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BudgetingKnow your financial condition
To be able to provide for needs
Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and attend to your herds; for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the herbs of the mountains are gathered, the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. You shall have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance of your maidservants. (Proverbs 27:23-27)
To be able to successfully accomplish objectives
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, (Luke 14:28-29)
Our lives should exhibit order
Let all things be done decently and in order. (1 Corinthians 14:40)
Lord is not a God of confusionr
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. (1 Corinthians 14:33)
Planning encouraged
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. (Proverbs 20:18)
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. (Proverbs 21:5)
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. (Proverbs 24:3-4)