KFLCC Kingdom Economics

Ways That the Lord Gives Provision

His adversaries become our enemies and our adversaries become His enemies. God’s enemies are not people , just as our spiritual warfare is not against flesh and blood, but against demonic and satanic spirits (Eph 6:12). Often we believe that if a person is resisting our words, working against us, or clashing with our personality, they are an adversary and God dislikes them because we dislike them. Yet God loves the person (John 3:16), but despises the evil spirit that is working within those persons. Jesus rebuked evil spirits and evil intent, but always ministered to those in need (Acts 10:38). God’s enemies include sin, transgression, iniquity, sickness, disease, death, and the works of the flesh (Gal. 5:19-21). These too should be our enemies. Our enemies are the principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and wicked spirits in heavenly places. The Sword of Goliath When David, a teenage champion of Israel, decked Goliath by slinging a smooth stone from his slingshot, many scholars note that the rock stunned or knocked out the giant. Reading 1 Samuel 17:50, we know that David had no sword in his hand. The only weapon available to complete the assignment and slay this adversary was the giant’s own sword. Please note that the very weapon intended to cut David to pieces and feed him to the birds (1 Sam. 17:44) was the same weapon David seized and used to behead Israel’s enemy! This is an example of God taking something from the hand of the enemy—something meant for evil—and giving it to you to use against your adversary, thereby turning something meant for evil into something good. 7. G OD C HANGES Y OUR E CONOMIC S TATUS Your greatest enemy to conquer is that of practicing a lifestyle of sin. The Gospel not only impacts your spiritual life and destiny, but it also impacts your economic status. Let me explain by using an example. When my dear friend Floyd Lawhon was an international evangelist, he would preach each year at an inner city church called Chicago Tabernacle, pastored by Jim Steele. While ministering there in 1970, an old man slipped into the back pew during the service. His clothing was ragged and worn. His long beard and hair were matted, and his body odor was so repulsive that those near him, many whom were former street people, were becoming nauseated.

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