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| Rev Dr Kow Shih Ming |
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God will meet all your needs
Wesley Methodist Church Singapore
30 June 2013
Text Phil 4:19
2 Cor 9
Phil 4:19 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
NB all your needs NOT all your wants
What a wonderful promise: God supplying all my needs
PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE PROMISE
THERE IS A PREMISE
IF you do A
THEN God will do B
IF you have a NEED
you must plant a SEED
Eg farmer needs crop from barren field.
Will he get it if he only prays about it?
Will he get it if he only grumbles about it?
No
He has to sow seeds
He has to give out what he has in order to get back.
You need to give out what you have.
The plan to meet your own needs
begins with giving in faith.
God's way is not man's way.
Man's way is to
Borrow, use credit card
Work harder
Beg
Steal
God's plan is for you give out first:
God will give back
When you have a need
It is time for you to sow seeds
Applies to every area in your life
Whether it is
Anger: Criticisms
Or
Love Kindness
It will come back in abundance
To gain energy you have to give it away
Does sitting on a couch eating potato chips give you energy? No!
Does going out to exercise give you energy? Yes!
PROCEDURE
The giving must be paired with the right attitude
There is a right way to plant seeds and a wrong way.
To gain energy you have to give it away
Does sitting on a couch eating potato chips give you energy? No!
Does going out to exercise give you energy? Yes!
PROCEDURE
The giving must be paired with the right attitude
There is a right way to plant seeds and a wrong way.
There is a right way to give money to God and a wrong way.
God does not need your money.
All your money is actually God's money anyway
It is on loan to you.
What God wants is your heart.
Since money is such a big part of your life,
God wants to part of it also.
God does not need your money.
All your money is actually God's money anyway
It is on loan to you.
What God wants is your heart.
Since money is such a big part of your life,
God wants to part of it also.
God wants all of you.
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV
DECIDED
ENTHUSIASTIC
VOLUNTARY
CHEERFUL
1) Give what you have decided to give.
Thoughtful
Pray about it
Deliberate over it
Plan it
(not impuslive)
2) Give enthusiasticaly
willingly
not grudgingly
not reluctantly
3) Give voluntarily,
not in response to pressure
4) Give cheerfullly.
The Greek word in the text rendered to us as "cheerful" is
Strong's Concordance 2431 hilaros hil-ar-os'
propitious or merry ("hilarious"), i.e. prompt or willing:--cheerful.
from which we gett he English word Hilarious
The Bible does not say "Give until it hurts"
If you have not enjoyed the joy of giving you have not given enough.
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10 NIV
[Editorial note: this points to eternal values rather than material prosperity LSM]
To help you give your money to God remember
A) It is not yours but belongs to God anyway
B) God guarantees it will be given back to you
Because God wants to grow your heart
and will give back to you more
so that you can be more generous
God wants to stretch your faith
Grow your heart
Break the hold onf money on you
Therefore tithe and give
And God is able to make ALL grace abound in you
Thoughtful
Pray about it
Deliberate over it
Plan it
(not impuslive)
2) Give enthusiasticaly
willingly
not grudgingly
not reluctantly
3) Give voluntarily,
not in response to pressure
4) Give cheerfullly.
The Greek word in the text rendered to us as "cheerful" is
Strong's Concordance 2431 hilaros hil-ar-os'
propitious or merry ("hilarious"), i.e. prompt or willing:--cheerful.
from which we gett he English word Hilarious
The Bible does not say "Give until it hurts"
If you have not enjoyed the joy of giving you have not given enough.
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10 NIV
[Editorial note: this points to eternal values rather than material prosperity LSM]
To help you give your money to God remember
A) It is not yours but belongs to God anyway
B) God guarantees it will be given back to you
Because God wants to grow your heart
and will give back to you more
so that you can be more generous
God wants to stretch your faith
Grow your heart
Break the hold onf money on you
Therefore tithe and give
Focusing on the word ALL in this promise
(All means all
with no exception)
so that in ALL things
at ALL times,
having ALL that you need,
you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
Abundant grace for a purpose
that you will abound in good works
Bring 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 there will not be room enough to store it.
Mal 3:10
Jesus paid the price for your
FORGIVENESS
FREEDOM
FUTURE
Would you not trust him with your FINANCES?
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