Proverbs 1:5 “Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance.”

1. ________ economics.

Pop Quiz –

Are you living fully in God’s blessing? ___________________________________________________________________________________

Are you seeing abundance in your life or barely scraping by?_________________________________________________________________

Are you blessed and able to be a blessing to others or are you robbing God of a blessing by keeping His gifts for yourself?________________

Have you fully surrendered your finances to God?__________________________________________________________________________

Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

God’s ____________ – “You give me your all and I will give you more.”

Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

2. ____________.

a. Fractionalized _____________.

You can’t _________ to a fraction of something and _________ 100% in return.

Galatians 6:7-9 “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

_____________ in every area of our lives must be _________ committed to God.

b. ___________ 100 but ___________ back the 10th.

Malachi 3:8-10 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the , that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”

To come in line with God’s economics requires ________.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. “

Our surrender, commitment and faith in God as a whole, is when we see ______ blessings returned.

3. When things ________ add up.

Proverbs 3:5-6 – If we will acknowledge that God is with us in the good times and the bad times, He ______ see us through.

Genesis 50:19-20– Just as God worked through Joseph’s difficult circumstances to accomplish His purpose, He will _______ through the tough times in your life as well.

Whenever life doesn’t make sense for you, remember God always has a ___________ behind the pain.

Mark 4:37-40 – Faith and fear are polar ____________. As one increases, the other decreases.

Revelation 21:3-5 – If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, the good news is that no matter what happens in this life, we know it’s only ___________