TRUST GOD WITH YOUR MONEY!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY MAY 22, 2021.

SUBJECT : TRUST GOD WITH YOUR MONEY!

Memory verse: "He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much." (Luke 16 vs 10.)

READ: Luke 16 vs 11 - 13:

16:11: Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 

16:12: And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own? 

16:13: No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 

INTIMATION:

The context of the Scripture we read today is Jesus saying that the least area of trusting God is money. What an incredible statement! It is completely contrary to the way most believers think. Our integrity often meets its match in money matters. God calls us to be honest even in small details we could easily rationalize away. Such small details God has equated with money. 

Mammon means money. Jesus said that trusting God in the area of your money is the least area of trust, and you can't do greater things without doing the lesser things first. If you can't lift five pounds weight, then you certainly shouldn't go out and try to lift a hundred pounds weight. You have to start with what is least and work your way up. If you can't walk ten paces, then you can't climb a mountain. 

Jesus' teaching clearly shows that trusting God with your money is the list use of your faith. If you can't do that which is least, how then can you trust Him for the greater things. Jesus called money "that which is least" (Luke 16 vs 10). Now think about it; if you aren't trusting God with your money, then you are deceiving yourself to think you are trusting Him with your eternal salvation or anything else. That is profound!

Have you ever thought of why Jesus called money 'unrighteous?' This is because money has the power to take God's place in your life. Most people cling to their money and possessions for fear of loosing them and not getting another. Clinging to your money out of fear that God won't provide for you, and then trying to say you are believing God for other things, like healing or restoration, is like saying, "I can't jump three feet, but I will compete in long jump in Olympics. It doesn't work that way. 

Though everything has been provided for in the Scriptures, but you can't have them because probably you won't trust God for big things until you can trust Him for little things as money first. Trusting God with your money is much more important than it has been given credit. Many people are trying to bypass this issue and move on to bigger things, but it won't work. Just like other areas of life, you have to start at the beginning and work your way up. 

Remember, Jesus said that you can't serve two masters (Luke 16 vs 13.) You can't trust yourself when it comes to money and then trust God with everything else. It isn't effective to compartmentalize your faith so that you are trying to trust God in one area, but not in others. If you are going to trust God, then trust Him all the way. The same God who promised eternal life when you confess Jesus as your Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10 vs 9), also said to give and it would be given back to you. (Luke 6 vs 38.)

Heaven's riches are far more valuable than earthly wealth. But if you are not trustworthy with your money that is equated to that which is the least, you will be unfit to handle the vast riches of God's kingdom that starts with the gift of salvation. If your integrity slips off you in small matters as money, it will eventually fail you in crucial decisions also.

If you aren't seeing greater things come to pass in your life, the reason may very well be that you aren't trusting God with "that which is least." Believing for your family to be restored, for healing to manifest in your body, are all infinitely greater than believing for money. If you haven't started trusting God with your money yet, how can you go beyond that and trust Him to heal your body? How can you trust God to give you eternal life, but not trust Him to provide for your physical needs?

Not trusting God with your money, in my considered opinion, is greed. The apostle Paul’s warning on greed, in First Timothy 6 vs 6 - 10, is as clear as the day: “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food, and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, foe which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.’ Be wise!

Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with the spirit of complete trust in, and obedience to You in all things, even in my money, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!