KFLCC Kingdom Economics

Breaking the Spirit of Poverty and Lack

When the kings captured Lot and his family, God came through to rescue Lot by sending Abraham as the deliverer. This is an example of how an enemy of Abraham became an enemy of God. When the kings captured Lot, God’s attention went to Abraham’s bloodline and God defeated the enemy. In Genesis 18, when the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah was great because of their wickedness, God decided to destroy them. Abraham asked Him, “Would you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” Knowing that his nephew Lot lived in Sodom, Abraham bargained with God. Will you spare Sodom if you find fifty righteous? Forty-five? Forty, thirty, twenty? How about ten? God agreed that He would spare Sodom if he could find ten righteous in the city. As a side note, it is interesting that Abraham tithed a tenth from the goods of Sodom, and he bargained with God to save the city if He could find as few as ten righteous. In Genesis 19, God spared Lot by ordering his family to leave the city, although only Lot, his wife, and two daughters fled for their lives. Unfortunately, his wife died while fleeing because she looked back. Genesis 19:29 says that God remembered Abraham! God gave Lot’s entire family a chance to escape the destruction because of Abraham. The adversary can never defeat a person who is in covenant with God, as long as that person understands the spiritual and legal authority that is provided for them in the covenant (see Luke 10:19). T HE J ERICHO C URSE God takes seriously the promises He makes to bless and prosper His covenant people, and we in turn should take seriously the blessings and warnings He gives us in His covenant document, the Bible. The story of Achan in Joshua 6:17-19 is a prime example. The fortified city of Jericho was surrounded by high walls and was the first of thirty-one major cities to be captured by Israel after the Israelites crossed the Jordan River and entered their Promised Land. The seizure of Jericho occurred around the time of the Feast of First Fruits, when the first of the ripened barley was to be presented to God. The law of first fruits guaranteed that, if the first of the increase of the field was presented to God, then the remaining harvest field would be blessed. Since Jericho was the first city to be captured and the season was first fruits, the Lord instructed that everything in the city belonged to the

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