Watch your Wealth - The righteous and the wicket

1. The righteous and the wicket Written by Dawid Fourie

Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

“May you prosper as your soul prosper”

Invest in yourself before you invest in something or someone else. Hence the verse in Mat 6:33 that says “But seek ye first…..”. If you fall in line with the plan of God, God will make sure that “all these things shall be added unto you.” This is not a formula for a get rich quick, but rather doing the will of the Father by having the mind of Christ. And by having the mind of Christ, we will do one thing and one thing only – and that is to give.

Prosperity invested unto one self is by giving to others. The norm is money, but it can be anything from service, cloths, food, cars ….. Normally people by nature give to others, but when it comes to the church it is hard for those same people to give. Now this will shock you, if you are one of those that withhold from giving to the church, you rob God and yourself.

Mal 3:8 Will a man rob or defraud God? Yet you rob and defraud Me. But you say, In what way do we rob or defraud You? [You have withheld your] tithes and offerings. Remember, tithe is of the old. It is part of the law, your tithe is paid by the Lord Jesus Christ who paid the perfect price once and for All.

If you read the whole of Mal 3 it starts by telling you that God wants to purify you, and then He wants to bless you by opening, YOU, the windows of heaven. But by not showing your faith you rob God because He wants to publicly declare you as His peculiar people.

He wants to pour you out unto the world and show off with you as the one that has given access to all the wealth that you will not be able to contain. But He can’t because you did not have faith, and in that you rob God and steal from yourself and that makes you wicket and not righteous. The righteous has faith and reverently fear God, the wicket does not consider His ways and therefore does not have faith. You don’t rob God by not tithe, you rob Him because you stopped Him from blessing you - He cannot see Himself in you.

I started my career after compulsory military service as an artisan. From there, after eleven years of hard long hours and many sweat, for the information industry.

This was glorious days. I nearly doubled my income. Life was good. I had a big purse, but the problem was that the hole in my purse was even bigger. It didn’t matter how many hours I work, and what my hourly rate was, I just could not make it at the end of the month. I just had too much month end at the end of the month.

After years of struggle I sat down the one day with my wife and we discussed the problem. I made a statement which nearly flipped my wife three-hundred-and-sixty degrees. I said that I am going to trust God.

Now you must understand that I grow up where the minimum money was given if any. I mean, giving to the church or people was painful just because there was none to give in the first place. But the pain we experience was even greater.

After lengthy discussions we agreed to give to whoever we felt we should. We left it there without much thought. After about three weeks of doing what we were doing, we realize that we paid everything, we bought some extra and we had some money left over.

This nearly flipped me. I was astounded when we looked at our situation. I immediately grabbed my bible and started to read. As I was reading it, the Holy Spirit opened the word to me. I was without breath trying to tell my wife what I was reading, not believing that it was written in my bible.

I read it over and over and over, until I could no longer find words to thank and praise God for His mercy by revealing these awesome scriptures to me. Ever since we rejoice, because we were free from burden, liberated by the truth of the Word of God. Written by Dawid Fourie