Birthplace

Eccl.5:¹⁰    “Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! ¹¹ The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!”

How much is enough? Albert Einstein says, “It’s not that I’m so smart, but I stay with the questions much longer”. So, in line with this learning, we will continue today in the question, how much is enough? William Blake tells us that, “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” You can never experience enough except you connect to the God that is more than enough. You need to connect to the God that is more than enough.

Philip.4:¹² “I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. ¹³ For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” You can only live an unencumbered life when you are in touch with the Source of the heaven and the earth, the God that can never run dry. I am sharing these things with you because this is how I live my life. This is how we administer God’s Favourite House.

You have a project or a need before you. You claim not to be flustered but you are compulsively checking your bank balance. The statement you are making to heaven is that your bank balance is your source. When we want to take on projects, we do not start by checking how much we have. Our starting point on any project is, what does God want us to do? When we have checked and taking on the project before us is a yes-yes-yes with God, we cast the vision and we move. Then my colleagues that manage the numbers kind of hang around in my office after the meeting and I can tell what they want to say but cannot verbalize. They are looking at the numbers and they are looking at me and wondering, what is this man thinking? I just laugh! However, a lot of the people that work with us at the church office have grown. What God has planned for us in God’s Favourite House is huge! There will come a time when no one in our target community will go to bed hungry. Believe me, because you will see it! How much is enough to accomplish that? A lot! But Our Source is more than enough.

Prayer [song]: Jehovah Jireh, my Provider, You’re more than enough for me. Amen!