DEVELOPING FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP IN FINANCES

20-05-2018

BACKGROUND

 According to Forbes.com, Grandwhich Co-Founder of Trinity Financial Sports and Entertainment, he says “I get my Financial Guidance from the Bible. Money and possessions are second most referenced topic in the bible. Money is mentioned in the bible 800 Times and the message is clear DEBT is not God`s will Plan”
We must Have A Correct perspective About FINANCES:
 -You need Money To Pay School Fees
 -Need Money To pay Rent for Your House
 -The Reason Why You Go to Work is MONEY
 -The Reason why people start businesses is Money
 -You cannot marry your child off if Lobola (bride price) has not been paid. Money is involved.
 -You need Money To Buy Anything in this World.
 – 98% Marriage of All marital problems are Money Caused either too much or too little.
 – You need money to hold crusades
 So when we teach biblical principles about MONEY in Church, why does the Enemy get upset? Haggai 2:8 tell us that All Silver and Gold is for the Lord.
 Whoever does not teach on the importance MONEY, They have robbed you. God wants to prosper YOU in Jesus name.
The Currency in the Spiritual Realm is POWER. Money is the Currency here on Earth. It is the language the world speaks, so we all must learn, practice and speaks it very well.

According to Dr Theo Walmarans, biblical Prosperity is the ability to use God`s ABILITY and PROVISIONS to meet the needs of Human Kind regardless of what those needs may be.

LUKE 12:13-21.

 We see two brothers after their father died; one selfishly took everything for himself without sharing with his brother.
 Our Lord Jesus Christ narrates a story about a certain foolish rich man.
 God blessed him with a very fertile land, which produced a bumper harvest.
 He said what should I do since I have no enough room for all MY Crops.
 He built bigger and better barns for wheat and other goods.
 The problem began when he said, “I will sit back and say to myself, my friend you have enough stored away for years to come.
 Take it easy! Eat and drink.”
 God the owner of life and the earth said to him, YOU FOOL! You will die this very night. Who will get everything you have worked for?
 Jesus said that person is a fool to store earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.

FOUR VITAL KEYS WE MUST KNOW ABOUT KINGDOM PROSPERITY:

1. GOD GIVES US ABILITY TO GET WEALTH:
 A certain rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops (17)
 God gave this man a good and fertile land and also bumper harvest. The earth and all in it, belongs to the Lord.
 The Job you have, that intelligence to write books, to do scientific research, inventions and discoveries is all the ability from God.
 That multi million-dollar investment (s), it is God who has given you the ability to even conceive and run it.
 In Deuteronomy 8:18, we must never forget that it is God who has given us that power and ability to sing, work, get wealth and do all manner of wonders.
 The major reason God entrusts us with the power and ability to GET (already there) not to MAKE (start from scratch), is in order to establish His Covenant with us.

2. GOD IS LOOKING FOR FAITHFUL STEWARDS TO BLESS AND BE A BLESSING
 He said I will sit back and say to myself, you have enough take it easy, eat and drink and be merry (19).
 God is looking for faithful stewards, not small hearts with big egos, so that he can show them where and how to get wealth. In turn they, they will help the poor, clothe the widows, pay schools fees for fatherless children, pay tithe for God`s work to move forward.
 The world is full of selfish people, they cannot evangelize, the reason they go to church is to show off their clothes, big cars, egos, fancy shoes. That is nonsense before God.
 God is waiting for his children to fully understand his Kingdom business.
 Matthew 6:33 Seek First the KINGDOM of GOD (Souls, tithing, helping the poor, crusades, provide food security and all solutions the world is looking for)
 If all you care about is YOU, YOURSELF and YOU ALONE, God will take away everything you have.
 Say Father I humble my self to receive your ability and power to GET wealth and be a covenant and Faithful Steward with you in Jesus name

3. WHEN YOU STOP GIVING YOU START DYING:
 God said you FOOL, tonight I will take your life.(20)
 The only sea that receives and never gives out is called the DEAD SEA.
 Any person who gives to God, others, the church and community, can never die before their time.
 Your works will sustain you and speak for you in this life and life to come
 Works will not take you to heaven but they will speak for you. Dorcus is a great example in Acts 9:36-41
 If you do not pay tithe you are not living, if you do not give to others you are a dead person existing
 If your mind is programmed to RECEIVE ONLY, you need Help. It is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35).
 Father baptize me with grace to give more than I receive in Jesus name

4. GOD WANTS YOU FIRST TO HAVE A RICH RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM AND BE WEALTH TOO:
 A person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God (21).
 The foundation of lasting wealth is a strong relationship with God.
 If you are genuinely kingdom minded, you would be wealthy. Abraham A friend of God was old and blessed in all things (Genesis 24:1).
 Any person who loves God must never die young unless they choose to.
 Poverty is a sign that God is not involved.
 God is able to bless you and I abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all sufficiency/all we need, you will abound in every good works (2 Corinthians 9:8).
 Children of God, the blesser is God and he wants to bless you so that you will do good at all times.
 Father help me to know you. Bless you with all I need so that I may do Good to my family, church, nation and the world in Jesus name.

Prayer Points

1. Father in Heaven, give me a heart that seeks to know you fully above all else in Jesus name
2. Father give me great power and ability to get wealth and do good in Jesus name
3. Father I make myself available as a faithful steward in my career, ministry, finances, marriage and in all I do in Jesus name
4. Father give me grace to do good all the time in Jesus name