Lessons with Jesus
Financial Freedom by God's Design
Not the Church's Version
A biblical guide to money, wealth and building generational legacy, and to what happens when financial freedom stops being the finish line and becomes a tool for faithfulness.
- Length
- 459 pages
- Published
- August 24, 2026
- ISBN
- 979-8194462933
About the book
What it is
Financial Freedom by God's Design is a faith-centered guide to rebuilding life, wisely stewarding money, and using financial freedom as a tool for Kingdom purpose. This biblical guide to money, wealth, and building generational legacy explores the true meaning of ministry, the purpose of work, and the responsibility that comes with financial increase.
Readers will learn why compassion must be joined with structure, why generosity must be supported by stewardship, and why financial freedom is not freedom from responsibility, but freedom for responsibility. The book offers practical insights into building sustainable ministry models, especially in transitional, recovery, and sober-living housing.
More than a financial book, this is a call to live differently: to seek first the Kingdom of God, steward what He places in your hands, and become a light to others through faith, service, wisdom, and love. If you have ever wondered how your testimony, work, money, and calling can come together for God's purpose, this book will help you see that financial freedom is not the finish line; it is a tool for faithfulness.
Major themes
The ideas the book works through
Stewardship over accumulation
What it means to steward what God places in your hands, rather than simply to gather it.
Compassion joined with structure
Why generosity has to be supported by stewardship if it is going to last.
The purpose of work
Work, calling and testimony treated as one subject rather than three.
Freedom for responsibility
Financial freedom framed not as freedom from responsibility, but freedom for it.
Sustainable ministry models
Practical insight into transitional, recovery and sober-living housing that can carry its own weight.
Generational legacy
Building something that outlasts you, and the responsibility that comes with financial increase.
Who it is for
Written with these readers in mind
- Anyone rebuilding after a hard season and trying to do it on a foundation that holds
- People running or starting a ministry, particularly in transitional, recovery or sober-living housing
- Readers who want a view of money grounded in scripture rather than in prosperity
- Anyone who has wondered how their testimony, work, money and calling fit together
Faith
Where the money question starts
The book treats money as a matter of discipleship rather than technique. Its argument is that seeking first the Kingdom of God is not separate from the question of what you do with what is in your hands. It is the same question, asked properly.
Responsibility
What stewardship asks of you
Compassion has to be joined with structure, and generosity has to be supported by stewardship, or neither one lasts. Financial increase is treated as something that raises your obligations rather than retires them.
Financial freedom is not freedom from responsibility, but freedom for responsibility.
From Financial Freedom by God's Design: Not the Church's Version
Also in the series
Twelve Steps To Financial Security
Twelve Steps To Financial Security came first, published July 15, 2024, in the same Lessons with Jesus series. Readers who want the earlier, step-by-step treatment of the same subject usually start there.
About the author
Kelly Riggs
Later in life he met a new set of challenges. During the looming effects of COVID-19 he became unemployed and lost his home. It was in that season that he transformed his life through education and started to write. Within two years he was named an American Best-Selling Author, an outcome he attributes to the unwavering Grace of God.
His mission extends beyond the written word. He organizes The United Re-Entry Foundation, Inc., fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves. A significant amount of book sales goes toward ministry and helping those in need.
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