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The Power to Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom Paperback – January 1, 2009

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Presents a life-changing financial challenge for readers at all levels of financial security, urging them not to buy anything other than necessities and to stop using their credit cards for 21 days--a step in breaking their yearning to buy and the need to consume. Original.
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Prosperity is part of God's plan for us. This book gives us biblical principles and practical tools to achieve the prosperity God promises. Too often the greatest reason folks are in financial trouble is because they shop to buy things they really don't need with money they don't have.

Using biblical principles, Singletary teaches readers the essentials of becoming financially fit by putting them on a 21-day financial fast. This financial fast requires that readers stop using their credit cards for 21 days. They have to refrain from buying anything but the bare essentials, such as food and medicine.

They can't shop. They can't even window shop. They can't eat out. They can't use credit.

This financial fast will help readers achieve financial deliverance. They will break the bond that shopping or unwise credit card usage has had on their lives. Even readers who consider themselves good stewards over their money will be surprised how much money they spend even as they bargain shop.

Singletary gives the reasons why handling your money following biblical principles will lead to prosperity. If people had followed core financial principles outlined in the Bible--the borrower is slave to the lender--we wouldn't be in the mess we are in right now.

As Singletary speaks at more and more churches, she is often asked for a book that frames personal finance in terms of good stewardship using Scriptures. That's not something I was free to do in my first book.
That's where this book is different. She hits people hard and makes them think; for example, if they are Christian, are they handling their money as they should? Are they rejecting tithing because they truly don't believe in it or because they are just too broke to see the blessing behind it?

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan; 1st edition (January 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 227 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310320380
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310320388
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Michelle Singletary is a personal finance columnist for The Washington Post. Her award-winning column, "The Color of Money," appears twice a week in dozens of newspapers across the country and is syndicated by The Washington Post News Service and Syndicate.

She is a frequent contributor to various NPR programs including “1A,” “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered.” She regularly appears on CNN’s daily and weekend programs, including New Day, and “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” She has also appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” and PBS. For two years, she hosted her own national television program, “Singletary Says,” on TV One.

Singletary is the author of four books: “What To Do With Your Money When Crisis Hits: A Survival Guide,” “The 21 Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom,” a perennial Amazon bestseller; “Spend Well, Live Rich: How to Live Well With the Money You Have, and “Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich.”

In 2022, she was the first-place winner of a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Best in Business award for commentary (The IRS Is a Hot Mess). In 2021, she won a prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for commentary for “Sincerely, Michelle,” a 10-part series on race and money. The series also landed her the 2021 National Association of Black Journalist award for commentary. In 2020, The Washington Post celebrated her long and distinguished career at the paper with the Eugene Meyer Award, its highest journalistic honor.

Singletary is the director of Prosperity Partners Ministry, a monthly personal finance program she founded at her church, First Baptist Church of Glenarden. As part of this ministry, she and her husband also volunteer to teach financial literacy to incarcerated individuals in various prisons in her home state of Maryland. Singletary is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and she earned a master's degree in business and management at Johns Hopkins University.

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5.0 out of 5 stars In your face truth! A financial book for the grown folks and the mature.
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2012
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You have to be ready to really deal with your finances, and if you are not you will pass up a book that will help you put your finances in order so that you can have a better financial world.

This book will set you straight and on the right path to cut your consumption rate. I have attempted to reduce our consumption rate before and we stopped for a short period of time, but begin consuming out of control again.

I came across this book and decided to purchase a copy after reading the table of contents. We have really had to begin standing in our truth. This book is so in your face that, you will want to get your financial lives in order. Chapter 8 entitlement, was so in your face. Many people really do have more things and value things more than people and saving for those rainy days is a must. Consumption reduction is a must.

This book is written with such excellence and information, even solutions. We have told so many people about this book and many have also purchased this book.

How are we doing on the fast, well I will tell you that we will do the fast again next month and so on until there is complete order. And we will continue to reduce our consumption rate. My husband if very happy that I finally see what he has been telling me all along.

If you want to reduce your consumption, bring order to your finances and even your house hold. This book is for you. We are completing this book with the Daniel fast so not only are we on a financial fast but the Daniel Fast as well. Glory be to God for placing this book in our hands. There is so much financial information, and I love the way the book takes you to biblical scripture to show you exactly what the Author is talking about. This book is well written, completed in excellence, and will make your spirit come to the truth.. Many people probably are giving negative reviews because you have to be honest, face the truth. You have to look at the women/man in the mirror. As the saying goes, the truth hurts.

I am so glad that we now have a guide to help us reduce consumption and give direction for your financial life. If you are ready to leave an inheritance for your children, accountability, peace, honesty, free from bondage, control of your financial affairs, sweet sleep, order, etc. This book is for you.

This is a book to pass on to your children, to place in high school students hands, birthday gifts, gift for couples, this is a great book to use as a tool for helping individuals to get their finances in order. A book for those that are in financial shape and people who are not in financial shape. This book is a great just because gift, just because it is time to get your financial affairs in control. What if you fall off of the fast, dust yourself off and start the fast again until you get it right.. You are your best interest and it is time to put you and your finances in order.

Well Back to swallowing the hard truth.. But truth that will set you free. If you pass this by, you could very well pass your financial future by. Don't wait to purchase this book and don't do any more research on this book. Everything that you need to get your financial affairs in order can be found in this book and more. This book is good food for your mind, spirit, and finances.

I would also like to say that I have read many finance books, Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman, David Bach, etc.. all of them are great books, but this book stands in it's own class. This book breaks the bondage of spend spend spend.... It breaks the mindset of consume consume consume etc... We will continue with this fast just as we do the Daniel fast every year.. Great information to grow you with your finances

Journey to real freedom.
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Kaye
5.0 out of 5 stars A Financial Blessing
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2011
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Our pastor informed us we would begin a 21 days financial fast and to pick up the book, "The Power to Prosper" by Michelle Singletary. I thought I would read a few pages before we actually started the fast. The book was so awesome and a learning experience that I could not put it down. After reading the book, I was so amazed at the Biblical scriptures and principles applied to the book to help me become a better steward over my finances. I stopped Tithing because of a financial crunch I was going through. Wow, I have just received a wake up call to my spending habits and ways I can cut back. I always consider myself as a woman who knew how to manage my money and was not a big spender. I didn't believe it was a fact of mismanaging my money I believed it was just the fact that I didn't make enough to pay the necessities of my life to live stress free. Until I picked up this book and applied the principles, and prayer, and sublication to my life style. I have already seen a difference in my finances and a promise of prosperity just by following the 21 days financial fast. Every since I stopped tithing it has been my prayer of being a faithful and obedience tither and stepping back out there on faith regardless of my financial struggles. I am not yet 100 percent debt free but I have been able to pay off a couple of debts and be consistent in paying my bills on time. Now as I read this book again with my church I am excited to include after each chapter the daily assignments that will help me to apply what I have read and learned. It has truly made a tremendous difference in my life and a better perspective on my finances. I can truly say now that even on the same amount of money I was making when I started this Fast, on this same amount I can become a Tither. The Power to Prosper is an awesome book and an awakening moment. Thank you so much and I recommend this book to many people who think they can't make it off of their paycheck.
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CONCHITA F Lawrence
4.0 out of 5 stars Needed!
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014
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I saw the title and read the excerpt and thought this will be a nice book to jump start me, well, it is and it isn't. While very informative and i love the testimonials. But it is very restrictive in how you should proceed with not using any cards not credit which i understand but not debit either. In this day and age, no one I know really caries cash around because that can be dangerous but that's what this book recommends. it's OK, but not exactly what i was looking for but will continue to read and try to use some of it's principles to continue on the right path for prospering in my financial freedom.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good value
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2020
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Very inspirational. Thank you.
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