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Counsels on Stewardship
If the record shows that this has been their life, that their characters
have been marked with tenderness, self-denial, and benevolence, they
will receive the blessed assurance and benediction from Christ, “Well
done,” “Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world.”
Christ has been grieved and wounded by our marked selfish love,
and indifference to the woes and needs of others.—
The Review and
Herald, July 13, 1886
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Promise to the Faithful Steward
It means much to sow beside all waters. It means a continual
imparting of gifts and offerings. God will furnish facilities so that
the faithful steward of His entrusted means shall be supplied with a
sufficiency in all things, and be enabled to abound to every good work.
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“As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; He hath given to the poor:
His righteousness remaineth forever. Now He that ministereth seed to
the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed
sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.”
2 Corinthians 9:9,
10
. The seed sown with full, liberal hand, is taken charge of by the
Lord. He who ministers seed to the sower gives His worker that which
enables him to cooperate with the Giver of the seed.—
Testimonies for
the Church 9:132
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