You Must Be A Good Steward Of Everything You Have

Hello, and welcome to Social Media Ministries. My name is Spencer Coffman. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We are talking about stewardship. This is an excellent message.

It is something that many, many people need to understand and realize that you need to be a good steward. So, first of all, what is stewardship? Stewardship means to be a good steward.

So whatever you have, steward or stewardship is the act of caring for it. So, now what is a steward? A steward is someone who takes care of something. You’re kind of like a caretaker or a keeper, an advisor, a manager, a financial planner, whatever it might be.

You are a caretaker of the house. Maybe a butler, the steward is someone who takes care of the master’s belongings. Whether it’s money, resources, possessions, anything like that. So when it’s saying you need to be a good steward, you need to take good care of the things entrusted to you.

What is that you say? “Everything I have is mine, like this Bible. This belongs to me. So you know whether I take good care of it or throw it away. That’s up to me. This suit, I mean, if I dry clean it or if I throw it in the wash, then that’s up to me.”

Yes, and no. You are to be a good steward of the things God has given you. “God gave me this.” God gave me this? “Well, I worked for it. I paid for it.” Who gave you the ability to work? Who gave you the money? We’re going to get into all this.

We have many sermons on it as well. We have an entire sermon playlist that we’ll link later, in a card. But you should check it out. It’ll also be at the end of the video “Blessed To Be A Blessing.” So stay tuned for that.

God calls you to be a good steward. So, a steward is someone who manages the wealth and assets of another person. Now you can be, for example, maybe you are a financial planner or a financial adviser.

You are a steward of the people of whose money you’re managing. You have the fiduciary duty to manage it responsibly. That’s stewardship. You need to be a good steward of that wealth that was entrusted to you, for the benefit of another. God is saying, “You need to be a good Steward of all of it.” Let’s go to a verse, Titus. Titus 1:7-8.

Titus 1:7-8. “Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless — not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.

Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.”

It keeps going, I encourage you to read more of this section. Definitely take a look at the verses. Read a few verses before, read a few verses after. Meditate on it, study it, learn from it. They’ll all be referenced in the description below. But this is Titus 1:7-8.

What are we talking about here? An overseer manages God’s household. So if you have a house, whose household is that? That’s God’s. It means you are a manager of the things that you own, you are a steward of the Lord. And everything that you have belongs to him. Let’s go to Psalms.

Psalms 24:1-2 “The Earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.”

Psalms 24:1-2. I really like that first verse, “The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. The world, and all who live in it.” Okay, everything in it is the Lord’s. Literally, everything. It’s all His.

There’s another verse that says “I have no need of a sheep from your pen, or of a goat from your herd, or cattle from your stalls.” He doesn’t need it, because everything is his. All of it is God’s.

So, this is literally saying that if God showed up at your house and knocked on your door, and you let him in — actually, first of all, He probably wouldn’t even knock on your door. He’d just show up at your house and let himself in. Because guess what? It’s his house.

And if he was hungry, He wouldn’t tell you because that’s what the verse says. If I were hungry, I would not tell you. If I were thirsty, I would not tell you. If He needed something to drink, He wouldn’t ask you. He has no need of cattle from your herd, or sheep from your stalls, or all that kind of stuff, because it’s all His anyway.

So if He shows up at your house, He’s going to let himself in because it’s His house, and if he’s hungry, guess what? He’s going over to the refrigerator, and He’s going to open it up, and He’s going to help himself to whatever is in there.

Because it’s all His anyway, and if He needs something to drink and you say, “Oh no, don’t drink my Celsius because those are for when I have a certain thing that I need and I need some energy” or “I have these very special drinks that are mine” or “this is my top shelf stuff.” Guess what?

God’s helping himself because it’s all His anyway. “That jerky that I’ve been saving for a special occasion.” No, it’s all God’s. He’s going to come in and help himself. He doesn’t need to ask you; He has no need to ask you. The Earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. You are taking care of it. Everything that you own, you own because God has blessed you with it.

You are a steward of the Lord. He has provided it for you to manage and take care of. There is a parable in the New Testament called “The Parable of the Talents.” An incredible story. We’ve talked about it before in a sermon called “Use Your Gifts.” Check it out.

Basically it is a story about a master giving three servants, one a certain amount, another a certain amount, and another a certain amount. He leaves for a long time.

Now these amounts, we’re talking hundreds of thousands of dollars in today’s world, today’s day and age. The master leaves for a period of a year to a few years, comes back. First one doubled, second one doubled, third one gives him back exactly what he gave him. Not good.

The point of the story is; God has entrusted you with gifts, with talents, with abilities, with possessions, with belongings, with wealth. You are to use it to grow more.

Now it doesn’t mean that you are to be greedy, and make a bunch of money and use your money to build more money and hoard it up. No, there’s another story in the Bible, of a person who tore down their buildings to build bigger barns, because they didn’t want to build other barns on their property.

Because their land was so productive and valuable, that they needed more space to store everything, everything they were accumulating, but they didn’t want to take up space to build a bigger storehouse, so they tore down the one and made a bigger one right there.

That’s not what God is saying. He’s not saying to be greedy like that, he’s saying to use what he’s given you to grow the Kingdom, to achieve His purpose. Notice in the parable of the talents, watch that sermon. Use your gifts.

The first two — they doubled what their master gave them, and they gave it back to the master. They were stewards. They didn’t do it for their own gain. They didn’t do it and say, “Master, I’ve doubled what you had, but I want to keep it to continue doing more.”

No! When the master returned, they willingly gave it back because they knew it wasn’t theirs. Same thing. Everything you have — it’s not yours. You’re simply taking care of it while you’re here on Earth. Get that through your head. You are a steward. You need to be a good steward.

You are to manage everything wisely and to follow God’s instructions for everything you have. We have a sermon called “Money God’s Way.” Check it out. Excellent sermon on how you are to manage your wealth, your money, because guess what? It isn’t yours.

I shouldn’t say how you are to manage your money, I should say how you are to manage the money that God has entrusted you with. You are to use it as a tool to build and grow the Kingdom for His purpose.

Now, if you say, “Well, wait a minute, I have money. I need a new car. Is that God’s purpose for me to buy that?” You know what, probably, if you need it. If I say, “You know what? I need a new suit.” Is that God’s purpose for me?

Well, do you need the suit, or do you want the suit? Do you need this, or do you want it? How big of a want is it? Does God want you to have nice things? Yes, as long as you’re taking good care of them. So if I take good care of this Bible, it should last me a long time. I should use it.

Yes, it will eventually fall apart, or look worn because I’m using it, and if I want a new one, most of the time I wouldn’t want a new one. When you have something and you treasure it, and you take good care of it, you don’t just want to replace it. Because you like it, you are attached to it.

But there’s a fine line we must remember. We’re not getting attached to it because we feel that sense of ownership. No, it’s not ours, it’s God’s. So when God says, “Hey, it’s time to replace this, time to get something new,” that’s fine, because it’s His.

He’s replacing it. He’s getting something new, but if we just want and want and want and want more, that’s not good either. There’s a line on both sides when things get worn, and they need to be replaced. We can’t be attached. We need to let them go because it’s God’s.

Let it go. Replace it. Keep moving. When we accumulate more and more and more, and we just want more and more and more, that’s not good. It’s not ours. It’s not ours to want. It’s God’s. So if God wants to put it in your life, He will. You take good care of it, and you keep going.

You need to be in right relationship with Him, though, to know where those lines are in your life. God doesn’t want you to go through life broke. Remember, we have a sermon, “God Wants You To Be Rich.” Check that out as well.

It’s okay to be rich. Why is it okay? Because if you were poor, what could you do for the Kingdom? How many orphans can you feed on $10? How many can you feed on a million dollars? A lot more.

All right, simple as that. If you’re using what God has given you for His purpose and His glory, He’s going to give you more. Yes, you can live a very comfortable life. There is nothing wrong with that.

God wants you to be happy, to be healthy, to have a big family, to provide for your family, to provide for your relatives, to be generous.

He wants you to have increasingly and abundantly more, immeasurably more. He wants you to have that. He wants to give you wealth beyond your wildest dreams. He wants to fill your jars with new wine.

He wants them to run over, to be overflowing your cup, overflowing your storehouses. To be so full that there’s not enough room to store it. Your treasury is to be full. He wants you to have wealth and riches without trouble.

I mean, this is all scripture. You can look up all the verses. I’d encourage you; post them in the comments below. All the references and all the verses. That’ll be, that’d be really cool. These are all biblical things.

God wants you to be that way, to be with Him, to know His word, and He will do that for you, so that you can continue to build His Kingdom, to raise up disciples. You are to manage the resources God gives you wisely and follow His instructions. Part of that means that you are to give the first 10% back to God. Everything God gives you, 10% needs to go back to Him.

You say, “Well, it’s all His anyway, why do I have to give it back? What are you talking about? Like, if it’s all God’s, then I should just be able to keep it, because it’s God’s.

It’s all God’s, so why would I like, give away another 10 back to Him? That doesn’t make sense if it’s all His anyway.” God is entrusting you with a certain amount of something. He wants you to take 10% of what He has trusted you with, and give it out into His Kingdom.

Now He hopes, and it is His will for you to do more than that ten percent. Biblically, it’s actually like 33%, Christ says it’s 50%, even, maybe 100%. Entirely devoted to Him.

We have a sermon called “First 10% Tithe.” The first 10%, check that out. It’ll be very insightful for you. But that must go back to God. At a very bare minimum, 10% of whatever you make needs to go back to God. Where does that need to go?

To wherever you are being spiritually fed, wherever the anointing is flowing to you. So if you are watching Social Media Ministries sermons regularly and consistently. You’re following our daily Ministry Minute videos.

You are being poured into by us. The anointing is flowing to us, through me and into you, through Social Media Ministries to you, then you would need to tithe or give God a tenth as an appreciation.

Say “God, thank you, I will believe and honor the anointing that Social Media Ministries has, and that is pouring out on me. I’m going to honor it by trusting them and believing what they say, and give it a second or a double honor by giving them a gift by appreciation. By sewing seed as it were.”

Now, if you go to a local church and you have a pastor, who is the shepherd of you, you are a sheep of his flock, so to speak — of the greater flock of Jesus, but you have a local Pastor that you trust, that you go to for counsel and advice.

And you go to church and you’re part of it, a part of that community, and you trust their anointing, and their anointing is flowing on to you, and you are learning and being discipled and built up, then guess what?

You are to honor them by believing that anointing, which you do. You follow, you watch, you listen, and then you give a double honor by, by bringing your tithe back to that house, so that they can do more and reach more people.

If for some reason you have a local church and you have an online, like us, and them, then do both 10% here, 10% there. Or you say, “I can’t.” 5 percent. 5 percent — whatever you can.

But the bare minimum, 10%, God wants you to be doing up to 30, 50%, so set a goal every so many years, you just want to bump it up 5%. Pretty soon, maybe you cap it at 50, all of a sudden, you’re making $300,000 a year.

You’re living on $150,000. You’re giving away $150,000. You say, “That’s unrealistic.” No, it’s not. You set that goal. You start building it up, and you maintain it. You be faithful, not “Wow! All of a sudden, I’m making $200,000 a year, I don’t really want to be giving away $40,000, I think I’ll keep it.”

No, do not stop. When you make the plan. Pencil it out on paper. Write it down. Year 1: 10%. Year 2: 12%. Year 3: 15%. Year 4: 18, year 5: 22, year whatever — 6, 30. When you hit those marks, continue giving.

Because if you watch your income, I bet God’s going to grow your income proportionately as well. Have the faith, trust in God. Trust in the anointing. God wants to give you more, so you can use it to build His Kingdom.

If you continue to use it to build His Kingdom, He will continue to give you more. Everything you have must be used to glorify God. How? By blessing others. First Peter 4:10, “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in various forms.”

1 Peter 4:10 “Be a good steward, use whatever gifts God has given you as faithful stewards.” Maybe God gave you an incredible insight into the stock market? Or the crypto market, and you are trading or you are investing.

And you are recognizing patterns, and you are making money. God gave you that gift. You are to use that gift. To what? To serve others as faithful stewards, in various forms. So does that just mean what? Giving to one charity? No, various forms serve others.

Maybe God didn’t give you the ability to make a bunch of money, but He gave you the ability to know how to logistically put things together business-wise, or ground-wise, or whatever. You are to use that in various forms to build His Kingdom. Maybe He gave you the ability to network and connect people, or to ask donors for money.

Maybe you don’t have a lot of money, but you are a very good salesperson, and you’re like, “Well, I’m not really good at selling, but I’m great at like pitching a cause that I believe in.”

Then find some causes you believe in, and help that charity or that cause. Go get people fired up about them so they raise awareness. They could raise donors, and they could continue to build the Kingdom. You can be a part by using the gifts God has given you.

Maybe God gave you a big house, you inherited it or something, but you have all these rooms. What are you going to do with them all? Use them, maybe you host missionaries, maybe you have exchange students, maybe you have housing for a Bible College, I don’t know.

Seek God, but use the gifts he has given you. Keep in mind, everything you have belongs to God. You are a steward. You need to be a good steward, a good manager of His wealth. Deuteronomy 8:17-18.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18 “You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me,’ but remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”

You may say that it is, is your charm and good looks, that it is your silver-tongued ability, that it is your confidence, that it is your skill. That it is your whatever that gives you the ability to be successful in whatever you’re successful in.

But remember, it was God who gave you that. Do not forget it. God gave you that ability. Honor Him with your wealth, because it is His. If you adopt that mentality, it will be easier to bless others by giving away the money you have, because it’s not yours, it’s God’s.

Let it flow through you. Do not let it stop, and just flow to you. That playlist, “Blessed To Bless,” is right here. Check it out in a card, or go to our website “Blessed To Bless.”

It’s easier to spend other people’s money than your own. Recognize it all as God’s, and it will be easier to allocate those funds to build His Kingdom. Let’s go to Ephesians 5:15-17.

“Be very careful then, how you live — not as unwise but wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”

Listen, you need to make the most of every opportunity you have. Whether it is an in-person opportunity, a telephone call, a chat, an email, a video call. Investing opportunity, business opportunity, opportunity at the grocery store, or the gas station.

Make the most of every opportunity, to what — to use, what you have, to build God’s Kingdom. Might be your personality. Might be your voice, might be your money, might be your charm, might be anything — your car.

Everywhere you go, everything you do. Have the mentality that “God, this is all yours, in everything I do. I need to build your Kingdom.” Exactly like a financial planner is making the most of every dollar for his client or her client.

They say, “I want to make my clients very, very, rich.” You want to make your God’s Kingdom on Earth very, very large. Do it. Use your gifts, your talents, your abilities to do that. Your time and your money, your skills, and your abilities.

Everything is God’s. Use it to build His Kingdom. Remember that it is all God’s, and you are to do with it as He commands. So get into the Bible and learn what He commands you to do, with all that He has given you.

Let’s pray.

Father, thank you for this message on being a good steward. We are all to be a good steward of Your wealth, of Your riches, of Your possessions.

Help us to take really good care of the things that you entrust to us, and then be faithful to us, God. And give us immeasurably more honor.

Your word in Your promises, whatever you wrote in the Bible. Your word is truth. We believe, and we trust in your word. Lord help each and every person watching and listening, to latch on to that. To believe that they would remember that.

That they would say, “I will honor the Lord with my wealth with my possessions,” because they would recognize that it’s all from you. And that they would trust in your word.

That — if they do what they are supposed to do with everything, they have that. You will bless them abundantly, that you will give them immeasurably more. Because you will trust them, Lord, have them be a good steward.

That — they would be trustworthy in your eyes. That you would trust them with more, because he who can be trusted with more can be trusted. The Bible says that if you can be trusted with little, you can be trusted with much.

Lord, have them be trusted right now with the little that they do have. Inspire them to be good stewards, so that you can look upon them and say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

That you can look upon them, and say you are trusted with little, here let me trust you with even more. And that they would be even greater stewards with the more that you give them.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

I hope that you are inspired to be the best steward that you can possibly be, with everything God has given you.

Have a great week, and God bless.