for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21. Today I want to talk about where is your treasure because that is where your heart will be. Let me put it another way, the person who you are trying to win over for Christ, are you doing with the right treasure mindset so, your heart is right or are you trying to build up a treasure of just souls so you can boast about I have brought this many souls to Christ. This is the fourth key thing in bringing people to Christ, know what your treasure mindset is and understand by that where your heart will be. If all you are doing is bringing in treasure to just bring in treasure so you can boast I brought in the most treasure is that really helping the Kingdom or is it hurting the Kingdom and not creating lasting treasure.
We can bring people just to bring them on our cell phones but will that create lasting treasure or treasure at the first sign of trouble will fade away. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. Matthew 6:19. We are not to store up treasure on earth and we can use this measure to say that we cannot store up souls we have won for Christ on a list like treasure to boast about it later or at all.
We need to check our hearts and make sure that the souls we want to bring to Christ is coming from the right heart and mindset. Examine me, Lord, and put me to the test; Refine my mind and my heart. Psalm 26:2. Just like this verse as the Lord will do we should also do and that is to examine our hearts to make sure it comes from the right place and that place for this series is the winning of souls using our cell phones. Because if we are coming not with the right heart to win for souls for Christ on our cell phones it will not create lasting souls for Christ and lead to the destruction of many lives if you brought many souls to Christ. It can ultimately destroy your life as well because of pride for having so many souls for Christ, just seeking souls so much so that it is just a job, or the souls you bring leave and take you with them, and there are many others ways you can be destroyed.
So, with all that said what kind of heart are we supposed to have? However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah. 2 Chronicles 32:26. We are to have a humble heart, a heart that is not boastful or prideful but as I said humble. Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their heart, You will make Your ear attentive. Psalms 10:17. God loves the humble but despises the prideful. If we are humble God will give us strength in our hearts.
Examine me, Lord, and put me to the test; Refine my mind and my heart. Psalms 26:2. So as you go forth and bring souls for Jesus using your cell phone examine your heart so you can have a humble heart so that the souls you bring to Christ will be lasting treasures not for us but for God in Heaven.
God I praise You and thank You
For Your Glory is thine and thine alone
I Pray today for the right heart in bringing souls to Christ.
To be humble in doing the work which you command us to do
You are the great I am
And I worship and Give you reverence for that
In Jesus Name
Amen
I want to clarify one thing before I am done; when I use the word treasure, I use it as Christ thinks of us, we are His treasured ones.
All bible verses taken from the NASB
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