MAKE GOOD USE OF GOD’S RESOURCES (1)

Bible Texts: Lk.19:11-26, Gen.1:26-28, Ps.1:3, 1Sam.3:13, Jn.3:27, Gen.1:26-28, Eph.6:4, 1Pet.3:7, Deut.6:7-9, Eph.5:25-29, Ecc.4:9-12, Ps.127:3-5, Ecc.9:11, Jas.1:5, Gal.4:19, 2Tim.2:6

I have come to discover that the husbandman is the manager of God’s resources and what makes him the good and godly manager is his ability to use the resources God has committed into his hands profitably. And these resources in his care include his wife, children, money, gifts and skills.

Today, let us consider what you and I must do with the resources God has given to us and we shall be focusing on Luke Gospel chapter 19 and verses 11 through to 26. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that you will not misuse the resources God has given to you. Amen.

The teaching of Jesus Christ in Luke chapter 19 and verses 11 to 26 is about a landowner who gives resource in equal proportion to three sets of people. Each one is supposed to trade with the seed that has been entrusted to them by the landowner and produce results. While two persons produce results by putting their resources to good use, the other person produce no results. When the landowner requests for accountability from the three managers, he is pleased with two and unhappy with the one. He increases the resources of the two managers and collects from the third the resource has given because he has not made good use of it.

What lessons can you and I as managers learn from this teaching?

The first lesson is that everything that you have comes from God

John answered and said, a man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven (Jn.3:27)

Secondly, everything you have is a seed or resource from God for the good of humanity and for God’s glory

And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing (Gen.12:2)

Your wife is a resource. Your child (ren) is a resource. Your time is a resource. Your money is a resource. Your skill is a resource. This means that when you put your resources to good use, it produces more good and godly fruits.

Thirdly, you have the personal responsibility to trade with the resources in your custody in order for it to produce good and godly fruits.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew, for the Lord God has not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground (Gen.2:5) (Gen.1:26-28)

If you don’t do anything about the resource, you have denied it the capacity to transform its potentials to results.

God has entrusted His resources into your hands to do something positive about them. If you don’t like the outcomes you see in the utilization of the resources in your custody, then it is your fault and not anyone else (Deut.6:7-9, 1Pet.3:7, Eph.6:4).

Let us continue tomorrow.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

•           Father, in the Name of Jesus, forgive me for misusing the resources You have given to me.

•           Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to make the resources You have given me to be profitable and productive.

•           Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to keep making good use of Your resources and let them continue to bear good and godly fruits.

FAITH CONFESSION

God has made me a good manager of His resources and I have received power from Him to make all He has given to me productive and profitable because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.

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