Copyright © 2008 by J.A.Mcbean. Library of Congress Washington.D.C.20559

D uring 1945, the War between Germany and Great Britain was getting really nasty. The plan of the enemy was to cut of supply to the fighting men on the battle field. If the fighting men cannot get these necessary thing, the war is hopeless for them and for the world. The allied keep dropping supply to their men on the battle field. Ammunition, food and medical supplies.. The enemy have to find a way to cut off supply to allied solders. Supply dropped from the air was sometime stolen by both parties. The same way how the war play it self out in the natural, it is the same way it played itself out in the spiritual realm. God know that Pastors cannot carry on their spiritual work without financial resources.

The lord provide our financial sustenance within the ministry that he as call us to fulfil. If you turn up on a mission field and no sustenance is there for you, that is not where the lord call you to be. If the sustenance is dried up, God want you to help create jobs for yourself and others, or move on. This articles is design to show pastors how to find and pull in the money that are hidden in the churches.

Our Lord made provision for all his people, and even people that are not his covenant people. In fact our lord also made provision for the sparrows, vultures, and swines. So why is it that we have needs that are not met?

“OPERATING OUT OF OUR CALLING”

Each British Battalion fighting in the field, must know where the next drop zone is, and listen for the code to the next supply date. Then the solders have to put themselves at certain place and at certain time to pick up their supplies, as it is drop by air crafts. Solders in the field need information such as letters from home. They need food and ammunition to enable them to continue fighting. They have to get these things. The problem with spiritual solders such as pastors, evangelist and missionaries. We operate out of our calling. Evangelist acting as pastors, and pastors acting as apostles.

God placed our supplies within our calling. However, you and I can be operating in our calling and still not being supplied, because we are not fully doing our duty. A pastor must also do the work of an evangelist. Also, a lot of money could be in the church, but the people who are presiding over such office is hiding the resources from the immediate pastor. We must find out where the problem is and fix it.

“NOT EVANGELIZING ENOUGH”

One of my pastor friend in Jacksonville Florida, went to the lord to enquire about money. The lord told him the money is in the fishes mouth. He asked me what could this vision mean? Peter went an asked the Lord for money to pay taxes. The lord told Peter to go down to the sea and cast in a hook, the first fish he took up, there will be a piece of money in the fish’s mouth. He must use that money and pay the tax for him and Jesus. The lost time I saw that pastor, he was having a revival of souls. Young people was converting his ministry from far and near. He was getting so many people that he has to move his congregation to a bigger building. The money is in the people pocket books. One, old poor member along with the pastor cannot pay the church’s bills. Some pastor only have the braveness to preach to poor and uneducated people, while find it hard to preach to the educated and rich people. For every ten poor members in the church, the pastor need five wealthy members to take care of those poor members.

“WHAT ARE WE SELLING TO THE PEOPLE?”

People are dead in their sins and need a resurrection. Precise keeping of commandment cannot deliver them, from death and hell. To bring a child into this world, a man must ejaculate and a woman must give birth. To bring about the spiritual birth. Jesus Christ must die. The preacher must prevail in prayer and preaching. A preacher who cannot give up his sleep for prayer cannot have a harvest of soul. A woman who will not let a man in there will never be a mother. There is no free ride in the kingdom of God. You have to give up something to get something.

You cannot get people save by preaching baptism, feast days or day of worship to them. You and I have to preach the forgiveness of God. The shed blood of Jesus Christ upon calvary’s cross. That he died, was bury and rose again the third day, and ascended to heaven, and seated on the right hand of God, ever living and continually making intercession for us. To get people save, you and I must tell them what God can do for them, what Christ has done for them. Not what they suppose to do. People do not want to hear what they suppose to do. They want to know what was done for them, and what can be done for them. I ask a woman a question. What do you have to give me? Watch that woman start walking away. However, If you say. If you know what I can give you! How I can make you feel! And what I can do for you! her reacation suddenly change. To get people save and build up a ministry, you must sell Jesus to them. We worship and Sunday and this is why we do it, or we worship on Saturday, and this is why we do it. However, to tie the day of worship in with salvation, it is like presenting two Jesus to the people. They can see right through that shadow.

“HOW TO FIND AND PULL IN THE MONEY”

One poor member cannot support the church financially. Pastors must continually declaring war of evangelizing upon Satan’s Kingdom. Churches must have many members. If the church put on a fun day, and sell the food to members who attend. The Church suppose to make so much money that they can pay off the church’s bills. Tithes and offering is not the only means of making money from the Church. Members that are paying rent. The church can tapped into that resource also, by purchasing a building or two and rent it to members. That money could pay a pastor’s salary. My Church is over by certain hours on Sundays, and is rented to another church for service the same day. Pastors that worship on Saturday could rent their building to Churches that worship on Sunday. And Churches that worship on Sunday could rent the building to pastors that worship on Saturday. There are many pastors looking for building to rent. The problem is this. How do we get over our spiritual prejudice and the beliefs that only we that are save? Those who baptize in Jesus’s name is of the belief that only them is save. People who worship on one day believe that only them is save. The church building could be rented for basic school during the week. If we can get pass our spiritual prejudice, we will do well.

“WHAT PASTORS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PEOPLE”

People with money is not going to hand out money if they do not see people being help from it. You have to convince them why you need their money. Then you have to show them that the money is being put to the use that was intended.

“THE LORD AND SATAN KNOWS THE POWER OF MONEY”

Nehemiah 13: 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

Money is the most important topic in ministry. Jesus feed those people while preaching to them. Also, money is one of the most delicate topic in the ministry. The proper interpretation of tithing and offering must be given to the people. The one tenth that pastors are fighting over is nothing. What about the other ninety percent? The New Testament interpretation of tithing under grace must be taught to the people.

“PASTORS THAT MEAGER IN THE MINOR”

Self righteousness and over zealousness can cause pastors to remain poor. One Baptist church have a member that own a chain of supermarket and hotels. That man’s tithing and offering was enough to run the whole Baptist organization in that part of the country. One minister from among them try to stop him from selling strong drinks to his customers. Wanting the man to live above his convictions. The man saw that the death of his supermarket and hotels was in the making, he quit the church, and join a different organization. We need to give people time, to understand certain doctrines and come up to standard. We cannot push our convictions upon them. We must take our own selves as example.

“CONTROVERSIAL DOCTRINES”

“Dare to be a Daniel” Can you take Daniel persecution? Did Daniel have a wife? Did Daniel pay mortgage and car payment? Paul said. “I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me” Paul did not reach that conviction in one day, and he has a lot of scars to show for that convictions. A pastor that maiger in controversial doctrines can cause stagnation to his or her own ministry, and prevent the making of new members. For example, Christians from the Seventh Day Adventist church, that hold jobs, that required them to be at work the 3 - 11 on a Saturday. God is not going to sent them to hell, because they work partly on that day. Making the Sabbaths necessary for salvation, or tied it in with salvation, is only going to cause the people to back out, once they learn the scriptures. The car payment and mortgage have to pay on time. They have to eat food. Jesus was trying to teach the people the spirit of the law, while the religious leaders of the time was trying to chain the people to the letter of the law.