7 Commitments of a Forerunner: A Sacred Charge to Press Into God by Mike Bickle

Author:Mike Bickle [Bickle, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-22T16:59:06+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Give Extravagantly

The Joy of Financial Power Encounters

The Divine Challenge

The Holy Spirit is raising up more and more people who have set their heart to give financially to the kingdom in an extravagant way. He is calling many to financially support works of justice and, specifically, to support the prayer movement, which is at the very heart of the end-time justice movement.

There is only one place in all of Scripture where God challenges us to test Him. The Lord says,

Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me, now in this . . . if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.

—Malachi 3:10

In the area of giving money, God challenges us to give extravagantly. He promises to extravagantly answer our giving. It stirs our faith when this happens. I refer to this as entering into the joy of financial power encounters. The Father beckons His children to test Him in their giving; it is as if He is saying “Wait and see what I will do! Watch Me open up the very storehouse of heaven to bless you!” Giving extravagantly is the condition that God requires for all who desire to take hold of His promise to release finances in a supernatural way.

In Malachi 3, the Lord called us to give Him the tithe of all our money by giving a tenth of our money to support His kingdom. Tithing is the entry point for experiencing the joy of financial power encounters in an ongoing way. Put simply, tithing is basic Christianity. To tithe is to trust God directly with 10 percent of our money.

When we give 10 percent of our income to God, we position ourselves to receive financial blessing. We have a greater buying power on 90 percent of our money with God’s blessing because of tithing than we have on 100 percent of it without God’s blessing when we don’t tithe. In other words, when we give 10 percent to the Lord, He causes our 90 percent to go farther than the 100 percent when we don’t give to Him. He delights in multiplying our finances back to us. God will directly respond to our giving by opening the financial windows of heaven over us.

He wants us to trust His leadership over our finances; He desires that we would give with confidence that He is watching and will be involved in our finances in a supernatural way. Those who make the Sacred Charge commitments will give beyond their tithe. Giving extravagantly implies that we give above and beyond 10 percent of our finances to the Lord.

When God supernaturally answers our giving, it fills us with joy. In other words, He sometimes responds to us by giving us an amount of money that directly corresponds to an amount we gave. He takes pleasure in doing this because it develops

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