Good Stewards

Stewardship: the management of the property of another.

God supernaturally blesses us when we return to God what He requires.

He also blesses us when we manage His resources according to His principles. 

We can live with no financial stress.  It comes when you realize that what you have is not yours. 

Are we going to return to God what He has given us worse off than when He gave it to us?

Please read Matthew 25:14-29 NKJV    

Matthew 25:21 (NKJV)

21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

This is the only place where well done is used in judgement, and it is in reference to how we manage God's money. 

God is going to judge you by what He gave you.  

  

1. I am not the owner.

Psalms 50:12 NKJV

“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

1 Corinthians 10:26 NASB

For the earth is the Lord's, and all it contains.

2. I am a steward.

Deuteronomy 8:18 NKJV

“And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Stewardship: to protect and expand the resources of another.

You are God's bank, and He has invested His deposits in you for Him to retrieve later as He directs.  

3. Am I a good steward?

Luke 12:16-21 NKJV

16 Then He (Jesus) spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. 17 And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18 So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ 21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

He didn't get rebuked not for earning it, or expanding his storage.  He got rebuked for thinking that it was his.  

What is the Holy Spirit saying to me through this message?

Robert Morris, Gateway Church

http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/life/events/beyond-blessed-a-gateway-series/session/2019/01/26/good-stewards