July 22 - Supply/Wealth & Malachi

Phil 4:13 13I can do everything through him who gives me strength.   Phil 4:19 19And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.   Phil 4:19  (NKJV) 19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.   Mal 1:8 8 When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the LORD Almighty.   Mal 1:13b-14 "When you bring injured, crippled or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?" says the LORD. 14 "Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the LORD Almighty, "and my name is to be feared among the nations.   Bring to the Lord…your best, your time, your commitment, your effort. The Lord deserves the best from us. Remember the story of the poor woman who her money (her all) at the temple.   Mal 2:7 7 "For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction—because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty.   Man of God (such as priest, pastor, elder, deacon) should be wise, preserve and extend the knowledge, and provide instruction to the masses.   Mal 2:11-12 11 Judah has broken faith. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. 12 As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the LORD cut him off from the tents of Jacob [d] —even though he brings offerings to the LORD Almighty.   Marrying outside the race was a no-no.  In present times, this could be interpreted as restriction of marrying outside the faith.   Mal 2:13-16 13 Another thing you do: You flood the LORD's altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. 14 You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.  15 Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. [e] So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.  16 "I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself [f] with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty.       So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.   These are discouraged: a)     Marrying second wife, b)     Separation with wife (or 1st wife), c)      Divorce with wife (or 1st wife).   Mal 3:5 5 "So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.   God will chastise those who are bad, oppressive and unjust.   Mal 3:8-11 8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.       "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'       "In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty.   Mal 3:10 (NKJV) 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,       That there may be food in My house,       And try Me now in this,"       Says the LORD of hosts,       " If I will not open for you the windows of heaven       And pour out for you such blessing       That there will not be room enough to receive it.   Bring in the tithes and offerings to God. And God will reward back with excessive blessing, money and wealth. God will protect our assets, properties and earning potential.   Mal 4:1-3 1 "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. 3 Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," says the LORD Almighty.   Mal 4:2 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.   Mal 4:2-3 (NKJV) 2 But to you who fear My name       The Sun of Righteousness shall arise       With healing in His wings;       And you shall go out       And grow fat like stall-fed calves.        3 You shall trample the wicked,       For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet       On the day that I do this,"       Says the LORD of hosts.   God with bless those who are good, faithful and those who fear the Lord.   Note: Finished reading the book of Malachi.