1. Start with the TITHE!
1.1. Malachi 3:10 NLT Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!
1.2. God can do more with 90% than we can do with 100%
1.3. Tithe
1.3.1. Hebrew Masser
1.3.1.1. 10th
1.4. God can do more with 90% than we can do with 100%
1.5. My First Tithe
1.5.1. Decades
2. God Created You to Pour Not Store
2.1. Jesus illustrated this in Luke 9
2.1.1. Feeding 5000
2.1.2. Perhaps biggest crowd
2.1.3. Longest Sermon!
2.2. Good sermon?
2.2.1. Strong Start
2.2.2. Strong finish
2.2.3. Little Between Possible!
2.3. Luke 9:12 NLT 12 Late in the afternoon the twelve disciples came to him and said, “Send the crowds away to the nearby villages and farms, so they can find food and lodging for the night. There is nothing to eat here in this remote place.”
2.3.1. “As the day wore on”
2.3.2. Disciples got hungry!
2.3.3. Luke 9:13 NLT 13 But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Or are you expecting us to go and buy enough food for this whole crowd?”
2.3.4. Luke 9:16 NLT Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread and fish to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people.
3. Jesus
3.1. Blessed
3.2. Disciples Gave it!
3.3. God Multiplies it!
4. When did God multiply what they had?
4.1. God didn’t give them more when they stored it
4.2. God gave them more when they poured it!
5. I’m Invested
5.1. Generous
5.2. Not an ACT
5.3. Mindset!
6. Imagine
6.1. John calls mtg.
6.1.1. Peter
6.1.2. Matt
6.1.3. Thomas
6.1.4. Bartholomew
6.2. Go tell Jesus, “The people are hungry! Obviously cares about the people!”
6.2.1. Jesus
6.2.2. Love your sermon
6.2.3. Part Wise
6.2.4. Foolish Builder
6.2.5. 100x
6.2.6. Hungry
6.2.7. All we have
6.2.7.1. 5-Biscuits
6.2.7.2. Long John Silvers Snack Pack
6.2.7.3. Jesus—“Oh no! We don’t have enough!”
6.2.7.4. Luke 9:17 NLT They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers!
7. What you keep is all you have. But what you give, God multiplies
8. Invested
8.1. What God gives to me
8.2. Flows thru me
8.3. Pour not Store!
8.4. 28 All In! (Had little)
8.4.1. Our story is similar to many of yours
8.4.2. Can’t out give God!
9. Business guy
9.1. Love Church
9.2. Best investment I ever make!
9.3. Our church gives Free Resources to hundreds of thousands
9.3.1. Bless hundreds of open network churches
9.3.2. Given away YouVersion 400 million!
9.3.3. People need internationally—Local
9.3.4. Tell people—Take back out offering
9.3.5. Thousands saved—My family impacted!
9.4. Pastor took time to meet in home
9.4.1. Answer question
9.4.2. Lead X!
9.4.3. Baptized both kids
9.4.4. Still serving Jesus in college!
9.4.5. Lady who cuts my hai
9.4.6. Rock Church!
10. I'M IN
10.1. I’m Influential
10.1.1. For God’s glory
10.2. I’m Invited
10.2.1. To God’s family
10.3. I’m Invaluable
10.3.1. To God’s work
10.4. I’m Invested
10.4.1. In God’s church
11. Generously Invested in God’s Church
11.1. You may say,
11.1.1. “Truthfully, not fully invested in God’s church!”
11.1.2. You’re invested in something!
11.2. Buy season tickets
11.2.1. Burning hot
11.2.2. Freezing cold
11.3. Free Class
11.3.1. Don’t care
11.3.2. Pay $$$
11.3.3. Squeeze everything
11.4. Matthew 6:19 NLT “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal.
11.5. Our God has created us to pour not store!
12. Thrill of GIVING to God through Church
12.1. Invested in Church
12.2. More blessed
12.2.1. GIVE than RECEIVE
12.2.2. POUR not STORE
12.2.2.1. Know you like to Give
12.2.2.2. WANT to GIVE MORE!
12.2.2.3. No emotional SPENDING
12.2.2.3.1. (Bracelet/Iphone)
12.2.2.4. Plenty GIVING
12.2.2.4.1. (Offering)
13. Scarcity Mindset!
13.1. “When, Then—When I have more, then will give more.”
13.1.1. Fear
13.1.2. Believe need more
13.1.3. Store
13.1.4. Never Enough
13.2. Luke 12:18 NLT Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods.
13.3. Luke 12:21 NLT 21 “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
13.4. When you start with Scarcity Mindset
13.4.1. Driven by fear!
13.4.1.1. Keep
13.4.1.2. Guard
13.4.1.3. Protect
13.4.1.4. Store
14. Abundance Mindset
14.1. God Owns
14.1.1. Provider
14.2. Good God
14.2.1. Loves bless children
14.2.2. Enough
14.2.3. More than enough
14.3. Mark 14
14.3.1. Sinful woman
14.3.1.1. (abundance)
14.3.1.2. Bottle expensive perfume
14.4. Didn’t Store
14.4.1. Poured!
14.5. Judas (scarcity) criticized it!
14.5.1. Money to poor!