In everything we do, including in the handling of our finances, we are planting seeds that will be harvested at some point in our lives or after, by the next generations. However, many people have immature views about money or finances, and this immaturity causes them to hoard things for their own agendas. The same immaturity also has them walking proud about their accomplishments because they don’t understanding the why God gives us wealth and resources on the earth.
It is our relationship with God that helps us see His plan for us and how He wants us to view and use the things He brings to us. That is why we need to be careful to not step into spiritual death. A spiritually death person is blind to God’s direction and deaf to His voice. This person is also desensitized to His life giving presence which are signs that this person is highly contaminated with the influence of the spirit of this world.
But the Lord has given the Church a commission to be multiplied in other souls. These are people that we influence directly or indirectly, and could become our spiritual children/disciples. Through our influence and input, they will learn to imitate us in our spiritual walk with the Lord and learn to be mindful to accomplish His purpose for them. For this, they will learn to hear His voice and follow His lead and guidance away from the ways of the world.
They will also learn to mature in the things of the spirit as they walk the pathway of the Cross that God has prescribed for them to lay down their lives. This pathway will lead them to share in His glory and to multiply themselves in others as Christ did when He died on the Cross for us.
Genesis 17:2 says, “And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly. “ NKJV
This multiplication happened in the life of our forefather Abraham through his children, the people of Israel who became numerous and are God’s first born of many nations of chosen people. It also happened later through his Seed Jesus Christ.
Genesis 22:17-18 states,
“17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your Seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice” NKJV.
This promise was made to Abraham when he passed God’s test when He asked him to sacrifice his son Isaac, his precious promise from God. Because of his obedience, God guaranteed that He would see to it that He’d be the God of Abraham’s provision and would give him access to everything needed to obtain the multiplication of descendants.
I also had to sacrifice God’s promises to me and the result has been that I’m able to be used of God to impart through this blog posts and my books, the blessings and benefits He has given me.
To Him alone be all the glory.▪
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