When it becomes necessary for you to spend money in order to find happiness or experience pleasure, Jesus wants to help you. Being addicted to spending money causes you to spend money that should have gone somewhere else. Jesus wants to help you invest your money in those things that are beneficial to you and the people around you. The act of spending money isn’t supposed to provide you any pleasure. Nor is the act of over spending money trying to impress or win someone over.

Another big issue has to do with why inappropriate spending is something you feel you need to do. There can be emotional issues, relationship problems, and other stressing things that cause you to feel like you have to self-medicate. Jesus will help you see if there is some kind of damage or hurt that is driving you toward inappropriate spending. He will be able to go into the areas of your heart that no one can access. He will help you be set free from those things that are setting you up for failure.

Once you open the door to something like inappropriate spending, you have exposed your body to extreme pleasure. The moment your body experiences extreme pleasure, it wants it on a constant basis. It will try to drive you away from those things that only provide you and it with mild pleasures. This can take your life away from you; you can find yourself neglecting things that are normal requirements of life. It can also change you reasons for why you do what you do. Most everything you do can be setting you up for your next time of extreme pleasure.

If this is the area where you are suffering the most, then it would be good for you to take this study. Just select the “Spending” word in the gray box and it will take you to that study.