Stewardship Archives - My Manna https://mymanna.org/category/stewardship/ Daily Devotionals for Comfort and Counsel from the Bible Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:00:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/mymanna.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-My-Manna-512-x-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Stewardship Archives - My Manna https://mymanna.org/category/stewardship/ 32 32 189112494 Abundance https://mymanna.org/abundance-2/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:00:43 +0000 http://mymanna.net/?p=2244 “Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.” Luke 9:16-17.  The disciples worried. We only have five small loaves and two fishes! What ever will we do?? Five loaves and two fishes could never feed the multitudes...

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vineyard 1“Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.” Luke 9:16-17. 
The disciples worried.
We only have five small loaves and two fishes!
What ever will we do??
Five loaves and two fishes could never feed the multitudes in the natural realm!
But we have a God who is in the multiplication business!
He works on an entirely different mathematical equation than we are accustomed to.
He takes the little we offer and turns it into more than we could fathom!
How often do we feel as if we have little to offer?
The Lord is interested in everything we have to give, even if it seems miniscule to our eyes!
Let’s not be afraid to offer up our gifts, talents, abilities, accomplishments and material things that we may find insignificant.
They are not!
When we give up even the littlest of things to the Lord-
He brings forth an abundance!

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Seek to Excel https://mymanna.org/seek-to-excel-2/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:00:02 +0000 http://mymanna.net/?p=2231 “But just as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us–see that you also excel in this grace of giving.” 2 Corinthians 8:7.   A layman once made a covenant with his pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year.   They were both young and neither of them had much money.   But things changed.   The layman tithed one thousand dollars the year he earned ten...

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Bible 6“But just as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us–see that you also excel in this grace of giving.” 2 Corinthians 8:7.
 
A layman once made a covenant with his pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year.
 
They were both young and neither of them had much money.
 
But things changed.
 
The layman tithed one thousand dollars the year he earned ten thousand,
– ten thousand dollars the year he earned one-hundred thousand,
– and one- hundred thousand dollars the year he earned one million.
 
But the year he earned six million dollars-
– he just could not bring himself to write out that check for six-hundred thousand dollars to the Church.
 
He telephoned the minister, long since having moved to another church, and asked to see him.
 
Walking into the pastor’s office the man begged to be let out of the covenant, saying-
“This tithing business has to stop. It was fine when my tithe was one thousand dollars, but I just cannot afford six-hundred thousand dollars. You’ve got to do something, Reverend!”
 
The pastor knelt on the floor and prayed silently for a long time.
 
Eventually the man said, “What are you doing? Are you praying that God will let me out of the covenant to tithe?”
 
“No,” said the minister. “I am praying for God to reduce your income back to the level where one thousand dollars will be your tithe!”
No one excels more in giving than the Lord.

Today in prayer, praise Jesus for all that He has blessed you with and seek to excel in giving to the Lord.
What I kept, I lost;
What I spent, I had; 
What I gave, I have!
 
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.” Psalm 37:25-26.

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