1 Chronicles 29:11 ESV
11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.
God created everything.
Therefore, God owns everything.
Deuteronomy 10:12-14 ESV
12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? 14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.
God created everything.
God owns everything.
God has the right to do whatever He desires to do.
God is sovereign.
God is in absolute control of everything.
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Take a deep breath in.
That is a gift from God.
Use your eyes & read these words on the screen.
That is a gift from God.
Stand up (if you can).
That is a gift from God.
“...all that is in the heavens and in the earth is [God’s].”
& “He gives strength to all.”
Any STRENGTH that we have is the strength that He allows us to have.
Any STRENGTH that we don’t have…He knows we don’t need right now.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV
9 …“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
All of our STRENGTH is a gift from God.
How can I love the Lord my God with all of my STRENGTH?
STRENGTH
Sometimes it is translated: ‘Might’
Power
Ability
Effort
Energy
“Leave it all on the field.”
Loving God with all of your STRENGTH means…
Loving God with all of your ALL
STRENGTH
TIME
The average lifespan in 2022 was 77.43 years
That’s 28,281 days
That’s 678,751 hours in a lifetime
8 hours a day for sleep.
Is Jesus present with you in your rest?
Is Jesus with you in the morning?
During the day?
At work?
At school?
At night?
On the weekends?
On Sunday?
Jesus is glorified when we use our TIME for Him.
TALENT
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV
14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[c] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents,[d] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[e] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Don’t hide your talents.
Gifts.
Abilities.
Resources.
Love God with all your STRENGTH by investing your talents.
TREASURE
All of your money is God’s money.
All of your stuff is God’s stuff.
We will give an account for how we use our TREASURE.
Unreasonably Generous.
God gave us everything when He gave us Jesus.
Romans 8:32 ESV
32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
My STRENGTH is not my own.
It is a gift from God.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV
19 …“You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
Galatians 2:20 ESV
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jesus gave it all.
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