Rejoicing Over Money Without Worshiping It

So David declares, listen. Everything, everything, everything comes from the Lord. We're only giving what comes from your hand. He's anchoring relationship with money and a much larger reality. That is when you when it comes to money, you are a steward of money, not an owner of money. And when your relationship is a steward of God's money, not an owner of your own money, it shifts the relationship so that you can rejoice over money without worshiping the money. [00:20:52] (31 seconds)  #StewardNotOwner

We've been talking about how money is so spiritually toxic because it gathers so much. We all have to handle it. We all have to use money. So here's the question. How do you use money and not worship money? How do you engage with money? Because we all have to handle it but not get tangled up either in anxiety or in greed. So we've been talking about how do we handle money? Because every time you get a paycheck, it should be labeled toxic candle with care. Because it could be one of the most toxic things for you. [00:02:55] (26 seconds)  #MoneyWithoutWorship

When you make that shift, and it's really hard shift, from an owner mentality around your money to a steward mentality around your money, it opens up paths of rejoicing that no one else could possibly know. We had such a great conversation around this in my small group this past week. Talk about the difference between being an owner of something and a steward of something, and it turns out it applies to many, many different things. We talked about money, of course, but we also talked about our careers, our jobs. What does mean to be a steward of this position, this job, for a season? We talked about it with our kids. What does it mean that they're not my kids? What if they're the Lord's kids and I'm just stewarding them for a season? [00:21:44] (33 seconds)  #StewardshipInEverySeason

There's a difference between an owner mentality and a steward mentality. Let's just walk through what the difference is between an owner and a steward from a biblical perspective when it comes to limited resources like money or your career or your kids or anything else like that. So an owner says, this is mine. A steward says, this is someone else's. An owner says, I'm in control. I get to do whatever I want to do with this thing. And a steward says, I'm accountable to the owner to handle his resources according to his purposes. There's opportunity for creative creativity within his boundaries. In other words, if you've got somebody who's your money manager, they can't spend it however they want to. It's the [00:22:35] (33 seconds)  #BiblicalStewardship

Twenty years from now, people gather for worship. Someone comes alive. Someone comes to faith, comes back to faith. A marriage gets healed. An addiction gets broken. They go to a prayer room inside our city. Someone you'll never meet. I'll never meet. But they have been blessed by what gets decided right here, right now, in your house, in our in this room. Wouldn't it be great to lay a foundation for worship to be multiplied all across Chatham County? Not just for the next five years, ten years, next twenty years, for generations. We could lay a foundation for thousands of people to come alive in the name of Jesus, for homes to come awake with worship and prayer. Just our little gifts, doing this thing, doing more than we could ask or imagine as the Lord moves and stirs to draw people to worship to himself. [00:35:21] (45 seconds)  #MultiplyWorship

All I know is that the only way to be healthy with money is to give it away somewhere. So if if if it feels like if you got church baggage, you got my church had this thing, money was I'll talk about this way, and I feel kinda ugly about it. All I kinda listen. Listen. That's totally fine. If you don't wanna give money here, totally great. Give it somewhere else. There's thousands of missionaries and organizations all over the world doing amazing, amazing work. So just give it away somewhere else. Totally fine. Totally great. It it could be the healthiest thing you've ever done in your spiritual walk ever, ever, ever in your entire life. [00:27:12] (30 seconds)  #GiveToGrow

Can you imagine families put back together again? Can you imagine anxiety broken? Addictions broken? Can you imagine people who are single, feeling not so alone or isolated because the Lord is present with them? Can you imagine people's houses filled with prayers and praises that right now and today are completely spiritually dead? Can you imagine what might happen in hundreds of thousands of houses across Chatham County, lit up one by one by one, coming alive in the name of Jesus. [00:14:15] (28 seconds)  #HomesComeAlive

What if a 100 more houses? What if a thousand more houses could come alive? Right now, they're spiritually silent, spiritually dead, spiritually completely dark, that get lit up by the power of the spirit, the glory of God, the beauty of our God, and then in response, people are worshiping and praying. And maybe it's a joyous sound because some people are loud and joyous. Maybe it's quiet. Maybe it's a whisper. Maybe it's joyful prayers, maybe it's somber, holy prayers. Wait, wait, can you imagine hundreds of houses that are spiritually silent right here, right now, coming alive, echoing the praise and songs and words and prayers and lives of worship. Can you imagine marriages healed? [00:13:33] (41 seconds)  #IgniteNeighborhoodWorship