KFLCC Kingdom Economics

F INANCIAL S ECURITY IN THE L AST D AYS

expecting a different outcome. When the Holy Spirit revealed this simple truth to me, I had a strong inspiration (or impression) that I should begin to share this with people in our conferences. So I started telling people that when they give, they should expect unexpected blessings from unexpected sources. The Holy Spirit led me to announce that the entire month of March would be a season connected to the coming feasts of Israel and a time to give a ministry offering with expectation. During my entire ministry, neither I nor my staff has ever witnessed such unusual and sudden breakthroughs for the people who responded to the word. One minister gave fifty dollars in the offering and three days later was handed a check for five thousand dollars from a businessman who was not a member of his church, but felt impressed to write a check. Others received unexpected pay raises, insurance checks, sales of homes and property in a stagnant market, and countless other unexpected blessings from unexpected sources. One young man needed money to pay his apartment rent and was down to his last quarter. He volunteered at no charge to work a weekend at a church he had never attended, and the church gave him an unexpected check for a thousand dollars, which was enough for three payments instead of just one. I told each congregation the Word that was in my spirit, but I reminded them that they must believe the Word and sense it deep in their spirit before acting upon it. We cannot do something simply for the sake of doing it, or try it just to see if it works, as there is no expectancy in your actions. God’s blessings come in seasons, meaning at a specific set time. These blessing are released as doors of friendship, relationships, and opportunities are opened. Heaven has its own doors that open, bringing blessings from God to earth. The Lord told Malachi that He would “open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing” (Mal. 3:10). Jesus spoke to His disciples that they would see “heaven open and angels ascend and descend” upon him (John 1:51). John looked upward from his island prison on Patmos and in a vision he “saw a door in heaven open” (Rev. 4:1). Later in the vision, he viewed the future return of Christ and wrote, “I saw heaven opened....” (Rev. 19:11). We use the term that “a door was opened” to mark the special opportunities that arise in our lives. There is a spiritual principle of the season. One of the Hebrew words for season is mowed, and refers to the special seasons ordained by God, including the yearly cycle of the feasts, monthly new moons and weekly Sabbaths. For a believer, there can be seasons of spiritual temptation and testing, as indicated when Satan tempted Jesus for forty days. Then Satan departed from Jesus for a

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