The prayer of every Christian is to enjoy God’s goodness,
mercies and provision every day and God always provides. He has never failed to
meet you at the point of your need. This does not mean that you don’t face
challenges sometimes. It is that God already supplied your need during the day
in anticipation of the night when you cannot work but you finished your
resources in the day and when night arrived, you had nothing. Some people die
during their night periods, they are unable to see another day.
Learn from the ants. They work really hard during the dry
and sunny summer to feed themselves and to keep in store for the winter when
they will be unable to do any work. Friend, while you eat today, you have to
keep in store for tomorrow.
There were periods of famine in the earth in bible times.
One particular case was one that happened during Joseph’s reign as second in
command to the Pharaoh of Egypt. God had revealed to Pharaoh the impending
famine that was to arrive in the land after a period of fullness. Joseph had
arrived with godly wisdom to gather sufficiently during the seven year period
of plenty. It would have been a disaster if there was no foreknowledge and a
planner in Joseph to remedy the situation.
God is blessing your labor today in answer to a future
prayer you should pray. He knows a few hundred dollars can sustain you for the
month but he is giving you a thousand dollars because there is a period of
famine that He knows about in the future when you will not be able to work.
What you have saved in store will be your sustenance during that period.
Around the tropical rain forest, farmers farm considering
the rainy season and dry seasons. They plant during the dry season and hope the
rain waters the crops. Any wise farmer is thus conscious of the timetable and
plants with this timetable otherwise he may go through the year without any
food.
Some strategic amount of what you have should go to an
investment or fund that has the protection of your future as your goal. You are
gathering your meat today when you are still strong. The days will arrive when
your strength will be no more, what you should be doing then will be to divide
the spoils.
While you are sharing your testimonies of God’s provision
and promotion to that higher financial opportunity at your place of work, God
is silently whispering to you to plan for your future.
You need a retirement fund, some place you are saving money
that you will not use now but perhaps in twenty to thirty years depending on
how old you are now. There are many of them and you can check with your bank.
Start a business alongside your current work at the office
if you work in a private or government firm. It’s good you are not just
depending on one income flow. Employ people to work for you in your absence and
always check with them as a financial control measure.
Invest in landed properties. Their value does not go down.
One can sustain a comfortable standard of living if you have two or more houses
with tenants living in them.
Be a giver. Support a cause, help meet people’s needs. The
people you help today may be your help tomorrow.
Support the work in church. All blessings arrive from God including
the capacity to make wealth. God will never let your barns run dry when you are
sustaining meat in his house.
Realize that God has blessed you to also be a blessing.
Don’t keep all you have to yourself. Meet the needs of family members, friends
and even acquaintances who have realistic needs. Don’t go about drinking and
dining with friends at every turn because you have wealth. Those you drink and
dine with will walk away from you when they realize your resources are gone.
More wealth doesn’t mean you have to become wasteful. It
does not mean you have to eat two cups of rice when one cup has always
satisfied you. It does not mean you should start drinking bottled water when you
have been comfortable with sachet water. God might just be helping you prepare
for the rainy days ahead. He sees ahead and He knows what’s going to happen a
few years down the line.
So that you don’t say God does not answer your prayers in
the future, He is answering your prayers now for your future. Plan well with
what God has given you.
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