God's Kingdom Economics: Receiving Freely, Giving Freely

God's Kingdom Economics: Receiving Freely, Giving Freely...

Jesus was asked if it was right to pay tax to Caesar or not. He asked for the coin and asked whose image was on the coin, the answer was, 'that of Caesar'. He said, give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. That ordinarily tells us who controls what. We could see from that that God doesn't know about our currency, God doesn't spend dollars or any such currencies but not only that, it is good to know also that some individuals under the power of mammon are in charge.

We saw that when Jesus sent His disciples out without pursue, He still went ahead to tell them not to trade with the power He gave them to propagate the Kingdom.

Kingdom Finance isn't earthly currencies based, though being here on earth, with the mix up of the kingdoms both of God, of Satan and of men, you can't do without currencies and that's why Jesus said we should give Caesar what belongs to him and to God what belongs to Him.

And so Kingdom Prosperity can't be measured or based on money or earthly currencies. Isn't it instructive that amongst the richest in the world Christians are minority? Isn't it instructive that Jesus Christ wasn't the richest person on earth while He was here? If His kingdom's finance was Caesar's currency based He would have been the richest being the King of that Kingdom.

And He was duly offered to be the richest on earth by Satan: if He could fall down and worship Satan, He could have the Kingdom's of the world and all the glory thereof... It was a bait... Such exchange would have been foolish but it would have made Him more influential and acceptable to the world at the expense of His own eternal Kingdom.

Today, the church hardly knows the difference anyway. We can hardly recognize Mammon if he comes to town dressed in a garment made of dollars, pounds and euros. They would rather worship him and call him God.

That's why our mentality of prosperity is based on amassing wealth through trade as opposed to getting our needs met through grace.

Jesus Christ put us above money when He commanded saying freely have you received freely give. We can't see freely receiving as a possibility and so freely giving isn't possible. We have all become traders. We give only when we are sure of receiving and so we cut ourselves off the milk and the honey flowing freely in the Kingdom.

How did Jesus Christ's need got met? He wasn't always having money and when He had the money it was not possible to buy what He needed but never was He ever stranded. He always got His needs met without having to trade anything.

And under the power of the Spirit, in the early church, no one lacked anything, everyone shared what he had and that remained the hallmark of the demonstration of prosperity in the body of Christ till date.

The prosperity messages of today do not take such sharing into cognisance, it has gradually slipped back into trading even where giving is meant to power Prosperity and the result is clear... Many will still remain poor!

We cover up with the excuse that we all should work or rather trade...and so we merchandise our gifts and opportunities and return to the base carnal phenomenon of competition and the survival of the fittest. And we do all to outwit each other, deprive each other, and rob each other if possible to get by.

We become money ruled! I speak of the church of God today!

We can't seem to be able to receive freely so we can't possibly give freely and we believe we are still within the boundaries of Christ's Kingdom.

While life without trading is absolutely impossible in the natural, life without giving absolutely shuts one out of kingdom's economy. The worst is to target other children of God under the guise of ministry to do business.

We must understand well what it then mean to walk by faith in God's grace for prosperity. It is beyond the ability to trade well, we don't need Christ becoming poor to get that, it is the ability to create a flow beyond trading from heaven through freely receiving and freely giving.

Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Can God plant a garden for a child of His as Eden? Can God add to you all your needs as you seek His Kingdom and His righteousness? Can God still multiply bread and fishes? Can God still provide without trading?

Can God open doors of opportunities beyond your capabilities to make money even when it seems impossible? Can God give you beyond what you can possibly work for without having to steal? Yes God can?

Can God move you to give and meet the needs of every needy around you? Yes, He can?

Will you listen or trade with God's opportunity? That's for you to answer!

If we are yet to follow the basic principles of the early church prosperity achievement we are yet to get the true prosperity of the Kingdom of God.

When  we get it, we'll see God demonstrating again in our day all those supernatural ways Christ got His own needs met.

Adequate money to meet present needs would be found in fish's heads and in unusual places.

Loaves and fishes and other insufficient supplies will multiply to feed many.

Needs will be met without having to depend on Caesar's currency.

And the Kingdom of God will rule amongst men again in our midst.

But before then, we'll have to cure ourselves of this present antagonistic nature towards freely receiving and freely giving. We'll have to learn not to trade with things we are sent to give. We'll have to learn not to allow our lusts to rule our economy...

God help us...