Stewardship and Priorities

Steward - One who manages or looks after another’s property

Lottery Intro:

William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988, but he was $1 million in debt within a year.

"I wish it never happened," Post said. "It was totally a nightmare."

A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a third of his winnings, and his brother was arrested for allegedly hiring a hit man to kill him in the hopes he'd inherit a share of the winnings.

After sinking money into family businesses, Post sank into debt and spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector.

"I was much happier when I was broke," he said, The Washington Post reported.

Bud lived quietly on $450 a month and food stamps until his death in 2006.

Five years after Kentucky resident David Lee Edwards won a $27 million jackpot, he was penniless and living in a storage shed with his wife. The couple squandered their fortune on the typical goodies that sink so many lucky winners. They bought dozens of high-end cars, mansions and a plane.

They blew through $3 million in the first three months. By the end of the first year, $12 million was in the wind. By 2006, the couple had spiraled into drug addiction; and, just 12 years after the win changed the course of his life, David Lee Edwards died alone and broke in hospice care at the age of 58.

Billions of people live a life thinking once they get money, they will know what to do with it. One of the biggest tricks is that the way you handle money is how you grow money.

What are some reasons people don’t want to talk about money?

does ignorance sav

ASK: What are some things that people give other people control over/ responsibility over- to steward…..?

loan out their car

the money decisions of their retirement plan

house sit; watch dogs ect….

ASK: Have you ever been given stewardship/responsibility over something that belonged to someone else?

Psalm 24:1–2 “The earth belongs to the Lord, and its fullness, the world, and those who dwell in it. For He has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.”

Everything we have belongs to God.

1 Chronicles 29:14 ““But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so freely as this? For everything comes from You, even from Your own hand we have given to You.”

ASK: Who is the wealthiest person in the world?

What is his net worth? (Net worth) - if you were to sell everything he had? 270 Billion

These verses hit alot harder once we see what happened right before it

David said this after giving over 320 BILLION dollars worth of gold over to God……..

Colossians 3:23–25 “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ. But he who does wrong will receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality.”

Christian Stewardship is about using what God has given us to further glorify Him and do His work.

Priorities: Where you spend your Time and Money tell where your priorities are.

Leadership Playbook: Leadership lives within their means when everyone else keeps up with the Jone’s.

1 Corinthians 4:1–2 MEV

Let a man so regard us as the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

These verses here are specifically saying that we as Christians have been given something extremely special - the truth about how to have a relationship with God, we therefore need to be good stewards of what we have been given and pass it on to others.

priorities

ASK: what are some priorities that adults have with Money?

God

provison for family?

mortgage\rent

water bill

car payment

insurance

Maintenance

Food

education/college

retirement

My Dad works with a man in his late 40’s and he pays a crazy amount in rent every month, but he also has a collection of designer shoes which he brags about at work. Each pair of shoes can be 300/400 dollars.

There are people who live paycheck to paycheck every month and they do not have to.

money can be your master or you can master your money….