{"id":645,"date":"2025-01-27T06:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newcreationcity.org\/?p=645"},"modified":"2025-01-27T06:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:15:20","slug":"dont-waste-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newcreationcity.org\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Waste Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"645\" class=\"elementor elementor-645\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7da6458b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7da6458b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cdc6497 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cdc6497\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Discipleship Devotional, January 27th, 2025<\/strong><\/p><p>When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, \u201cGather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.\u201d<br \/>&#8211; John 6:12 (NIV)<\/p><p>When we see the miraculous hand of God\u2019s provision, at times we think it implies that we don\u2019t have to apply wisdom in structure and planning anymore. There are those who think it is positive confession to not plan but just claim that the miraculous abundant supplies of God will always be there. The truth is, as much as we would love that to be true, it is not always so. When God showed Joseph seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity, it would have been foolish for him to just prayerfully reject (as we do today) the seven years of famine.<\/p><p>Once God blesses some of us with financial resources, we think it means we should not save because God will continually send such resources. That is not the way things work. In our anchor text, after Jesus had demonstrated all sufficiency in the provision of bread for the five thousand, He still asked that nothing be wasted and that all the fragments be gathered and kept. Why was it important to follow such natural principles of wisdom? Why did Jesus need to emphasize saving the rest? This is because we must still apply wisdom in our lives.<\/p><p>So in your finances, God does not want you to throw caution to the wind in the name of faith. Though you have faith, you must also not be a waster. The Lord Jesus emphasized that nothing should be wasted. In other words, those leftovers were eaten another time. This is the wisdom of God that we must apply.<\/p><p>The wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spends whatever he gets.<br \/>&#8211; Proverbs 21:20 (TLB)<\/p><p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong><br \/>Thank You, Lord, for the wisdom of saving and not wasting resources.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discipleship Devotional, January 27th, 2025 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, \u201cGather the pieces that are left over. 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