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Randy Alcorn
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May 30 - May 30, 2018
Being saved from your sins is not about you giving to God; it’s about God giving to you.
Because there’s a fundamental connection between our spiritual lives and how we think about and handle money. We may try to divorce our faith and finances, but God sees them as inseparable.
No, we aren’t to pity this man; we’re to envy
Jesus says: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth.” Why? Because earthly treasures are bad? No. Because they won’t last.
Jesus wants us to store up treasures. He’s just telling us to stop storing them in the wrong place and start storing them in the right place!
God expects and commands us to act out of enlightened self-interest.
A steward manages assets for the owner’s benefit. He carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It’s his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then to carry out his will.
One of our central spiritual decisions is determining a reasonable amount to live on. Whatever that amount is—and it will legitimately vary from person to person—we shouldn’t hoard or indiscriminately spend the excess. After all, it’s His, not ours.
“God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7). However, the cheerfulness often comes during and after the act of obedience, not before it.
If we fulfill our obligation to God first, we invite His blessing to help us pay our debts to people. But when we rob God to pay people, we rob ourselves of God’s blessing.
Here’s a six-step plan to help you apply the Treasure Principle,
TREASURE PRINCIPLE KEYS
