Prophetic Ministries International

I received an email recently in response to my post about Craving. the person asks:

" In reference to the other ministry asking for financial support, could you break this down a little more for me and possibly others. How are you expecting us to relate to your own ministry financially?"

This is a great question, and one I have spent a good time in prayer over.

This is what we have come to believe:

1 - Tithing is good and biblical. It keeps the devourer away.
The tithe is NOT 10%. It is a portion of your income, with 10% as the goal (not the law). It can not be law, as then giving more would be violating the law, as would less. And since we are no longer under the law, if it was, it would not matter anyway.

The tithe should go to wherever you are being fed. Ministries and churches need income to feed and house the ministers. This comes from the tithe.

You are entitled to keep a tithe of the tithe. (For more info - order the CD on this issue).

2 - "Give and it will be given unto you". "God loves a cheerful giver".
As you sow seed into your own life, you will begin to prosper. As you prosper, GIVE. Give to us, give to others. Give, expecting only one thing - that thanksgiving will be given to God.

Do NOT give expecting ANY financial return. Not 30, not 60, not 100 fold. Give only knowing that God gets thanks - and because of this, He blesses his children. Your harvest will grow, your life will change.

That's it.

When I speak of that never ending craving - I mean ministries and churches that tap into your emotions, trying to get your money under the misguided (and sometimes deceptive) belief that by giving to them, you are sowing into "good soil" and that means you will get a financial harvest.

This way of thinking is simply not scriptural. Before giving to any ministry - first, sow seed into your own soil - get trained, build a business, launch out -and prosper. Then simply be a giver...

To many of us Christians are broke, and trying to get out of that stronghold by giving away the little we do have. The Pharaoh spirit loves that. He doesn't care how much you give, so long as you always stay a slave to whatever he's building.

We all need to stop giving to get, and start getting to give. And that's why may saying is now:

"God wants you to have more than enough. Isn't it time you tried something different?"

Bill