Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

 9.6-   Love God or love money.   Which?   Someone says, “I love both.”   Jesus says you cannot.   There is a difference between the concept of liking money and loving money.   To like money means that you want and need it for certain basic things.   That doesn’t mean that you put it above your love for God and your fellowman.   Luke 16. 13  No [ j ] servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and [ k ] wealth.”    

 9.5-   How you take care of the things owned by others shows the safety you have with God giving you more things to be in charge of.   If you take care of your room where you stay may show that you can handle the responsibility of having your own rental apartment or home.   Having your own rental home and taking good care of it can show God and others that you can handle the situation of owning your own home.   Having a job making a small amount of money to be responsible can show that you can handle more responsibility and more money in a good way.   As a child of God it is true that God will not give you something that would destroy yourself or others. Luke 16. 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 [ i ] wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? 12  And if you have not been faithful in

 9.4- Use your position or situation to make friends.   The opportunity God gives you is a stewardship to help others from that place.   Jesus defeated Satan on the cross.   We have come to believe that He rose from the grave and sent His Holy Spirit to fill the hearts of His brothers and sisters.   He reigns now.   He is king of kings and Lord of Lords now.   We are children of light.   Our names are written in the lambs book of life.   Let us use our position as children of God to benefit those around us who need our help and support. Luke 16. 16  Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was [ a ] reported to him as squandering his possessions. 2  And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ 3  The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my [ b ] master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough