All right. If you want to turn your Bible or flip on your iPhone or your iPad or what

it however you read the Bible I'm gonna be in, okay? We're in a series called Beyond Blessed and we've talked

about living Beyond Blessed. We talked last weekend that I'm going to kind of be on again about good stewards.

And I want you to understand that this is so big

and so many people miss this.

And I'm trying to think of how I can say it to make the impact that I want this statement to make,

all right? We know that when we give, God blesses us. That's just all

through scripture and it's when we give with the right heart, obviously. If we're

given with a selfish motive motive that's not going to

bring the blessing of God that's not what God's trying to do in our heart but when I

wrote the blessed life we talked about when we give and I talked about all

these testimonies about how God would bless.

Here's what I want you to catch about beyond blessed.

In the very same way that God supernaturally blesses you when you give generously.

In the very same way, God supernaturally blesses you

when you operate your finances according to biblical standards and stewardship.

And so many don't understand this.

Please please, please, please hear me please hear me

on this it's not just that the numbers add up it's not just that you got on a

budget and you're spending less than this column so you have more in this column.

We have testimony after testimony after testimony here at Gateway Church of people who have gotten

their finances in order and God has supernaturally

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