Financial Harvesting with Jesus

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Planting the Word

About Charging People Money for Your Messages

I want to share with you what the Lord told me long ago. I used to believe that I should preach for free and give away wisdom for free. Freely you have received, freely give (1). But in 2023, the Lord asked me to start charging people to read my messages on my website, and it's so easy to set up where I can charge you to enter my website.

The Lord asked me to start charging people because He said that people were printing my messages off and selling them for $500 a copy. The Lord also told me that people were saying that the messages were theirs, and not mine. That they were the authors. That's why God told me to start charging people to read my messages.

It may be different for you. But God gave me a message that calmed me down. It's Philippians 1:18. God said that it doesn't matter if people are stealing my messages because what He and I want is still being accomplished, and that is to get people saved.

It doesn't matter if they said that they wrote my message or if they printed it off and sold it for $500 a copy, because it did its job and preached Christ, preached the Gospel and brought people to the Lord. That's all I care about as a genuine minister. The false prophets don't care about salvation. They want fame and money (2) because they're from the world, not from God (3).

But what I did was put a password on my website for a while to enter in. I do that when God tells me that people are abusing my messages. My website has options to opt in. Money, password or free. Right now, they're free.

God also told me about 1 Corinthians 9:14, that it's God's will for people to charge money for their church services. "Those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel". You can charge money for your messages and services, unless it hinders the Gospel, or, causes someone weak in faith to stumble because they believe it should be free, and they turn from God because you charge (4).

We have to remember that the seed is the word of God, not money (5). Sowing money doesn't reap money in God's kingdom. Sowing God's messages to others about money by preaching it to them; planting it in the hearer's heart (6), is how to get a financial harvest of money from God.

But you can't choose which messages to sow because then you want money and not a relationship with God. Your value is money not the Presence of God (7). When God increases your finances, He does it with a financial word to you.

If you take that word and teach it to others, you get money from God because they got money from God through your message. The message is actually the Lord's message delivered to you. So, the seed is God's word, and it's not up to you which messages to sow. If you need money, ask God for a financial message to give to others. It's up to God. God gives the increase not your messages (8).

God gives you money when you preach (9). You can live off the Gospel and that's God's will. But I found that when I plant God's financial messages in people through my website, that the money comes from other venues. The money doesn't come from my website. That's how God does it.

God will give His church money when we relate to Him (10). He will use people and circumstances as His channels to give us money. Recently, I did a deal online and had financial windfalls from investing into crypto. That was God who did that because I told people what God told me about sowing the word, and not money. Sowing money-messages from God to me into people's hearts through preaching. That's how you make money with God. His word is the power of everything.

Jesus said, "Give, and it shall be given to you" (11). When I give to other Christians God's messages to me about money, I get money from God when that message takes root and grows inside them into a financial harvest for them. People think Lk. 6:38 means to give away what you need to get it back from God. That if you need money, you give money to your pastor or a charity. But God is talking about sowing the word into people's hearts to get a harvest for yourself from God. Not giving money to get money from God. See? The seed is the word of God, not your money. When you build your ministry on God's word like this, it will last (12).

Luke 8:4-15

New International Version

4 While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town,

he told this parable:

5 “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path;

it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up.

6 Some fell on rocky ground,

and when it came up,

the plants withered because they had no moisture.

7 Other seed fell among thorns,

which grew up with it and choked the plants.

8 Still other seed fell on good soil.

It came up and yielded a crop,

a hundred times more than was sown.”

When he said this, he called out,

“Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

9 His disciples asked him what this parable meant.

10 He said,

“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you,

but to others I speak in parables, so that,

“‘though seeing, they may not see;

though hearing, they may not understand.’ [Isa. 6:9]

11 “This is the meaning of the parable:

The seed is the word of God.

12 Those along the path are the ones who hear,

and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts,

so that they may not believe and be saved.

13 Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it,

but they have no root.

They believe for a while,

but in the time of testing they fall away.

14 The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear,

but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures,

and they do not mature.

15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart,

who hear the word, retain it,

and by persevering produce a crop.

Scripture References

Mt. 10:8
John 10:13
1 John 4:4-6
Romans 14:13-18/ 1 Cor. 8:7-13
Luke. 8:11
Proverbs 4:20-22
Matthew 6:20, 21
1 Corinthians 3:6-9
1 Corinthians 9:3-23
Matthew 6:33
Luke 6:38
1 Corinthians 3:10-13/ Matthew 7:15-27

"I AM" (Third Day - 1997)

"Jesus, King of Glory" (Third Day - 2000)

World without end. Amen.