Over the last several months I’ve been working a lesson plan on stewardship to share at church. At first it was going a bit slow, but over the last week God has just been opening things up to me like never before. It’s odd how a scripture in the Bible that I’ve read hundreds of times over the last ten years can come so alive all the sudden.
I wanted to share just a couple lines with everyone though. When I first started hearing about financial stewardship I just lumped it in with the financial prosperity sermons I’ve been hearing for years. I even had a bit of an attitude about it since I’m obviously not exactly living the ‘good’ life. But once I started praying and studying this, I found that I was off a ways. What I realized, courtesy of the Holy Spirit, is that financial stewardship is a fancy name for just being faithful with what we’re given. God showed me how, at different times in life, He has made me prosperous for a time but because I had no idea about being a good steward I would inevitably squander what I had been given.
That revelation led to several others and now I’m wanting to finish up this lesson plan and teach others. Eventually I’m sure I’ll post much of it online as well. And on a slightly related topic, I highly recommend that everyone get a copy of a little booklet written by Charles Capps called God’s Creative Power. It is a very light read but contains a very powerful principal. You can purchase them off the Official Charles Capps website for only a couple dollars.
