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Stress Free Finances
1 Chronicles 29:11 – 12 (NLT) 11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things. 12Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.
Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV) 20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
The Bible is the greatest manual of all time on finances or money.
1 out of every 10 verses in the New Testament deals with money or a tithe.
16 out of 38 of the parables deal with the handling of money or possessions.
In the Bible there are approximately 500 verses on prayer, fewer than 500 verses on faith and more than 2,350 verses on how to handle money.
Stress free finances begins with trusting God with His money.
1 Chronicles 29:11 – 12 (NLT) 11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things. 12Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.
Soul Tattoo: If I want to walk in the freedom that God desires for me to experience in my finances, the foundation is the tithe and responsible stewardship.
Stress Free finances happen when I ensure that I have a firm foundation with my finances.
Tithing + Responsible Stewardship = Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom = Stress Free Finances
Proverbs 22:7b (NIV) …and the borrower is servant to the lender.
- I am a steward with the Masters money.
STEWARD: a person who manages another’s property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
Malachi 3:7-12 (NIV) 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8“Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.
“But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. 10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,” says the LORD Almighty. 12“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty.
- Tithe = A tenth part or a tenth.
- Tithing = Giving the first 10% of my income to God through my local church.
God’s plan for giving includes:
- Tithes…Offerings…Alms…
“It’s not equal giving, it’s equal sacrifice”…
“If every Christian in America would tithe not give one dollar over…just tithe we would have enough money in the American church to feed and educate every human being on the planet and have between $60 and $70 billion dollars left over to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That represents nearly and additional 25% of what all Americans…Christians or otherwise…currently give in all types of private philanthropy.”
Soul Tattoo: If I want to walk in the freedom that God desires for me to experience in my finances, the foundation is the tithe.
Stress Free finances happen when I ensure that I have a firm foundation with my finances.
Tithing + Responsible Stewardship = Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom = Stress Free Finances.
1.) A firm foundation in my finances starts with the tithe.
Romans 10:17 (ESV) 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Genesis 14:18-20 (ESV) 18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) 19 And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Leviticus 27:30 (ESV) 30 “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.
Matthew 23:23 (NIV) 23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
2.) Tithing increases my faith in God.
Hebrews 11:6 (ESV) 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Malachi 3:10 (NLT) 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!
3.) Tithing is the best investment that I can make.
Malachi 3:10 (NLT) 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!
Soul Tattoo: If I want to walk in the freedom that God desires for me to experience in my finances, the foundation is the tithe and responsible stewardship.