Godliness with Contentment

In Acts 16:6-10, Paul and Silas and company travel through Galatia and Phrygia having been kept from preaching in the Roman province of Asia (In Asia were places like Colossae, Ephesus, Thyatira, and others) by the Holy Spirit. They come to the border of another place Bithynia and are denied entry by the Spirit here described as the Spirit of Jesus. There being no difference between the Holy Spiri...

Sometimes, God does amazing things in our lives and we think oh, that was a coincidence or it just happened. Amazing I said, not just everyday stuff. If it is a miracle then it is God's hand moving. So we need to recognize the miracle and we will see God moving. Then we need to give glory to God. The only way this happened was because God did it. When God does a miracle in our lives, we need to re...

What indeed? I returned from Las Vegas on Friday after a few days at Cisco Live! That was my 2nd time in Vegas, and both times were with my wife Pam. So, unfortunately for you who may be looking for stories, I don't have any spicy ones to tell.  But what happens there? Gambling, and plenty of it. When you get off the plane at the airport, the first thing you see are slot machines. Each hotel has t...

Over the past few weeks I was reintroduced to JoDee Messina a country artist with an amazing voice. I used to listen to her back in the 90s …..and 90s country music is a real thing. She has a song called "Bring On The Rain". I have not heard it for years until recently, now it's in my head. Bad song! In it she says stuff like "I'm not gonna let it get me down, I'm not gonna cry and I'm not gonna l...

In this episode, we are reminded from the Scriptures that there are consequences to our every decision. Proverbs 9 shows us two invitations - one from Wisdom and the other from Folly. Both call out to us. The question is - which invite will you accept? I the midst of this chapter is vs 12 that says that there is a reward from Wisdom and suffering for the mocker. We get consequences from our decisi...

In this episode, I remind us that we are gonna have tough times in life. We will fall from time to time, yet those who trust in God have Him there to deliver us. Proverbs 24:16 tells that though a righteous man/woman fall seven times, they get up. Indeed, God gives us the strength to get up. Even when we are up, He gives us the strength to be up. I encourage you - don't stay down long. Rise up!  ...

In this episode, I call out the disrespect that people who have money can at times display towards the rest of us. I was reminded of this recently when a basketball player in the NBA decided to throw a ball at fans, then neglected to give an interview because the reporter did not subscribe to his podcast. We are to give respect whether people are with money or without. We are to give respect becau...

In this episode, we are reminded that David can still beat Goliath. I was reminded a few nights ago as I watched my undermanned Miami Heat beat the juggernaut called the Boston Celtics. Jimmy Butler was out, Terry Rozier was out, and we beat the giant hitting 23 3-pointers along the way. This is why sports is so loved. It shows us what can be in real life. What are the giants in your life? Do you...

In this episode, we investigate what Jesus calls the deceitfulness of wealth when he explains the parable of the Sower. What we have in our minds and hearts about money can deceive us. When we trust in money, we believe that when we have it that all of our problems will vanish - not true. I believe that time, love and health are all higher on the priority scale than money. The Bible teaches us how...

In this episode, I tackle the mindset of the late starter who believes it is too late. That somehow because we are starting late that we can never reach our goals. It is only in our mind. I say our, because I was there only five years ago. I am a late starter. But I am in good company. Colonel Harland Sanders at 62 started franchising the chicken business. Moses (from the Bible) at age 80 spoke to...

In this episode we are reminded that God is there when we have a 'lil bit, supplying us with what we need so that we can also help others. We take a look at this situation in the Old Testament - 1 Kings 17 with Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath. God worked miraculously so that with the little she had, it would stretch to take care of her and her family as well as Elijah. She was tempted with takin...

In this episode we are reminded that God is there when all else fails. We take a look at a dire situation in the Old Testament - 2 Kings 4 and how God worked in an amazing way. We learn a few things:  -we always have something that God can bless -God always has a plan -keep doing what God tells you until you cannot do it anymore. Connect with Keyno on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godliness...

In this episode I talk about the fact that we can be thirsty for basically two types of things i.e. spiritual or physical. God gives an invitation to the thirsty in Isaiah 55:1-3. Those who accept the invitation get water, milk and wine at no cost. They are encouraged to buy without money. Why? There are some things money cannot buy. Here, the things are spiritual. But that brings up a bigger ques...

Today we talk about Earned Wage Access. So full disclosure, I just came across this topic this week. We currently don’t have this service in the Bahamas, but from what I see, it is becoming a hot topic in the United States. So what is EWA? It is a financial service that allows workers to access their earned wages before their payday. Initially, it sounded like payday lenders, but it isn't. As with...

Episode #73. I guide you through the essential aspects of lifestyle creep, and how to avoid it.  Key points: -remind yourself often about your goals (spending without restraint won't get you there anytime soon) -make a budget and live by it (the budget will give you permission to spend the money in the way it was planned) -set up automatic savings methods. E.g. if you know you are getting a raise,...

If you had the choice between 1 million hours and 1 million dollars which would you choose? I would choose $1,000,000 and in the episode I tell you why. But don't shoot me until you have listened. To make matters worse, I give three reasons why time is greater than money: -We could have all the money in the world and yet when our time is up on this earth we have to go. No amount of money can chang...

Sometimes, we can be too smart for our own good. We can over analyze things. We can be stuck in the Paralysis of analysis. We can be frozen by the Fear that keeps us from doing anything. Or even the Fear of change. Sometimes the mere weight of major decisions keep us from doing anything. Then what? Stuck, cannot move… Just start. Episode 2 of Godliness With Contentment was called 'Go small or go h...

Proverbs 26:13-16 "A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!” As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly." Proverbs 26 speaks to the fool, the sluggard and the gossip. What a trip...

I went to the food store here on my island to buy some vegetables. I bought a cauliflower, two types of squash (butternut and spaghetti), a yam and some colorful bell peppers. Don't scream but my total came to $32! The big shock of all was that the head of cauliflower was around $14! What I have done to deserve this? So what should we do eat healthier or eat cheaper? New Year says eat healthier. M...

How are your New Year's resolutions going so far? In an article by Forbes Health, it stated that - If you find yourself in the camp of setting lofty goals for the new year only to find yourself falling off the wagon just months (or weeks) later, rest assured that you’re not alone. In fact, failing at New Year’s resolutions is so common that there’s even a slew of (unofficial) dates commemorating s...

Don't look around and say what about me. Focus on your blessings not on other people's blessings. It is easy to look around and find people who have more....or look like they have more. Stop wasting time and stressing yourself out! You can get the desires of your heart if they are in line with God's desires for you. Say what? Yes, focus on what is most important. Go after what God would want you t...

Watch out for being the dreamer. You have come up with 100 business ideas but have never pull it off. Perhaps you say that you just didn't have the capital. But there are ways to start a business with little capital. For the 100 ideas, maybe there have been 1000 excuses why it did not work; why it won't work. Mere talk leads you to poverty. Don’t be a talker only, put in the work to make it happen...

First off, this has nothing to do with gambling. This is coming from me - joyfully expressing how I feel after God's continuous blessings brought me to another birthday....a big one. For those who don't know, my name is Keyno Hanna, and this is 'Godliness with Contentment'. Most times I talk about the Bible and money. Today there is no money, just Bible and God's grace. Happy New Year!

We are now squarely in the first days of 2024. This is typically when we go to the gym and start eating better and do whatever our resolutions are…well at least we start. The trouble is, most of us don’t continue. If we reach February 1st this is a big accomplishment since we normally stop a week or two before that from history. But if you don’t go after and obtain your dreams in 2024, then when?...

Going into 2024 (if we make it) I want to challenge you and me to take the signs down. Go after a clean slate and write on it whatever you believe God is telling you to write. In Isaiah 43:18-19, God promises to do a new thing here even greater than the Exodus.  Wow!  He says forget the past; don’t dwell on it for he is going to do a new thing even greater than the Exodus. We like to talk old stor...