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All right.

tonight, I want to talk about the subject of stewarding the subject of stewarding, stewarding our life stewarding our life and by putting our life I'm speaking of managing and balancing God's gifts that we received to an able us to invest our lives in that which has ever lasting significance.

Okay so if you will take your Bibles turn to the book of 1st Peter 1st Peter and chapter 4.

1st Peter chapter 4.

Starting in verse 9 says, be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

As each one has received a gift.

Minister it to one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. if anyone speaks let him speak as the Oracles of God, if anyone ministers let him do it as with the ability which God supplies That in all things, God may be glorified through Christ, Jesus, to whom belong, the glory, and the Dominion forever and ever.

Amen.

Now, if you will take your Bibles and turn to Colossians Colossians Chapter 3.

Colossians chapter 3.

Starting in verse 23.

And whatsoever you do.

Do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men 24 knowing that of the Lord.

You shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ.

if you walk into any bookstore, You're going to find dozens maybe hundreds of books on life management.

Right there are books on organizing there's books on scheduling budgeting prioritizing administrating how to set good goals or manage people, right?

The list can go on and on.

And obviously life management really is a popular and necessary skill.

It is but the authors of these books attempt to teach you how to be successful by living out your dreams, They encourage you to dream big and then use the management skills to become the best you that you can be.

To reach your full potential of leadership.

And growth.

Okay.

However, we're talkin about stewarding Stewarding, our life is a different concept, all together.

Is a house that well rather than focusing on self-fulfillment.

And personal Legacy.

God's people start by recognizing that life is a gift from God.

And he has entrusted it to us to be good stewards for him.

and in addition to that, every resource we have Comes from God, doesn't it?

I mean, our time.

Comes from God.

Our finances come from God.

Our health comes from God, the relationships that we have, from God every component of our life.

Is a resource given from God. .

And these resources are tools.

Really their tools that should be used to accomplish God's plan for our lives.

one author writes this, he says our approach to the resources that God has given us will determine our success and fulfilling God's purpose for our lives.

And there are really three basic methods.

God's people use to appropriate the resources, God has given to them.

Read message.

Squandering.

Spending.

And stewarding, okay, squandering spending, and stewarding.

Say okay.

Squandering, what is squandering?

Squandering to squander?

God, resources means this

That we indiscriminate Lee waste them and purposeless living.

No purpose.

This approach is rampant in our churches today.

People around us, even with the knowledge even with the knowledge that they have concerning a Divine Purpose for living.

Knowing that we have a Divine Purpose for living, they Coast through life with the motto, Lil Lily.

Not my problem.

And in the process, they waste their lives.

I missed the boat.

Some squanders.

Are referred to as directionless.

Wasters, they have no Direction.

They just throw everything to the wind, right?

Hey, we only live once, right?

How many hear that?

That's a common saying.

but on the other hand, some squatters Squander their resources by using the gifts that God bless them with in life, but they use them for less than what it was designed to accomplished.

I'm not talking about.

The one the person that has no direction I'm talking about the most successful.

Sometimes the most successful and disciplined individuals who are investing their resources into nothing but selfish and temporal Pursuits.

At the end of the day, they mean nothing.

Nothing.

When you consider that God's people, we have the opportunity to live successfully with a Divine Mission and to invest our lives in Eternal purposes.

To do anything.

Less is a tragic waste.

It is a waste.

Squandering, God's blessings.

He says, number 2. Spending.

Spending our resources.

Opposite, end of the spectrum from the sconce.

Wanderers are the Spenders.

Those who spend God's resources without allowing them to be replenished.

Is dangerous.

Often the motivation is, right?

We want to give selflessly to others, right?

But many times the method is wrong.

We we move.

Speed Ahead in our own means of reasoning and self-will in order to generate results.

Can't you just got to do that?

Going to do this?

Got to do that.

Realizing that we are failing to depend upon.

And we ignore his built-in cycles of rest and renewal.

How many of you can relate to living on fumes?

Oh man, it's a few.

Come on.

I mean we've all been that, right?

I mean it's whenever someone sees you and every time they see you during that time frame, you got a cup of coffee.

And you're just, you know, right?

And what happens when you do that for a long.

Of time?

Invite Tammy.

Crash.

Right.

At some point.