Prophetic Ministries Today

In the churches affiliated with PMT, all tithes that come in are not spent. Not one dime is incurred for expenses, salaries, anything. The tithes are strictly for investments-to sow to make money. Why? So there will be enough there for you when you are in need. There will be enough there for you when it comes to your day of retirement. There will be someone there to take care of you. There is going to be provisions which will be multiplying.

Think about this: If you are out at your work place and you have a credit card that has your church name. What if your church had a logo on the MasterCard but charged 0% interest? Only the saints within that congregation had the 0% interest on their MasterCard. Think about the evangelistic aspects of this. You will be bragging about your 0% interest MasterCard. How many people would want that 0% interest MasterCard? You are going to pay the money back, of course, because you will be borrowing it from the storehouse but you pay 0% interest. The Bible makes it clear; we do not place usury upon the people of God. Usury is interest. It is for the wicked to pay not for us. But we have have it reversed. How many mortgages are on church buildings across the land today? How many preachers are preaching for one reason: because they got to get the money to meet the budget this week. I went to churches where the budget had to be met of $150,000 every Sunday morning. $150,000! And do you know where that church is today? In bankruptcy. Fifteen million dollar building with cobwebs growing in the corners. Why? Because the principle was not in wisdom, it was in self-motivation of men and humanistic, worldly way of doing things.

Now, what do you with all this money that comes in for the church? This is where the elders come in to place. They have to be wise. They have to be hearing God! They have to know what God is going to do with these finances. Now, immediately, I began to seek God. Lord, what are we going to do? I have fifteen years of banking I know a little bit about the financial markets but what does God want to do? I cannot rely on the knowledge I have or what education I have or what experience I have in the financial market place. It is still going to take God. I am not going to listen to E. F. Hutton. No. He doesn’t know what tomorrow holds. Only one knows what tomorrow holds! God will show us what to buy and what to sell. He will prosper the church if we do according to His will. So, you wonder, how will I be supported? That is what offerings are about. It is the offerings which we should operate off of, not the tithes! The tithes belong to God. The tithes are there for God. And what is God interested in? He wants it for His people. His expenditure for His people is limitless! He gave us His only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ. So why to you think He wants this money to take care of His people? It is not to take care of one pastor’s Leer jet. It is not to make a pastor fancy, high and mighty so that everybody would want to be like him. Hey, we are supposed to exult only one and that is the Lord.

Now, what are we doing with all of this money? I began to ask the Lord. Lord, what are we going to do? First of all the Lord began to bring back something to my remembrance. It is a revelation that is without failure. The Lord brought back to my remembrance about the era of World War II. I do a lot of studying of history. I like to gain information because I gain revelation from it. One of the things I have learned over the years is that when I listen to history, a lot of times God teaches me things about the past. From the past, we can know patterns for the future. A lot of times God will say, this is what we have missed; we have lost this somewhere down the road; it fell off the wagon and we have lost a very invaluable asset to the church. And nobody bothered to go back and look for it. We just went on. Just like wisdom. Somehow it fell out one year and we never went back and got it.

What does God want to do with the money? In the beginning, He showed me this practicality by the demonstrations of the Jews who came into America around the time of World War II. A lot of them came in World War I because there were persecutions even then. But when they came to America, they had very, very little like most immigrants coming to America. So what did these men do? They had very little time to make anything for themselves. But they knew this Proverb: A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. And they were going to live by this principle. They were ready to sacrifice themselves for the next generation. Are people following this principle today? I don’t think so. If you see a motor home going up and down the road, it might seem humorous but it is really sad. A lot of them have license plates that says, “We are spending our children’s inheritance." as if boasting blasphemies against God’s principle. But we have to provide for our children’s children. We have to provide for the church of the next generation. A lot of people are saying there is not going to be another generation. I am here to tell you that is a bald faced lie from the pits of Hell. It is the major discussion of the new millennium. Everybody has gotten ready to be raptured up but I tell you will not be raptured any more than those 39 people who tried to look for the alien ship. Forget it! That message has destroyed so many people and it will destroy the whole church if we continue with it.

God is going to preserve His people as He promised in Genesis. He said that He will never destroy mankind again. That is the promise of the rainbow. People try to water it down by saying that God meant He will not destroy by flood that He is going to kills us all with fire. That is not what He said! He said He will never destroy mankind again. There is a whole different teaching on this subject which we will not get into now. But we have a commission of God to prepare for future generations. The way we have been doing things in the church has make it less and less powerful, less and less critical and fewer and fewer people are interested in being on a ship with holes in it and going down quickly. They want to be part of something that is living, part of something that is gaining, something that has a voice.

If a church has $1,800,000 in the bank, people are going to listen to them. They will pay attention to those people when they come and say we want this in our government. One church in one year can collect $1,800,000 in tithes. What if we did it with all the churches across the United States? If every one of them stored the tithes, how long would it take to have a majority of the finances and who will they listen to? Now, I am going back to the Jews. What did they do? When they came to America, they had nothing. They had to do something so what they did was this: They found whatever jobs they could do but every dime they could get a hold of above the essentials, they bought life insurance and made their children the beneficiary. They knew this one thing, it was guaranteed that they were going to die. That was a sure thing. And if they had the policy, the children would have something to start out with because they had nothing. Now, what has happened because that? Some of the wealthiest people in this nation are Jewish people because the forefathers were wise and lived up the scriptures that said a good man left his inheritance to his children’s children. It is a guaranteed practice every one of us is accountable to die at some point in time.

So what should we do? One investment the church can make with its policy is to insure its people. Why? To make the church the beneficiary. Why do this? So it can leave something for the next generation of children. The church is supposed to be one big body, one big family. I am not saying give all your properties. Some Christian TV programming, they say, they will take all your properties, work out your trust and will and deed it all to the church. Well, I am not interested in that. I am interested mainly in taking in some investment that we know will work so that the church can prosper. Think about this: How many people will past away? Some unfortunately in accidents. Some unfortunately through sickness and disease. The fact of the matter is that we live in a world that those things happen. So the money goes to the church, is the money spent? No. It is there to take care of the next generation and the present generation. You have people all over the place that are in need of finances. You have people who are in need of being able to build a company if they had just a little bit to start out with, they could make it. Where can they get it? They can get it from the storehouse. It is there ready and available to give as there is presentation made that is suitable for giving it. There should be accountability to the elders to make sure it is invested properly. You do not want to lose it. People will say, how will we know that you are going to use the tithes like you say, that you are not going to spend the tithes? Every year there will be an outside professional audit done on that account. Every penny accounted for, where it went, how it was invested. Everyone receives a statement showing how much they tithed in that year.

Now you think about it. You put in over a period of years, ten, fifteen, twenty maybe over a hundred thousand dollars in tithes. You think you are going to just walk out of that church and go to another church? I don’t think so. It is not that you can come in and say you want our $100,000 worth of tithes and we want to go to the next church. It is not going to happen. We are not going to let you take that money and go put it in the "spendhouse". It is for the storehouse! How many churches would love to be able to have a position that they could do this for their people? Most of them can’t. Because they are already locked in so tight they cannot wiggle. Pastors are going to be screaming all over the land because they are going to say, My God, those people are crazy, they are going to kill us. We can’t give up the tithes. We got to pay the bank. We got to pay the salaries. We got to pay the coffee machines. We got pay all these other things. We can not give up the tithes. They are not going to do it. They will preach against what we are preaching. But let me tell you something. If you are giving a check over every Sunday knowing that it is going to be spent back into the world, what good does it do? But what if it stored for you and your family, other families? It is not the case that just because you put in $10,000 last year in tithes that you can take out $10,000 next month. This is not the way it works. The tithes has to be used for the investment purposes as well as being a provision for people. It is not to be used frivolously. It needs to be invested. When we go on TV and start making this known to people, the house of God is going to be full quickly. We are talking about reaching people who can understand what the church is all about. And that they are working towards something that will be there to take care of them. This is what everybody wants. They want to be taken care of but that is not what the church has been doing. The church has been just been taking and this has got to stop. We have to come to a place where we must live up to the principles that God is showing us.