who are your vips? you need a lydia and a lazarus – rich and poor 11 indispensable relationships...
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Who Are Your VIPs? You need a Lydia and a Lazarus –
Rich and Poor
11 Indispensable Relationships You 11 Indispensable Relationships You Can’t Be Without!Can’t Be Without!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011Tuesday, April 26, 2011Ray of Hope Christian ChurchRay of Hope Christian Church
Rev. Tonya P. SumterRev. Tonya P. Sumter
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We need to learn to receive from both the rich and the poor.
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“Come stay in my home”
Acts 16:6-15
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Sweet says the rich need to discover their poverty and the poor
need to discover their riches.
Did you know that you can be rich and still have poverty?
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Lessons from Lydia
• God Led • Persuaded• Clear Need• Accepted the Blessing• Gave in Return• Did not Take Advantage
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We need VIP providers – persons who will lift up our arms financially for the ministry to which God has
called us.
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“At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus”
Luke 16:19-31
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Keep our concept of faith greater/more important than love
for money.
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Money is a wonderful servant, a terrible master, and an abominable
God.
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Keep our concern for other people
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“It is very fashionable to talk about the poor… unfortunately it is not as fashionable to talk to the poor.”
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Keep your connection to our God
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There is a weakness of wealth or having wealth and there is also a
strength of poverty.
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The Lord is the Maker of us all