32. FAITHFULNESS         --page 265--

         A faithful man shall abound with blessings. (Pro.28:20)

         1. Faithful people are people who are full of faith.
         2. God gives us the basics
         Be they body, brain or brawn,
         Then looks at how we use'em
         And how we're adding on!
         3. A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
         4. Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
         5. How can somebody steal your crown?--They can't unless you despise it & leave it to somebody else. If you're unfaithful in your task, God has to replace you.
         6. Time is the greatest & surest tester.
         7. For they that bear the cross shall wear the crown.
         8. If you'll be faithful in delivering God's Words to the World, He will be faithful in caring for you!
         9. The more the Lord finds He can trust you with, the more He gives you.
         10. It's better to be faithful in a few things than be unfaithful in a whole lot of them!
         11. God can't trust some people with health or wealth or popularity or sexual freedom because they're not good stewards of it.--They're unfaithful.
         12. Change the World, day by day
         You can do it if you pray.
         Change the World, heart by heart
         You can do it if you'll start.
         13. You take care of God's work, & He'll take care you.
         14. God doesn't judge you by how successful you are, but by how faithful you are.
         15. He that is unfaithful in the least will also be unfaithful in the most.
         16. To be "found faithful" means loyal, believing & obedient!
         17. The Kingdom of God on Earth will be a perfect kingdom, a perfect government, with perfect officers--you! You're going to run it! You want to be a policeman? You want to be a governor? You want to be a judge?--All kinds of jobs are wide open! You want to be a king? God's Word says He's the King of kings so you can be one of His kings, you can rule a city or a whole country or a whole continent, whatever you are capable of, according to the training you've already had & according to your faithfulness & your loyalty to God while you were here! He says, "He that is faithful in a few things, I will make Him ruler over many!" You want to run the World? Well, be faithful unto death & He'll give you a crown & you'll be a king, the Bible says so.
         18. Help us, Lord, to remember that the most important thing in our service for Thee, the most important thing in the World for us, the most important thing to Thee, is our faithfulness.
         19. This is no game we're playing! We are in a War for the Lord & His Family & His World, & once you have done a good job where you are & learned how to serve the Lord faithfully & loyally & obediently & willing-spiritedly & cheerfully, He is going to give you something more & bigger to do.
         20. You should never stop thinking!--And never stop praying for a minute! We can't afford to have soldiers in this army that don't think & don't know what they're doing & can't remember a command from one moment to the next!

         (See also No.395, 551, 565, 639, 679, 697, 702, 703, 835, 952-1, 960, 962, 974, 1028, 1330, 1372, 1373, 1380.)

         21. DEU.6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee.
         22. NEH.6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
         23. PSA.31:23 O love the Lord, all ye His saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
         24. PRO.4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
         25. PRO.12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: But the slothful shall be under tribute.
         26. MAT.24:45-47 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
         27. MAT.25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
         28. LUK.16:10-12 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
         29. 1TIM.4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

         (See also MAT.24:42-51; MAT.25:14-23.)


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