How God Views Your Money - The Blessed Life Part 1

Two Takeaways: #1. Money Is Actually A Test From God - How You Handle Money Reveals Volumes About Your Priorities, Loyalties, and Affections. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21 10“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? Luke 16:10-12 NIV #2. God Wants To Be First In Your Life. A. When God is First: 1) You Will Have A HEART For God. 7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7 NKJV 2) You Will Make TIME For God. 3) You Will Seek Out Opportunities To SERVE 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10 4) You Will Honor God With Your TREASURE. 1Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.” Exodus 13:1-2 12that you shall set apart to the Lord all that open the womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the Lord’s. 13But every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. Exodus 13:12-13 29For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29 19The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. Exodus 23:19 9 Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. Proverbs 3:9-10 “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. Malachi 3:8-9 6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change…” Malachi 3:6