A Dedicated Life - God Is More Than Enough (notes)

A Dedicated Life - God Is More Than Enough

There Will Be A global economic meltdown in the end times!

Luke 19:9

If Money Will Fail

• What should be our attitude?
• Live one day at a time; learn to trust in the Lord daily. Jesus said that this should be part of our prayer life. “Give us this day our daily bread…” The Lord’s Prayer.

When It Comes To God, be like Joseph. Be a big dreamer. Don’t let the thief steal your ability to dream great dreams for the glory of God.

Jesus Is

• More than enough. God is not poor and He is not tight with what He owns (He owns it all!).
• Gracious and very generous with His children.

Proverbs 10:22

“The blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow with it.”

Genesis 41:53-54

• The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph said.
• Joseph was a prophet and his word came to pass!

It’s Easy To praise the Lord when all our bills are paid and we have money in our savings but what about the times we go from pay check to pay check?

There Was famine in the other lands, but in Egypt there was food.

Gen. 41:55

• If we use wisdom when things are good we can have more than enough when things are not as good.

God Is

• More than enough! In Genesis 17 He is revealed to Abraham as El Shaddai.
• It means powerful, the Almighty, majesty, the all sufficient one; Sadday was the covenant name by which God revealed Himself to the Patriarchs.

God Is Good

What ever we need is found in Him! But we don’t serve Him because of His goodness but because we love Him!

Sometimes

• It takes a lifetime before we get a true revelation of God. Abraham was 99 years old when God is revealed as “El Shaddai”.

Gen. 17:1

Application

• A revelation of God always amounts to an action on our part.

Gen. 17:1-2

1. Serve me faithfully
2. Live a blameless life: “And I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.”

The People Cried

• To pharaoh for food and Pharaoh tells them “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”

verse 55

• Pharaoh trust Joseph’s judgment. The Egyptians were not accustomed to living in lack but God raised up a young man to help them in their time of need.

When The Famine

• Spread over the whole country, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians.
• All the countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the world.

Prophetic Application Jesus said I will build my church…

• A bad economy can not stop the church.
• War can not stop the church.
• The enemies of the cross can not stop the church.
• Nothing can stop the church.

Principles

• God is our provider and when things are bad in the world, He will come to our aid and show Himself strong to save.
• During hard times the world will come to the church for help. God always gives His children wisdom, especially in hard times.

Principles Why God Trust Us With Plenty In Bad Times?

• The believers (church) are good stewards and can deal with scarcity a lot better than the world can.

• Christians are honest and can be trusted not to cheat.
• Christians are generous.
• Christians know how to deal with adversity.

Principles

• God performs miracles and he can supply all our needs, even in bad times.

Examples:

1. Moses & Israel needed water in the wilderness and God supplied.
2. They needed bread and God gave them manna.
3. Jesus feeds thousands with a boy’s lunch.