God Reigns!

This week has really been a week of learning for me. The Lord has really been ministering to me about the different issues that we’ve been facing lately. Yesterday I spoke to you all about healing and physical issues that have arisen. Starting last night and today God began to deal with me concerning finances. For a while now it hasn’t been an easy go for us in this area. It has been ups and downs and God has always come through, but recently it has seemed like things had gotten really bad. So last night we began asking God, is there anything that we can learn from this experience, is there anything we can do, and God began speaking to us about giving. He asked the question, why do you give, why do you tithe, and it made us both really take a look inside of our hearts and ask why? Daryle begin to say I think we’ve been giving out of the wrong place; we’ve been giving out of religion and obligation because we are supposed to, and not out of our love for God. This was a very hard thing for us to say because we love God so much, but we realized we weren’t giving out of that place of love, we were giving out of tradition. So I went to bed last night thinking about that.

Then once again this morning God woke me up with a song on my heart “God You Reign” by Lincoln Brewster…

You paint the night
You count the stars and call them by name
The skies proclaim
God You reign
Your glory shines
You teach the sun when to bring a new day
Creation sings God you reign

God you reign
God you reign
Forever and ever
God You reign

You part the seas
You move the mountains with the words that You say
My song remains
God You reign
You hold my life
You know my heart and You call me by name
I live to say God You reign

Hallelujah, hallelu

And then He told me to read Luke 21:1-4. I turned there and it was the story of the widow’s mite, and He begun to speak to me confirming what Daryle was saying last night. He told me that this woman had given her last out of a love and reverence for God, and not out of an obligation like those who had a ton of money did. It was all a matter of the heart.


God taught me two lessons today. The first was that giving should come from a place of reverence and love, not out of obligation or tradition, and the second was that He reigns over everything, every situation, every circumstance; it is all in His hand.

If you’ve had the same mindset we had about giving and didn’t even realize it, God says it’s time to repent and shift our mindset, and don’t let ourselves come under any guilt or condemnation. And If you’ve been in this same place of financial hardship I just want to encourage that God will see you through. He is our provider! I want to leave you with these scriptures…

Psalm 146:10 (The Message) “GOD's in charge—always. Zion's God is God for good! Hallelujah!”

Exodus 15:18 (NIV) “The LORD will reign forever and ever."

Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org