A man rose up in a meeting one day and said, Man I'm tired of all this prosperity teaching. Give Give Give, Tithe Tithe Tithe. Prosperity Prosperity Prosperity. That's all you prosperity preachers preach about. The preacher said to the man, whats the problem? The man said, i don't believe its right for us to have a lot of money as Christians. The preacher said, well that's ok. Do you believe in faith and faiths importance in prayer? The complaining man said, why sure. Everybody knows faith in prayer is vital and vitally important to receive from God. The preacher then said, so you agree that God wants us rich in faith? The man said, yes that I believe and that I agree with. The preacher then said. Ok, the next time your praying in your closet, when you pray believe God for 15 thousands dollars a month income. And since you do not believe in Christian financial prosperity but in being rich in faith, just keep 1200.00, a month, live on barely getting buy street and give all the rest to God and to the poor, for the work of the Lord and the poor could use it. Such giving would be a blessing to them both. God could use some givers like that and that could be your contribution into the kingdom of God.You live poor and take all the rest of your income and make others blessed and rich.
Well the man went to his prayer closet. He did believe God for the 15 grand a month income and in a few short months it was actually coming in for he was RICH IN FAITH ( Eyes Opened See that How Rich We Are In Faith Measures How Rich We Are or Become in Life's joys and good things...Read Mark 11:23-24).
Looking at his 15 grand a month income that his faith in God achieved, the man remembered something. He remembered what that preacher said, Keep 1200.00 a month and live on barely getting by street since you don't believe in Christian prosperity and give the rest to the work of the Lord and the poor. That means he would be giving over 80 percent of his new size income to God and to the poor. That to is ok. That to, if you so chose, is a good thing.
Well suddenly that man realized some things that he did not see before. His theology was changing. He knew God answered His prayer for 15 grand a month income. The money was coming in. He found out that faith by itself has no reasoning conscience to say yes or no to what is demanded of it. It does not have a conscience. Faith does not make decisions of how little or how much. Faith is not a mind, but a force, a creating, laying holt of power. What it needs is for men to set the mark, the measure for it, the demand on it to reach and bring forth and that is all measured BY DESIRE. That measure comes from Gods desires, men's desires, and from desires that can also come forth by seeing or knowing a promise given us from God in the covenant scriptures found in the IT IS WRITTEN (The Bible).
In Mark 11:23-14 Jesus said, What things soever you DESIRE, when you pray BELIEVE that you receive them, AND YOU SHALL HAVE THEM. They will come to pass. God, in His Covenant Words has given us THINGS to obtain, to possess by PROMISES. As we learn of those exceeding great ans precious promises, DESIRE COMES FOR THEM. Then having their desire in our heart, we go to God with His Promise in our hearts and on our lips and BELIEVE GOD FOR THEM.
If you believe God for little, faith will get you little and do so without judging. If you believe for greater, or for much, then faith will cause that greater measure to come forth and do so without judgement or asking how come? (Faith) It is not a mind. It is a force.
Listen carefully Here. Whether God wanted one galaxy or a million galaxies, it was not faiths job to ask why, or God how come only one, or why so many? That is not faiths job to ask why. It was and is faiths living purpose to just bring forth the full of the DESIRE, the demand God or people make on it or demanded of it, of faiths power and glory which is itself part of the glory of God which also He (God) created in the spirits of the sons of God in Christ.
Also the man learned that it was God Himself that blessed him and had caused his income to increase that much from his desire put into his believing for that amount increase. When he realized all this, the mans convictions about Christian prosperity and faiths limitations changed. For he learned that our DESIRE is what limits or unlimits faith, (NOT GOD), He learned that what a person SEES and UNDERSTANDS of the COVENANT OF BLESSINGS that we have with God In Christ IS IMPORTANT, and he more deeply understood that those wondrous words that he had been hearing from his youth that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO THOSE THAT BELIEVE. ........And And And the man changed his attitude about Christian Prosperity. He saw that God rewarded him with the answer to His prayer for the 15 grand a month income and thinking on the blessing all this brings, suddenly the doctrine of the tithe that he despised for years, well the man fell in love with the Tithe (10 percent) teaching. Giving the Lord only 10 percent. 10 percent was the Covenant Blessing Laws demand, to keep the flow of the blessing coming in. Anything beyond that was an additional free will offering where comes into application this rule. He that sows much reaps much and he that sows little reaps little.
Funny how people complain about prosperity until they actually enter into it....I ask you, what limit has God put on those who when they pray God finds them RICH IN FAITH. Often times those who are RICH IN FAITH end up rich in all kinds of good things for themselves and for others because they believe God for them and have learned that it is our DESIRE that limits what our faith achieves, obtains, bring forths for us. Abraham was RICH IN FAITH and he ended up exceedingly rich in a good (God blessed God filled) life and in gold, silver and money and in delicious fellowship with Jehovah. Go and read Genesis again and you will find this is absolutely the truth.......this writing is for food for thought elevation in Christ........deno.
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