"David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of hosts was with him. AND HIRAM king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house. And David perceived that the Lord had established and confirmed him as king over Israel, for his kingdom was exalted highly for His people Israel's sake." -The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
A sign of God's establishment and confirmation in your life is the increased influence of your position to help people.
God grants you position to lead people into the Promised Land (or liberate their dreams and potential.)
When you use your position for this purpose, He will send men of influence and stature to provide resources (and favor) to help build all that is in your heart.
What do you need?
God wants to supply it in such abundance that you perceive it as a sign of His establishment and confirmation of your career, business or ministry.
Wherever God leads he feeds. When you are functioning in your assigned territory, no one will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. In other words, there is prosperity, promotion and protection in a God given assignment.
God does everything in abundance. Because He intended for you to share what He gave you to people:
- He forgives abundantly.
- He gives life abundantly.
- He blesses abundantly.
Because He knows that you can only repeatedly give away what you have already received in abundance.
Dictionary.com defines abundance as:
1. An extremely plentiful or oversufficient quantity or supply.
2. Overflowing fullness
3. Affluence, wealth, plenty or no scarcity.
God is extreme in His blessing or giving. He doesn't align Himself with stingy (selfish) people. As leaders, we must be great stewards and givers. You don't get what you deserve; you are compensated by what you can manage and contribute.
So, why do we give?
- We give as the overflow of God's abundance.
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"For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift." (Jn. 1:16)
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"He has blessed us in "all blessings in heavenly places (Eph. 1:3)
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"All things belong to you" (I Cor. 3:21-23)
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"...Your storage places be filled with plenty, and your vats shall be overflowing with new wine." (Pr. 3:10)
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"abound and excel in this gracious work also." (II Cor. 8:7)
Giving is not just giving from overflow of physical assets
1. Our natural covetousness cannot recognize "enough" or "too much"
- The pre-requisite of giving.
1. The first giving is the giving of ourselves to the Lord (II Cor. 8:5)
2. God is not interested in your gifts until He has you.
Then He wants our substance (or seed), because it's the last part of us that we are withholding from Him.
He said, "IF YOU WILL GIVE EXTREMELY (OR BOUNTIFULLY) I WILL GIVE BACK TO YOU: PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER, RUNNING OVER UNTO YOUR BOSOM."
That's the extreme blessing and supernatural power of God that is on your seed when you sow it.
The reason why the Bible talks so much about giving is because God wants to give you insider trading secrets to tap into the wealth and resources of the world.
Before Hiram gave David anything to build a house, David was already great and an hilarious giver.
There is a secret weapon against poverty.
It is your seed or investment into the lives of others.
King Solomon wrote: "There are those who [generously] scatter abroad, and yet increase more; there are those who withhold more than is fitting or what is justly due, but it results only in want." (Pr. 11:24)
You increase a seed by releasing one. A seed in the ground, demands the season (you are in) to change.
RIGHT NOW, declare:
- My seed must be prosperous.
- My season must change.
- My life must increase and prosper.
- My position must be promoted.
- My city must be transformed.
- My generation must be saved.
- My disease must die.
- My body must receive strength and healing.
- My dreams must live.
As I determine to sow a seed in famine (where nothing is expected to grow) God prepares my greatest harvest.
