(Gary Carpenter)
"...the Holy Spirit showed me that Christianity is a "family," not a "religion," and that it operates very much like any "family business" on earth."
"The Holy Spirit reminded me of my paternal grandfather's farm and how each of the sons and daughters had work to do every day as "their assignment," their "contribution" toward the common goal of "reaping a harvest." All of the children knew that the harvest belonged to grandfather. None of them had the mindset that the harvest, even a portion of it, belonged to them personally. However, they also knew that when the dinner bell rang every night, they each got to sit and dine from grandfather's table not because they had "served him well that day," but rather because they were grandfather's children. Grandfather expected them to eat from his table until they were full. Their provision was not proportioned to them based on their "performance" that day on the farm. No, they were expected to take all they wanted from his table simply because they were his children."
"Bringing this principle over into Kingdom Finances, the point we must understand is: As children of God our Father, our needs are met by His grace ... simply because of the finished work of Jesus Christ which opened the door for us to become adopted into the family of God. We can expect to be clothed, housed and fed simply because we are sons and heirs of God. This is the principle that Jesus was teaching in Matthew chapter six when He said:"
"Mat 6:25-26 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they?"
"One thing is for sure: Birds of the air do not contribute toward the harvest of any farm. If anything, they diminish the harvest by eating from it while the crops are maturing. Yet the Father feeds them. Are we, being our heavenly Father's own children, to expect less from Him? No! We are God's children and we can expect to dine freely from His grace alone based on nothing but the finished work of Christ who made it possible for us to become the "spirit born" children of God."
"Our mindset is to be that we never have to have a care regarding our own needs being met in order that we can devote our lives fully to serving our Father by going into the fields to reap a harvest of souls for Him. Said another way, we don't have to spend our lives preoccupied with earning money to supply our needs. Rather than spending our lives seeking after money, we can serve God our Father with complete peace of mind, confident that all of our needs are met freely by His grace. Of course, this was the main theme of Jesus' teaching in Matthew Chapter Six:"
"Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
"A sharecropper's mindset is completely different. Knowing he is not a son, he would work a portion of grandfather's farm in the hope of reaping a harvest "for himself" from his labors."
"He knows he is not "family" and will not respond to the dinner bell to dine at grandfather's table. All of his labors in grandfather's fields would be with the underlying motive of getting his own needs met. Even though his portion of the crop may be a fixed percentage, his mindset is, "The more I sow, the more I will have." He will forever have the mindset of "performance vs. heirship," or "works vs. grace," and he will always have to eat from the fruit of his own labors."
"That is a valid way to live, but it would be tragic for true "sons and heirs" to have such a mindset themselves. It would have been ludicrous for any of grandfather's sons to think that their portion at the dinner table each night was somehow restricted, based on how many acres they "sowed" that day. Unthinkable! They were sons! They were free to eat all they wanted from grandfather's table simply because they were sons."
"After returning from Houston in December of 1997, I soon noticed that in my seasons of prayer, the Holy Spirit was no longer teaching me along the lines of Kingdom Finances. The concepts He began to reveal to me were all along the same lines that Pastor Dave Roberson calls "The Born Again Trail." After awhile I said, "Lord, why are you no longer teaching me about wealth transfer? You do understand, don't you, that Hollywood still has the money and your Church does not?"
"The Lord's answer to me was, "Supernatural wealth transfer is accomplished by inheritance only. I have taken you as far as I can down the path of Kingdom Finances until you better understand who you are and how to appropriate from your inheritance."
http://www.garycarpenter.org/KST2.html
"...the Holy Spirit showed me that Christianity is a "family," not a "religion," and that it operates very much like any "family business" on earth."
"The Holy Spirit reminded me of my paternal grandfather's farm and how each of the sons and daughters had work to do every day as "their assignment," their "contribution" toward the common goal of "reaping a harvest." All of the children knew that the harvest belonged to grandfather. None of them had the mindset that the harvest, even a portion of it, belonged to them personally. However, they also knew that when the dinner bell rang every night, they each got to sit and dine from grandfather's table not because they had "served him well that day," but rather because they were grandfather's children. Grandfather expected them to eat from his table until they were full. Their provision was not proportioned to them based on their "performance" that day on the farm. No, they were expected to take all they wanted from his table simply because they were his children."
"Bringing this principle over into Kingdom Finances, the point we must understand is: As children of God our Father, our needs are met by His grace ... simply because of the finished work of Jesus Christ which opened the door for us to become adopted into the family of God. We can expect to be clothed, housed and fed simply because we are sons and heirs of God. This is the principle that Jesus was teaching in Matthew chapter six when He said:"
"Mat 6:25-26 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they?"
"One thing is for sure: Birds of the air do not contribute toward the harvest of any farm. If anything, they diminish the harvest by eating from it while the crops are maturing. Yet the Father feeds them. Are we, being our heavenly Father's own children, to expect less from Him? No! We are God's children and we can expect to dine freely from His grace alone based on nothing but the finished work of Christ who made it possible for us to become the "spirit born" children of God."
"Our mindset is to be that we never have to have a care regarding our own needs being met in order that we can devote our lives fully to serving our Father by going into the fields to reap a harvest of souls for Him. Said another way, we don't have to spend our lives preoccupied with earning money to supply our needs. Rather than spending our lives seeking after money, we can serve God our Father with complete peace of mind, confident that all of our needs are met freely by His grace. Of course, this was the main theme of Jesus' teaching in Matthew Chapter Six:"
"Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
"A sharecropper's mindset is completely different. Knowing he is not a son, he would work a portion of grandfather's farm in the hope of reaping a harvest "for himself" from his labors."
"He knows he is not "family" and will not respond to the dinner bell to dine at grandfather's table. All of his labors in grandfather's fields would be with the underlying motive of getting his own needs met. Even though his portion of the crop may be a fixed percentage, his mindset is, "The more I sow, the more I will have." He will forever have the mindset of "performance vs. heirship," or "works vs. grace," and he will always have to eat from the fruit of his own labors."
"That is a valid way to live, but it would be tragic for true "sons and heirs" to have such a mindset themselves. It would have been ludicrous for any of grandfather's sons to think that their portion at the dinner table each night was somehow restricted, based on how many acres they "sowed" that day. Unthinkable! They were sons! They were free to eat all they wanted from grandfather's table simply because they were sons."
"After returning from Houston in December of 1997, I soon noticed that in my seasons of prayer, the Holy Spirit was no longer teaching me along the lines of Kingdom Finances. The concepts He began to reveal to me were all along the same lines that Pastor Dave Roberson calls "The Born Again Trail." After awhile I said, "Lord, why are you no longer teaching me about wealth transfer? You do understand, don't you, that Hollywood still has the money and your Church does not?"
"The Lord's answer to me was, "Supernatural wealth transfer is accomplished by inheritance only. I have taken you as far as I can down the path of Kingdom Finances until you better understand who you are and how to appropriate from your inheritance."
http://www.garycarpenter.org/KST2.html
