Lifted Vision Ministry

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Seasons Greetings to each and every person reading this right now!

I want to dive into an interesting topic today: What is the true purpose of wealth? Does our wealth (or money) have a divine purpose? Or has the wealth we’ve been given to use in this life, just been assigned to us at random? Why does God give us wealth in the first place? Is there an eternal function to our wealth? I believe our curiosity can be satisfied by the Bible! In fact, all the answers to these compelling questions can be found packaged up neat and tidy in a single, solid bible verse!

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– Luke 16:9 –
“Use the wealth of this world to demonstrate your friendship with God by winning friends and blessing others. Then, when it runs out, your generosity will provide you with an eternal reward.”

Basically, the gist of this text is this: Use what God has given you to bless others. The purpose of our wealth is to point others to God by being so outrageously generous towards them, motivated by the pure Love of God alone. This is so that others too can experience God’s provision and radical love for themselves. God wants us to use what He has given us, to show the world who He is and what He’s really like. People can experience God’s blessing through us when we decide to bless others. So who should we bless? The answer is anyone and everyone that God puts in our path. Our friends, our family members, our acquaintances and people we barely even know. It includes people we like, people we don’t like and even strangers. We should not be holding back our wealth from others in need or worse, grow selfish in storing it up only for ourselves alone. Christians should have no fear in giving to others because we know that God has always and will always take care of all of our needs.

 – Matthew 6: 26-27 –
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

If God takes care of the birds each and every day, He will take care of His children, who are so much more valuable than birds! But what about those who don’t know God yet; those who are not yet His children? God most of all wants to impact them and to show them who He really is. We, as believers who understand the will of God, can use the wealth that God has given us to help others to see the goodness of God and also to manifest the presence of God in places where it otherwise would not have been manifested. Don’t worry friends, God would never tell us to do something or give instructions without also giving us a promise that goes with it.

– Luke 16: 10-12 –
¹⁰ “The one who faithfully manages the little he has been given will be promoted and trusted with greater responsibilities. But those who cheat with the little they have been given will not be considered trustworthy to receive more. ¹¹ If you have not handled the riches of this world with integrity, why should you be trusted with the eternal treasures of the spiritual world? ¹² And if you’ve not proven yourself faithful with what belongs to another, why should you be given wealth of your own?

God is extending wealth and worldly provision to us in order to take care of us and in turn, is expecting us to use it to take care of others. God is paying attention to how we use our wealth. Are you tending to only your needs or to the needs of others as well? God is paying attention to see if He can trust you with more. He always wants to give us more, but at the same time, He will never give us more than we can handle. This scripture shows that God not only wants to bless us with earthly riches, but heavenly riches too! This life is our proving ground for the next life to come. This is our test, so to speak. God says in this word, that if you cannot handle your earthly riches, and use them in the way that God intended, then He won’t be able to trust you with the heavenly riches He has in store for you.

Friends and family in the faith, I call on you to love others with your wealth. Bless others. Do good. Keep the faith. Don’t grow weary. Be brave and bold in the name of Jesus. Ask God to show you how to use your wealth to bless others. Partner with Him and see all the amazing things you can do together. I leave you with the words of Jesus and Paul:

– Acts 20:35 –
³⁵ In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Selah.