Jul 4, 2013
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Prince Handley
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HOW TO KNOW WHEN TO GIVE … AND NOT
TO GIVE
TRUE
SPIRITUALITY
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HOW TO KNOW WHEN TO GIVE … AND NOT TO
GIVE
TRUE
SPIRITUALITY
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INTRODUCTION
Recently I had just awakened from my night's sleep and the LORD instructed me to contact a friend of mine who is a world-class athlete, and a houshold name in the football (soccer) world, and tell him the contents of this podcast so that he would not have confusion in the future regarding “when to give and when not to give” and, also, to protect him in the future.
I have a ministry associate who has been my personal friend for over 30 years that was really being “ripped off” by people, even ministers, who claimed to be Christians. They were greatly taking advantage of him financially due to his kindness and Christian charity. I had counseled him different times concerning what basically is the content of this podcast and he finally “saw the light.”
It is my prayer that this podcast-teaching will not only help YOU but also protect YOU in the future. I believe I have covered all the groundwork situationally that you might experience with regards to meeting needs; and that with wisdom and the guidance of the Holy Spirit you may serve in optimum stewardship for the Kingdom of God … and for yourself.
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True
spirituality
is "seeing
a need and meeting it." Sometimes, you may not be able to
physically meet the needs of other people. But, you can always take
the people to God in prayer. Actually, that’s what ministry is:
"serving people by taking them to God". Our beloved brother James
said,
"Suppose there are brothers or sisters who
need clothes and don’t have enough to eat. What good is there in
your saying to them, ‘God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!’ -- if
you don’t give them the necessities of life? So it is with faith:
if it is alone and has no actions with it, then it is
dead."
(James
2:15-17)
Prayer is
an "action" that you can always take. It is not an excuse to keep
from helping someone in a physical way. The most important thing
you can always give a person is the Word of God. If you give money
to a poor person, he will usually end up being poor again; however,
if you give him the Gospel (all the Good News, not part of it), he
will learn how to serve God and to tithe and offer to His Heavenly
Father; then, God will take care of him and he will not starve in
time of famine.
Read
Psalm 33:18-19; Psalm 37:18-19; Job 5:19-27; Malachi
3:10-11.
Some
Christians make the mistake of giving people money or physical help
but without giving them the Good News of Christ. People need to
know how to be saved and to walk in the prosperity and the health
and the power of God. They need to know how to live a victorious
life: how to have power over the world, the flesh, and the devil!
Other Christians make the mistake of giving people the Word of God,
but never helping them physically. What does the Word of God tell
you to do?
Read
James 2:15-17 again. It is talking about a Christian brother or
sister who is in need of the "necessities of life": things needful
to the body. Not someone who is making a living by taking advantage
of you or the saints; it is talking about a brother or sister in
the Lord: someone who belongs to Christ, who needs help and
who comes to you for help. Study carefully Deuteronomy 15:7-11.
God, through Moses, gave instruction to Jews about taking care of
their Jewish brethren who were poor and needy.
Satan
would like to steal all your money by condemning you with guilt for
not feeding the world (a hunger situation caused by the devil,
himself, when he tempted man to separate himself from God in the
Garden of Eden). With all your money gone, you will then have
nothing left with which to buy Bibles, or to help the saints in
need, or to purchase media for the Gospel to be preached on TV or
radio or in the newspapers. No money for Cd's or DVD's to get out
the gospel. No money left to buy bicycles to travel to villages
with the Gospel. No money left to evangelize the lost or to teach
the saints. No money left for you to get together with your
Christian brothers and sisters and worship your Father
God!
So what
do you do in a situation which involves another person’s need?
Here’s your answer: If it is NOT a close Christian brother or
sister as described in James 2:5-17, (God’s Word already tells you
what to do in that case), then your first action should be to
PRAY:
1. Pray, and take the person to God, asking God to give them a miracle and to meet their need.
2. Pray, and ask God to show you what you should do, if anything, to help the other person (or people). God’s answer to you will usually come in one of three ways, as outlined in A, B, or C below:
A. "Do this..." (A certain specific action to take in order to help the other person in part or in full, either temporarily or permanently.)
B. "Do whatever you feel you should; whatever is right according to the scriptures." (Read carefully Matthew 5:42 and Luke 6:30-36.)
C. "Don’t do anything!" (God may tell you to do something later on.)
Jesus
said, "Give to him who asks you, and do not turn from him who
wants to borrow from you." (Matthew 5:42) He also told us,
"Of him who takes away your goods, do not ask them back again
... but love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing
back again; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the
children of the Highest; for He is kind to the unthankful and to
the evil. Therefore, you be merciful, like your Father also is
merciful." (Luke 6:30-36)
You may
feel that there is a conflict between #B and #C under Item #2
above. Not so! The answer lies in priority and your responsibility
under God. A person may come to you to borrow $50 (or 50 Francs or
50 Cedi or 50 Pesos or 50 Lira or 50 Rupees) and you may have it in
your possession; however, your first priority may NOT be to loan
either your friend or your enemy $50; it may be to take care of
your responsibility, under God, to either your landlord or your
family, whichever the case may be.
It is
also possible that God may answer you with #A above and tell you to
help a person, or to loan him $50, even though your family is
hungry and you owe the landlord! This is one of the times it is
very important to know the voice of God: to know how to be led by
the Spirit of God! Time after time, God has asked me to give away
all the money that I have had. However, on other occasions, God has
told me, "Don’t do anything; this is a trick of the devil to
steal your money!" … or ... "Don’t do anything; this is
not a valid request!"
Another
example of priority and your responsibility under God as regards
helping those in need might be as follows: Let’s suppose someone
comes to you and asks you for a certain amount of money; and let’s
suppose, also, that for several months you have been saving money
so that you can buy a particular piece of equipment that you need
for God’s work: something that will help you reach more people for
Christ. Or,
Perhaps, you have been saving
money for a particular evangelistic project, possibly to reach
several million people with the message of Christ. To whom is your
priority in this case? The millions of people who are lost and on
their way to Hell? Or, the one man who needs physical
help?
Which
is more important in regards to your responsibility to God: Obeying
the Scriptural command of Jesus in Matthew 5:42, "Give to him
who asks you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow
from you,"; or obeying the Scriptural Command of Jesus in the
Great Commission, "Go ... and teach (disciple) all
nations." If God has been leading you to save money to reach
people for Christ, would it not be unwise to then give it away?
Rather, would it not be the devil wanting to take it away? This is
why you must know how to be led by the Spirit of God!
Why are
you in the ministry, or service, of God? First, you are to serve
God; next, you are to serve mankind. "The Son of Man (Yeshua)
came not to be served, but to serve others." You are to love
God first; and then to love your neighbor as yourself. You can
always PRAY for others and take them to God for a miracle. You can
GIVE GOD’S WORD to others. Sometimes you can give PHYSICAL HELP to
others.
The
greatest work is to help people eternally; but it is also good if
you can help them while they are here on earth. There are many ways
to help a person here on earth, but the "highest way" is to help
them to know God personally.
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Then, they can PRAY for themselves and for others.
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Then, they can GIVE GOD’S WORD to others.
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Then, they can give PHYSICAL HELP to others.
They
will have God to help them, to lead them, to keep them alive in
famine, and to help them to help others. God will be their
Father!
True spirituality
is "seeing a need and meeting it!"
Baruch
haba b'Shem Adonai.
Your friend,
Prince Handley
President / Regent
University of
Excellence
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