INCREASE YOUR INCREASE
Even before I send out the advanced curriculum, I want to help you to get your whole year off to a fantastic start. I bet I can show you a commandment that you have not obeyed and you have limited your own prosperity. Please allow me to share a principle that enabled us to increase our increase in every way.
Yes, I believe God wants this to be a year of blessing so we can go through open doors and open gates to fulfill our destiny. Many believe we are in the midst of 7 years of increase in ministry and finances. I also believe we can increase our increase as we meet the conditions that go with these promises. You probably know that with every personal promise from God, there will also be a condition to be met. Obedience to the condition is crucial. We know that we will reap in the same measure we have given, generously or sparingly.
God told me that one of the most common reasons that many are not blessed financially and in ministry is because they have disobeyed His commands to give their firstfruits offering to those who labor to minister to them. God's priests did not have to beg for money because God had commanded His people to give a special offering to them. It is God's heart to give us opportunities to increase our increase.
Today, I will email
regarding God's financial principles for the first time.
Are you ready to get more serious about God's financial principles?
In our advanced school of ministry, we want to identify keys in the life and development of a strong minister and ministry. One of the big keys to my early success in ministry, immediately after graduating from ministry training school, was that I made three Biblical financial covenants with Father so I could sow blessing and not cursing into my harvest. In the power of the Holy Spirit I covenant:
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To give a "firstfruits offering" so my harvest would be blessed.
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To tithe as if I was already earning what I wanted to be earning.
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To give an offering to every minister that I let minister to me.
Lou and I were blessed to receive good teaching about giving our firstfruits offering to "someone who had ministered to us." Since we don't prosper in crops or cattle, we decided to give our first pay check of our newest endeavor. As I look back I can see that our income increased to equal ten times that very amount. Since then, we have believed for other ways to increase our increase - other than financial. We believe that January is our time to give a firstfruits offering to those who have ministered to us and to bring a blessing to our harvest for the entire year.
Christians are most delinquent in giving a firstfruits offering.
In the days when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem, pilgrims brought offerings of the first fruits of their harvest (wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates) to the altar of the Holy Temple. Each brought baskets from his place of origin, laden with his own fruits, in gratitude to the One who gave the fruit, the Land, and the Temple in the first place. By doing this, they blessed the priests personally and released God to increase the increaser or bless their own harvest.
First things are an important theme of Scripture. God declared that firstfruits in general belonged to Him: grain, wine, oil, fleece etc. The firstfruits offering honors God and gives you the power and anointing to get wealth according to the Word of God.
The Bible references firstfruits or
first things 32 times.
Here are just a few examples:
Exodus 22:29a -
Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy
ripe fruits ...
Exodus 23:19a - The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou
shalt bring ...
Deut. 18:4 - The firstfruit also of thy wheat, of thy wine, and
of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt
thou give him.
Deut. 26:2 - That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit
of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord
thy God giveth thee ...
Numbers 15:20-21 - Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of
your dough Exodus 34:19-20 - All that opens the matrix is mine;
and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that
is male.
Numbers
3:13 - Because all the
firstborn are mine; ...
The giving of our firstfruits, which is the best of our offering or the first fruit of the beginning of a new endeavor, is the means through which God is released to bless His people. Scripture after scripture shows us that it is God's desire for us to prosper and be in health. The Bible also tells us that whatever we give shall be given back to us good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. (Luke 6:37-39).
"Firstfruits" is not the same as tithe. Tithe is the first tenth. The firstfruits is the whole of the first... the root... the foundation of blessing.
"For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches." Romans 11:16
When you offer God your firstfruits and bring Him the fullness of the first, you establish the foundation that the "whole thing" for your entire life will be holy and blessed. If you withhold it, it will be cursed.
We are commanded to give this offering. While it is not a tithe, Malachi 3:10 teaches us that if we give our tithes and offerings, God will open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that our storehouses will not be able to contain. (Malachi 3:10) It demonstrates our faith in God's power to supply all our needs. We receive peace of mind knowing we are obeying God's Word, and our firstfruits also bless those who minister to us by enabling them carry out a greater ministry to the world. If we don't give our firstfruits, we rob God! (Malachi 3:8)
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To position yourself for your firstfruits blessing, give your very best to God's ministers today as your firstfruits offering. Give the first of your increase this year - financial, cattle, crops, etc. - and release God to bless your harvest for the whole year. Right now, ask God to give you the names of ministers who have blessed you and give them your firstfruit offering without delay!! It is your opportunity to increase the blessing to your favorite ministers and to release God to bless your harvest for the entire year.
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