We are living in an hour where the cry for the supernatural is resounding loud! From the church to the world, people are desperately seeking answers and solutions from the realm beyond for the pressing issues they are facing.
A few years ago I too was searching, digging, and looking for answers to the problems that me and my husband were facing. The main problem? You guessed it... financial. I mean no matter how much we tithed and gave offerings this unseen force and power would not loose it's hold on us.
Realizing we were in the valley of poverty we cried out to God for His wisdom in this arena and guess what? ..God answered. He began to provide for us supernatural wisdom regarding finances through the channel of dreams, and personal rhema directives. He made it very clear to both me and my husband that we were to break the poverty line through the wisdom and power of God. At first we really struggled because we were so bound in our minds. Just like the children of Israel, we had left Egypt but Egypt was still in us. But nevertheless God in His mercy worked with us and never gave up on us.
As I mention in my book, Life Supernatural, processing is never easy but is necessary. If we hadn't been placed in what I call the Transformational Chamber of the Holy Spirit we wouldn't have a clue how to address these pressing financial issues that many of God's people are facing right now. But because we went first and were tried by fire God has brought us into a powerful breakthrough anointing, especially in the financial arena.
Listed below are a few of the valueable keys and discoveries that we made on this journey regarding financial deliverance.
Living in the First Dimension is simply living life purposefully and intentionally. For me it's a lifestyle where I flow from grace (the finished works of Christ, that which is already done and is available) and use my faith in every area of life! Romans 1:17 tells me that the just live by faith. This means that real faith is a lifestlye. It's not something we pick up when we want or need something from God as some have taught. Faith should be a consistent life flow, everyday, every minute, every month and every year. Three hundred and sixty five days of constant confidence towards God and consistent application of His principles and rhema.
Confidence towards God is one of the keys to victorious living in the Kingdom of God. If you are confident in what God has said in His Word and what He is speaking through rhema revelation, you will respond. This is real faith in action. Fear on the other hand will not respond, and will take the path of least resistance and challenge. Fear causes individuals to live indirectly where faith causes one to approach life directly, with the intentions of recieving exactly what God said they could have.
The interesting thing about the walk of faith is that you have to see it before you see it. You have to get it before you actually get it. You have to position yourself first, as if it's already in hand then it shows up. This is why I call it living in the first dimension.
Please understand that first things are vital to our success in the Kingdom. What you do first affects the whole. For example Proverbs 3: 9, 10 says: Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. Why should we apply this principle in our lives? We should apply this principle because of the dynamics and the powerful invading effects of first things. Honouring the Lord with our substance and firstfruit offerings causes God's blessing to fall and rest upon the whole lump or that which comes after. When you first-fruit the Lord you are sowing in advance for a promise or harvest to come.
HANGING IN THE BALANCES
Many things in life will hang in the balances simply because we don't understand the power of what we do first. Romans 11:16 says: For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. I'm not trying to take this scripture out of context I'm simply wanting us to see the power behind the principle of first things.Recently my husband's promotion was hung in the balances for two months. The moment we released our second sacrificial first fruit offering my husband was called into the office early the next morning and was commissioned as the new lieutinant. With this promotion came a tremendous raise. This was the second raise and promotion in a five month period that my husband had recieved due to functioning and living in the first dimension through the application of first fruiting God. We recieved the promotion two months ago by faith, we possessed the promotion through applying God's first fruit principle.
Another example of this first principle is found in I Corinthians 12:28: And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Did you notice that in church government the proper structure is that the gift of the Apostle should be first. That word first means having a higher rank, significance, or authority than others in the same category. It means first in time and rank. Could this explain why some of our churches are dead, void of power, purpose and manifestations? I'm just asking. I'm not saying it's the only reason but according to the principle behind first things this would explain alot.
Apostles are trail blazers and pioneers that carry tremendous spiritual breakthrough power. They function and live in the first dimension, honoring God first with their very lives and all of their possessions. Mark 10:28-30 proves this:Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Let us remember today the invading power and awesome benefits of living in the first dimension. It's a dimension like no other that produces amazing Kingdom manifestations.
Scriptures:
Genesis 4:4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
"Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
Exodus 23:19
"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them,' " declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 44:30
The best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your household.
There is a genius found in simplicity. Fools never discover it simply because it is not complex enough to satisfy their complicated quest and desire for knowledge and insight.
Lynetta Lea Dent, in LIFE Supernatural takes you beyond these religious complexities and introduces a simple, freshmore radical way of living. Each page is filled with life altering truths that speak volumes to the heart of the weary and those that have found it hard to break free from spiritual bondage. Prepare to defy the odds and move beyond religious confinement and into supernatural, dynamic dimensions of power and manifestations.
THE CAUSED BLESSING BY APOSTLE ROBERT HENDERSON
"one of the greatest books on understanding firstfruit giving" Apostle Lincoln & Lynetta Dent
