KFLCC Kingdom Economics

F INANCIAL S ECURITY IN THE L AST D AYS

Roman taxes, temple taxes, and tolls were charged to help build roads, provide for the Roman army, and repair the Temple. As far back as Old Testament days, people dealt with financial woes that were sometimes caused by situations over which they had little or no control. These things will happen, and many times we can do nothing to change them. This is why, if you are a believer who is in covenant with God, you must learn to depend on God to provide for you supernaturally. S UPERNATURAL P ROVISION The word supernatural brings different images to the minds of people, and some believers hesitate to use the word, even when speaking about the power of God to intervene. Natural provision comes from the hands, work and ability of men, but supernatural provision comes when God works in an unusual and unexplainable manner to create something we do not have in order to bring forth something we need. In the Old Testament, a widow woman and her son were dying and the prophet requested that she prepare him the last cake of meal she had. She obeyed and the supernatural result was that her meal barrel never ran dry throughout the entire famine. We read: ... She and her household ate for many days. The bin of flour was not used up nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Elijah. I K INGS 17:15-16 (NKJV) On another occasion a widow woman owed her mortgage and could not pay. The creditors sent a final notice and informed her that her two sons would be sold as slaves to provide the payment for the home. The woman knew the prophet Elisha, and sought him for divine assistance. The prophet instructed her to take the oil remaining in her house, borrow vessels, and shut the door. After prayer the vessels were filled and the women sold the oil, made her house payment, and lived off the rest of the income. Josephus makes an interesting observation about the husband of this woman. He was Obediah, the former governor of Ahab’s house, who feared God and had hidden one hundred prophets in two caves, feeding them bread and protecting them from Jezebel’s assassination attempt. The historian writes that, in order to feed the prophets, Obediah took out a loan against his house to purchase bread

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