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Church is very friendly.

We're trying to be the friendliest Church in the Triangle.

That's one of our goals here at new Grace and it's always good to have visitors.

Here is also good in it to know.

That you're on the Lord's prayer list in heaven.

He prays for you everyday.

Just think we'd sometimes we oversleep and we get up and we rush into the shower and dress and get off to work, but the Lord's already prayed for us and that's something he prays for us.

He intercedes on our behalf.

And remember what Paul said, I'm not preaching on this today, but I could say that my last stand.

No, man, stood with me.

He said all men, forsook me he said, but the Lord stood with me, So he'll he'll never leave you this.

Mama said your mother and father May forsake you, but the Lord will take you in.

And I hope that you have found that he will do that.

Well, today we're going to continue in our series.

And here's our series a life.

Well spent, so we've decided here and you Grace that we would talk about something that most preachers don't like to talk about and that's money.

And we're going to talk about money and we've been talkin about sewing a specially.

We've been talkin about stewardship and what that means and also sacrificial giving.

Well, today, the title of this message is God's basic cycle us efficiency how God provides the resources.

We need to accomplish his work.

You see?

There's a cycle hear that God has, and I call it the cycle of sufficiency, how do we know that we're going to have enough?

The dude not only what God has called us to do because we're all doing Kingdom work.

If you're here today and you a Christian, you're doing Kingdom work but also just to live and pay our bills and things of that nature.

Well, it may surprise you But there's one verse of scripture that gives God's entire cycle of sufficiency for our life.

And I want you to turn there this morning and you turn there.

And I'm going to turn this fan on because I'm already getting hot.

2nd Corinthians chapter 9.

And verse 8. Now, we're going to read that in the moment, but I want to give you a little caveat here.

So we've been talkin about giving and tithing and we've been talkin about what a tithe is 10% and we've been talkin about that.

God wants to put us in the level of 10 + 4 sent the tide plus.

And we talked about how in many churches, most churches forty-two, 70% of people don't give a penny, don't give a damn most of the church in most churches, twenty 25% of the people support the church.

And we talked about.

So, I mourn on givers.

Some are first-time givers from our regular givers, and we've also remember we said in in most Baptist Church is, the average percent that is given is 2.7%.

So if someone give 2.7% then they they may be a regular giver but they're not at either to be at either.

You have to give 10% and remember, I gave you an easy example to follow you make $60,000 a year.

10% of 60000 is how much 6,000?

That's what I would.

That's what I would give to God.

Why? Because, God only knows why he owns it all.

He owns that everything.

If you have a million-dollar 401K is simply because God has allowed you to have that.

And he expects us to be good stewards, not only of our time and gifts and talents but also of our money.

Amen.

We need to understand that.

So, I say all that to say this, It's a mistake and quite often made by new Christians, to think.

But if I start walking in God's way, and if I start tithing, if I start giving my money to God, that means that he's going to give me a life of comfort.

Now let me say something this morning you made this morning you may start, you made have never tied before and you may start today and you may give 10% and you're the 10 plus toddler and that's great, but in two or three months, it's possible that you may lose your job.

It's possible.

All I'm saying is simply because we do what we are supposed to do.

Does not make our life comfortable and easy.

We won't have a life devoid of challenges in.

So the same is true when Christians make a decision to put God first in their finances, many people mistakenly believe that if they begin to tithe that all their financial problems will be solved.

Well that's a good thing to Ty's God commands it.

But that doesn't mean that all your financial problems will be solved matter-of-fact and many cases your financial situation may get worse.

If it gets worse, what's God doing?

Maybe he's testing me to see if I will type out of my poverty and not out of my abundance.

You see, just like we studied last week, the widow woman.

She taught, she gave everything all that she had, you see, it's a lot easier to give when you have a lot.

But it's hard to give when things are tight and you live paycheck-to-paycheck. Then that's where the rubber meets the road there.

So Financial stewardship is an area of the Christian Life, just like all other areas prayer, vocation Fellowship evangelism.

It's the same and God uses situations to test us and to mold us into strengthen us and to conform us until the image of his son.

That's why we have problems and trials in our life.

He's confirming us into the image of Jesus.

So let me just say this concerning finances but also concerning everything else.

Always expect challenges and trials and testing in life especially in the area of finances.

Because it's in these trials and tribulations that we learn to walk by faith.

So in this lesson, we're going to explore how God has promised to meet our needs and as we can form our life to his expectations.

So I may read this script or two or three times a day, I don't know.

But let's look at it.

2nd Corinthians 9:8 and this is what the Bible says.

In God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiently.

In all things may have an abundance For every good work and not an incredible if you just look at that passion.

That is so incredible.

Not let me tell you who, I think of when I read this Remember when God called Abraham to sacrifice, his only son, Isaac.

What did God tell Isaac before that, he said, or what did he tell Abraham before that he's Abraham?

I'm going to make you a father of a great nation.

And matter fact that Nations going to come from your son, Isaac, and so Abraham fall.

Okay, well, that's great.

Well, then it took a long time.

But he finally had a son, Isaac.

And then when Isaac was thirteen or fourteen years old God, ask Abraham old by the way.

Would you please take your son up on top of this mountain and I want you to sacrifice in there.

And Abraham had to think.

One minute.

This this is the sun.

That's going to a great nation.

Is going to come from this son and you want me to kill him?

Does sacrificing.

Something has to be wrong here.

What why would you ask me to do that?

Well, you can that's in Genesis chapter 22.

You read the rest of the Book of Genesis and it never tells us why God asked him to do that.

You have to go all the way to Hebrews to find out the reason and this is what Abraham concluded.

It's written in Hebrews chapter 11 which is known as the Hall of Fame of Fate.

Listen to what Abraham said.

He concluded that God was able to raise Isaac up even from the dead.

Abraham said this is my only son, the promise fun and if I sacrifice him, the only thing I can think of is that God is somehow going to raise him from the dead and he steals going to be the father of a great nation.

You know how much faith that took to believe that you say?