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Being a Kingdom Builder has nothing to do with a bank balance, flashy car, lavish lifestyle, job title or fancy home. Jesus isn't interested in our material possessions - He owns them anyway. He's interested in our hearts! He generously provides for our needs and calls on us to use the increased seeds He lavishes on us to sow into His Kingdom with a cheerful heart. Are we living a radically generous life as Kingdom Ambassadors? Are we sowing so that others may come to know our Lord, or are we inwardly focused on hanging onto these seeds for personal gain?
Message Notes 22/09/2024 - Gareth Nicholson
Seeds Have Potential!
32 000 year-old seeds have been regenerated. All that is needed is the right seed bed!
How are you sowing into God's seedbed?
Seeds Have Generational Importance
During World War II, nine scientists died of starvation surrounded by seeds in a seed bank in St Petersburg. They knew the importance of preserving seeds for future generations.
How are you sowing into the next generation?
Seeds Produce Exponential Returns
The power of popcorn seed is at least a 1/1000 return!
If you eat all the seeds, there is nothing to sow:
The potential is lost
The generational impact is lost
The exponential return is lost
Jesus calls those who follow him to a lifestyle of radical generosity.
Matthew 6:22-23 | 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
Five enemy traps to overcome:
1/ No Generational Vision
Impatience: Sow today, same day delivery.
Imprisoned: Burdened, trapped, addicted to stuff with no spirit of generosity
A Generational Vision / Mindset
The Gospel is generational!
What kind of country do we want our kids to grow up in?
How will the decisions that we make now benefit future generations?
It's impossible to defeat a generational thinker!
Pray for a generational vision for our country and our children and theirs.
2/ Fear of lack
Fear says: What if I don't have enough?
God meets the need and increases the seed.
Need is you trusting Him. Seed is Him trusting you.
If we eat more than we need, we reduce the seed.
When we eat only what we need, and sow seed for God we increase His kingdom.
3/ Deception (Believing Lies)
1/ Lie: The church wants your money.
Truth: God (and the Church) don't need your money.
Truth: God wants your heart, and for you to live free to be radically generous. How you handle or mishandle finance plays out spiritually, emotionally, and relationally.
2/ Lie: I'm not called to this.
Truth: God loves to use the most unlikely as a kingdom catalyst.
4/ Apathy
“Some people are so heavenly-minded that they are of no earthly good.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Barna research indicates that <3% of the church gives consistently.
Imagine if that percentage increased exponentially.
Are you a Kingdom ambassador or a Kingdom absorber?
What difference will it make if I give? Rather ask, What difference could I make if I gave generously?
5/ Not knowing how
Freedom in personal finance:
Basic Principles - Financial Freedom Course
Begin with what you have
Let's not become weary of doing good!
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Galatians 6:7-10
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