Dear Ones,
The Lord bless you!
We have a team in Africa, the USA and Europe that is planting schools of ministry in every nation worldwide over the next five plus years. We are building a self-sustaining income project for them in Kenya, a poultry house with up to 2400 chickens laying precious little eggs that we can sell for a profit to be able to go and plant those schools. The eggs alone won’t fully fund the project so each team member must have faith for finances as well; of course for their own lives too. They do very well already, but this was some extra encouragement I wrote to them, and thought would bless you also!
Love you! KRP
FAITH FOR FINANCES
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father (ABBA) knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matt 6:31-33 NKJV
It’s all about your relationship with ABBA.
My parents were traditional Catholics, meaning they believed in Jesus but knew very little of the Bible. My Mom spoke in tongues as a little girl in a convent and did for me one time. My dad worked for the gas company for thirty-five years, my mom for the water company. We lived in a small house with my brother and sister, always had food on the table, went on summer vacations, and we as children never worried about our needs being met. I went to a parochial grade school, played sports, had bicycles and toys, and had an idyllic time growing up. My father supplied all my needs!
I was probably born again at seven years old and became a Spirit filled Bible believing Christian at sixteen. Before my eighteenth birthday I finished high school and decided to go on a one-year missions program with my Spirit filled church rather than go immediately to college. The program required me to travel to Ohio for training and have $150 to start on the mission. I left home with only the $150 I needed for the mission and wound up spending my money traveling across country. I arrived in Ohio a week before the training and got a temporary job dismantling a silo that had blown down in a storm. The job ended the day the training started, and then they paid me. After taking out taxes the amount was exactly to-the-penny $150. ABBA, who knows the very hairs on my head, had become my Father. I transferred the faith I had in my earthly father to my heavenly Father, and my needs have always been met. In fact, in fifty plus years since then I have never spent a day ‘out of work’ when I wanted to be working. ABBA has been perfectly faithful!
It’s all about your relationship with ABBA.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. John 14:18 NKJV
There are at least two great curses against many Christian clergymen and women – one from our shared Roman Catholic heritage (Catholicism was the face of Christianity for a thousand years) and one from some of our earthly parents. I believe these curses are in many ways responsible for the suffering and poverty of many Christian leaders across all denominations. Thankfully, ABBA, YESHUA and the RUACH KODESH are the antidote to both.
Let me explain – I’ll handle the second one first, the curse from the parents. The role of godly parents is to be like God to their children, to lead them, teach them, prepare them and to meet every need along the way, so that when it comes time for them to be on their own, they are prepared for every eventuality and they transfer their faith from their earthly father and mother to the Godhead. My parents did this for me. Your parents sinned against you if they did not do this for you. When the parents fail to do this for their children, it is like they become orphans – people with no fathers.
This is important to understand – a spiritual orphan who lives becomes a cunning survivor. They live by their wits – how to manipulate outcomes to their advantage – and not by faith and revelation. To them, God is NOT their Father, He is not their ABBA. At best, to them, He is cold, aloof, impersonal and has no relevance in their lives. Religious service becomes mechanical, not out of a heart of love. If a spiritual orphan is in a leadership position in the Church, then he or she reproduces orphans under them. Lamentations Five describes the life of a spiritual orphan.
Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans and waifs (a waif is an abandoned person)
Our mothers are like widows.
4 We pay for the water we drink,
And our wood comes at a price.
5 They pursue at our heels;
We labor and have no rest.
6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians
And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung up by their hands,
And elders were not respected.
13 Young men ground at the millstones;
Boys staggered under loads of wood.
14 The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
And the young men from their music. Lam 5:2-14 NKJV
Pitiful, isn’t it? In 2004, Apostle Chuck Pierce came to Kampala with the International Coalition of Apostles and prophesied over Uganda that it had an orphan spirit over the nation. I was there, as was FMT, Aloysious Kiiza and quite a few others. A nation of cunning survivors who didn’t know God as ABBA! Thankfully we’ve seen some real breakthroughs since then, even prophetically over the nation with the birth of the Twins, after twenty years of childlessness, and how well Michael and Phobice are raising them. Those two will NOT be spiritual orphans! If you feel you are a spiritual orphan, a cunning survivor, then the answer is knowing God as ABBA.
It’s all about your relationship with ABBA.
The second great curse against Christian ministers is the ancient RC priestly vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the Pope. We’ve never really broken that off the ministers. Many of our denominations still wear vestments like the Catholics. Our traditions, even our churches are still steeped in a thousand years of Catholic tradition, and the ancient curses still carry over to our men and women of God. Until there is a true reformation in the Church – I think Joe, Carl, Gunnar, Tammie, Noshee and some our friends are at the forefront of this coming move of God – we will be continually caught up in this web of spiritual sterility and religion.
Here is the bottom line – if your ministry cannot or will not support you, get a secular job and continue to minister. I did it for years. Do not sacrifice your children on the altar of your religious calling. Even after going ‘fulltime,’ I told ABBA that if He ever failed to supply our family’s needs, I would get a secular job. He has never failed, so I know I’m supposed to be doing what I am doing. But that may not be the case for many of our people who try to go ‘fulltime.’ If it isn’t, just get a secular job. It won’t mean you are an unfaithful believer or anything else. There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus!
Money, finances, success, needs met, even happiness – it’s all about your relationship with ABBA! Love you!
Remember dear ones, we must be about our ABBA’s business…