Honor the Lord with all Your Possessions
9Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. Proverbs 3:9-10 (NIV) Honoring the Lord is not only by mouth saying and singing Lord, I honor you. True honor comes from the heart. Where your treasure is there your heart also is - Matthew 6:21, there your attention and energies are. When we submit our possessions and wealth to the Lord we are showing He is our treasure: First, we are declaring that He is the owner of all things; secondly, He is our source, all we have comes from Him; thirdly we are saying all things are for serving Him; and fourth we are saying that true enjoyment and satisfaction is in and with the Lord. This is the place of fullness and overflow in every area of life.
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The Lord is Trustworthy
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) Trust is learned by the one trusting and must be earned by the one being trusted. We learn to trust people and things we've found out can be trusted and all because these people or things have proven trustworthy. We can trust in God because He already has a proven track record of absolute reliability. God can not lie, and He has given us His Word assuring us that He's able to carry us. God has always fulfilled what He promised - Joshua 23:14...You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. We can trust God because we have many witnesses of men and women who trusted God and He proved Himself dependable - Psalms 22:4-5 Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them. They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed. Learn to trust in the Lord as you feed on his faithfulness. Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Feeding on the Lord's faithfulness means seeing in His Word the many times He's been faithful and also remembering the many times He's been faithful in helping and carrying you.
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Wisdom Prolongs Life
1My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, 2for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity. Proverbs 3:1-2 (NIV) When a person dies even when they are still young people say that's the time God determined for them but that's not true. God's determined time for all of us is long life - Psalms 91:16. Yes Scripture talks of all the days ordained for us already written in God's book before one of them came to be - Psalms 139:16. But this doesn't mean God determined it alone and we have no say in it. Our theme Scripture has showed us that when we do not forget the teaching of the Lord and keep His commands it will prolong our life many years. King Hezekiah had his life prolonged by fifteen years when he prayed to God who had earlier told him to prepare to die – Isaiah 38:1-5. In prayer he was submitting to and applying the Lord's teaching and command for he reminded the Lord of how he had walked in His ways. Living according to the teaching in the Word of God results in long life for us.
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