"ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN!" (Mat.7:7).  Maria #213       DO 2893  11/93
Mama's Prayer Request for Finances!

         1. The comments I've heard from some of our young people on the subject of finances have been heart-rending and have made me cry. These comments have been just another confirmation to me that our burden for finances is not misplaced, and that we are on the right track in realizing that obtaining our financial needs is one of the keys to the success of our work right now. We are going to have to raise a lot more money than we have been, and not confine ourselves strictly to the old methods. Raising support for our Homes has been a heavy burden for our poor Family members who have been having to work extremely hard to pay all the bills.
         2. This does not mean that we should stop getting out the audio and video tapes. In fact, we haven't been getting out enough of them and some of you have seriously neglected your distribution of these very important witnessing tools, which may account for some of your financial problems. But the point we are trying to make here is that the normal distribution of our audio and video tapes, while it is an important and necessary ministry and part of our witness, is not sufficient to raise your Home's entire support.
         3. We need to pray desperately for worldwide finances! We need a phenomenal amount, and the Lord is going to have to do bigger miracles along this line than He has ever done for us to supply at this time in history when there is worldwide recession, and when much of the world's attitude toward us is less than favorable. Not only that, but most of those in the world who have a lot of money have it because they have been blessed by Satan and are firmly in his employ! (Luk.4:6,7). So there are some very great obstacles, but our God is the God of the impossible, and where God guides, He provides! No matter how difficult the situation looks, He is able to do the necessary miracles. In fact, God likes "impossible" situations, because then when the answer comes we know that it only came through His miracle-working power and not by any of our own plans, works or schemes.
         4. We should all come before the Lord with this desperate need, letting our wants and wishes be made known, and crying out to Him for one of our greatest needs--the influx of a constant, substantial source of funds which will enable our Homes to operate comfortably without the great pressure of finances always bearing down upon us to the point where that is what we have to think of the most, and that is what influences all of our decisions. This heavy financial burden takes us away from many fruitful ministries that we could be doing and that we want to be doing, and is a source of great discouragement for our poor adult, YA and teen members.
         5. What we need for our large worldwide Family of thousands is a very great amount of money. We live very frugally, much more so than average Western families, because we live communally and we can economize on housing, food, utilities and vehicles. We also provision many of our needs so that our expenses are very small, comparatively speaking. However, when you consider that we have 10,000 fulltime members worldwide, you can see that even as economically as we try to live, it takes a great deal of money to help support us all.
         6. Moreover, we have many needs other than our basic food and shelter. We have utility bills, vehicles to maintain, medical needs, school needs, clothing needs, travel needs, expenses for visa trips and renewals, and a very long list of everything that it takes to not only operate a Home but to pay for all of the ministries which that Home is involved in.
         7. WS has continued to put out many publications, and their expenses have also continued to mount. The Family is a very big operation doing a very big job, and because it's the Lord's job, we have the right to demand of Him the wherewithal to do the right kind of job, to do the things that we know need to be done, and not be hindered by lack of finances.
         8. So I believe that regardless of how bleak the outlook, the uplook is thrilling, and is as limitless as the power of God! However, we are in a very desperate spiritual battle, and the forces attacking us are very great and powerful and are doing their utmost to keep us from doing the job that God has for us. Therefore, we must put much effort into this fight through great prayer and supplication and letting the Lord (and others) know our desperate needs, pouring out our hearts before Him (and others) and breaking through those evil forces which are trying to keep us from getting the kind of answers that we need.
         9. We have to have miracles, and lots of them! We have to have money, and lots of it!--Not for our own sakes, but so that we can be free to carry out the ministries that God is requiring of us and do what He wants us to, and go where He leads, and we won't have to be bound every day to doing the "most financially profitable" thing that we know is going to bring in enough support to help us pay the rent or the utilities or the gasoline.
         10. In spite of worldwide recession and the loss of thousands of jobs in even the most affluent countries, there is still wealth in every country. There are millions and billions of dollars stashed away by their owners, who don't even know what they are going to do with it all. The world is full of wealth, but mostly hoarded wealth by the few rich, while the millions upon millions of common people are suffering economically.
         11. So there is money out there, folks, and lots of it!--And we have every right to demand that the Lord open up some of that wealth to us for His work! After all, we who are doing a mighty work for the Lord in this Endtime have a right to claim the finances to properly carry it out. His Word says that the "wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just" (Pro.13:22). We don't know where it is and how to begin getting it, but God does. And He says, "Call upon Me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not" (Jer.33:3).
         12. If He has said that we only have to ask of Him and He will give us the heathen for our inheritance and the uttermost parts of the world for our possessions, can He not give us what is far less valuable, the "filthy lucre" of the world that we need for His work? There is no question that the Lord wants us to survive. He has not let us come this far to abandon us now. We are some of the only ones He's got who are doing this special ministry, therefore we can expect Him to supply our great needs, and we need to start asking Him (and others) with this in mind.--And not just asking for "any old car" or "any old donation." We need to expand our horizons and ask Him for what we really need, that He will supply every bit of it and make us "every whit whole!"--Not just put a bandaid on, but solve the whole problem and give us "exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to His power which worketh in us" (Eph.3:20).
         13. So, beloved, start crying out to the Lord for this great need, and expect Him to supply in ways that we never dreamed, and above all that we can ask or think.--That He will fill our coffers full to overflowing and thus make it possible for us to do the great job that He has laid out for us to do. This is one burden which I'm sure all of us share and all of us feel, so let's take it to the Lord together, earnestly beseeching Him to open the windows of Heaven and pour out the great blessings that we need. And let's ask Him to speak to us, confirming His power and might and His wish to supply, for our own encouragement, strength and faith to hold on until the answer comes.
         Love, Mama


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