There are businessmen who have given great sums of
money but don’t know how to receive from God. Maybe you
know how to believe God for a return but don’t know how to
receive a gift. Maybe all you know to do is work! God has men
all over this world. If each one gave you a nickel, you would
have enough for the rest of your life.
There are men today being called by God into the ministry
of finance. The Word refers to the ministries of helps and
governments (see 1 Corinthians 12:28). These are men called
to govern and finance and handle this aspect of ministries.
There are very few men actually in the ministry of financing
God’s work with everything else in a secondary position. Most
people put their businesses first and God second. The ministry
of helps is the least developed ministry in the New Testament,
but it is as valid a ministry as preaching the gospel.
When you want to invest money in the stock market, for
whom do you look? A stockbroker, someone who knows the
stock market. When you want to invest money into the gospel,
for whom do you look? A preacher. Well, this is not altogether
correct. The preacher ought to know less about the finances of
the gospel than anyone. It’s his job to know about the Word.
That’s what he’s called to do. He gets before God, meditates in
the Word, and then ministers to the needs of the Body of
Christ. These men called into the ministries of helps and governments
are the ones who should know how and where to
invest in the gospel. This leaves the minister free to concentrate
completely on his calling.
Mark 4:30-33 says, “Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of
God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain
of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all
the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and
becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so
that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. And with
many such parables spake he the word unto them.”
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
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