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The Effective Manager
Jesus’ parable of the talents.
Illustrates the message.
We are supposed to be servants/stewards/managers of God’s resources.
This has not changed.
The consequence is that we are called to be good managers of God’s resources.
This means we need to:
Think Like a Godly Servant.
God owns everything and reserves the right to give money and possessions to his servants.
God's ownership is referred to in:
We must decide to use what God gives to serve him and bring him glory rather than to simply satisfy our desires.
Understanding God's ownership gives us balance.
If our income is up, we praise God and serve him faithfully without pride or greed.
Moses taught:
Even iIf our income is down, we trust God, serve him with what we have, and expect him to provide for us.
Thinking like a godly servant helps us keep materialistic desires in check.
When we know God is the owner, we will want to please him with our spending decisions and guard against selfish desires.
Large debts and overspending damage many people today.
Before-making a purchase, we should think, Does God want me to spend his money on this item?
God wants us to enjoy the blessings he gives (1 Tim.
6:17).
God wants us to make spending decisions that are good for us and his kingdom.
This means we must:
Act Like a Trusted Manager.
Right thinking leads to right actions.
Once we start thinking like a godly servant, we will know how to act like a trusted manager of God's resources.
Our money and our hearts are tied together:
To have a more spiritual heart, we must make spiritual decisions about where our money goes.
Giving to God is a spiritual ministry.
If we want God to consider us trusted managers, then we must give generously to support his work
The Law of the Harvest:
We can be both cheerful and generous because we know God will bless our efforts to serve through our finances.
Reading 1 Corinthians 16:1, 2 gives practical, inspired directions for keeping our financial management on track.
Give regularly-"on the first day of every week."
Give personally-"let each one of you" (no one is left out).
Give systematically-"set aside" (there is planning involved).
Give proportionately.... "in keeping with his income."
Feel Like a Precious Heir.
God wants to train us because He has big plans for each one of us.
God uses money and possessions to prepare us for his coming kingdom.
Since God owns everything and can make anything, it's obvious that he could do all the work without any help from us.
Will we take God at His Word and trust Him?
The story of the poor widow shows God's provision
The widow demonstrated personal faith and trust.
She gave all she had and trusted God to provide.
We must take God's word seriously like the widow did.
Even though the text doesn't actually tell what happened to the widow, this woman sowed generously (2 Cor.
9:6).
Consider these questions:
Did God take care of her?
Did he pour out blessings on her, or did she stay destitute?
(See Mal.
3:9, 10; Luke 6:38; 2 Cor.
9:10, 11.)
Answers will affect our willingness to trust God, too.
If he can take care of a widow who gave all she had, surely he can and will take care of us!
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