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What does God want MORE than Your Money? The Priorities of Giving

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What does God want MORE thanYour Money?

The Priorities of Giving

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

Matthew 22:34-40 – “But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?Jesus said unto him, Thou

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

I. Your Heart is Precious to God

Matthew 22:37 – “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thymind.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

I. Your Heart is Precious to God

Mark 8:36 – “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

II. Your Time is Precious to God* Read your Bible and pray* Go to church* To grow* To serve the Lord* To share your faith

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

III. Your Mind is Precious to God

Philippians 2:5 – “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

III. Your Mind is Precious to God

II Corinthians 10:5 – “Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

IV. Your Children are Precious to God

Matthew 19:14 – “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

V. Your Problems are Precious to God

Romans 8:18 – “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

V. Your Problems are Precious to God

II Corinthians 4:17 – “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

V. Your Problems are Precious to God

II Timothy 3:12 – “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

V. Your Problems are Precious to God

Exodus 14:14 – “The Lord shall fight for you”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

V. Your Problems are Precious to God

I Samuel 17:47 – “The battle is the Lord’s”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

VI. Your Praise is Precious to God

Luke 1:49 – “For He that is mighty hath done to me great things: And holy is His name”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

VI. Your Praise is Precious to God

Psalms 150:1-6 – “Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise…

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

VI. Your Praise is Precious to God

Psalms 150:1-6 – “…him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.”

What does God want MORE than your money?The Priorities of Giving

VI.Your Praise is Precious to God* Salvation * Answered prayer* Health* Family* Job* Friends