"God's Economy" Part 4
By Christopher J. Hardwick
Last week I started to list a few practical principles concerning good stewardship of our finances
1. Don’t spend more then you have! 2. If you can’t afford it cut it out of your budget. 3. Try to stay
as debt free as you can. 4. Develop a realistic budget on paper and stick with it.
There are many more practical things that you can do that will keep you out of crises situations.
This week I want to elaborate more on giving. The Lord told me a long time ago that I would start a
bank. At first I was flabbergasted because I do not really know anything about the banking
industry. As I was meditating on this I mentioned it to a friend of mine. He said to it’s not about
money, it’s about the resources that money can buy. Money is a middle man and can be eliminated
if you had direct access to the resource you were trying to purchase with the money. Example:
Let’s say you needed a computer. If somehow a computer was given to you, would you still need
the money to get it? The answer of course is no. A missionary friend of ours who we support
every month, called me a few years ago and we were talking about support for their ministry. He
said he was short in the support that they really need. I told him about this principle. I asked him
if there was anything that he needed in tangable resources. He said he needed a laptop computer,
a cell phone, and a PDA. We prayed about those items. This was on a Tuesday. He came to town on
Friday. By Sunday night someone had bought him a brand new laptop. Some else gave him an
almost brand new PDA and he had raised enough support to take a step of faith and get a cell
phone. God wants to meet all of our needs! He loves each one of us and wants to bless us! Start
expecting the end result. Remember it’s the resource that you need not necessarily the money to
get it!
1 Kings 17:14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: 'The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall
the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.'" NKJV
By Christopher J. Hardwick
Last week I started to list a few practical principles concerning good stewardship of our finances
1. Don’t spend more then you have! 2. If you can’t afford it cut it out of your budget. 3. Try to stay
as debt free as you can. 4. Develop a realistic budget on paper and stick with it.
There are many more practical things that you can do that will keep you out of crises situations.
This week I want to elaborate more on giving. The Lord told me a long time ago that I would start a
bank. At first I was flabbergasted because I do not really know anything about the banking
industry. As I was meditating on this I mentioned it to a friend of mine. He said to it’s not about
money, it’s about the resources that money can buy. Money is a middle man and can be eliminated
if you had direct access to the resource you were trying to purchase with the money. Example:
Let’s say you needed a computer. If somehow a computer was given to you, would you still need
the money to get it? The answer of course is no. A missionary friend of ours who we support
every month, called me a few years ago and we were talking about support for their ministry. He
said he was short in the support that they really need. I told him about this principle. I asked him
if there was anything that he needed in tangable resources. He said he needed a laptop computer,
a cell phone, and a PDA. We prayed about those items. This was on a Tuesday. He came to town on
Friday. By Sunday night someone had bought him a brand new laptop. Some else gave him an
almost brand new PDA and he had raised enough support to take a step of faith and get a cell
phone. God wants to meet all of our needs! He loves each one of us and wants to bless us! Start
expecting the end result. Remember it’s the resource that you need not necessarily the money to
get it!
1 Kings 17:14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: 'The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall
the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.'" NKJV
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