Faithfulness is the greatest quality to develop in our lives.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus told us if we are faithful over little things we will be rulers over many things.\u00a0\u00a0The key is being faithful to God\u2019s mercy and truths.\u00a0\u00a0We need to stand faithful in serving God.\u00a0\u00a0We cannot control how much we have but we all can control how faithful we are to what God has entrusted us with.<\/p>\n
Steps to keep us faithful are found in verses 3-6.\u00a0\u00a0We must first and above all trust in the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Trust His Word and follow His truths.\u00a0\u00a0Second, we must allow our own understanding to be cancelled out in light of God\u2019s truth. The phrase \u201cwhat I think\u201d should be kept to a minimum.\u00a0\u00a0Thirdly, we must ask God for direction.\u00a0\u00a0This is us surrendering our wisdom and ways to the authority and ways of God.\u00a0\u00a0The fourth step is to kill the pride in our lives.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI know what is best,\u201d is a statement of pride that destroys where God wants to take us next.<\/p>\n
To help with surrender and pride Proverbs moves us to giving.\u00a0\u00a0When we honor God with all we have and give Him the first part of what we have, there is action to our statement of surrender.\u00a0\u00a0Giving to God financially a tithe and over and above a tithe quickly shows the deepness of our trust in God.\u00a0\u00a0No giving shows a lack of trust.<\/p>\n
When we fully trust in Christ there is peace even when there are terrors of war, and poverty around us.\u00a0\u00a0Because we know who has redeemed us and who we belong to.\u00a0\u00a0We also know this world is not our home, one day soon we will see Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}