KFLCC Kingdom Economics

Parabolic Principles of Financial Growth and Blessing

On several occasions, Christ and His disciples were caught in the midst of terrible storms. The description is, “the ship was covered with waves” (Matt. 8:24), “the ship was tossed with waves” (Matt. 14:24), and “they were in jeopardy” (Luke 8:22). We read, “and a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling” (Mark 4:37). These waves beat against the ship. The Greek word for beat is epiballo, and the image is throwing an iron ball at something until you weaken it and it breaks. Yet, with waves covering a ship and the boat filled with water, the ship did not sink! Boats filled with water sink; yet God broke the normal pattern for a sinking ship and held up the ship with Christ and His disciples in it! The real secret is in the spoken words of Christ in Mark 4:35 when He said, “Let us go over to the other side" (of the lake). When Christ gave the command, “Let us go over...” then there was no way they could go under for going over! G OD ’ S L AWS A RE S UPERIOR TO N ATURAL L AWS Christ said it “rains upon the just and the unjust” (Matt. 5:45), meaning trouble comes to both the righteous and the unrighteous. Destructive hurricanes and tornados have ripped neighborhoods apart, leaving a sinner’s house intact and a saint’s house in ruins, or visa-versa. At times death struck, leaving a sinner in grief and leaving a saint in tears. There is no explanation for why this happens, other than storms have no conscience and do not discriminate against religion, race, or gender. However, Christ rebuked dangerous storms and God heard, preventing premature death. By using the authority He gave us, we can also pray against storms and ask God to manipulate natural laws. In 2011, I was hosting a mentoring institute at the T. L. Lowery Global Foundation Center in our home town of Cleveland, Tennessee. There were about 225 people in the facility. Terrible tornados had struck Alabama, and according to the news, a possible F-4 tornado was coming toward Cleveland. While we were there, my wife called from home to give us the warning and recommended that we take action now. The wind was already bouncing cars and there was no place for us to go for additional security. I called the people for prayer and told them we must pray against any storm coming toward us. Watching from the window, I saw the dark clouds swirling. I thought about the story of Christ in the boat, rebuking the storm, when suddenly I saw an open vision of Moses seeing the Red Sea part. I ran to the front and told Mark Casto, who was praying with the group, “Command the tornado to split like the Red

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