Today on Summit Life with J.D Greer.

When God prospers me financially, it's not simply so I can go on my way and go into my self-serving life.

No, he prospers us, we say, not to increase our standard of living. God prospers us to increase our standard of giving.

He multiplies it for sewing, greater sewing so that you can increase the harvest of your

righteousness. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer and Happy Valentine's Day.

I'm your host Molly Vittevich.

Okay, be honest about this.

Have you ever felt guilty about your level of giving or maybe more accurately about how much you're not giving?

Many people assume that because there are still people in need around the world

God's only purpose for our money is to get the gospel to them.

While this is of course important, today Pastor J.D. Greer shows us how to view our

possessions through a generosity matrix and apply God's wisdom to spending, saving, and giving,

all with the ultimate goal of honoring him with our resources.

This very well might be one of those messages that you want to come back to over and over so as always you can find it or share it from our website that's J.D.greir.com.

Well, let's get into it now. Here's Pastor JD.

Second,

chapter 8. Give you a little warning here in advance.

This is not going to be a typical sermon where I work my way as I prefer to do through one passage of scripture and just

explain to you what it says and what it means. I instead what I want to do today

is I want to walk you through a tool that I have developed a few years ago. It's really helped me in a personal struggle

that I've had with my relationship to money. I will tell you it's a very type A person. I like boxes to money. I will tell you as a very type A person. I like boxes to check. I like to know

what the standard is. I want to know what's the A, what's the A, what's the A plus, so that I can just,

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