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Stewardship: What is God Calling you to Do? |
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Everything in heaven and earth is yours, O Lord, you are exalted as head over all. Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first of all your produce. If therefore you are not faithful in the use of worldly wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other…You cannot serve both God and money. The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things (food and clothing) shall be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much; and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You drink? …the King will answer and say, To the extent you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. |