KFLCC Kingdom Economics

F INANCIAL S ECURITY IN THE L AST D AYS

performed a miracle of multiplication to meet the need of feeding the crowd. However, more than the need was supplied when twelve baskets of fish and bread were left over (Mark 8:19). To meet a need is just enough; but to receive according to God’s riches in glory is to supply beyond the need and meet the need with some left over. Perhaps a more detailed manner of prayer is to pray, “Lord, according to your abundant riches, release to me your abundant supply....” Or “Lord, according to your riches in glory, provide above and beyond what is needed....” Often individuals will seek things, instead of seeking the source of blessings. Christ made this clear in Matthew 6:31-33: Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. E XPECT A S UPERNATURAL B REAKTHROUGH Without faith it is impossible to please God, and those seeking Him in faith will be rewarded by Him for their faith (Heb. 11:6). When the paraplegic man at the golden gate heard Peter say, “Look on us,” he paid attention and expected to receive from them (Acts 3:5). Expectancy is the seed that helps the impossible to be made possible. Expectancy is the emotion that is triggered when faith is sensed in the human spirit. It is the motivation that causes a blind man to cry out to Christ for healing (Luke 18:38-42), and a woman suffering twelve years with a hemorrhage to sneak into a crowd and touch the hem of Jesus’s garment to be cured (Matt. 9:20-22). Christ spoke a parable, recorded in Luke 18, and concluded it with these words, “Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). The cares of life, deceitfulness of riches, and lust of things will choke the Word of God in your heart (Matt. 13:22) and stop your fruitfulness or your productivity. After prayer and following the basic instructions above, then live in a realm of continual expectancy that your Heavenly Father knows your needs even before you ask (Matt. 6:8), and has compassion on you in your time of need. T HE A LEXANDER K ERR S TORY

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