1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
Luke 8:3
And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Ministry engagement is connection between heaven and the earth. The living God using his vessel connected to heavens to minister spiritual things to meet the needs of individuals that come across the vessel on earth.
Arrangement of the living God concern ministry is that as He is using his vessel to meet the needs of His people in spiritual matters on earth, he will be using his people to be meeting the needs of His vessels in material matters on earth.
I heard people said that if God truly called a man of God, God will surely provide for him. Yes, they are right, but the truth is that God will not come from heaven to make provision for him, God will only use the people that He used His servant to ministered to to make the provision for His servant on earth. Not that God will rain dollars, Nairas, Pounds, rice, meat from the sky unto His servant.
1 Kings 17:9
“Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”
Luke 22:35
And He said unto them, “When I sent you without purse and pack and shoes, lacked ye anything?” And they said, “Nothing.”
Luke 8:2-3
2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils.
3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Has God used any man of God to be a blessing to you spiritually? If yes, then he is not fake if you partner with him in the ministry through your financial and material support. Be wise
Many people seen men of God as lazy people, and they easily abuse them when it comes to material and financial engagement, but they don’t talk about the spiritual labors that those men of God labored upon them in spiritual matters such as counseling, teachings, prayers, prophetic directions, deliverance, healing etc.
When man of God sown spiritual things unto your life that have transformed you positively, then reaping material blessings from you is not fraudulent act, but biblical act. Many people just label men of God evil or fake without study the Bible to understand what bible says about the particular subject that they are addressing.
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
Bible is operational manual for Christianity. It’s constitutional Book that govern everyone in the body of Christ.
My advise to every ministers of the gospel that will like to listen to me; don’t be shy or afraid to talk about money matters in the ministry to your congregation and anyone that you come across in the ministry. Be intentionally in talking about it. Talking about money matters doesn’t make you fake, Infact, it will make you enlighten people in understanding and knowledge of ministry.
Hear me well, no ministry can survive on earth without money. Hope you hear me well? I said, no ministry that can survive on earth without availability of money. Every ministry that you see still surviving on earth presently are been sustained by money. Take away money from ministry, it will remain stagnation, frustration,Infact, nothing will remain. Talking about money in the ministry is not about mammon spirit mentality, but it’s about reality for progress in the ministry.
Jesus and Peter were going to missionary task, but lack of money couldn’t allow them to continue the mission, it was until money was available to pay for their taxes before they could continue the mission.
Matthew 17:24-27
24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”
26 “From others,” Peter answered.
“Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”
Just imagine, if they couldn’t got the money, they wouldn’t be able to continue the ministry.
The truth must be told, if you want to survive in the ministry don’t joke with money matters. The patterns of getting the money to backup the ministry may not be the same, but once it’s biblical you are good to go.
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