Sharing God's Gifts with Others - Stop Hoarding | Pastor Steven Roberts | Journey Church


Pastor Steven delivers a powerful sermon on overcoming hoarding in our lives. We explore James 5 and discover how we can stop hoarding our time, talents, forgiveness, truth, love, and prayers. Learn how to open your heart and share God's gifts with those around you.


Pastor Steven's heartfelt sermon on overcoming the tendency to hoard in our lives delivers a much-needed message. Drawing from the wisdom in James chapter 5, he gently yet firmly guides us to examine how we may be selfishly clinging to the precious gifts God has entrusted to us. Whether it's our time, talents, capacity to forgive, the life-changing gospel truth, God's boundless love, or the power of prayer - these are meant to be freely and generously shared, not jealously hoarded for ourselves.

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As Pastor Steven unpacks this convicting message, we come to see how hoarding runs counter to God's desire for us to be open-handed and openhearted, ready to bless others just as we have been blessed. Yet this is not our natural inclination; fear, insecurity, selfishness, and pride often cause us to grasp tightly to what we've been given rather than releasing it to enrich the lives around us.

But as the Holy Spirit works in our hearts, uprooting our hoarding tendencies and replacing them with the fragrant fruit of generosity, we find newfound freedom and joy. We discover the delight of being vessels through which God's gifts can flow to refresh and renew others. By opening our hands and hearts to share all we've received, we experience the truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive.

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