February 2010                 24/7

Can you believe our preacher is talking about giving a tithe the entire month of February!  Doesn’t he know that this has been one of the worse winters, unemployment has been rising, our “retirement” money is not worth what it should be, food prices are rising and doesn’t he know all that we have experienced in this new year!  This is terrible times and all he can say is: read the book, Rich Toward God and Try Tithing in February!  Is this a test or what?

Well, as a reader of the Word, you know Malachi says that God wants to bless us by opening the windows of heaven and wants to prove it!  One can truly say, yes this is a test.

Webster’s Dictionary defines stewardship as “the careful and responsible management of someone else’s possessions.”  God expect us to be faithful to the things that He has entrusted into our care.  Read Matthew 25: 14-30….

We have the choice to “test” God and let Him “prove it to me” or “turn” from God and do it my way.  Which will it be?  This is a test.

1.  How does this parable relate to us today?

2.  Should the problems of my life or the problems of the world cause me to not trust in God’s Word?

3.  In what way can I trust in the Lord even under the issues of today?