek me diligently will find me.
18 Riches and honor are with me,
Enduring riches and righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold,
And my revenue than choice silver.
Warning
Theirs no shortcuts or easy roads to wealth building.
For example, if you have dug yourself into a financial hole intentionally or unintentionally, you are going to have to pray for the faith, discipline, patience, perseverance, and determination to dig yourself out of it.(No one is obligated to do that for you)
Please note, if you don't really desire to put the work into experiencing your best life financially in this life ,then it won't happen and, un-be-knowns to you , your financial life will not remain the same but according to the scriptures will get worse, if you are not intentional about improving it and multiplying the wealth that has been entrusted to you by God.
This principle is clearly demonstrated in Matthew 25:14:29 which states 14 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 15 And to one he gave 5 talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. 16 Then he who had received the 5 talents went and traded with them, and made another 5 talents.
17 And likewise he who had received 2 gained two more also.
18 But he who had received 1 went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money. 19 After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
20 “So he who had received 5 talents came and brought 5 other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me 5 talents; look, I have gained 5 more talents besides them.’ 21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ 22 He also who had received 2 talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me 2 talents; look, I have gained 2 more talents besides them.
’ 23 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
24 “Then he who had received the 1 talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
26 “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.
29 ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away
May the lord bless you with clarity, determination, patients, and perseverance.
Minister G