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God Has Always Provided Wealth for His People

By Terry Dean

God is not against His people having money. He has never been against it in

spite of what you may have heard many preachers say. He is against money

having them and ruling their lives. Remember this. Money is a great servant, but

it is a horrible master.

“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we

drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the

Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these

things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all

these things shall be added unto you.”

Matthew 6:31-33

You are to be seeking first the kingdom of God and then God promises that all

these “things” will be added unto you. What kind of things is he talking about?

He’s talking about all the things the Gentiles seek! He is talking about food,

drink, clothing, and all the other things the Gentiles are seeking. He has

promised to take care of you as long as you put His kingdom first place in your

life.



God has always taken care of His chosen people as long as they put Him first in

their lives. The Bible is full of examples we can go to and show God’s will for

our lives and the wealth He desires to provide for us. Notice I used the term

wealth. He doesn’t desire to just give us enough to get barely by. He desires to

take abundant care of us if we let Him.

Throughout the Old Testament God often used the name of El Shaddai for

Himself…“The God Who Is More Than Enough.” He never called himself “El

Cheapo” or “The God of Barely Getting By.” He is the God of MORE than

enough. He is the God of Too Much.

“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou

anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”

Psalms 23:5

He wants to prepare a feast for us in the presence of our enemies. You may have

heard that refers to heaven, but it can’t. You don’t have any enemies in heaven.

Your enemies are here including Satan and his demons. God wants to provide

you with a feast right in front of them where they can see you.

Even better, God says that “my cup runneth over.” In other words, God wants to

fill up your cup and just keep right on pouring. Take a glass out of your

cupboard. Put it on the counter and start pouring water into it. Pour it right to

the top and keep right on pouring. You’ll make a mess all over the place. It willpour all over the counter and start dripping onto the floor. That is how God

wants to bless you. He wants to bless you so much that it fills up everything you

can take and it starts pouring all over everyone around you.

Let’s give another example to show you this isn’t an isolated incident. It is

God’s way of doing things.



“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine

house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open

you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be

room enough to receive it.”

Malachi 3:10

God is promising to pour out a blessing that there is not enough room to receive

it all. Does that sound like God wants to provide you with just enough to barely

get by? No way! He wants to provide you with way more than enough. He

wants to give you abundance so you have more than enough to share with and

meet the needs of all those around you.

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or

think, according to the power that worketh in us,”

Ephesians 3:20

God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or even think. And

if you’re like me, you can think about a lot! God says He can do more than you

can even think. So you can’t outthink God for your life. His plan for you is

already bigger than you can imagine. It is bigger than you can conceive of right

now.

“Exceeding” means, “over, above, beyond, very chiefest, exceeding.”

“Abundantly above” is “huperekchuno” in the Greek and means, “to pour outover, overflow.” God wants to go beyond overflowing your cup in this verse. In

the Old Testament God wanted to provide overflowing blessings to His people.

Now in our New Covenant God wants to go exceedingly beyond overflowing

your cup!

We are in a New Covenant that God has established upon better promises than

the Old Covenant. God wants to go far beyond what He did for His Old



Testament saints for you. There is only one problem…Ephesians 3:20 above

says,“it is according to the power that works in US.” It is up to us to let Him

work. God is limited to what you allow Him to do in your life.

Let’s take that one step further. God is limited to what you allow Him to do

THROUGH you. You are His hands on this earth. He is limited to what you

allow Him to do through you as His hands.

That is the key. God wants to bless you exceedingly abundantly to more than

overflowing, but He is limited in your life by what you allow Him to do through

you. He does not work apart from you. Jesus is the head of the church and we

are the body. The head does not accomplish anything without the body taking

action. The head gives direction and the body follows that direction.

What if your own natural body decided it didn’t want to listen to the head

anymore? What if you woke up one morning and told your body to get out of

bed, but it decided it was on strike and wasn’t going to listen anymore. You’d

be stuck there paralyzed. Well, that is where much of the church world has

been. God has given directions about our finances, but we haven’t been paying

attention and have been laying there paralyzed.

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Terry Dean shares the truth about how God gives us the power to get wealth by

sharing His wisdom with us every day. Terry went from over $50,000 in debt

delivering pizzas for a living to being totally debt free and living in financial

freedom.

Find out more today: Practical Guides to Christian Financial Freedom

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