You will probably never be given privilege to give out of abundance if you dont learn how to give out of need. The best way to distinguish between natural and true riches? Natural you can buy dinner and feed people, but with true riches you multiply one dinner and feed thousands.
The Lord has given us the ability to impact culture through what we do with money.
3 different types of Giving:
Giving into the ministry - ex. tithes and offerings
Giving to meeting human need - ex. contribute to cancer research or poor
Kingly giving - ex. giving out of royalty, most rare
A desire for the church is to learn to give out of who we are to communicate honor to others out of giving.
Poverty is a way of thinking.
Your personal victory creates a corporate blessing so that in all of your descendants will be blessed.
Isaac planted in a famine. It doesn't make sense to sew in a famine, but Isaac did and it was blessed a hundred fold. You can't let a famine tell you what to do.
How do you change the economic climate of your life?
You decide what social system you want to live at. Not God, but you. The economy of God begins with: give and it shall be given to you. How you give will determine how God gives to you.
