HE’LL PROTECT YOUR SUBSTANCE;
“Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine”.(Proverbs 3:9-10).
The Spirit of God admonishes us to honour the Lord with our substance and with the firstfruits of all our increase, but many of God’s children have never given Him their firstfruit offering. This is not because they don’t want to, for the most part it’s because they don’t know enough to give it.
The revelation of the firstfruit actually came before the Law of Moses. It is a principle in God’s Kingdom. In Genesis 4 we read about two brothers who came before the Lord with their sacrifice. The Bible says Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain (Hebrews 11:4) because he gave his firstfruit. Let’s see what the New Testament says about firstfruit.
“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches” (Romans 11:16). ‘Holy’ means sanctified, separated or consecrated! In other words, if you give God your firstfruit, He’ll sanctify the entire lump. When you receive a raise in your salary or a blessing of any kind, and you separate the firstfruit unto God, the Bible says everything you receive afterwards is sanctified as well. That means He will watch over your remaining resources.
If God gets your firstfruit, it means nobody can touch your money; nobody can touch your property because God will watch over it by Himself. He will defend the lump! If you want God to defend your possessions and everything that He has blessed you with, give Him the firstfruit because it belongs to Him. But if you don’t give Him the firstfruit then you are keeping your resources in bags with holes.
This is what many Christians have never realized, but the way to keep the devourer away from your finances and substance is by giving the firstfruit.
Further Study:
Exodus 13:12;
Haggai 1:6
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