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Stewardship is a natural expression of love. If you love someone, you will naturally care and look after what they love and own.

Stewardship is a natural expression of God’s love for you. Everything belongs to Him and as you love him you will naturally look after His things, whether they have been entrusted to you or others.

Remember, when Jesus offers you anything it is not in isolation from the King. He is the King of The Kingdom all God and offers it on behalf of the Kingdom.

Stewardship is part of the Matt 6:33 walk. So if you seek to perform your stewardship role correctly, God will help you in any way you need.

Stewardship preformed properly is also a form of worship as you are saying to God that He is worthy of being loved and followed, and that His things are worthy off being care for.

A good steward does not think of what he needs to have to be a good steward, as he trusts his master to provide them. He concentrates on what his master has given him to do in regards to these things. It cannot do his master’s will and his own unless they align together. A good steward will always want to do what his master desires him to do with the things he has been made steward of.

Jesus owns everything and all belongs to His Kingdom. As it represents Him, whatever you do to it in a sense you do to Him. What ever the you do to what you are steward of also affects The Kingdom itself. It is only as you play your part in The Kingdom properly will you serve the King as you should and be a steward of His things in the way He desires you to be.

The word originally referred to an important person in the household like a chamberlain or Chief butler who had authority over the household on behalf of the owner. They carried out the wishes of the owner and not their own desires.

It is not the duty of a minister to promote a denomination or its principles unless it is for the purposes of The Kingdom of God. Remember, Jesus does not recognize denominations but only The Body and the subgroups of local assemblies and families.

We are all ministers (servants) of Jesus or should be and should look after everything Jesus has given us: mental (mind/soul), physical and spiritual (our spirit as well and is anyone or anything He has entrusted to us for a season).

Stewardship: The office of a steward. One who carries out the duties of a steward.

A steward is one who has the office of stewardship and carries out the duties of that office (2 Cor 4:1-2).

Headship is a form of stewardship where the person (head) has been given the delegation to make decisions about what they are steward over without the need to ask the owner what to do with these things he has been given stewardship over. This is only given in a marriage relationship and the husband should always check with Jesus what He wants done with things he is steward over so that the Will of God is done in regard to them.

In all things you are steward over, you must ask the owner, Jesus, what to do with it. It is his property entrusted to you and unless The Bible or the laws of the land clearly state what to do with it, then you must ask the spirit what to do.

Salvation begins with a relationship and we are to be stewards of our side of the relationship maintaining it through obedience (Phil 2:12-13). This stewardship of obedience also maintains the fellowship resulting from the salvation relationship we have with Jesus. It is through the stewardship of the relationship we have with Jesus that we can correctly enter into fellowship with others.

Every activity we do is a reflection of our obedience to God and the stewardship God has given us. If the activity is carried out in correct loving obedience, stewardship becomes worship and brings Him glory and will have fellowship implications.

It is because of these things, our life has significance because it is the outworking of our loving relationship (fellowship and intimacy) with Jesus, and The Father as guided by The Holy Spirit.

As good stewards we will value the things God has entrusted to us and care for them as a matter of utmost priority as salvation is built around the fellowship we have with Jesus and The Father and is an expression of how we value this relationship (Jn 17:3). Obedience and stewardship are two of the main expressions of our love for Jesus and the father in this salvation relationship.

Adam was commanded to protect the Garden and cultivate it as a service to God. The Garden was part of the Kingdom of God and in it was the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’ (v17) (also to be protected by Adam). So having been given care of the Garden He was commanded not to eat of one specific tree. His sin was not doing what He was told (be a good steward of the garden and that tree) so that the tree was not protected, he also failed in his stewardship of Eve (protecting her from evil) and as a result she ate of the forbidden fruit. So both sinned as a result of Adam’s poor stewardship.

The first sin was Adam disobeying God and the second was poor headship, allowing Eve to be in a place where she could be tempted into eating the forbidden fruit. It was being a poor steward that resulted in God being disobeyed because Adam did not do as God commanded Him, namely guard the garden.

Perhaps this is a wake-up call to Christians to tend what they have as good stewards of it as to do otherwise is sin and will lead to more sin. It may also show the importance of husband protecting their wife from being tempted.

Unless you are content with what God has given you or allowed you to have in the situation He has placed you in He cannot take you further in your walk as a Christian. He also cannot give you more to do and care of for Him as you have not learnt the lessons you need to go further because you have not learnt to care contentedly for what you have already been given, either as possessions or ministry. This is because you have not learnt to be a steward of what you have been given and unto you do learn, God cannot trust you with more to be a steward off.

If you cannot love and care for the people Jesus has given you: wife, family, grandparents etc., how can He give you more to care for (minister too) until you know how to love and care for those he has already given you.

If you cannot handle what you have been given or are not content with how God has allowed how you to be Satan can attack or remove things till you start to appreciate what you have or are as a person.

Look at the "parable of the talents". Those who had 10 and 5 talents appreciated what they were given and made more of them. He who had one talent did not appreciate what he had been given and did not use it for the King’s benefit as the others had. So the king took the one talent away from him and gave it to another. If you do not use what God gives you or appreciate what he has done for you then you may find the ministry He had for you will be given to another along with all the blessings in that ministry.

It plainly states the people in charge of other Christians are stewards on behalf of God and so do not deal with others according to their own reasoning of what they should be doing but dispensing in accordance with what God tells them to do.

They steward only does what their master tells them to do and the moment they use what they are stewards of for purposes other than that of their master they exceed their authority.

Maintaining a church or teaching what a church believes (unless is agrees with the Bible God) are not purposes for The Kingdom of God. Any person not promoting The Kingdom of God or its purposes is abusing their stewardship of those assets.

The mysteries of God belong to heaven and not to the world run by Satan. Here we are told we are stewards of spiritual things we cannot see and other things of God that we can see that have been given to us by Jesus in accordance with Matt 6:33 so we can do His work on earth. Jesus does not give us knowledge for the sake of knowledge but to apply it as He desires us to apply it.

Stewardship in the Bible is not just of physical things but things that cannot be seen but exist in our minds and hearts as well as the mind and hearts of others.

The spirit, soul and body are lovingly created and are owned by their maker, God. This is one reason why He can know when you will die and where you will go after your death. Your free will does not negate this. It determines whether you rebel against Jesus or follow Him. As we are owned by God we should serve Him and do His will. We are stewards of our life and all else God has given us to administer for Him.

A steward serves another by looking after the possessions they have been entrusted with. Stewardship is the way we serve God and others with what He has entrusted us with. Obedience to His will is the key to correct stewardship of our will.

People believe they own things but really everything is really a stewardship of items entrusted to us or others by God. He made everything and owns everything and has entrusted to us the earth and all it has on or in it. There is thus a requirement to be a good steward of the earth and things on it (people, plants, animals, oceans etc.) and the things in it (minerals, oil etc.) that He has given us to look after for Him. Note: this is not what others say we should be doing but what He says we should be doing.

Our attitudes to giving, ministry, and our activities in daily living, either at work or home will only be correct if we understand all these are properly done as a part of stewardship of the things God has entrusted to us, either as relationships, assets, our minds and bodies or the spiritual things of God.

The basis of good stewardship is God’s Love in us reflected to all around us: towards God, towards other people, towards ourself and in the way we deal with the possessions we have been entrusted with, so that all we do in regard to being a steward of these things, is based on love and not greed.

The basis of all human relationships (as Satan’s kingdom sees it) is how we value another because of their importance to us or because of how they can benefit us.

The basis of all Christian relationships is God’s Love in us that values all life as He values it.

Mat. 5:43-47 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

Human life is sacred to God as He owns it and so Satan tries to denigrate and bring to destitution and destruction the life of a person. It is God’s Love in us that makes us hold life sacred and deal with others in Love.

Satan tries to get us to misuse our life and be a bad steward of it so that God cannot use it as He desires too.

Stealing is usurping the stewardship of another and not the stealing of their actual possessions (after all the possessions are God and they are just stewards of them so you are really stealing from God). It is actually rebellion against God’s authority over the things given to that person to be steward of.

In the Christian life we don’t own possessions as The Father owns them and we have been given them in trust to be used as best we can:

Firstly, as God requires His servants to use them for the purposes of His Kingdom,

Secondly, for our own families need so as to provide for their needs,

Thirdly, meet to our own personal needs and enjoyment and not our lusts or greeds. Overriding all this is the fact they must still be used in accordance with the Will of God.

Lastly, to provide for the needs (and not greeds) of others,

God’s Property has been entrusted to us (which includes out spirit, soul, body mind, love, attitudes, emotions etc.) so that all we control can be used for His purposes and not just to hoard or satisfy our insecurities and lusts. We are to show God’s Love in all we do just as His Love flows through all He purposes and does. We are warned by Paul:

1 Tim 6:6 ff Being able to live the Christian life and be content with what you have is a great asset.. We brought nothing into this world when we were born and we taking nothing material out of it when we die. And having food and clothing (what we need to live and do God’s work) let us be satisfied and happy. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which result in their destruction and going to perdition (hell). For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some desired more than they should have gone astray from the faith, and caused themselves many sorrows. But thou, O person of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

We are to be satisfied with what God determines that we need and not desire that which is not necessary. This will result in us doing things that we should not be doing, either to gain these desired items or as a result of having them and needing to take care of them instead of doing the work God has for us to do.

The idea of making a personal profit is also foreign to the kingdom as Jesus owns everything and it is all His profit. Rewards, however, are a part of the Kingdom of God but not in a profit making or profit taking sense. These rewards are incentive whereby, if you do well, you will be entrusted with more responsibility and items to be steward of as well as have an eternal reward in your mansion in heaven where there is no decay or wearing out of things as there is on earth.

A Christian may be blessed with prosperity but this is so He can distribute it to others. There will be sufficient to give him enjoyment but he must remember he has been entrusted by God to hold it on behalf of others as well.

Each person should have an attitude of stewardship towards their ‘God entrusted possessions’ and not that of an owner which is why it is said in the Bible that it is required of stewards that they be found faithful (1 Cor 4:1-2):

The corollary of this is that people should not amass more than they need to do what God has asked them too. Having more than you need is a form of security and thus is not a reliance on God’s promised provision and will also lead to sin. Maintaining these things also hinders your seeking the kingdom of God and His purposes as they distract you from this purpose with the extra activities and time required to keep and maintain these extra assets. Hence Jesus advised us:

Mat 6:31-33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Obey God, seek Him and His purposes and let Him provide what you need for today and in the future and you will not be distracted from His purposes seeking things that you do not need.

Sometimes budgeting for expenses requires savings so that you do not over spend your finances. God might also want you to save for something He needs you to do. These savings are not done for security purposes, but as good stewards of what God has entrusted you with.

The greatest gift from God and the most important thing we have been given is the stewardship of our free will - the ability to choose (within limits) the activities we want to do, including accepting or rejecting Him! As stewards we are accountable for how we use our free will and will give an account to God of the way we administered and used it.

It is free in the sense we can choose to follow God or choose to reject Him, but once we choose to follow His guidelines because we love him, our will becomes voluntarily subservient to His will so the freedom, in a sense, is lost except for the voluntariness of the continuing to choose His will over ours. But the loss is our gain, as the choices God has for us are better than those we can make for ourselves and the Joy and Peace that results is better than anything we can strive to obtain through our own efforts.

So while we have free will we willingly place it under the guiance of His will, making our love of and choice for Him and His things all the more precious in His sight.

Remember, The Father in heaven, Jesus and The Holy Spirit knows our every need. To desire more than what they give us is to say they do not know what we need which would mean they are not God. It really means we asking God for things he does not want us to have and if this desire it is maintained it could make these improper desires an idol and a ‘god’ as you would value them more than God! I am not talking about prayer for others but desiring more than we need to be content.

If we want things that we know are not in God’s revealed will for us then they things idols!

Remember, an idol is anything we voluntarily place between God, our understanding of whom God is, His purposes, His Requirements and our self.

If the stewardship of your free will is correct then all other stewardships will be in place. Because of this we are told to guard our heart as its decisions determines your eternal fate.

Satan’s desire is to ruin and destroy the things of God. He hijacked Adam and Eve and the kingdom of earth and has used his efforts since then to destroy God’s control over it as well as the relationship people have with God. This is so he can rule both the earth and its people. As they reject God they fall from God’s Kingdom to that of Satan and become under his rule.

At Calvary, Jesus took off him the right to rule the earth and is now the rightful ruler of earth and all on and in it. Soon He will come back to claim it. His rule of 1000 years will show how the earth should have been ruled by Satan and that Satan’s kingship was evil and corrupt so that God is right in punishing Satan – if only for the way he has abused what God allowed him to have. Satan and his followers are not good stewards of what God has allowed them to have!

All who abuse the stewardships God has given them and follow the example of the world (Satan) in any way needs to examine their salvation very carefully.

You will be required to give an account of what God has entrusted you with. Your reward in heaven and perhaps even getting to heaven will depend on what you have done with your knowledge of Jesus as well as what you have done with what God has provided you with to be His steward of and the way you use these to minister to others.

Have you used what you are steward of for God’s Glory and the furtherance of the Kingdom of God? Or have you kept them to yourself distributing knowledge of Jesus only when you had to or using what God has given you for your own selfish needs except when compelled to use these things for others.

What motives do you have in the use of the knowledge and goods God has given you? Your own selfish needs or the Love you have for God and his Purposes?

It is this expression of God’s Love that may ultimately determine your eternal fate.

If you used what God has made use steward of for selfish purposes then I would make certain that you do not need deliverance. A follower of Jesus is not suppose to be selfish. You may have hurts you need to deliverance from before you can be a steward in the way Jesus desires you to be.

It is required of stewards that they are faithful. Faithful to God’s Love, Faithful to God’s provision, Faithful to God’s Purposes, faithful to God’s Kingdom.

God has entrusted His mysteries to us to declare to the world. The Gospel is one that is imperative we share. There are other mysteries so it is up to you to learn what they are and how to explain them to those He requires you to tell or teach them too. God says they are revealed in Jesus so you need to know Jesus to have the revelation of them through the Holy Spirit giving you understanding of these things. As you relate to Jesus in a correct way He will reveal them to you in His time (Jn 16:13, 7:17).

The Holy Spirit lives in us so we need to develop and nurture the relationship we have with Him. This is so we can relate to Him as we should and hear Him clearly when He speaks to us as well as be sensitive to His feelings and desires for us (which represent what Jesus feels and desires for us).

God has given us a will (mind) to train to what He requires it to be (a reflection of His mind). If we do not train this mind it makes it very difficult to serve Him and we may end up with mental illness. Psychosomatic illness is also the sign of a mind which has not been properly cared for. The mind is so important it is the chief area Satan attacks and because of this we are to guard the inputs into it. A bad steward will allow bad inputs into their mind. A good steward will allow inputs into their mind that God would approve of.

Stewardship of free will, thoughts, emotions, attitudes (and resultant habits)

These are all a gift from god. He did not have to give these to us but did. They should be treasured and looked after as a good steward of them. The greatest of these attitudes is love which should be treasured as it should be expressed in all the other attitudes we have. Be a careful steward of your love as if that is not correct all the other attitudes etc., will be out of place and not be expressed correctly.

Matt 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

James 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Titus 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Phil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Malt 28.50 what you say to another in a in a sense you are saying to Jesus so you should speak to others as you would speak to Jesus.

Jokes: If you laugh at a person it is a lack of love. If you laugh with a person it is compassion.

Spirit: develop your relationship with The Holy Spirit in it so you are in constant dialogue with Him.

God has given us 24 hours a day for our use. If we do not fill the time with Godly things demons will fill it with ungodly things at the expense of our faith and witness. This is why we should have a time of prayer and Bible reading first thing in the morning before the day starts (our interaction with the world) so God can speak to us first before Satan gets in (Mark 1:35, the example of Jesus).

This does not mean we do not rest or relax. The seventh day is a time of rest and focus on God. A day of relaxing in the things He has given us to enjoy in (Him, our family and similar) the way He wants us to relax and enjoy them.

Each morning greet The Father, Jesus and The Holy Spirit, give the day to them and spend some time with them in fellowship and at night the last thing you should do is say good night to The Father, Jesus and The Holy Spirit, thank them for the day and give them your sleep.

The seventh day as a day of rest, was first observed by God at the end of the creation week. The Sabbath belongs to the observance of the Mosaic law and as that no longer applies to Christians (see Acts 15), they are no longer required to keep the Sabbath day. However, the principal of observing one day a week as a day of rest needs to be observed as God gave the example of resting on the last day of the week.

This day can be any day of the week as long as it is set aside to focus on God and the family and not on the things of Satan’s world system.

The church met on the first day of the week so they would not break the Sabbath rest as many, in the beginning, were Jews. However, there is no day set aside in the New Testament specifically for the seventh day rest. Paul even says that all day are equal to those who are truly free from the law (Rom 14:15).

As God is in charge of your life. You really need to ask The Holy Spirit what day you are to rest on and enjoy your family and worship him as a family.

Our bodies are tools God uses to get tell others of the Gospel of The Kingdom, to Glorify Him (through the way we serve Him) as well as promote The Kingdom of God by our example of lifestyle. Since it is a tool we have the responsibility of being a good steward of it.

We are to keep it in good working order, taking care of it as if it was a machine as well as always having it ready for God to use. Anyone not keeping their body in good order is being a bad steward, misusing their God-given body and sinning. Dis-ease (disease) is a sign of misuse of your body.

Everything we hold or touch is owned by God and should be treated as such. Even if Satan is using it, it still belongs to God as spoils of the victory at calvary. To not look after it properly is to be a bad steward, disregard God’s property (hijacked by Satan) as well as showing rebellion and a lack of love towards Him. If we love a person we look after what they own not for our benefit but to deal with the matter in a way that is best for them. That is what Love does.

The fact the item is under the stewardship of a non-Christian does not change this attitude as it is still God’s and who knows whether a Christian will be the next steward of the item or that new owner may become a Christian in the future? Whether we are at work, at home or enjoying ourselves elsewhere, this attitude of caring for God’s possessions is really a way of worshipping Him as well as showing our love for Him.

To be able to use an object for God may require demons to be cast out of the object and there are things used for the worship of Satan or the purposes of his kingdom which should be destroyed as they cannot or should not be be used for the purposes of The Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit will show what to destroy and what to reclaim (rededicate) for Jesus.

Proper stewardship is a result of love for God and His things and the resultant desire to use properly, for His purposes only, what He has entrusted to you.

We are to relate to others on earth in love as a good steward of the relationship we have with them.

Love is the first principle as it is the Nature of God. We are to Love others as Jesus Loves them.

Legal: employer/employee etc. Those people the laws of the land have given authority over you.. (A minister only has no legal authority over you except in regard to denominational issues. He can minister to you spiritually only as God directs and serves God’s authority in this and not his own).

As a representative of a denomination a minister has authority over what the denomination allows him to have authority over but that still does not give him a spiritual right over you. He can expel you from the denomination but cannot expel you spiritually from The Body or discipline you as if you were under his spiritual authority.

Jesus is our bishop 1 Pet 2:25 and no one else.

Spiritual relationships: Spiritual father/mother, Mentors and similar

You are to be guided by the guided by The Holy Spirit in all the ways you relate to people:

Remember you are stewards of all God has given you and that includes His Love in you and the relationships He has given you.

God has given the wife to the husband and the husband to the wife. God has entrusted him with her and her with him. He is a steward of her on God’s behalf and she is a steward of him on God’s behalf. It is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Wives should obey her husband as a good steward of the domestic relationship with her husband that God has entrusted to her. The stewardship is physical (domestic) as a man cannot provide for his wife’s spiritual needs (eternal life, heaven, salvation etc.). He can only encourage her to pursue her relationship with God and provide the physical and emotional security for her to do this.

Note that the wife obeys Jesus and submits to the domestic authority of husband as a result of obeying Jesus. Not to do this is not to disobey husband so much as to disobey Jesus. The wife is only required to respect and submit to her husband while the husband is to love wife as Jesus loves her. This respect was important in the days of arranged marriages when the first time a wife might see her husband was at the altar. She did not have to love him but to respect the authority God had given him over her and also appreciate his provision of all her needs.

Jesus governs the spiritual side of the relationship and to give a man spiritual authority over a woman is to remove Jesus from his role as spiritual head of the wife and to imply man is spiritual steward of his wife! (See 1 Pet 2:25 - 1 Pet 3:6) The man, however, does have a ‘duty of care’ to the woman to encourage and help her develop in Her spiritual walk with God. Nowhere has Jesus delegated His spiritual authority over a wife to a husband. He has delegated some authority (over domestic matters) but not spiritual authority.

The husband is to love his wife and look after her as Jesus looks after His people: self-giving, sacrificial love, placing the needs of his wife before his own needs. Not meeting her greeds that satisfy her flesh but meeting her needs that keep her alive spiritually and physically and help her draw closer to Jesus.

Parents are also stewards of the children entrusted to them. They are to provide for the needs of their children, guide them in the things of God and teach them how to be good parents themselves as well as how to correctly relate to God and others.

Life is a continual stewardship of all God entrusts us with, which is why Love is so important as it is the basis of all correct relationships and of all correct stewardship.

Men and women are made sexually different by God and are to be stewards of their sexuality and not just allow it to be transformed in any way to the sexuality the other sex has have or the media says they should have as Satan is trying to do this so that sexual roles blur and people do not realize the full potential of their sexuality either as maleness or femaleness.

There are common roles for men and women but there are also roles men and women are designed to do that are different and only a male or female can successfully do these different roles.

Two examples that come to mind are fatherhood and motherhood. When the roles are changed there are stresses in the family and headship is not there. If Satan can blur these roles then headship disappears along with God’s order in the family. This blurring of sexuality is one of the reasons many families are in a mess as each parent does not carry out the role they were designed for but end up carrying out roles placed on them by necessity or Satan’s deceptions in the media.

We must look after and cultivate that which makes up our maleness or femaleness, parts of which are uniquely different (our masculinity and femininity), which God has given us to help us in the unique roles He has given us to carry out the tasks He has ordained as uniquely male or female

This does not mean that the role of one is more important or superior to that of the other but that God has designated what each gender is to do and has prepared them emotionally and physically genetically to do. To do otherwise would not make Him a God of Love. So role each is important to God and as such has a purpose in His Kingdom and in the marriage. If these roles are carried out correctly they will fit like a glove and result in unity and order in the marriage and The Kingdom. In the process of correctly carrying out these roles we will also fulfil the requirements of stewardship of these roles.

Most people want to do big, important things for Jesus. Often this is so they will either feel God loves them as He is using them or because they need to do them for purposes of self-esteem.

God is interested only in the relationship He has with you and the love that flows from it expressed by the way you relate to He and others. Nothing you do can change this. All Jesus requires of you is to relate to Him in love and do what He gives you well - no matter how small or trivial it appears to be!

As you obey God and do well the daily routine of life within the guidelines He has given you your life becomes and act of worship and satisfies His requirements of you as you show by your attitudes He is worthy of being followed and by this you worship Him.

Love is faithful and is a good steward of all that is entrusted to it and does what is required without thought of self or gain, thinking only of serving others and from this obtains its pleasure. Reward is not important. The benefit and joy and it gives to another is their reward.

The joy of being a good steward of your God-given ministry is to see the lives that are changed into the image of Jesus and to know that by this you are a good and faithful servant and faithful steward of all you have been entrusted with.

Remember that love never does for another what they should be doing for themselves and never neglects what God has given them so they use these God-given things to serve others.

People point to Adam being given the care and protection of the garden of Eden as meaning he is was given stewardship of the earth. The garden was only a part of the earth and it was into the rest of the earth Adam was cast out.

The Garden was part of God’s Kingdom on earth so Adam was given care of the things of God and not of the world (the earth is Satan’s at the moment and God will not protect the things of Satan). You are responsible for what ever God gives you to maintain on His behalf and no more. While we may need to protect things for God and His Glory this will only be as He directs us to do.

Anyone who says Christians have responsibility to be a steward of the current world is helping Satan. You are only required to be a steward of the area of earth God has given you to be steward of, usually you home and land. It may be different in the Millennium when Jesus rules but in this period of time you are to care and protect only that which Jesus says you are steward of on His behalf.

All the wealth in the world is God’s. Satan has as much of it as he can get at the moment and is misusing it. He is not a good steward of it. As citizens of The Kingdom of God we have a responsibility as stewards of the things of The Kingdom to use God’s property in a proper way.

The pursuit of things God does not want you to have involves earning unnecessary money or misusing time and takes you away from time you could use to relate to God and His purposes. We are told not to lay up treasure on earth but to send it ahead to heaven through our correct use of money, possessions and our time. We are told time is short and we do not need expensive things that will last long and that we will not really have that much time to enjoy them anyway. We are told that God will provide all we need for his work and that having food and clothing to be content. To desire more than God wants us to have is covetousness and takes us away from God’s purposes for us. It is idolatry as well.

You don’t need wealth to serve Jesus

You don’t need worldly power or authority

You don’t need theological training

You just use what He has given you

And listen to the guidance of The Holy Spirit

If your family is in God’s order and your house is neat and tidy, no one has a right to criticize your ‘poverty’ (lack of worldly wealth) and don’t forget, in the Western world that the ‘poverty’ you live in is better than what 2/3 of what the rest of the world lives in.

Don’t forget that all you have will be left behind when you die. You can’t take it with you. When you die, all you take with you is relationships: to Jesus, others (including family) and yourself. All you send ahead are the rewards you gained in this life through the wise stewardship (service) of what God allowed you to have in this world.

No! To do so is is greed or covetousness and implies God has not provided what you need to serve Him as He promised to provide these in Mat 6:33. This is why you are to check with God when buying things or why you appear to have more money or possessions than you need. This way you will not buy what you do not need or will buy what He tells you to and you will not spend money carelessly but on what He wants done with it.

It is a command to be organised and tidy and to have too much results in clutter:

1 Corinthians 14:40 " let all things be done decently and in order."

It is good stewardship to only have what God wants you to have and not what another should have. If you have too much it is because someone else has less than they should.

It shows trust in God’s Love not to tie up things as security so that others do not have what they need as the money your should have given them is tied up in your unnecessary assets.

It is a sign of faith in God’s provision not to stock up on things excessively apart from normal needs and adequate reserves (unless told too) and not to value these things more highly than God’s Will for you in regard to these things.

It is a sign of a correct relationship and attitude to God in that you desire the things of God more than the things of the world so you are willing to go without them for His Will to be done.

As we remove the things from our lifestyle that clutter us and take our time we will have more time to relate to God and others so that we can get things into order. It is to be remembered that how we express our relationships is what the Christian life is all about.

Remember that the main purpose of advertising is to buy things you don’t need. If you needed them they would not have to advertise for you to buy these things. This is why you are to ask the Holy Spirit what to buy and when to buy it and then you will have what is best for you and not what someone else trying to sell something says is best for you.

God’s Love given to us

God’s Grace given to us

God’s Authority delegated to us

God’s Wisdom shown to us

God’s property in our possession

God-entrusted relationships

Our Life

A faithful steward is one who is faithful in dealing with what has been entrusted to them. We show our stewardship of these things in the way we use them in the everyday things we do and from this people can see what type of stewards we are.

If you are a good steward you will satisfy the requirements of Matt 6:33 as stewardship is part of the obedience required by the principles of this walk.

The stewardship of your relationship to The Father, The Holy Spirit and Jesus (how you related to them and used what God gave you For His purposes).

The stewardship of your relationship to others (how you how you related to others and used what God gave you for the benefit of others),

The stewardship of your relationship to yourself (how you used the life God gave you).

It is required of stewards that they are faithful. Only faithful stewards enter heaven and the restored Millennial Kingdom of God on Earth and later the New Heaven and New Earth that follows it.

A person who owns something takes pride in ownership and protects it against others taking it from them. They do not easily part with the item owned for anything usually unless what is offered has more value to them than the item has.

A person who is a steward realizes he is only a caretaker and that the owner (Jesus) has the right using the item or of giving it to someone else. He takes satisfaction in the way he serves his stewardship and not in the ownership of the item. He cannot take pride in what he does not own but he can have pleasure and satisfaction in the way he has performed his stewardship.

Love is not possessive over things and a good steward will give to others what they need if they are able to within the guidelines of stewardship God has given them. They will not stockpile or withhold from others because they are a different church or denomination or family.

The denominations usually act as owner rather than a steward and teach this attitude to their people so that they do not ask Jesus usually what to do with what they. This was the problem with the church in Corinth. Those who had more than they needed acted as if they were owners and not stewards of what they had and did not give to those who did not have hence the need for Paul to explain Love to them.

It is hypocrisy to say you have the Love of Christ and ignore the needs of your brethren when you are in a position to be able to meet it. So while denominations say they have the love of Jesus and ignore the needs of those in their own church or around them they are hypocrites and God cannot accept anything they ‘offer to Him’ or ‘do for Him’.

You are to give only as The Holy Spirit says to give and not as others want you to give through applying peer pressure or making you feel guilty over not giving.

If you are doing what God wants you to do you should never need to ask for, money or what you require to do His Will (Mat 6:33). It is only when you do things for your own purposes and not God’s that deficits occur in the provision needed to do these things.

People say at times that Christians should have all things in common and not own things individually. That all belongs to the group. This is wrong. All belongs to Jesus and He gives us things to be stewards of on His behalf. It is not the group or person in charge who has the right to say what to do with something. It belongs to Jesus and He is to say what you are to do with it.

Another masterstroke of Satan was to convince the church they were owners and not stewards of the things they had and as such could do what they wanted with them without the need to consult God. So God temporarily lost the use of these things and Satan got the benefit because people did not ask God what to do with them. This meant Satan could suggest what to do with them and use these things for his own purposes, They would not be used to cause people to sin openly but to sidetrack them and gradually lead them into sin.

Because possessions were thought by people to be their own to do with what they wanted Satan brought in the concept of profit on interest and saving (hoarding possessions and not sharing excess possessions with those who needed them). Wealth creation and profit became more important than hearing God as people did not believe they needed to ask God what to do with things. Because of this we have the resulting financial structure today with the emphasis on wealth creation. This emphasis on wealth creation and preservation hides the promises and requirements of Malt 6:33.

By this structure he tied up the money of God even further having Christians seek for treasure on earth ignoring obtaining treasure in heaven as well as blinding them to their stewardship responsibility of things.

Until this situation is remedied the church will always be poor spiritually and financially.

Churches are stewards of what they have. Not for the denomination or themselves but for God and His Purposes. Any church or similar organisation or fellowship not using what it has for the Body but for its own purposes cannot belong to the Kingdom of God as they have rejected the Lordship of Jesus over what He has given them to be stewards of.

But why do they have church buildings anyway when these tie up the money of God and are treasure on earth. God does not require them and many of the worlds people do not have a church building.

How is this possible that doing something to someone affects Jesus as well? This only makes sense if we are His stewards of all that is brought across our path by God. So what you do to them you do to Jesus their owner. He is lord of all so all belongs to Him, so whatever we do to anything or anyone is in a sense is done to Him as He is owner of them.

God owns all, which is why he can separate the sheep and the goats at the Great White Throne Judgment as well as do with them what he pleases with us (withing the guidelines He has set up for this current dispensation Gal 6:7-8).

This is why serving (helping another) is important as you are being a good steward of ‘what you can help a person with’ as the person is his master’s property and what you do to that person you do to its owner, God. It is also a reason for showing love to all as they are really His property and if we love Him we will look after his property on His behalf.

In a sense, all earthly relationships are of equal value before God, the only difference being :

Any authority is only given you so you can serve your King and others better and not just for personal gain.

The good steward does not amass wealth for his own purposes as his Master gives him all he needs to live and serve Him and to do otherwise is theft of His Master’s possessions and deprives another of the use. What he has being given by his master above his needs he uses for his Master’s purposes before his own out of love and gratitude to his Master for what the Master has done for him. However, at times, his Master will tell him to use some of this wealth for his own purposes, such as relaxing or improving His lifestyle.

Holidays (days of rest) are a part of the stewardship of who you are as a person as is resting every seventh day of your week.

If we are to be faithful stewards then the Will of the King must be expressed in all we do, especially in how we use what he has given us: mind, body, relationships, things we are stewards of.

A lie of Satan is to make us think we are owners and not stewards of all we have so that God’s Will is not as relevant in what we do with the ‘thing we own’. So when we give we are giving from what we believe we own not from the reality of the situation - giving God through us something from what He has blessed us with and prospered us with. Thus any kind of giving: time, money, possessions, worship, becomes and imposition and not a joyful returning to God some of what He has Graciously given us (1 Chron 29:12).

Interest and profit are always at the expense of someone else’s stewardship lifestyle. Satan knows this which is why big business and banks have grown so big in Satan’s world system and because of their nature (tools for Satan) usually have no love, compassion or mercy in their ethics,

It is all a matter of perspective and understanding that we are stewards and not owners of all God has given to us, allowed to happen to us or brought across our path.

Trials, for example, are things God allows to happen to us and by the way we deal with the trial will show how good a steward we are of our attitudes to the suffering.

You want to get to heaven? Then you must be a faithful steward of all that God has given to you: life, possessions, people and relationships.

Scripture in the Bible talks about laying up treasure in heaven by using correctly what you have on earth. You are to provide for those dependent on you and out of your surplus help others (1 Tim 5:8).

God has promised to meet all your needs. However, you may tell you to say is for the future for special circumstances. To save for any other reason is doubting his promises of provision.

Remember, anything you hoard or keep above what you need is a form of treasure (excess wealth) and unless God has told you to hoard this excess it will be used by Satan to compromise your faith or lead you away from it.

Mat 6:33 states that God will provide all you need if you seek His Will for His Kingdom as well as being in a correct relationship with Him in all things

To lay up provision (save) implies God cannot meet your needs. This is different to budgeting where money is placed in an account to meet a future liability that you have (for which God has directed you to save for).

You are either seeking God’s Kingdom and having your needs supplied or are not seeking Him and His Kingdom, in which case you will be seeking things you don’t need and having to get them yourself as God will not provide them or the finance for them to you.

You are also to put aside any surplus on the first day of each working week (our pay day?) to help those less fortunate than yourself. We give from our excess provided by God not from what is necessary to maintain our dependants. This excess is also included in Mat 6:33 as God promises to provide all of needs of which giving is a part.

Note that it is all our needs, not just financial one. If our needs are not being met we need to ask why.

Perhaps we are in sin and not in a correct relationship with God

Perhaps we are not seeking His Kingdom and His Righteousness

Perhaps we are seeking things we do not need and have placed ourself out of His Will so that He will not meet these extra needs.

Perhaps it is not God’s timing to meet your the as he wants to mature you more through testing your faith that he will provide your needs as he has promised you He would (Ps 37:25).

We cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve our own desires as encouraged and cultivated by Satan and those of God. We must listen to The Holy Spirit’s Guidance and spend only on what he says to or else we will waste God’s provision and not have sufficient for what God requires of us.

The promise is there in Mat 6:33 for the provision of all our needs. So if you have financial problems I would do some real soul searching as to why they are there.

A need is something you require to do the work of Jesus or to live as He requires you to live. Greeds are usually used to satisfy desires for things you don’t need and are often a way to cope with emotional pain or hurt. Deliverance may be needed to deal with these.

There is a grey are in between when at times we do not know what it is and we need to ask The Holy Spirit if it is a need or a greed.

Depending on circumstances a need can be a greed or a greed can end up a need. An example is drinking soft drink you purchase when you are dehydrated when there is water around to be had for free. That is a greed. But if there is no water then it is a need. Another example is Lobster. Eating it in in a restaurant is a luxury but eating it in a survival situation is a need. This is where you need The holy Spirit to help you determine which is which.

How should we value the things of the world? We should value them as if we are walking away from them never to see them again. This does not mean we neglect them as we are stewards of them and must maintain them but it means we do not hold onto them when god tells us to let go. Look around you, this may be the last time you will see that scene and all that is in it.

We take our next step here because God allows us too and each step could be our last in this world. The things of this world pale in importance if we believe each step is our last and we may not pass that way again. Heaven and eternity then become our focus and our objectives then are directed towards doing everything we need to get there.

If we do not hold onto the things of this world God is able to remove them or have us give them to another and replace them for us as He needs and does so with something better suited to our needs than that which He removed. They will be restored in His timing and not ours.

If we do not hold onto things we can look ahead to that which is coming and deal with them in a way God wants us too without us being hindered by holding onto things we may never need again (Luke 9:62).

The challenge as a Christian is to be in the world and not hold onto the things of the world but be a good steward of those things you have been given to look after on behalf of God.

Remember God will always provide what we need to live and to minister on His behalf. All else is really superfluous and unnecessary to our Christian walk.

You are steward on behalf of God so He directs you what to do with what He has entrusted you. No other can tell you what to do with it as He alone is its owner. When asked for money you need to ask God whether you are to give and if so how much you are to give. You then do what He says to do. To do otherwise is sin and shows a possible need for deliverance in an area of your life.

You should never give because of peer pressure or guilt placed upon you by the person asking for money, whether it be a church charity or family member. God owns the money not you and you are to do with it what He says to do.

The hammer of ‘tithing cannot be used to make you give. If God wants you to give a tithe He will tell you to without the need for the church demanding you follow ‘The Bible’ and tithe. Besides, if a church is doing what God wants it to do it will not need to ask or coerce people to give to it as God will move those who should give or supply it in some other way. To say He cannot is to limit Him and say He is not God of All and All Powerful.

Accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.

Art highly prized for its beauty or perfection

Any possession that is highly valued by its owner

A collection of precious things.

Worldly treasure is anything you hold to be of more value than the Will of God. Another name for it would be an ‘idol’.

Matt 6:19-21 ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

1 Tim 6:6-8 But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

2 Tim 2:3-4 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

We are at war in hostile enemy territory (the kingdom of the world i.e. Satan’s kingdom). Why should we expect the battle to be easy and not sustain any wounds or even to lose our life!

We serve a King (Jesus) who knows the master plan of the battle and who is directing us in the fight. Those who listen to the commander will do His Will in spite of what happens to them, as they trust the commander’s provision during the battle and afterwards when they are back in His Kingdom.

In what is to come, as The King unleashes His Weapons to attack His enemies, (wars, disasters, plagues, fire, drought, storms etc.,) faithful, loving service to The King trusting in His Love for us is all that will really matter as nothing else will be certain.

A Soldier removes all that will hinder his ability to fight in a war so he can fight unhindered.

Have you removed all that is excess to your needs so you can fight unhindered? Or are you going into battle fat with trappings belonging to the enemy which are no use to you in the battle and which will only weigh you down?

Mat 6:24-34 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The treasures you hold onto on earth may be the very ones that may lose you the battle or your salvation so as a soldier learn to travel light with only what your Master wants you to have.

A soldier who trusts his king will trusts his king’s stewardship of him and fight the battle unhindered by any care for his needs. A Christian believes Matt 6:33, that Jesus is a good steward of His soldiers and will provide all the soldiers need to do the battle (ministry) God has called them to serve in.

It is good stewardship to only have what God wants you to have and not what another should have. If you have too much it is because someone else has less than they should. If you have too much it makes it difficult to care for the things God actually want you to look after.

It shows trust in God’s Love to not tie up things as security so that others do not have what they need as the money your should have given them is tied up in your unnecessary assets.

It is a sign of faith in God’s provision not to stock up on things excessively apart from normal needs and adequate reserves and do not value them more highly than God’s Will for you.

It is a sign of a correct relationship and attitude to God in that you desire the things of God more than the things of the world.

As we remove the things from our lifestyle that clutter us and take our time we will have more time to relate to God and others so that we can also get these into order. It is to be remembered that how we express our relationships is what the Christian life is all about.

Rom 12: 19 Dearly beloved; avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine,. 1 will repay, saith the Lord.

Mat 5:38-39 Ye have heard that it hath been said; An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

These verses are typical of the Old Testament Psalms where the Psalmist often cried to God for Him to remove their oppressor or vindicate them against evil doers.

Why are we not to take these things into our own hands and punish these people ourselves?

To do this would make us their judge in place of God. It would usurp His Authority and Stewardship over them and us and would show we do not understand our role in the Kingdom of God.

We represent God as His Ambassadors on earth, working in the enemy kingdom. This means we will be attacked unjustly at times but always with the approval of and within the limits set by God who will use these to test us and mature us through them (1 Cor 10:13). As we represent our King, complaints by the enemy must be made to him and this is what Satan does before the throne of God.

God then evaluates these complaints and if unjust will do what is necessary to uphold His Name (and we who are proclaiming it) and will deal with our accusers. If we are doing wrong. He will allow Satan to attack us (as good steward does) so we will repent and remove from us that which Satan is using as an access to attack us and which brings The Kingdom of God into disrepute.

We are to rest in God’s Love and justice and continue to serve The King. In this case we continue to show His Love and servant heart to everyone and only avoiding people as directed by Him. This is usually for our own safety or because it is too early for us to serve Him in that area.

Turning the other cheek does not mean we are not to defend ourselves (as we are God’s property they want to misuse in some way) but to trust God for any wrongs against us that occur while serving Him as it is His authority that has been offended and not ours. We are being good stewards if we prevent them damaging God’s property (namely us). The stewardship of our role in this war is very important as it is how we handle this stewardship that determines how we fare in the battle or how much we are hurt in the battle.

We must trust that God is a good steward of us and all that happens is under the control of His Stewardship and also for our best. So if we are martyred or lose everything on earth it is because He deems it best for His Kingdom for us and will replace these things with things that are better for us either in this life or the next (Rom. 8:28, Gen. 50:20, Jer. 29:11, Is. 55:8-9).

Praise and thank God for people regardless of what they have done to you (He is using them in your life in some way). Praise God for who they are (people He died for and wants in heaven with Him). Let God deal with them. They are His problem not yours. Affirm God’s promises to you : salvation, peace, joy, provision, etc. Praise God and remind yourself of His Love, Provision, Mercy for each day, His Control (stewardship of us) and all that is happening for your eternal best.

Self-esteem is really a bad word as the proper term is really "correct self-appreciation". Proper self-esteem is an appreciation of our strengths and weaknesses in relationship to the requirements of Jesus and not to those of the world. It is seeing us ourselves as God sees us! It is a part of the stewardship of whom we are!

People usually get their self-esteem from personal achievements or what others think of them.

You cannot rely on results or achievements as God may ask you to do something knowing full well you will fail. The purpose of the exercise may be to show corruption or error in other people by their rejection of the truths you are confronting them with. A part of the work of The Kingdom is to expose evil as guided by The Holy Spirit in the hope people they will repent and turn to Jesus.

You also cannot rely on the opinion of others as few people can unbiasedly evaluate another as they are usually also protecting their own ‘self-esteem.

Self esteem is derived from the fact that God loves you and sent Jesus to show you how to love Him then die for you to make a relationship with Him possible. It is based on God’s worth of you!

God thinks enough of you to look after your every need and it to him you a worthwhile for him to be your steward.

Remember that salvation is a correct relationship with Jesus and The Father. You are important to God and have value as a person in the eyes of God because of this relationship! God has chosen to bring you into existence and then be a steward of you now and in eternity. He has given you Jesus. What more can He do for you!

You have self–esteem because you are important to God. No one has any right to criticize you if you are doing His Will as He alone is your judge and often the criticism is for a wrong motive. The people criticising you need to show they are superior to you because they feel so inferior about themselves and get their esteem from apparently being better than others.

He did not need to do this as He is complete in Himself. He does not need you to live but gives you life because he is love. Our life is lived for our benefit alone as God does not need us to live. All he does for us is for a benefit alone! However, He does take pleasure in meeting our needs and in the relationship we have with him, After all, He is Love, and Love obtains pleasure when it serves another and gives another pleasure.

He is a God of Love and Loves you as you are His child. This is why He sent Jesus to die in your place so that the barriers between He and you were removed so that you could enter into a personal relationship with Him if you wanted too. This relationship would survive death and continue into eternity.

You must be a good steward and do your part of the relationship to obtain the benefits of it. By this you show your Love for Him and that you are worthy of this relationship.

You are not important because of anything you achieve in this life. You are important because God values the relationship He has with you and Loves you as His Child!

Eph 4:28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.

2 Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Anyone who eats of what another has laboured for without a valid reason for doing so is stealing from them. Anyone who will not work without a valid reason is stealing from those who feed them and ultimately from God.

Anyone who uses up something that is entrusted to another without a valid reason for doing so is stealing from them and ultimately from God.

You need to work at being a good steward of what God has given you. You need to work so you do not steal from the stewardship of another by the through laziness or unnecessarily imposing on them.

If you do your work wholeheartedly to please Jesus you do not need to fear what man thinks as Jesus, who is your judge, is satisfied with this attitude and will take responsibility for the results of your labour. If applying God’s principles to your work loses you anything then remember God will replace it with better if you need it. God removes that which you do not need so you can better concentrate on that you need for His purposes so you can be a better steward for Him.

Remember! You are working for more than wages or the approval of man! You are also working towards your eternal destiny as a faithful steward of God!

If you have proper self esteem and self-worth you will work as you should otherwise your work will reflect your inadequacies in which case deliverance is needed to remove these.

God requires you to work for your living and will not allow you to win at gambling to circumvent this principle (Gal 6:7-8). The devil will gladly help you win for a time when gambling till you are addicted and cannot stop. Then you will lose all you have and including possibly your salvation (which of course is his objective).

Like all addictions, the person needs deliverance to remove all the demons behind the addiction as well as to also deal with the root causes that caused them to compensate through gambling.

A gambler can never be a good steward of the things of God! The demons driving than will not let them. The same is true for other addictions such as drugs, pornography, alcohol, cigarettes etc., and similar addictions manifesting as the extensive collection of things either as a hobby or a security.

Stewardship eventually becomes an attitude and does need to be worked at as the attitude as it becomes a natural part of your expression as a Christian.

Stewardship pervades all you do. Happy is the man that understands this and puts it into practice in his life.