OUR MESSAGE FOR TODAY SUNDAY SERVICE ON 7/27/2014 IS: THE REWARDS OF STORING YOUR TREASURES IN HEAVEN:

OUR MESSAGE FOR TODAY SUNDAY SERVICE ON 7/27/2014 IS: THE REWARDS OF STORING YOUR TREASURES IN HEAVEN SUBJECT: THE LORD OUR GOD WITH US TOPIC: THE REWARDS OF STORING YOUR TREASURES IN HEAVEN DATE: SUNDAY JULY 27, 2014 READING SCRIPTURES: MATTHEW 6:1-34 (NIV) THE REWARDS OF STORING YOUR TREASURES IN HEAVEN: 1. To truly store your treasures in heaven, there are do’s and don’ts that you must put in practice, your services to the needy must not be done for earthly glory for man to praise you, it must be done for your father in heaven to take the glory so that the treasures will be stored for you in heaven. Do not blow your trumpet like the hypocrites do for when you do that you have receive your rewards on earth. Whenever you give, do not allow your left hands to see what is in the right. See verses 1-5 2. Likewise when you pray or fast, do it to please your father in heaven and not to please Man or be forced to pray, fast or go to church, whenever you do not do the spiritual things with your hearts, you have already received your reward on earth, which means you have no rewards in heaven. When you pray, use our Lord’s Prayer which he taught his disciples, as a yardstick to guide your requests so as to receive direct and immediate answers. Look for a quiet place to fellowship one on one with your father who sees in secretes and he will reward you in public. See verses 6-15. 3. If you want to store your treasures in heaven, you must build it up while you are on earth, and one of the channels to build it up is by fasting and doing it right. Do not fast like the hypocrites who announce to the whole world that they are fasting, and portray angry and aggressive face, fast like our Jesus fasted when he went to the mountains to pray, and let your father in heaven see and know the purpose of your fasting and reward you accordingly but not man. The right fasting brings good rewards into your store house in heaven and on earth. See verses 16-18. 4. It is sad to note that many Christians behave like unbelievers when it comes to storing treasures on earth, thereby hording everything they have for themselves and their families, without extending hands to the needy, desiring heaven with mouth and rejecting heaven with their hearts and actions. Please do not serve two masters at the same time. I challenge you today not to store your treasures on earth where thieves will break in and moths and vermin will destroy, but store your treasures in heaven where the thieves cannot break in. Remember that where your treasures are there your heart is also. Where ever you money goes that is where your heart is. Let your light so shine on earth and your salt to taste as well so that everyone around you will bless your father in heaven for your life and your father in heaven will reward you both on earth and in heaven. See verses 19-24. 5. I have noticed that so many folks on this planet earth are in anxiety, stress, fear, worry, in bondage and captivity, because they want to place their hands on everything in this world, they want to take both what belong to them and that which belong to others to add up to what they have, but they are not ready to release a little to others, because of this they lost focus with the things of God and now become a toy in the hands of the devil in which the devil toss here and there. Take for example if you eat for seven days without the process of digestion taking place in your life to break down the food substance in your body, what will happen to you? The answer is death. Many people are dead because of greed and selfishness through hording. Are you one of them? Repent now. See verses 25-31. 6. Finally I want you to stop worrying, stop carrying extra luggage’s that are bigger than you, stop taking what belong to others, stop stealing to meet up where you are not, stop behaving like a pagan, stop making yourself an instrument in the hands of the devil, stop that pride in you, stop that greed in you, stop that I before others in you. Stop that lust of the flesh and lust of the world in you and change. Your heavenly father is more than able to meet all your needs. Look at the birds who do not work, your father in heaven feeds them. I encourage you to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all those things that you desire will be added unto you. Peace. See verses 32-34. 7. My prayer for you today is to receive the courage to store your treasures in heaven instead of the earth, and stop worrying on the earthly things in this temporary place called earth but seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness so that all things shall be added unto you in Jesus Matthew 6:1-34 New International Version (NIV) Giving to the Needy 6 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Prayer 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation,[a] but deliver us from the evil one.[b]’ 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Fasting 16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Treasures in Heaven 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,[c] your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[d] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Do Not Worry 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.