Live Your Values: Who Do You Want to Be on Your Journey?

As you take active steps to Achieve Your Money Goals in 2026, so far we have explored that...

• Learning your lessons gives you wisdom.
• Clarifying your vision gives you direction.
• Aligning your mission gives you movement.

And today we address how to Live Your Values - a powerful step that develops and reinforces your conviction that helps to sustain your faithful financial stewardship day after day, choice after choice.

So, if lessons reflect on your past, vision guides your future, and mission guides your movement, then values guide your character and decisions along the way.

A Biblical Picture of Values in Action

Acts 6 illustrates values in practice. The disciples faced a pressing problem and handled it with:

• Compassion for those in need
• Patience to listen and respond
• Unity to solve the problem together
• Faithfulness to their larger mission

Their values shaped both decisions and outcomes — showing the quiet but powerful role of values in stewardship.

Why Values Matter

Vision may evolve. Mission may adapt. Plans may shift. Values endure.

Think of values as riverbanks. They guide the flow, keeping you centered in God’s will even when life gets noisy. They influence how you act when money feels abundant, tight, or stressful. They shape who you are becoming.

Three Guidelines to Live Your Values

1. Choose Your Values

Prayerfully reflect: What qualities do I want to define me, especially in my money choices?

Narrow your list to five to seven core values that resonate, honor God, and reflect who you are and aspire to be. For a great starting point for ideas, look no further than the Fruit of the Spirit:

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
— Galatians 5:22–23

Consider how these qualities, or other values, could shape all of your Money Moments.

2. Energize Your Values

Bring values to life with descriptive words or short definitions.

For example:

• Instead of only the word 'Patience'  -- what about: 'Peaceful Patience': We commit to approach financial conversations and choices with calmness and understanding, transforming stressful moments into opportunities for grace and growth.

A little extra detail and description can energize and abstract idea into daily practices you can actually live out.

3. Keep Your Values Visible

Make your values central to daily life.

Write them down. Display them. Discuss them with family. Celebrate moments when values are lived out, not just when mistakes happen.

The more visible and central your values, the more naturally they shape who you are.

A Closing Encouragement

You don’t need perfect clarity or flawless execution. You do need guardrails. Values act as both compass and guide, keeping you centered and steady through life’s challenges and opportunities.

A little recap...

Learning your lessons gives you wisdom.
Clarifying your vision gives you direction.
Aligning your mission gives you movement.
Living your values gives you conviction.

This is how faithful financial stewardship becomes a way of life, not just a season of effort, as you wisely and boldly Achieve your Money Goals in 2026!

NEXT STEPS:  

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Listen to Money Made Faithful podcast Episode #212: Achieve your Money Goals in 2026 - Step 4 of 4 - Live your Values (approx. 17 minutes).

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