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Managing Your Resources God’s Way

                                                      By Dr. Kris Bjorgen





                            Study Section 1:  Who owns your possessions and money?


                1.1 Connect

               Life seems to be a quest for survival …. to provide food and clothing for our family, to keep everyone
                         healthy, and to minister to others in need.  Life’s activities can become enormous burdens
                         and keep us under constant pressure daily.  They press down on us.   However, God does not
                         want it to be that way.  He has a special desire to care for us and meet our daily needs.
                         Rather than trust Him, we pick up the burdens ourselves.  In this lesson, we want to get a
                         new perspective on how to manage our time, money, and resources.  We want to see how to
               live life as God plans it for us.

                1.2 Objectives

                       1.  The student should be able to explain God’s role, and man’s role in managing the money that
                       God entrusts to him.


                       2.  The student should be able to recite the six key principles from God’s Word that summarize
               how we manage God’s money.


               3. The student should be able to explain a clear understanding and correct attitude about managing
               money as clearly stated in God’s Word.


                1.3 Who owns your possessions and money?

                          Did you know there are over 2,350 verses in the Bible about money?   While we don’t have
                          the time to review every verse, we will consider a large number of verses during this course.

                          Did you know that nearly half of Jesus’ parables are about possessions?  God is concerned
                          with how we manage our possessions!

               The Bible is packed with wise counsel about your financial life.  In fact, Jesus had more to say about
               money than about heaven and hell combined.  So looking into God’s Word will bring to our mind God’s
               major principles in managing our resources.  That’s our plan for this course.  Let’s begin.

               Key Concept:  Everything belongs to God, and it is from Him that we are given
               stewardship over worldly wealth.  God looks at wealth differently that we do.  To be
               good stewards of what God has given us, we need to have HIS perspective, have HIS
               desires and attitude about handling money, and be content with all that God has given
               us.



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