Dr. D's Devotional
Title: Finances 3
by Dennis Reschke
Finances 3
Some have gotten away with things by God's mercy and mistake
it for faith. God's not going to put up with that much longer. If you don't
know how to walk in deliverance from satan and the curse of the earth, he'll
walk all over you and you'll be destroyed. Those who do will walk in great
glory, those that don't won't. We must get a revelation of the authority
of the believer. Many of these in the latter group will have to be absorbed
by other believers financially. The folks that don't are going to get there
flesh destroyed so their spirits will be saved (1Cor 5:5). There's coming
again the same anointing and manifestation of power as was seen with Ananias
and Saphira dying in church. We can't get away with "sloppy agape" in the
manifest presence of God. The church is going to get scary for sinners and
believers (Acts 2:43). There will be those who will loose their ministries
because they refuse to follow God's way of finances. I believe the tax exemption
for ministry status is going to be gone soon. Some have criticized faith
for finances as being an "American prosperity gospel". The response is,
why is it working in third world countries? Because its Bible, not an American
financial technique. Tax write offs are not the reason to give: don't be
beholden to government for your prosperity, be dependent on God.
Continuing
with the curse of the Law: Deut. 28:31-33 "Your ox shall be slain before
your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your ass (Cadillac) shall be violently
taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you (the
court system will work against you; without God in justice, it becomes corrupted);
Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue
them. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and
your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and
there shall be no might in your hand. The fruit of your land, and all your
labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only
oppressed and crushed always". This is not a blessing! We are seeing some
of this now. In Texas alone a hundred kids a month become missing. Notice
verses 32 & 33 put the lose of labor in the same class as lose of children
and grief. Labor is what you do and how you spend your time. To loose labor
God says is a curse.
Pr 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the
poor is their poverty. Pr 6:6-11 "Look at the ant, you sluggard; consider
her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provides
her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. How long will
you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? Yet a little
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall
your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man." Poverty
here is called someone who travels: satan walks to and fro as a roaring
lion. His roar is his weapon: he doesn't have any teeth. Poverty destroys.
It's a curse. Nowhere in the Bible is it called a blessing. Jesus became
poor that we might become rich (2Cor 8:9). The context of this passage,
and the meaning of the Greek word used here, is money. He bore that curse
of poverty. His desire is for us to be rich. WHY!? to give it away, to give
it to the poor and to the ministry. You can't run a church without money.
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