Reallocation

Synopsis of Bible Study May 13, 2020

Delivered by Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III, D.Min.

Psalm 119:59-60 NKJV “59 I thought about my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies. 60 I made haste, and did not delay to keep your commandments.”

Reallocation is changing the way something is given or shared or to assign to a different purpose or person, than was originally intended. In this season, we all have reevaluated how we have given of our time or ourselves. Now as a result, we have reallocated our resources. As a result, our value system has changed.

I.            WHY IS REALLOCATION IMPORTANT?

A.     Driver Of Increase In Productivity

1. You have to be intentional. You have to realize that your time has value.
   1. When you see time as capital, then you realize that you don’t have time to waste.
2. Where your money, your energy, or time is leaning, determines what you think is important to you.

B.     Improves Time Management

1. Reallocation is being a good steward of what God gave you. This means your money, your family, your ministry, your job, and even your time.
2. Ask yourself how to do you use what you have.

C.     Eliminates Risks

1. Reallocation causes you to become creative in doing the things that God has given you to do.
2. You have to eliminate risky behavior, risky relationships, and all other things that present a risk to you.
   1. One moment, everything could be going well and in the next moment, the rug can be pulled out from you. It’s then that you realize that you have no time to be playing.

II.            SIX WAYS TO BE A GOOD STEWARD

1. Be faithful. Being faithful to God shows your relationship with God.
   1. Anyone can be faithful when you are employed and have plenty of money in the bank, but can you be faithful when you are uncertain about your situation?
   2. Being faithful to God shows that God has top priority in your life.
2. Be disciplined. Count the cost, before you make decision to do something.
   1. Don’t spend more than you earn.
   2. Make good decisions concerning your money.
3. Being Consistent. Save a portion of your income.
   1. Everything can’t be spent on material things. Try to save 3 months worth of expenses.
   2. It critical in this season that we learn to put some stuff back, just in case things get hard. Once we pay God, pay our self, and pay bills, make sure you put something back.
4. Acknowledge God. We have to realize that God owns everything.
   1. Did you ask God to bless so you to have more stuff or to be a blessing to others?
   2. In reallocation, I give what matters to God.
      1. Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) ⁵ Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” – Stop coveting other people’s stuff.

• 1 Timothy 6:17-19 (NKJV) Instructions to the Rich ¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. ¹⁸ Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, ¹⁹ storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. – Don’t be arrogant. Don’t put your trust in something that one phone call can take away. Put your trust in God.

1. Pay debt. Remember in December, Bishop prophesied that we should all try and get out of debt. If you don’t have debt over your head, you’re able to do more for people.
   1. Little by little, by little, you can become debt free. Start reallocating your funds.
      1. Take the money you are not spending on gas now and use it to pay down your debt. This is a good example of reallocating your money.
   2. Set Goal. Ask God what goals he has for your life.
      1. Reallocate your time that your goals may be aimed towards God’s will for your life.

III.            HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE STEWARDS

1. Be Thankful
2. In this season, we are thanking God even for the little stuff. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV – “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”- Whether blessing are big or small, we will thank God for them.
   1. I’ll even thank God for the crackers in the pantry now.
3. Thank God for your job if you still have one. Stop complaining about it. Be thankful that you have one.
4. People who are not thankful, are people you can’t trust.
5. Colossians 3:23-24 NIV – “23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”-Whatever you do, do it unto God, not for the approval of man.
6. We have to have Thanksgiving. Be thankful and then give. You can give without being thankful, but you can’t thankful without giving. When you give, you realize that everything you have is a gift from God.
7. God is looking for people who are thankful.

1. Trusts God To Provide
2. We trust God for our salvation, but often we fail to trust God for our daily living.
   1. 1 Timothy 6:17 NIV – “ Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.” – Put your trust in God and not in money. Culture tempts us into thinking that the more you have, the happier you will be.
3. Put your trust in Him who made the money.
4. You’ve got to get to a place where your trust is in Him.

1. Be Content
2. Can you come to a place where you are truly content? Hebrews 13:5 NIV – “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
3. Paul says, he knows how to live between seasons. Philippians 4:11-13 NIV – “11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
   1. We know how to light candles and eat Ramen Noodles if things get tight. This is just surviving between seasons.

1. Be A Faithful Example
2. Let people see the faithfulness in you. Matthew 5:16 NIV – “ In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
3. The world is looking for examples of how to live through this season. Titus 2:7 NIV – “In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness.”
4. Show others how we get through this. 1 Peter 4:10 NIV – “ Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”
5. Be an example to your children. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NIV – “6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
   1. Be alert. Show your children and others how you get through this season, trusting God.
   2. Your children will look back on the things you did and know what to do during difficult times.

1. Lives Within Their Means
2. Act your wage. Don’t let your income determine your lifestyle.
   1. Some people have to go and buy something, every time they get a raise.
   2. Allocate things in a way that glorifies God.

1. Gives Time And Talent
2. Shift your time and talent to the kingdom.
   1. 1 Peter 4:10 NIV – “ Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”- Ask God what he wants you to do for the kingdom using the gifts he has given you.
3. Gives Treasures
4. We give treasure to God, out of the treasure he gives to us. 1 Peter 2:1-5 NIV – “1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
5. In everything I get, I will honor God first. Proverbs 3:9 NIV – “Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;”

1. BIBLICAL EXAMPLES

1. Leah – Mindset
2. Genesis 29:31-35 NIV – “31 When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” 33 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon. 34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi. 35 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.” – There is that moment where everything you do shifts and you come to a “Now Moment”! Leah came to this moment when she named the last baby Judah.
3. What is your “Now Moment”? What is that moment where you say I’m done playing and I now give it all to you Lord?
4. The Disciples – Action

John 21:6 NIV – “ He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.”

1. What am I willing to do now? Am I now ready to cast my fish nets on the other side? Am I ready to reallocate and finally do it God’s way?

1. The Rich Fool – Habits

Luke 12:20 NIV – ““But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’”

1. This scripture was taken from the story of “The Rich Fool”
2. It is a story of how someone with great means, thought that he was just going to hold things for themselves.
3. Jesus taught that there is no security in material things. Safety doesn’t come from just storing up resources, it comes also by relying on Gods provisions. The parable of the Rich Fool explains this point.
4. The Rich man produced a crop one year that yielded so much grain, the man didn’t have space to store it.
5. He tore down his barns to build a bigger one, so that he could restore the grain, relax, and live off of his savings, but God said to him: Luke 12:20 NIV – ““But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’”
   1. We are living in this life trying to accumulate things, but our focus is off. We pray that you will ask the Lord to let you focus on the real thing, which is God’s Kingdom.

6. Maybe this is a time that we focus on the kingdom. Where your money is, your heart is. Take time to reallocate your time, your money and your heart.
   1. Luke 12:15 NIV – “ Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”- You will never have anything that matters unless God has your life.