MARCH 30 "THE KEY TO PROSPERITY"
HEARD someone recently say, "you mean a Christian that actually has money and is not poor and broke like the rest of us!" Many Christians, if we would be honest would utter that same phrase. Why are so many of God's people poor and broke? Did you read today's reading? Are there not some guidelines here? Verse 15:3 "However, there need be no poor people among you... 5 if only you fully obey the LORD your God" So we can only conclude by this that we as Christians must not be obeying God. "Obey Him in what?", you ask. "Tithes"....NO!
God getting most Christians to Tithe is like trying to squeeze juice out of a grape, no it's above and beyond the Tithe that Jehovah is speaking about. Verse 7 "If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be open handed and freely lend them whatever they need. Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing."The Church of Jesus Christ is failing miserably in the area of finances and morality.
We feel smug saying, "I'll pray for you or I put in a prayer request" but God says nothing about praying for them in this text, He says, "be open handed" towards them. There's a balance in all of this I'm sure you know, but normally I don't think our problem is finding the balance, we are quick to come up with that, we are quick to be practical (ie: giving to them is a bottomless pit) but just be careful that you don't allow your reason, rational & practical thinking, to rob you right out of the blessing and prosperity God wants you to have and enjoy.
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