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Giving and Receiving

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Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

I was just listening to an Eljah Clips episode on YouTube. Mike Thompson and his wife were telling Steve Schultz about the supernatural finances God is providing. As we sow into ministries that are spreading the gospel, He provides more funds for us to sow.

Kim Robinson shares part of her heaven experiences in her book, Heaven Is Real and It’s Fun! Jesus showed her a room in heaven that has piles of money. There is money in heaven waiting for you to reach up and take it, bringing it down to earth. This is what happened for me in February of 2022. I was listening to someone who said to ask God how much and then reach up and pull it down. $3,000.00 came to mind, and in faith, not knowing what it was for or how it would come, I reached up and pulled.

Well, I got more work from housekeeping at the neighbor’s motel due to it being short staffed. I also was paid $14.00/hour when the year before I had gotten $11-12.00. John started paying for most of my gas since we were using my vehicle more often to run errands. God also supplied a second house cleaning job, and my pastors hooked me up with a local man needing help editing and publishing his memoir.

About May, I hooked up with Sabrina Adams on LinkedIn, and she asked me to send her my manuscript. I had just paid the fees to take two of my granddaughters to grandparent camp at Beaver Camp, but God arranged things so when Sabrina told me publishing would cost $3,000.00, I had a couple hundred dollars over that in my savings.

I forgot that in February I also began sponsoring a student with David’s Kidz, $90.00 every 3 months. Remember, at the end of October, I agreed to go on the mission trip to Tanzania in February 2023. I had continued to put money into savings, and they added up. The funds seemed to increase miraculously. I was able to pay the two payments for the trip by the end of December. Out of the blue, people would hand money to me to supply funds for the sundries of the trip.

God continued to supply faithfully. In April of 2023, I asked Sabrina to have another 80 books published. That cost $500.00, which just happened to be in my savings! I leave you with the Elijah Clip so you can listen yourself. I pray you experience the prosperity God wants you to have to bring His kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. Amen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK8fCRwuQyM&t=328s

Early March Musings

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I am busy doing a big editing job. The manuscript comes from a local Vietnam Vet who wants to share his personal account of a year in Nam and lay out the failure of our Nation to deal with the “police action” and its aftermath so the festering wound many veterans and activists- our nation as a whole-have can be cleaned out and reconciliation may come. The author’s wish is that we would learn from and correct the mistakes to keep from repeating them. I will let you know when this manuscript becomes a book; the author has wanted to speak out for decades and could use the encouragement!

Since I didn’t share any books I’m reading last post, here is one I finished over the weekend: 8 Keys to Kingdom Resources by Shawn Bolz. He begins with this:

“I have heard it said (and have said myself) that Heaven has an economy. A better statement is that Heaven is full of the best economic principles in existence.”

Shawn Bolz in 8 Keys to Kingdom Resources page 3.

This book is a condensation of Keys To Heaven’s Economy An Angelic Visitation from the Minister of Finance. In 8 Keys, Shawn covers:

1. Giving And Generosity

2. Finance, Resources, and Time

3. Favor, Relationship, and Influence

4. Hard Work

5. Creativity

6. Education

7. Risk and Faith

8. Intimacy With God

Have you ever thought about this many things being involved in Heaven Economy? It’s more than:

Malachi 3:10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.

Add to it:

Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

The parable of the talents in Matthew 25, adding:

Daniel 1:17 As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

And so much more. As we discover God’s storehouses are overflowing and He is our Father who loves to give good gifts to His children and what Mark shares about the abundant, and more abundant, life Jesus died to give to us,

John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

8 Keys is a simple, but deep little book that goes far beyond the false “Prosperity Doctrine” many churches have adopted. Jesus does not want us to be poor, but to put our trust in Him to use what we’ve been given as the man with the five talents and the man with the three talents did. If you live in fear and hold tight to what God has given you to give away, invest, or share with others, the Kingdom cannot advance. This is illustrated by the man with the one talent who buried it because he knew it was a hard taskmaster that it belonged to.

Heaven’s economy has no lack. That means wealth is a renewable resource; the more you give, the more you have to give. The more you get and use knowledge, the more knowledge you have to give. It’s worth the risk, as long as you are intimately involved with God’s plan for you and those around you. The Gospel is free, but it takes finances to spread it! Let us do all things in the spirit of God’s love!

God’s Love Is All In All!

It is all we need!