^{Matthew 6:19–20}

¹⁹ “Do not store up for your­selves trea­sures on earth,   where moths and ver­min destroy,   and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But store up for your­selves trea­sures in heaven,   where moths and ver­min do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your trea­sure is, there your heart will be also.

Today, Luke helped an elderly cou­ple move a couch in and she said he was an answer to prayer…let’s all bless the peo­ple we see who need our help and invest a lit­tle time into their lives.  These are the trea­sures that will last forever!

• Remem­ber that every­thing you have comes from God. He is only allow­ing you to be a stew­ard of what already belongs to Him.
• Remem­ber that the Lord is your Shep­herd so you will not have want of any good thing. (Psalms 23:1)Your cup will over­flow with suf­fi­ciency for every­thing. (2 Cor. 12:9–10)
• Never for­get that God is the source of every­thing. All of our wealth is a gift from Him. Every good and per­fect gift is from above. (James 1:16–21)
• We are not only to give God our money but also our tal­ents, our time and all of our resources. Matt 6:27
• Learn to be con­tent with what you have instead of com­par­ing your­self with others.
• Look more at what you have than at what you wish you had.
• Give out of a cheer­ful heart know­ing that what­ever you spend Jesus will repay in much greater ways. John 6 is a fine exam­ple of how Jesus mul­ti­plied the 2 fish and the 5 loaves of the lit­tle boy to sup­ply food for 5000 hun­gry peo­ple. Allow the Lord to use your life to bless mil­lions in ways that are beyond human imagination.
• Use money and pos­ses­sion as resources for the Lord and His pur­poses. Oth­er­wise they will own you.
• Greed is a self-destructive atti­tude and behav­ior. Peo­ple who think they can hoard things will be dis­ap­pointed as the moths, rust and thieves of this world will even­tu­ally take them away leav­ing us dis­ap­pointed for eternity.
• How you han­dle your money is an indi­ca­tion of where your trea­sure really is hid­den. If you want to develop a closer trust in the Lord you can­not do it unless you are will­ing to give to God and His king­dom pri­or­ity min­istries. He tells us to store up trea­sures in heaven.  They are safe there.  This is not some kind of store­house for brownie points in the sky, or a tally sheet for good works.  Don’t mis­un­der­stand.  Jesus isn’t say­ing at the end of life we cash in on all the good we’ve done, and God lets us into heaven.  Sal­va­tion doesn’t work like that.
•  A trea­sure in heaven is some­thing done on earth whose effects will last for eternity.