Investment Returns – How To Start Working With God Financially Part 3

God’s plan for your financial life is that you have everything you need and such abundance that you can always give generously to God’s endeavors throughout the world.  This giving will bring others to Christ and glory to God.  (2 Corinthians 9:8,11)

The only way to involve God in your finances, or to integrate your spiritual and financial lives, is to begin giving God some of your money (Read all of 2 Corinthians 9).  God doesn’t need your money for any reason (Psalm 50:9-12).  However, God invites you into a financial relationship with Him.  He wants you involved in His economic system to bless you and others (See Philippians 4:17, for example). 

God’s economic system functions by seedtime and harvest.  When you bring your money into God’s economy, giving it to His Kingdom, God receives that as a seed.  God then gives you a financial harvest on that seed.  Let’s see that concept in God’s Word. 

(2 Corinthians 9:6 NIV) – “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

(Proverbs 19:17 NLT) – “If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord-and He will repay you!”

(Malachi 3:10-11 NIV) – “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe," says the Lord Almighty.”

(Proverbs 3:9-10 NIV) – “Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.”

The Bible makes a few things about money abundantly clear.  First, God wants you to give some of your money to Him (by giving to His Church and His works).  Second, God wants to bless those gifts and give you a harvest on those seeds, a return on those investments.

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