First Fruits

 

The Celebration of First Fruits 

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Question: Why isn't my giving working?

Answer with a Question: are you giving revelation or religion. The fullness of revelation will cause you to receive the name of it immediately. Ladies and gentlemen I'm going to try to answer the question of why you're giving is not working.

 

There are FOUR TYPES of giving in the Bible, the TITHES, the FIRST FRUITS, ALMS and the SEED each one of them each one of them have the word behind it motivation. For you to succeed in life there are two things that must be connected to your giving MOTIVATION AND MOMENTUM. These to must accompany your giving to make you a success in business, spiritually financially and it's called and motivation and momentum.

 

Malachi 3:10

"Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, said the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

 

Is our church a vegetarian?

Why are we lacking meat? Why do so many churches struggle financially? According to the word that should never be a struggle anywhere.

 

2 Corinthians 9 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. (NLT)

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"And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others."

 

TITHING'S motivation is obedience. The reason why we tithe it's because we obey.

 

What do the TITHES do?

 The TITHE is the Divine connector to the blessing. It connects the blessing

 

Genesis 1:28

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,(always producing) and multiply, (ever-increasing) and replenish (use it fill it & refill it) the earth, and subdue it (control it) and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

 

So the motivation for tithing is obedience

 

Control your environment or your environment will control you. 

The reason why many of you are not affected by recession or depression is because of your tithing it doesn't matter when layoffs happen or foreclosure crisis God protects your stuff he rebukes the Devourer.

 

FIRSTFRUITS

There are seven Feast of the Lord given to Israel which is really a blueprint for the future of the world when you understand each of those seven feasts you understand what God has done and what God is going to do for the future of the world God has given us a road map for our future.

 

Colossians 2:17b "...These are a shadow of the things to come."

 

The word feast in the Hebrew moed: appointed time, place, or set time.

 

Exodus 13:9-10 (MSG)

“The day of observance will be like a sign on your hand, a memorial between your eyes, and the teaching of God in your mouth. It was with a powerful hand that God brought you out of Egypt."

 

 Follow these instructions at the "set time", year after year after year   - Keeping your Motivation & Momentum

 

Don't ever think that things just happen circumstance or by coincidence. God has a split second calendar that this operates. The Feast of the first fruit, God is revealing his plan for the future for his people to prosper them.

 

Israel's economy today is the one of the best in the world when the FBI wanted to break the Apple code they went to Israel they are truly a blessed and prosperous people.

 

This is a teaching that you have to stay mentally and physically engage so that you will receive all that God has for you.

 

Exodus 34:19-24

…"The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep. 20"You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed. 21"You shall work (six days), but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest 22"You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23"Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. 24"For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.…

 

Motivation for first fruit is PUTTING GOD FIRST and you must maintain the momentum.

 

Exodus 44:30

"And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation of all (special Gifts), of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house."