How to Increase Your Treasure in Life Matthew 6:19 - 21

Earthly Treasure – is our time, talent, money, revelation, and freedom. ““Don’t store treasures for yourselves here on earth where moths and rust will destroy them and thieves can break in and steal them. But store your treasures in heaven where they cannot be destroyed by moths or rust and where thieves cannot break in and steal them. Your heart will be where your treasure is.” Matthew 6:19-21 NCV

SACRIFICE the Life of Mark 10:17 -21 How to Increase Your Treasure in Life

Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. "You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'" And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me." (Mark 10:17-21 NKJV)

Sacrifice – the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary By nature sacrifice is to give, release, or do without more than you thought you could. It generally comes out of times of utter desperation, causing wide-spread humiliation, but is rooted in an unshakeable revelation. Any time you take up your Cross, God extends to you His CROWN.

the SACRIFICE of Praise Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Hebrews 13:15 NKJV) To acknowledge, promote and celebrate the truth that God is good while in the midst of an extremely difficult condition or situation. How to Increase Your Treasure in Life

But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed. And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all here." Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" (Acts 16:25-30 NKJV)

the SACRIFICE of Self "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25 NKJV) To consistently think first of God and others and take action for their benefit and fulfillment while ignoring opportunities that will only benefit you. How to Increase Your Treasure in Life

At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask! What shall I give you?" And Solomon said: "You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. "Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. "And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. "Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?" (1 Kings 3:5-9 NKJV)

the SACRIFICE of Life “But Peter and John replied, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him? We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.”” Acts 4:19-20 NLT To stand uncompromisingly for Christ in the face of extreme danger. Refusing to bow your knee and life to anyone else other than God. How to Increase Your Treasure in Life

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. "If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. "But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up." (Daniel 3:16-18 NKJV) "Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king's counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them. (Daniel 3:25, 27 NKJV)

avoid Biblical Gimmicks It’s when we lose focus of our needs and focus on fulfilling God’s plan in the lives of others that increase comes. It’s the result of a genuine & sincere motive. To do the right thing for your own increase is manipulation driven by selfishness. Our passion and drive is to see God’s dream coming to pass in the lives of other people and from that we are living out our own dream. How to Increase Your Treasure in Life

And the LORD restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends And the LORD restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10 NKJV) "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." (Luke 6:38 NKJV)

“For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another.” Galatians 5:13 AMPC