Your faithfulness in handling what God has given you will determine your success. Noel Jones

Walking In God’s Favor: If you start thinking to yourselves, “I did all this. And all by myself. I’m rich. It’s all mine!”—well, think again. Remember that God, your God, gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the covenant that he promised to your ancestors—as it is today. Deuteronomy 8:18 MSG

Living In The Overflow

We agree with Antonio McGinnis when he  says in his book The Game Is Deep,  “There is no greater feeling than being prepared for every opportunity when it comes your way”.  Faithful Stewards live each day as if  it is their last day, but plan as if they are going to live forever.

Faithful Stewards humbly recognize the awesome power of God’s favor in their life. You  can feel God’s protection covering your life, and have personally experienced over and over again God opening doors for you.  You know, that you know,  God has given you the power to have surplus in your life.

You cheerfully give your first fruit off the top and then some. You have moved beyond the 10% tithe and generously give a love offering out of your surplus. Faithful Stewards have a personal covenant with God and are living examples of what faithfulness is all about.

No Family Left Behind: Our Life Mission 

Most of you know instinctively, that you should have a will and last testament, living health directive, and power of  attorney in the invent of major accident or accidental death.  But how many of you invest in the time to secure these valuable life documents. You spend more time planning for a vacation than you do planning for your lives.

When Ardella and I invested in the time to plan our future lives together, it was very enlightening. We began to think about our financial assets  and the kind of legacy we desired to leave  to our children and grand children.

We considered the physical and medical challenges of aging together gracefully.  More importantly,  we shared our deepest thoughts of how we each wanted to  live our last days and hours of life on this planet.

Legacy: More than Money    

Unfortunately many of you will never experience Faithful Stewardship in your life time. You will never feel the peace of  God  in this area of financial maturity and responsibility.  You have no desire to move past the known life of stability into the faithful life of surplus.

The Faithful Steward’s life has become a reservoir of God’s bountiful blessings.  Blessings seems to overflow in the Faithful Steward’s  life.  I heard someone say it like this, ” I am drinking from my saucer because my cup is overflowing”.  When  God showers His blessing down on the Faithful Steward’s life, they wisely store some of their surplus for their future,  for the storms of life, and for their legacy.

Prayer of Blessing: Lord help us to be Faithful Stewards of Your wealth.

Michael Vance is a senior account executive with Hundley Batts & Associates and the co-founder of stewardshipofwealth.com. Ardella Vance is a gifted educator and a Master Guide in the Pathfinders Club, a global organization empowered to teach life and leadership skills to young people. The Vance’s have been married well over 25 years and share their lives with four adult children and six grandchildren. They currently reside in Huntsville, Alabama and blog weekly from their financial workbook ” The Stewardship of Wealth“.