December 14, 2008
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According to your Faith - I recently read a story about a TV station that staged a man on a busy downtown sidewalk with a sign that read "free money." They gave him a sizable amount of cash with the goal of filming the response of passersby. He couldn't give away a cent; people politely turned him down, ignored him, and often walked out of their way to avoid eye contact. Why? No one believed there was any such thing as free money. They assumed it had to be a gimmick that wasn't in their best interest.
So... let's talk about how to move beyond our needs. Needs vs. Wants - A belief that God supplies all our needs is Biblical and healthy. Here are a few verses we use to make that point.
The corollary to believing that God supplies all our needs is that He is not committed to providing all our wants. I want to suggest that belief is largely false. The reason God supplies all our needs is so that our focus can be on something other than ourselves, my money, my problems, and "me." God is looking for people that can "seek the Kingdom first." If problems with relationships, health, or finances are consuming all of our attention, we won't have time or energy to bless the nations or focus on anything but self. Does God want to go beyond our needs so that our cup runs over? Absolutely! Ministry is all about exporting blessing to others from a position of abundance in health, finances, revelation, anointing, power, leadership, and courage. We're called to bless the nations and God is not sending us out empty handed. Yes, but how - When we're ready to move our personal beliefs from needs to abundance, the next step is sowing... abundantly, consistently, persistently, and wisely.
The mistake we've made with sowing is that we've assumed that if we give away money, God will bless us financially. This is a half-truth. If you give away all your money, you'll be guaranteed to be broke! Sowing finances in a way that causes multiplication does enable generosity after we increase. The principle is that we plant our seed and give out of the harvest. Many Christians have foolishly given away their seed and now have nothing to sow or give. That's just bad stewardship. Here's what the Bible really says - sow your seed and reap a harvest so that your store of seed increases to "rich." Then give out of your increase and become significantly generous on every occasion that arises. PS - keeping sowing and multiplying in the meantime.
Sowing consistently - Sowing to multiply finances and receive wealth is a Biblical concept most Christian know nothing about. It's much easier to put money in the offering plate and live from paycheck to paycheck. It satisfies a level of false humility and makes us feel self righteous. "Sowing" means that you're going take the initiative and do the work of finding good investments or starting a business to sell a product or service. You're taking the responsibility to create something of value for others and position yourself to receive a return on your time or money. Here's the challenge. Not all of our sowing will work. Most of us have a sense of becoming more entrepreneurial, but we've underestimated the effort required to make it happen. Let's say you step out and try to do something to multiply your finances and position yourself in the will of God to receive wealth. Some fraction of the time you will end up with a failure on your hands that costs you time, money and emotional energy. God does promise to bless us as we sow; He doesn't promise a home run every time we pick up the bat! No one has ever multiplied finances or received their inheritance in terms of wealth and ministry without a fight. Translation - you have to pick yourself up after a set back, make a wise adjustment to your plan, and try again... however many times it takes. It's a process that goes on throughout our lives at different levels. Think of it as the adventure associated with inheriting our land. Motivated by a dream - Where does the tenacity to resurrect after a failure come from? Quite simply, we have to enjoy the process. A few successes along the way really helps too. We have to invest our selves, our time, and our money in our dream in order to find the motivation to stick with it for the long haul. That means we have a passion and a dream. Without a personal dream we're just a servant doing the minimum out of obedience. With a dream we're doing the maximum out of personal initiative. That's the difference between friends and servants. Both go to heaven - one bears fruit, and the other works to meet his needs... for money, acceptance, love, and salvation.
Example - When we change our beliefs from needs to abundance, our actions change toward a dream that will produce abundance instead of just meeting needs. We start sowing! I received an email while writing this newsletter. Take a peek.
Wilfred, Musician/ Regional Manager
Love,
John Garfield www.Releasing-kings.com
You're invited into the vision to release Kings; communicate the message, make the money, and do the mission.
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