Come now, you rich [people], weep out loud and lament over the miseries that are certainly coming on you. Two Your abounding wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments became moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are totally rusted thru, and their rust will be testimony against you and it'll devour your flesh like it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days. 4[But] look! [Here are] the salary that you have withheld by crime from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance] ; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. God made Abraham rich - not man and not Abraham himself. It isn't wealth that ruins people's lives - it is covetousness. You are covetous when you trust in your wealth and possessions more than you trust in the Lord God and if you find it difficult or impossible to dispose of them. God has a great plan for the peoples of the earth - His will is that each person would hear and know what he's done for them and that they would be delivered from sin and from hell and that they would receive eternal life. Every person who hears and receives the Gospel and who has been transformed by the saving grace and the blood of Jesus Christ has a godly responsibility to share this great news with the planet.
if you're a Christian then you have God's heart - or you should. You are part of the family - you have the privileges and the responsibilities of a family member. The Lord promises that if you lend to the poor he will repay you and if you bless the ministry, then God will overtake you with blessings. You have to realize that God blesses you to make you a blessing and when you're a blessing, He blesses you some more! He is unwilling to abandon or to do without a happy, generous, prompt-to-do-it giver!
it isn't angels who bring money and provision to God's laborers on an everyday basis - that is not their function - that is our function - you and me. The demon isn't going to back the gospel! The world isn't going to build God's kingdom! You represent God and if you don't do your part, if you don't do the decent thing - the kingdom of The Lord God will suffer! You are God's arm on the earth to bring relief, blessing and sustenance, on God's behalf, everywhere you go. If you don't use your resources to pay for the preaching of the gospel then who will? God doesn't have anyone else but you and me. Ministers - you are commissioned to obey God and His Word and to be steadfast with your call, your anointing and the rest that God has placed in your hands, including money!
God doesn't even call it a present - He calls it'wages' like it is owed as payment for work done.
Don't think that those who are called to ministry are the only ones who have to give an account for how they use their money and their time - you may have an opportunity to give an account to God for how you used your money and your time as well! Always remember that any wealth that you give into the kingdom of The Lord God is stored away, incorruptible and immovable for your perpetuity. However [*COMMA] any wealth that you store up here on earth is subject to the elements - it may get moth-eaten, rusted, corroded, ruined and wasted.
About
Rodney Howard Brown Rodney Howard Brown and the Revival Ministries international is a ministry that crosses denominational boundaries and geographical borders to satisfy what the Lord has called it to do, to stir up the Church, telling her to prepare for the approaching revival.
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