You will have the God you perceive. If you perceive God’s program to be overrun with need, you will feel the necessity to give only where the need is the greatest.
Not only that, but your perception of God dictates how you manage riches.
If you perceive your god to be constantly in need, you will tend to be over cautious, releasing no more of your meager assets than absolutely necessary.
The reason is that you will believe the poor god you serve may at any moment fall upon even harder times and look to you to once again bail him out.
The perception of those who serve the poor god is that he is primarily a reaper.
The first two stewards perceived their master to be a rich and generous giver.
When he gave his money into their care, they immediately put it to work accomplishing his purposes. Here’s the bottom line of their great success:
They simply imitated their master’s generous nature.
It is a divine truth that God responds in a positive way to each of His servants who properly use His money.
Hear Him as He says, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things…” (Matthew 25:21,23).
However, to the fearful servant who mistakenly perceives his master to be hard and selfish, I want you to carefully notice his master does not argue with him. Neither does he try to correct his servant’s misconception of him. Instead the master allows him to remain in his deception. …
Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.
Here we see that God freely allows people to have the god they perceive!
—I KNEW YOU WERE A HARD MAN—
The Greek word translated “knew” in this passage is ginosko:
Its general meaning is “to perceive.”
Or “you have come to the conclusion” this is how you see me.
This is NOT the Greek term “Gnosis” which is the term :
Accurate knowledge more specifically in spiritual matters.
A person’s teaching, experience and understanding about something or someone shape his perception of that person.
So the wicked servant was actually saying, “Based on what I have been taught and what I understand about my master, I perceive him to be a taker not a giver.”
Perception, even if it is based on erroneous information or misunderstanding, will determine our concept of a thing or Person.
The perception of the greater part of the traditional church is based on the teachings of traditional religious institutions.
These schools taught their students that God’s many missions and outreaches would constantly be in need of financial support.
This erroneous teaching has led entire denominations and religious organizations to the subconscious conclusion that God must be in some kind of need, or at best, suffering from a severe cash flow problem.
Or that that God continually runs His business in some form of financial shortfall.
You must be careful not to base any of your beliefs about God’s desire for your financial status on the perceptions of man.
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