The reality is this: Money is important. We live in a world where money makes everything easy, accessible and convenient. Without money, it would be difficult to get basic needs and the desires of the heart.

As important as money is, it isn't the most valuable thing. It's crucial that we understand this because so many people have been ruined -- too ruined -- by the lack of money. Whether we're running low on finances, out of savings or currently in debt, we've all experienced financial hardships at some point or continue to face it today.

Financial lack can be crippling because we don't live in an ideal world that will give you free groceries or let you off the hook of debt that easily, but through all this we know that there is a God who works beyond money.

God wants Christians to experience financial freedom. It would be a lie to think that God wants people to be poor because money just might corrupt them. That's why God's enabling Spirit comes upon us to give us a fruit of self-control -- so that we can handle money with greater wisdom.

So why do we go through financial difficulties? Because behind every journey is a process, and God puts us through that process not to make our lives more miserable, but to make our character firmer.

But in all this, we can be assured that God helps us financially. If He didn't you wouldn't even be alive to read this article today. Here are five verses to remind us that God is a financial saviour in our lives.

Psalm 65:9. You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.

Ezekiel 34:9. And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.

Matthew 6:25. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:12. Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

1 Timothy 6:10. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.