Honour God with First fruits

Proverbs 3:9-10 Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will over flow.

Honouring God as stated here has everything to do with our giving of firstfruits. The blessing that follows is abundance and it is is because of the giving of firstfruits. 

No one on this world desires a poor and begarly life. But it comes down to one's choice of following God's order or way. God's way is known by the Word. He has placed everything we need to know about Himself in the Word so that we don't walk in the dark. 

Even before the Word orders our lives, we first enter into covenant with God. The covenant binds us with God in perfect relationship. A non Christian cannot know God because they are not in covenant with Him but a Christian is in covenant with God. But for the covenant to work, obedience to the parts of the covenant is paramount. Disobedience denies one the privileges that would have been theirs.

In any covenant there are terms and roles that each party has to fulfil. If therefore promises of the covenant we entered in are true and we believe them entirely, there would not be a problem for us to live by what the parts of the covenant which are ours to do before the fulfilment of the promises of abundance like giving of the firstfruits of our increase. 

Further scriptures 

John 3:3 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Psalms 35:27 Let the Lord be magnified who takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Psalms 5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.”

John 10:10 “I am come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (KJV)

John 8: 31-32 Then said Jesus to those
Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (KJV)

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (KJV)

Deut 8: 17-18, “And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.” (KJV)




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