True stewardship begins when you acknowledge that God is the true owner of everything. A steward is a manager of His property. Notice the waman in Proverbs is not just spending money or being careful to hold on to her God given time and life time for her own pleasure.
“The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it...” (Psalms 24:1). The entire world is His. He is the owner.
Evidence of good stewardship:
1. Understand “wealth” from God’s perspective,
2. Acknowledge His authority as owner,
3. Accept your responsibility as steward
4. Claim Proverbs 10:22…do you have “peace” as you manage His wealth. Or, do you have some or all of the “troubles” that go along with ownership? (Christian Financial Ministries, Inc.)
What does Jesus have to say about stewardship?
Read Luke 12:16-20
If you were to stand accountable before God today, for the quality of your stewardship, how would it look? Do you treat God as the owner and ask how to use all that He gives you to manage?
When God’s people were robbing Him by withholding tithes and offerings, He said, “Test me in this ... and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it” (Malachi 3:10).
Ironically, many people can’t afford to give precisely because they’re not giving (Haggai 1:9-11). If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God’s blessing. No wonder we don’t have enough. It’s a vicious cycle, and it takes obedient faith to break out of it. (Treasure Principle)
Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s His provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with this money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build His kingdom in heaven.
If you choose to be a good steward, God will bless you and entrust you with plenty, HE says so.
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