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Dynamic Keys that makes the
Apostolic & Prophetic
more Authentic than the Dogma (2)
The Apostolic/Prophetic Faith to live above your means
Text: Phil. 4:13,Luke 6:38, 1Sam. 9:1-ff
Naturally, as a ruling paradigm it is unethical for you to live above your means, even to be extravagant in your spending is not advisable.
But if you must learn to experience abundant life and prosperity in accordance with the ruling paradigm of the Word of God, you must learn to give above your means. The Bible says that he that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly, he that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully.
I’m inviting you to a Biblical paradigm of living above your means; above your income, above your offering and above your prayer life.
This level of life is unarguably risky and difficult to undertake but it is rewarding. What you can’t give you can’t give keep. What you can’t give, can’t keep you.
When the farmer sows his seeds the harvest keeps him till the next planting season.
Sow into the things of God and God will sow into your life more seeds for greater harvest.
Sacrifice! Yes, Sacrifice is that which makes you to live above your means.
While the world tells you to withhold your seeds, God told Abraham to go offer his son as a sacrifice. While the world is telling you to be very prudent God told the rich young ruler to go sell all his possessions, give it to the poor and come follow Christ.
In whatever you are doing; if you can’t live above your means you will never live above the average. Always know that nothing ventured nothing gained. One thing ventured one thing gained. Many things ventured many things gained.
Give stingily and you’ll live stingily;
give executively and you’ll live executively.
Give complaining and you’ll live complaining.
Give rejoicing and you’ll live rejoicing.
Giving by faith makes you see the owner of faith (God) at work.
Saul the first king of Israel lived above his means from the first mention of the need to go and consult the Samuel the Seer, until he lost grip of the Kingdom by disobedience. He lost the Kingdom thinking that living above your means is all about sacrifices, but the peak of living above your means is OBEDIENCE. In Greek, its root phrase is “hupo ako”, meaning “to hear under”: if you can’t come under the influence of the word of God there’s no way you can live above your means.
Let’s take a look at King Saul’s credential of living above his means;
· He borrowed his servant’s resource in order to hold something as an offering for the Seer (Prophet) Samuel. 1 Sam. 9:6-9
While in the land of Zuph, they had exhausted their resources. Verses 5,6
· King Saul and his servant from now on had no means of livelihood. In Prophet Samuel’s house he accommodated them and fed them. 1 Sam. 9:22-27
· Samuel didn’t give Saul any material wealth when they were parting to meet again later in Gilgal, but he gave him a sign that, he will be given two loaves of bread by one of the three men they’ll meet at the plain of Tabor. This was the bread that sustained them till they arrived Gilgal.
· At Gilgal, he was to wait for Samuel for seven (7) good days with an empty purse, he has exhausted his resources, in our modern day his ATM card can’t withdraw any monies again. Where did all the animals they sacrificed at Gilgal come from? And how did Saul and his servant sustain themselves there for seven days? Divine providence at work you might say, yes! Because first and foremost they didn’t go to see the prophet empty handed. They gave their last, actually following the letter of the word of God it was even the servant of Saul who volunteered to give, because Saul had nothing, “And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver; that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way,” Saul had nothing to give! Amazingly he obeyed Samuel all the way until he publicly anointed King.
What I’m trying to say is that God that anointed a financially bankrupt Saul as king can still anoint a global financially-melt-down YOU! As the next king of the territory that He wants you to occupy.
Therefore, my choice of that title was deliberate. You have every legal right to change the title now into “the Apostolic/prophetic faith to live beyond your means.”
Lesson learnt:
They wasted their resources after passing through
* Mount Ephraim
* The land of Shalisha
* Land of the Benjamites
* Land of Zuph
All they had was “a quart part of a shekel of silver”
In the modern day a shekel of silver = 64 cents (not even up to a dollar)
A quarter = ¼ multiply by 64 equals 16 cents
To know how much a quarter of a shekel of silver is; compare it with
1. Joseph who was sold for 20 pieces of Silver
2. Delilah who betrayed Samson for 1100 pieces of Silver
3. David purchased a threshing floor for 50 shekels of silver
4. Hamman offered 10,000 talents of silver into the Persian treasury in order to destroy the Jews. 1 Talent = $2,500.00 USD
5. Jesus sold for 30 pieces of Silver, Matt. 26:18, 27:3-9
6. Achan stole 200 shekels of Silver
God blesses the character of our giving not the quantity of what we give. It may be small but the quality is higher and better than what we give in quantity without a value for God and His Holy Word.
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