Dr. D's Devotional
Title: Finances 16
by Dennis Reschke
Finances 16
Keep the soil wet by continually speaking the water of the
Word over your seed. God does everything with a hundred fold yardstick (Lk
8:8): this is the law of His kingdom. Eph 6:7,8 says, "With good will doing
service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatever good thing
any man does, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond
or free". I believe we could make a living doing this: doing good, and God
rewarding us for it in kind. Search and hunt for something to give, somewhere
to give. Giving must be a life style for every Christian. Keep casting your
bread on the water and after many days it will return on every wave (Ecc
11:1).
Zech 10:1 "Ask the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain;
so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to
every one grass in the field". God acts like rain. The revelation of the
prayer of Jabez (1Chr 4:10) is sweeping the country right now. The take
home lesson is that God acts by invitation and that He is exceedingly generous
if we have the right motives for asking. 1Kings 8:35 says, "When heaven
is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You;
if they pray toward this place, and confess Your name, and turn from their
sin, when You afflict them" - sin stops the rain.
Lastly, there's a time
to stand: "after having done ALL, stand" (Eph 6:13). If you're not tithing,
you haven't done all; if you're not giving, you haven't done all; if you
are regarding sin in your heart (Ps 66:18), you haven't done all. This list
goes on. Seek the Lord about "having done all" and He will tell you what's
left to be done, if anything. Gen 15:11-13 "And when the fowls came down
upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell
upon him. And He said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be
a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years". The point I want to make here is
that Abram had to fight the birds off his sacrifice to God till they were
consumed and THEN God gave him the answer. He had to fight the devil off
his sacrifice. We will have to do the same thing off of our sacrifices.
Satan will PROVE to you it ain't going to work. STAND! stand, stand, stand,
stand, and when the harvest time comes, put in the sickle. The harvest is
faith which came from confession. The sickle is words: speaking mobilizes
faith. No words, nothing for the angels and the Holy Spirit to work with
(Jer 1:12, Ps 103:20). "We believe and therefore speak" (2Cor 4:13). This
is how we got born again (Rom 10:9). Faith is the currency of heaven and
words are the paper on which it is printed.
Now shout Glory to God, He
gives the increase! Give your praise to God, don't give it to yourself,
don't exalt yourself (Lk 14:11, Pr 4:7-9), let God do that. Now's the time
to increase. When the harvest is manifest, reach out to produce more, more
territory, more influence.
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