Generosity and Grace | Week 3 | Open Hand
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
9 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Proverbs 3:9-10 NIV
All of us need Safety and Security
Provide for our Families
8 Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8 NIV
Ensure safety and support for our children.
22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:22 NIV
21 An inheritance claimed too soon will not be blessed at the end.
Proverbs 20:21 NIV
None of us want to experience Misguided Dependance
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
1 Timothy 6:10 NIV
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 6:24 NIV
10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 NIV
God is okay with you having things, as long as things don’t have you.
We are all seeking Happiness/ Joy
· Emotional
· Generational
7 “You shall have no other gods before me. 8 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:7-10 NIV
Words of Knowledge
We believe the Lord wants to restore family relationships this weekend. We believe someone has been in prayer for a long time about a family relationship and He wants to bring reconciliation and healing to that relationship.
We believe the Lord wants to heal an infection that has to do with the skin.