Stewarding God's Gifts: Work While You Wait

We are stewards. Okay? We are stewards. We do not own, we possess. We only possess in order to steward. What good are these resources apart from what the Lord has for us to do with them? See, that's the crazy thing. They only have one purpose, which is ultimately to be used for God's glory and for the good of ultimately his people and other people and hurting people here in our world. They have no value in and of themselves. They are the currency of the kingdom. [00:32:36] (36 seconds)  #KingdomStewardship

What is right in front of us? And if we can't think of needs right in front of us, we're in the wrong place. Then there is a calculated negligence and an isolation from our world, because the needs are all around us all of the time. The point, folks, on this night, is we take what the Lord has given us, everything that we are, everything we can do, everything that we have, and we do something. We do something. [00:50:29] (33 seconds)  #SeeServeAct

I wanna tell you, the good Lord gave you what you have. He made you what you are and he loves to see you use it. He loves to see you use it. Why do you look down at your children and you love everything they do? And now we document and post everything that they do. Why do we do that? Is because they're amazing in any way. It's not. It's because they're yours. I mean, he loves to see us use everything he has given to us. The point from the beginning of setting up this story is that we are participants in his enterprise. Enterprise. [00:24:57] (36 seconds)  #UseYourGifts

the number one reason that we do not use what the Lord has given us is because we resent what he has not given us. That is the number one barrier to our usefulness. Is that there is some kind of resentment of our assignment compared to somebody else's. So it's a barrier and it's also my excuse. It is my excuse for everything. It is my excuse for all of my apathy. If I could do that, if I were like that. In other words, if God had done better. [00:29:08] (38 seconds)  #ResentmentBlocksService

The best of Christians is a poor frail creature and needs the blood of Christ atone every day that we live. But the least and lowest of believers will find that he has counted among Christ's servants that his labor in the Lord has not been in vain. She will discover to her amazement that her master's eye saw more beauty in her efforts to please him than she ever saw in herself. [00:59:14] (23 seconds)  #SmallServiceBigValue

By God's grace, Jesus died for us and forgives us of our sins, and then everything in our life is this, you know, this man saved my life, so there's nothing I wouldn't do for him kind of thing. Yep. The work is a present grace. We everything is grace. Our assignments, our resources, everything comes from his grace. We don't do our work because of past grace alone. The work itself is a present grace. [00:39:40] (25 seconds)  #WorkAsGrace

Everybody's like, nobody can tell you anything about the future. I can. Jesus is coming back. That is the only thing we know. We don't know anything about this night. We don't know anything about tomorrow. The one thing that is guaranteed is that he is coming back. And when he is coming back, because our lives are linear, they're heading somewhere, history is linear, it's heading somewhere. It says right there, he is going to settle accounts. [00:55:47] (24 seconds)  #LiveReadyReturn

He says, trust me and shoot. Y'all, he draws straight lines with crooked sticks. He will do his work through our work. He will do it every single time. Will we step up and will we pull the trigger? He hits the mark. He's the one that hits the mark. We're just the little kid that is getting to participate. [01:08:56] (27 seconds)  #TrustAndAct