Do Not Forget the Lord Don’t Forget Where Wealth Comes From

Do Not Forget the Lord

Don’t Forget Where Wealth Comes From

Remember God gave you the ability

to gain wealth, so develop it.

The focus is not thanking God for wealth

but giving you the ability to gain it.

Enjoy the work of your hands.

The hands have the most bones 27 in each

hand out of the 206 in the whole body.

Look at your hand, it is amazing, the abilities

because of these 27 bones God gave you.

So what will you accomplish with those bones today

and when evening comes what will you and God

talk about as you lift up those hands to Him in praise?

But remember the Lord your God,

for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth.

Wealth, we all want it but we don’t always know how to get it.

I think is it interesting that the covenant God

made to the children of Israel focused on wealth.

A promise land full of everything they

needed to become a rich and powerful nation.

Three powerful truths about “Wealth”…

·        Wealth is all around you

When God made the heavens and the earth

He filled them with seemingly unending resources.

Think of the sun, it has been burning for 6000 years

and we can’t predict a time when it will burn out.

We have been mining gold, silver, copper, oil, etc.

and with new technology we keep finding more.

Note… In 2015, the US consumed about 384.74 million gallons of

gas a day and we will have no problem getting your cars filled up today.

7.4 billion people on the earth today are here

because of God’s provision 6000 years ago.

Our lack is not because there is a lack of resources.

·        Wealth takes ability

It is God who gives you the ability to gain wealth.

Ability must be developed and so does the

natural resources in order to produce wealth.

Our abilities are God given so it only makes sense

to seek God for the development of our abilities.

God has designed us to work together so your

full potential cannot be reached without others.

Life is not about getting rich, it is about using

your abilities to help and serve others.

One of the business principles I have taught my son

is don’t focus on the money, focus on providing a

service people want and need and the money will

come with appreciation and you will get their love, too.

Too many of us are praying for money as

if God is a sugar daddy when we should be

praying God show me how to meet this need.

·        Wealth is something you have to go after.

  

The children of Israel were given the promise

land but they did have to fight battles to get it.

They did have to work the land.

God established “work” in the very beginning… 

Man was to care for the garden of Eden

and Woman was to be his help mate. 

It was only after the curse that work

came with sweat and suffering.

Work has always been a good thing.

Man is to enjoy the work of his

hands according to Solomon.

“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest — 

and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man.” Proverbs 6:10-11 NIV

Remember God gave you the ability

to gain wealth so develop it.

The focus is not thanking God for wealth

but giving you the ability to gain it.

Enjoy the work of your hands.

The hands have the most bones 27 in each

hand out of the 206 in the whole body.

Look at your hand, it is amazing, the abilities

because of these 27 bones God gave you.

So what will you accomplish with those bones today

and when evening comes what will you and God

talk about as you lift up those hands to Him in praise?

   

Scripture Reading

Deuteronomy 8:10-20 NIV

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. 16 He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

19 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. 20 Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.