In the Name of Jesus
August 6, 2022How to Be Great in the Kingdom of Heaven
August 16, 2022What is your relationship to your possessions? God created all things richly for us to enjoy. Are you enjoying your things, or are your things causing you grief? Do you have things, or do things have you? This Saturday, Pastor Larry shows you how a small change in your values can add value to your life and increase your blessings.
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Thing – (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary) Any substance which is created, any particular article or commodity.
John 1:3 All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
Luke 19:13 (KJV) And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy (do business NKJV) till I come.
Occupy – Buy and sell and get gain. Take dominion. Dress and keep the garden; have stewardship over everything he made.
Psalm 8:4-6 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels (Elohim), and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet;
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Psalm 103:5 (NKJV) Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
1 Corinthians 3:21 (KJV) Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours.
1 Timothy 6:17 (KJV) Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things.
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure; but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Psalm 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Mark 10:29-30 And Jesus answered and said, Verity I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, 30 but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Matthew 6:19-20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
Mark 11:24 (KJV) Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have received, freely give.
