I have posted several thoughts in this forum relating to financial prosperity. I guess one of my pet peeves is when people try to say that can't afford to tithe, give, think asking God to bless them is carnal, or they just have a poverty mentality when it comes to God and His Kingdom.
Anyway, I had a unique experience today I would like to share to hopefully stimulate people's faith and gain some comments on.
I live in California and out here we have fireworks booths. It's a great way to raise funds in a short period of time. Our church has a booth and the local UPC church has a booth also.
We actually both sale the same brand of fireworks and we are located in the same parking lot. The mall in which we are located is at the busiest corner in our county. We are west of the corner about 150 yards and they are north of the corner about 100 yards (details are going to be important so follow them).
The street that they are located on has probably about 30-50% more traffic than the street that we are on. They are located right against the side walk so their visibility from traffic is very easy. They are also located in front of a Mervyn's which has high traffic volume.
We are located about 40 yards away from the street in the parking lot. Therefore, someone has to look into the mall parking lot to see us. We both have sandwich signs on the street advertising our booths.
I gave all the details for this purpose. From a business standpoint they are MUCH better positioned than we are. We know the people in the church (they are friends) so we go over and talk with them and they come over to us.
We are both Spirit-filled believers, but our "faith position" is different.
When talking with them they are concerned with location, what the news is saying about how much people will buy this year, the high cost of everything, and all this natural circumstance.
We don't care about any of that. We are blessed.
Luke 6:38 tells us that when we are givers that people will give to us. So I expect people to find us, come to us, spend more than they anticipated, and that our booth is blessed beyond measure.
In our town we can start selling on the first, which is typically a pretty slow day for all booths. They did $300 we did $1,500 and they had all the advantages in location and exposure.
We are all born again spirit-filled believers. God doesn't love us more than them and from a business standpoint they should do better. My contention is, because I am willing to believe for favor, blessings, and increase I experience it.
What do you think?
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