We gain by giving. We lose by withholding! God withholds His blessings from those who refuse to give. He cannot bless an act of disobedience. Our money becomes a curse when we think more of it than we do of God. One of the greatest privileges God has allowed us is to participate in the blessing of regular tithing and the giving of offerings. When we freely give to God, regardless of our own personal need, we allow God to be big in our lives.
Author Rich Brott notes that the Law of Sowing & Reaping involves both obedience and faith. He says that “faith” is a choice, an act of the human will. It is a deliberate choice to place confidence in God and His Word. Unbelief is a sin because it is a deliberate choice to withhold confidence in God and His Word. Faith is a receiving of the truth, an embracing of the truth, and a commitment to the God of truth! And commitment always produces action. That is why faith without works is dead. With no action there is no commitment. With no commitment there is no faith! In this book, you will find 25 faith-building principles that will enlarge your capacity to receive the very best that God has to offer you.
In the story of the feeding of the five thousand, Christ recognized the need of the crowd of people. Knowing that the people were hungry and should be fed, He took stock of the available resources. All they could find was a lad with five loaves and two fishes. So Christ used that. Through the miracle of multiplication, the entire multitude was fed. Instead of resting in the praise of the contented participants, Jesus was very concerned that nothing be wasted.
The Bible is packed full of Scriptures that are related in some way to financial topics. The Scriptures relate to personal stewardship, issues of debt and credit, saving and investing, how to treat the poor and less fortunate, honesty and truthfulness, laziness and diligence, contentment and the cost of self-indulgence, business and entrepreneurism, tithing and the giving of offerings, as well as wealth and abundance. So many areas of our financial life are written about in Scripture.
The Scriptures in the Bible that relate to issues of finance and stewardship offer to each of us help in many areas of our personal and professional life. With them we can learn and understand that:
This is a study using a catechism approach (organized in a question-and-answer format). It poses 65 basic questions about God and attempts logical answers based upon Biblical Scripture and other commentary.
Our finite human minds cannot exhaustively understand the Incomparable and Eternal God. We cannot fully comprehend the intricacies and the full nature of an infinite God. Yet we can truly know Him and have a relationship with Him. We can experience God in a personal way and grow in our knowledge and understanding of Him as He reveals Himself in Scripture, in creation and in life experiences through our Lord Jesus Christ. Only what God has chosen to reveal of Himself can be known; God is our Creator and that we are a part of His creation. Man is above the rest of creation and was given dominion over it.
God is interested in our willingness to manage and administrate all that He has given to us. Nothing will be thrown into our laps. Financial prosperity is not an unconditional providential blessing; conditions are attached. We are to take action and be proactive. The abilities and giftings God provides motivate us to action. Sometimes it takes our persistence in doing the same things faithfully with the heart of a servant. Other times it is time to try new things, new methods, and seek new opportunities. Sometimes the steady plodding brings the success of the blessed life.
Many people, deep in debt and lacking in self-discipline in their spending and contentment level, complain that their employers don’t pay them enough, their taxes are much too high, their business costs have skyrocketed, or render some other excuse why they cannot plan for their financial future. Of course, some of these excuses may have a certain amount of legitimacy to them, but they don’t excuse a person from the responsibility of making sure that they are not wasting any of the resources God has allowed to come through their hands. The problem is rarely a lack of money; it is a lack of money management. Money management simply means self-management. This book will help the reader to re-align their financial attitude so that they can begin to fulfill their potential financial altitude.
Some people teach that we should give to get. Others teach that we should sacrifice and withhold from our family in order to give more. Neither extreme point of view is correct. We must provide for our family. We should not give to get. Our attitude should be one of obedience and liberality.
The best way to give to the Lord is to understand all that He has given to us, and then freely give back to Him. Author Rich Brott provides a very balanced perspective in his latest book, “Prosperity Has a Purpose.” He notes that we gain by giving and we lose by withholding.
When we freely give to God, regardless of our own personal need, we allow God to be big in our lives. We allow Him to provide for us. This can only happen as we buy into the principle of freely giving. If we are stingy in our giving and withhold from the Lord, we miss the many blessings and provisions He wants to shower upon us.
Author Rich Brott notes that “faith” is a choice, an act of the human will. It is a deliberate choice to place confidence in God and His Word. Unbelief is a sin because it is a deliberate choice to withhold confidence in God and His Word. Faith is a receiving of the truth, an embracing of the truth, and a commitment to the God of truth! And commitment always produces action. That is why faith without works is dead. With no action there is no commitment. With no commitment there is no faith!
In this book, you will find 25 faith-building principles that will enlarge your capacity to receive the very best that God has to offer you.