Servias Ministries Blog

Walking In Abundance- Part 27

November 3, 2026 – 3:44 am

To walk in financial abundance, faith is a requirement!

The only way we can lead righteous lives acceptable to God is by living in faith.

Paul stated the opposite when he wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 14:

23 “Everything that does not come from faith is sin.”

This covers the whole area of finance. The only way in which we can be financially righteous before God is by basing our finance on faith and not acting out of unbelief. So that’s the first and primary principle for receiving and enjoying God’s abundance is living by faith.

A very important principle that relates to the way we handle our finances. The principle is this: giving of our substance (our finance or whatever) is a way ordained by God to honor both God and man.

That’s a Truth that many Christians have failed to grasp, that the way we use our money, our finance, is a way that we are required to honor both God and man.

Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 13:

7 Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. (NIV)

Paul says there are four things we may owe: taxes, revenue, respect, and honor. We’re all familiar with the idea of owing taxes or revenue, but Paul also says we may owe respect and honor, and whatever we owe, we’re obligated to pay it.

Now one way that we pay the honor that we owe is the way that we handle our finances. First of all, we honor God Himself by the way we handle our finance.

Wisdom recorded in Proverbs chapter 3:

9-10 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. (NIV)

Notice, we honor the Lord with our wealth by giving Him the first and the best of everything and the Scripturally appointed way to make sure we do that is to give the Lord the tithe, the tenth, the first tenth of all our income. Then the promise is that God will return it to us in abundance—“Your barns will be filled to overflowing; your vats will brim over with new wine.”

That’s abundance in the area of barns and new wine but it begins with honoring the Lord with our wealth, with bringing Him the first and the best of that which we have in the area of finance and our material possessions. And let me point out something which is clear by implication; we can either honor the Lord with our wealth, or we can dishonor Him.

If we don’t give Him abundantly and freely, we are dishonoring Him. Really, we’re left with only the two possibilities—either with the use of our wealth we honor the Lord, or we dishonor Him. But if we honor Him, it will come back to us in abundance.

This is stated in Malachi 3:8 and 9:

“Will a man rob God? Yet you rob Me. ‘But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ ‘In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing Me.’’” (NIV)

Disobedience brings the curse. If we don’t honor God with the tithe, with the first tenth, then, instead of being blessed, we are under a curse, and really there’s nothing in between. We either honor God or dishonor Him with our wealth. We either enjoy the blessing or we endure the curse.

Secondly, Jesus made it clear that we can honor our parents with finance. In Matthew, chapter 15, He had a discussion with the Pharisees. They accused Him and His disciples of not keeping the traditions of the elders and He said, “On the contrary, you don’t keep the Word of God.”

Jesu spoke to the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 15:

3 Jesus answered, “And why do you ignore the commandment of God because of your traditions?

4 For didn’t God say, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever abuses or insults his father or mother must be put to death?’

5 “But you teach that it’s permissible to say to your parents when they are in financial need, ‘Whatever gift you would have received from me I can keep for myself, since I dedicated it as an offering to God.’

6 This doesn’t honor your father or mother. And you have elevated your tradition above the Words of God.

Notice, by giving of our finances to our parents, if they are in need, we fulfill the commandment to honor our parents. But if we withhold from our parents that which they need when it is in our power to give it, then we dishonor our parents.

So notice again, what we do with our money, not only to God, but also to our parents, constitutes either honor or dishonor.

If we allow The Holy Spirit to direct our finances, financial blessings will flow to us and through us.  If we give out of duty or guilt, we are missing the point.  GOD Loves a cheerful giver!