Money & Stewardship

Pray For Jesus

Psalm 72:15

… If He would trust me with money, how willingly would I consecrate it to Him!" But you have no money and you are, perhaps, so poor you cannot …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… Misused power and abused wealth have earned the family name universal detestation, and secured to the family character an entail of baseness. Justice herself would award no such …

Psalm 57

Psalm 57

… Imagination fails to guess the height of heaven, and even thus the riches of mercy exceed our highest thoughts. The psalmist, as he sits at the cave's …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… it is so that the sturdiness with which we once held orthodoxy is giving place to a trifling latitudinarianism? Suppose it to be true that the enthusiasm which …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… But that is not the Gospel! Salvation comes from something that Christ gives you, not something that you give to Christ! The giving of your heart to Christ …

Forgiveness

Isaiah 43:25

… I thought of that passage last Thursday night, while I was preaching: “Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money.” God needeth nothing at your hands, but …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… Idolaters tolerated gods many and lords many, giving to each a certain measure of respect; the monotheism of the Jews was not content with this concession, it rightly …

Psalm 27

Psalm 27

… I will part with all to buy that one pearl, the riches of heavenly grace. Jeremy Taylor. Verse 4. One thing. The first thing, then, is David's …

Enquirers and Converts

… One brother, when he was giving his testimony before being baptized, said : — "The first time I came to hear Mr. Spurgeon in the Tabernacle, if you had asked …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… It is no easy thing to part with wealth—but if thereby you are unburdened—the loss is a gain. A child of God may have the knife …

Dec. 28 — ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE

Heb. 13:5

… We need not covet money, for we shall always have our God, and God is better than gold, His favor is better than fortune. We ought surely to …

Jan. 22 — CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY

Ps. 41:1

… when He said, "The poor ye have always with you." Many give their money to the poor in a hurry, without thought; and many more give nothing at …

April 29 — FORGET AND FORGIVE

Prov. 20:22

… the Lord, and he shall save thee." This advice will not cost you money, but is worth far more. Be calm and quiet. Wait upon the Lord: tell …

Dec. 22 — IMMEDIATELY PRESENT

Ps. 46:1

… The anchor which is left at home is of no use to the seaman in the hour of storm; the money which he used to have is of …

June 24 — THE LORD'S "MUCH MORE"

II Chron. 25:9

… Be willing to lose money for conscience' sake, for peace's sake, for Christ's sake. Rest assured that losses for the Lord are not losses. Even in …

Feb. 28 — REAL ESTATE IN HEAVEN

Heb. 10:34

… on the other side of Jordan reconcile us to present losses? Our spending-money we may lose, but our treasure is safe. We have lost the shadows, but …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… I cannot, for I am one of Christ’s.” When wealth is before thee to be won by sin, touch it not; say that thou art Christ’s …

June 9 — A TRUSTWORTHY NAME

Zeph. 3:12

… He that hath no money must try what he can do on trust. He whose own name is good for nothing in his own esteem, acts wisely to …

False Professors Solemnly Warned

Philippians 3:18-19

… If you want men that are hard in business, that are grasping after wealth, that seize upon the poor debtor and suck the last particle of his blood …

Heaven an Inheritance

… Now, an inheritance is not a thing which is bought with money, earned by labor, or won by conquest. If any man hath an inheritance, in the proper …

“A New Departure”

… We have neither prestige, nor wealth, nor the State at our back; but we have something better than all these. When a Spartan was asked what were the …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… let as many as have quaffed this life giving stream glorify "the fountain of Israel." Verse 27. There is little Benjamin with their ruler. The tribe was small …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… During a very serious illness, I had an unaccountable fit of anxiety about money matters. There was no real ground for apprehension, for my dear wife and I …

My Last Letters from Mentone

… Christmas-day was grey and cold, and was spent in work, "digging away at books and letters." Friends had lavished upon him a wealth of lovely flowers, — roses …

Divine Teaching

… How often an officer of low rank has repeated the murmur, “There is no promotion; no hope of rising; no honors; no prize-money, as if we had …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… But the greed of gold sized him and now he is a sordid money-grabber and he would grind an orphan's bones if they would make him …

The Errand of Mercy

Luke 19:10

… He had done nothing with the pound—he thought he was all right because he had not done any harm with his lord's money. He had not …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… The poor man's wealth. The position of prayer in the economy of grace, or the natural history of mercy in the soul. Verse 7. Castra angelorum, salvatio …

Morning, October 22

Ho 14:4

… God is free to us at all times, without preparation, without fitness, without money, and without price! “I will love them freely.” These words invite backsliders to return …

Morning, June 13

Rev 22:17

… Come just as you are, and take “Freely,” without money and without price. He gives himself to needy ones. The drinking fountains at the corners of our streets …

The Saints' Love to God

Psalm 31:23

… Suppose you make an idol of your money—there is not a more grim tyrant even in Hell than Mammon is! Do you make an idol of other …

Morning, December 5

Mt 7:7

… He shall have spending-money so long as he lives, and he shall have an eternal heritage of glorious treasure when he enters into the joy of his …

"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version

1 John 3:1

… Had you been perfect, what would you have given to God as purchase money for this high dignity? He is great and glorious without your service! To be …

Healing for the Wounded

Psalm 147:3

… Bad money may pass on earth, but genuine gold alone will be received in heaven. Can you abide the fire? In vain your presumption when God shall come …

Constant, Instant, Expectant

Romans 12:12

… When he had finished, his little boy said, “Father, I wish I had your money.” “Why so?” “Because,” he said, “I would answer your prayers for you.” “Which …

Evening, September 20

Ec 11:6

… To some it seems long, but a four-pence is a great sum of money to a poor man. Life is so brief that no man can afford …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… What a glorious idea is this of Jehovah blocking the way of persecutors, holding them at the pike's end, and giving time for the hunted saint to …

Dangerous Lingering

Genesis 19:16

… If you are like pieces of money, so are they. I need not sit and look at you," says Christ, "like the miser, who counts his hoard which …

Man Humbled, God Exalted

Isaiah 2:17

… know him from a beggar then! His purse-pride has gone! All his wealth gives him but little comfort. "My sin! My sin! My sin!" he says. "Would …

Mongrel Religion

2 Kings 17:41

… Persons are to be found, without a lantern and candle, who earn their money by ministering at the altars of Belial, and then offer a part of it …