4 tips for living with abundance even if you don’t think you are

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Here are 4 tips for living with abundance even if you don't think you are...from Trevor Lund of http://revtrev.com and http://iHarvest.ca 4 tips for living with abundance even if you don’t think you are The children of Israel had not entered into the blessing of God when they were wondering in the desert. Sure He fed them every day with manna, and they could only pick up what they’d use for the day. There was just-enough for the day. When they entered the promised land that thinking had to change. By Solomon’s time the proverb was: A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children,    but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous Proverbs 13:22 (New International Version, ©2010) How can you store up an inheritance for your children and grandchildren if you’re satisfied with only having enough for the day? When you’re in the Kingdom it’s selfishness to say “give me enough for my own needs, but not enough to enough to help others.” If you’re content with living month-to-month you’re being selfish. Paul wrote: God is ready to overwhelm you with more blessings than you could ever imagine so that you’ll always be taken care of in every way and you’ll have more than enough to share. 2 Corinthians 9:8 You and I live in a Kingdom where abundance matters. I’m going to give you 4 tips for living with abundance even if you don’t think you are. 1. Priorities are a scam. I can’t love God and show (Mt. 6:2;6;16) I can’t love God and dough (Mt. 6:24) I can’t love God and worry (Mt. 6:25-32) I can’t love God and hurry (Mt 6:34) Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness…then all these things will be added to you as well. 2. Check out the conditions for the promise… some of the blessings promised to the people of Israel in Deuteronomy 28 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. 4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. 5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. 7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. 8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. But notice the conditions… Verse 1&2 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: and 12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them. 3. Steward what you have Luke 16:10-11 (NASB) 10 “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? 4. Agree to live without what God withholds. But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64:8