Store    Your Treasure In Heaven By: Chris Chandler   All believers have the opportunity to keep their money with the safest bank ever created... heaven! If we are obedient to God's Word, we will have treasure stored there! Matthew 6:19-20 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." Jesus tells us here to store up our treasures in heaven. Why? Could it be that He doesn't want us to have money here on earth? Of course not! On the contrary, He wants us to be extraordinarily blessed! In God's storehouse our money is completely safe. When we let God keep our money, the enemy can't even get near it. Opening Your Heavenly Account We first need to realize that in heaven God has a storehouse that is like a bank. (Deu. 28:12) We need to also realize that we can have an account in that 'bank'. Once we do that, we can begin to develop our faith in this area of our lives. The first step is to open our heavenly account. To do this, we must become tithers. Tithing is giving God the first ten percent of our income. Abram tithed when he offered the high priest Melchizedek a tenth of his plunder after defeating his enemies (Genesis 14:20). Because Abram honored God with his income, God visited him. God was so pleased with Abram, that He cut a blood covenant with him. A blood covenant is the strongest agreement that can be made between two people. God wanted to show Abram just how committed He was to bless him and his descendants (Gen. 17:4-6). When Jesus shed His blood on the cross for us, He made a blood covenant with us! Jesus is our High Priest just like Melchizedek. (Heb. 5:5-6) He receives our tithes and offerings and then blesses us. God even said to test Him in this. He said that if we will tithe, He will open the floodgates of heaven. Then, we will have so many blessings we will not be able to contain them! (Mal. 3:10) Withdrawal And Deposits (or Sowing & Reaping) 2 Corinthians 9:6-9 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever." God is revealing how His "bank" makes transactions. To make withdrawals (reaping), we first must make deposits (sowing, or giving). If we need to withdraw a generous amount, we must first deposit a generous amount. Once you become obedient to God's covenant of giving, a flood of blessings will overtake you! He wants us to be led by the Holy Spirit when we give, because He will speak to our heart and guide us in our giving. We need to be cheerful, willing givers. He wants us to be full of joy when we give! When we withdraw from our heavenly account and receive a harvest, God wants us to start the process of giving again. He wants us to give to every good work. God even provides the seed to sow, or deposit! 2 Corinthians 9:10-11 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. God wants to make us rich in every way by using His banking system because He wants us to be generous on every occasion! When we are generous to others it brings glory to Him. Once this cycle of giving and receiving begins, it becomes contagious! A good example of this occurred in the Macedonian church. 2 Corinthians 8:1-5 And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints. And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will. No matter how small the seed looked in their hands, they still planted. In fact, it was so fun that they even gave beyond their ability. They even begged for the opportunity to give! They were beginning to step into the area of overflow! Overflow Of Blessings Once we become obedient to God's covenant by giving, a flood of blessings will overtake us! The blessings will begin to flood us because we are in covenant with God. We are no longer strangers to the covenant because of the blood of Jesus. (Eph. 2:12-13) We are redeemed from the curse of the law, but not the blessings! Hallelujah! Check out the blessings from the old covenant that we need to lay claim to: Deuteronomy 28:8-13 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you. The LORD will establish you as His holy people, as He promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity --in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land He swore to your forefathers to give you. The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of His bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. We have even better promises now! (Eph. 8:6) Jesus said that in our lifetime we can receive a hundred fold of what we give (Matt. 19:29). That kind of increase can multiply quickly! All we have to do is believe it and we will receive it (Matt. 21:22). Let's just say that the Lord led you to give $100. The possible hundred fold withdrawal on that is $10,000! Give that and you can withdraw $1,000,000! See how quickly your finances can prosper by using God's financial system. You went from a hundred dollars to one million in just two deposits! Jesus said it best when He said... Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Luke 6:38 What we give will come back to us overflowing into our lap! We will not even be able to contain it! Just believe these promises and receive them! We can believe all of God's promises, because God is faithful! (Heb. 10:23) Every one of His promises are 'Yes' in Christ! All we have to say is 'Amen!' or 'So Be It!' (2 Cor. 1:20) That's The God You And I Serve!   Back Next Revelations Home