MAXIMIZING YOUR FINANCIAL POTENTIAL (PT1)

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1. Financial Priority

"Honour the Lord with your possessions, And with the first fruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine."
~Prov. 3:9-10

This verse could read like this... "Honour the Lord with your:
Possessions, what you currently have AND with First Fruits, first part of ALL your income and ALL your revenue."

2 STEPS In GIVING TO GOD:

1. Obedient Giving – Our tithe (The first 10% of everything we earn)
2. Generous Giving – Our offering

• TITHING is simply returning the 10% of my income to God
• GENEROSITY is giving to him above the 10% - giving from our possessions

"But just as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us--see that you also Excel in this Grace of Giving."
~2 Corinthians 8:7

OBEDIENT AND GENEROUS GIVING,
PRODUCES PROSPEROUS LIVING

There are 2 RESULTS for LIVING

1. Barns will have Plenty – Barns are for your future – saving/ giving
2. Vats will Overflow – what your work produces – your work will be blessed

2. Root Financial Problem

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has." ~Prov. 21:20

'Devours' means "consumes quickly and without thought."

We don’t have a wealth problem, we have a spending problem!

1. We need to be MORE THANKFUL for what we HAVE
2. We need to be MORE RESPONSIBLE for what we DO with it

PART of that PROCESS is to challenge us

NOT to be CONSUMERS but to BE GIVERS!

We think twice about giving and once about spending.  We need to turn that around and think once about giving and twice about spending!

• We don’t want to be THOUGHTLESS SPENDERS
• We want to be THOUGHTFUL GIVERS

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS to ask ourselves:

1. IS THIS PURCHASE PRACTICAL RIGHT NOW?
2. WILL THIS PURCHASE IMPACT MY ABILITY TO GIVE GENEROUSLY THIS WEEK?

"You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God."
~2 Corinthians 9:11

You Are Blessed To Be A Blessing!

• Give Generously
• Spend Carefully
• Live Wisely

3. Financial Potential

How to Walk in Your MAXIMIZED Financial Potential 

• focus and work hard ~Prov. 10:4
• be loyal and faithful ~Prov. 3:3
• live for God and love others ~Prov. 21:21
• be honest ~Prov. 28:10
• be willing to receive instruction from GOD and others ~Prov. 16:20
• positive attitude and actions ~Prov. 4:23

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