From Today God Is First by Os Hillman
October 24, 2018
In the Last Days, wealth is going to be transferred from the hands of unbelievers into the possession of believers in Christ in various ways.
1.Like the Israelites leaving Egypt, Christians and non-profit organizations will receive major gifts from individuals or foundations to carryout their Christian mission. In 2004, the Salvation Army received one of the largest gifts ever for Christian ministry via the founder's wife of McDonald's, Joan Kroc, in the amount of 1.5 billion dollars.
2. Power to Make Wealth - God is going to give witty inventions to believers throughout the world that will generate wealth. This has already begun. "But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today" (Deuteronomy 8:18).
3. Social Entrepreneurship - Just as Joseph was entrusted with the resources of Egypt to solve a societal problem resulting from a famine in the land, God is going to transfer money to believers who are solving societal problems. Governments will fund private enterprises because government is not been able to do it.
4. Wealthy Individual "Conversions" - Finally, many non-believers who are wealthy will become Christians in these last days and will begin to use their wealth for Kingdom purposes.
The transfer of wealth is designed to accelerate God's activity on the earth, not to simply make believers wealthy. Pray that God uses your work life call to accelerate His Kingdom on earth. And pray that God raises up good stewards of wealth.
A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO DIDN'T WIN
So, you bought a lottery ticket, hoping against hope that you'd become the winner of the astronomical amount of 1.6 billion dollars, and unless you're that most fortunate lady in South Carolina, your bank account remains unchanged.
Welcome to the vast club of lottery losers.
You may be a believer in Christ who assured the Lord that you would invest a large portion of the winnings into His Kingdom's purposes if He would just let you be the lucky individual to walk away with that huge amount of money. But He wasn't persuaded.
You may have had visions of yourself luxuriating on your private beach or aboard you finely-appointed yacht or moving into a vast mansion filled with antique furnishings--and all those visions came crashing down this morning.
Since the statistical chance of your winning was something like 301 million to 1, it's obvious you're not alone. Perhaps you and your co-workers can console one another over coffee when you go to work this morning.
And you can also console yourself that the God you serve has still promised to "provide all you need, according to His riches in glory." You can take solace in the fact that if you "ask anything in accordance with His will, it shall be given to you."
And there is a further assurance that He has a plan to bestow wealth upon His own--not for their consumption--for the furtherance of His Kingdom.
Trust Him. You shall have all He desires to give to you in His perfect time.
3. Social Entrepreneurship - Just as Joseph was entrusted with the resources of Egypt to solve a societal problem resulting from a famine in the land, God is going to transfer money to believers who are solving societal problems. Governments will fund private enterprises because government is not been able to do it.
4. Wealthy Individual "Conversions" - Finally, many non-believers who are wealthy will become Christians in these last days and will begin to use their wealth for Kingdom purposes.
The transfer of wealth is designed to accelerate God's activity on the earth, not to simply make believers wealthy. Pray that God uses your work life call to accelerate His Kingdom on earth. And pray that God raises up good stewards of wealth.
A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO DIDN'T WIN
So, you bought a lottery ticket, hoping against hope that you'd become the winner of the astronomical amount of 1.6 billion dollars, and unless you're that most fortunate lady in South Carolina, your bank account remains unchanged.
Welcome to the vast club of lottery losers.
You may be a believer in Christ who assured the Lord that you would invest a large portion of the winnings into His Kingdom's purposes if He would just let you be the lucky individual to walk away with that huge amount of money. But He wasn't persuaded.
You may have had visions of yourself luxuriating on your private beach or aboard you finely-appointed yacht or moving into a vast mansion filled with antique furnishings--and all those visions came crashing down this morning.
Since the statistical chance of your winning was something like 301 million to 1, it's obvious you're not alone. Perhaps you and your co-workers can console one another over coffee when you go to work this morning.
And you can also console yourself that the God you serve has still promised to "provide all you need, according to His riches in glory." You can take solace in the fact that if you "ask anything in accordance with His will, it shall be given to you."
And there is a further assurance that He has a plan to bestow wealth upon His own--not for their consumption--for the furtherance of His Kingdom.
Trust Him. You shall have all He desires to give to you in His perfect time.
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