September 30: PROSPERITY

Believe it:

Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is Yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from You; You are the ruler of all things. In Your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 (NIV)

Live it:

We can learn three lessons from today’s text.
1. Open your mind. One of the first things you need to understand is that God is the owner of all things. We are just administrators of His possessions. What a blessing to understand Who the source of all is! God is behind every job, opportunity, or sum of money. The first step to real prosperity is to understand the concept that He is in charge, not you.
2. Open your heart. A familiar Bible text that speaks clearly about the heart’s attitude towards finances is: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34). Who has your heart? For whom do you work? Why do you save? Like a noted author on finances has said, sometimes we work to buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t even like. Once God has won our hearts, our priorities change. May God help us change our hearts to be more like His.
3. Open your hand. Two things happen when we open our hands. Those who open their hands receive. But those who open their hands also give. The person God blesses keeps his or her hands open. Open your hands and receive blessings, but don’t close them; leave them open so the blessings can reach others.

Share it:

Pray that God will show you a person with whom you can share something tangible, a person that has a need, and do it.

My prayer today: for the evangelism budget

-Pray that God will help us avoid unnecessary expenses

-Pray that the resources will match the needs

from God’s City, My City