KFLCC Kingdom Economics

F INANCIAL S ECURITY IN THE L AST D AYS

then certainly God can reverse the law of gravity and cause iron to float. The law of gravity was also altered when Christ came to His disciples walking on the water of the Sea of Galilee (Matt. 14:29). In the New Testament era, the normal mode of transportation was walking or riding an animal such as a donkey or a camel. But in the book of Acts, Phillip was preaching a revival in Samaria, but God needed him to minister to a man from Ethiopia. The Lord transported Phillip without the use of walking or riding an animal, by supernaturally transporting him from one location to another (Acts 8:27-39). A third example of altering the natural laws was when God extended daylight for Joshua, thus enabling Israel to defeat an opposing tribe in battle (Josh. 10:13). In the future, God will break all of the natural laws by resurrecting the righteous dead and changing the physical bodies of the living, at an event called the catching away or the gathering together (1 Thess. 4:16-17; Eph. 1:9-10; 1 Cor. 15:51-52). After Communism collapsed, I was invited to minister in the largest, eight thousand seat hall in Sofia, Bulgaria. I was unaware that the Russians had cut off fuel to Bulgaria and there was a massive shortage throughout the nation. On the final day, we ate lunch with the head Bishop of the unregistered church. As his van was coming off a snowy mountain road, he realized his vehicle was out of fuel. The motor stopped and he was gliding down the roads, using the emergency brake to slow us down. We were asked to pray for a miracle. I began thinking about Christ’s miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. I knew this was a serious need and only the Lord could multiply fuel in an empty tank. As we prayed, suddenly the Bishop struck the dash with his hand and the gas gauge moved. He then cranked the vehicle and the engine fired up. We drove over twenty miles and the engine stopped at the Bishop’s house, where he had a container of fuel. This does not mean we should ask for fuel when we can pay for fuel. In ancient Israel the Hebrew nation was given manna six days a week for forty years, and lived under a cloud by day and a fire by night (Deut. 8:16; Num. 9:16). There was no food or protection from the heat and the cold; thus God provided for the wandering Hebrews for an entire generation! However, once Israel crossed the Jordan River, grain fields provided food in the land and the heavenly manna ceased after the people, “ate the corn of the land” (Josh 5:12). Israel could no longer walk out of their tents and see food all around them (manna). Now, the seeds would be planted and harvested through the works of their hands.

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