How to Prepare your Storehouse
Deuteronomy 28:8 “The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.(NKJ)
In my early days of my Christian walk, church taught us not to store up treasures on earth, but rather in Heaven where moth and rust do not destroy. See Matthew 6:19
We did what every believer does. Tithe, give, volunteer, work in the Sunday School class, pray, fast, and on and on. I felt for many years that there was piece missing to all of this tithing and giving. We struggled at times, but never failed to tithe and yes, there were those moments where the Lord did come through. Yet, I have always felt that we should be prospering, and not barely getting by.
I was recently told about a book called The Storehouse Principle by a pastor. The book is based on Duet 28:8. The pastor tells his entire congregation that every believer should have a storehouse, so that they can become prosperous. I immediately purchased the book and the piece to my missing puzzle was complete.
The word storehouse in Deutueronomy talks about our barn. A barn is where one saves, and has a reserve. It is not our tithe, but our own savings account. When the barn becomes full, we can then invest the money into a business, and become prosperous.
The word Storehouse in Malachi has a different meaning which is treasury. If you notice the wording, Malachi talks about the storehouse, and Deuteronomy talks about your storehouses, plural.
This is one of the few verses where the Lord commands the blessing on your storehouse. Once you begin to save for yourself and for your family, the Lord commands His blessing on it. We can then pay off that credit card, begin purchasing items on a cash only basis, and little by little we see that we are close to becoming debt free. Once we have our storehouse, we can ask the Lord for wisdom and guidance on how to invest the money.
This is not to say that tithing is not important, it is. I believe the two work hand in hand. The missing piece for me, and one that was not taught, at least to the churches that I attended was to put money away in a saving account, and to be responsible with our finances. The Lord will not bless our irresponsibility.
Begin a storehouse for you, your future and family. Ask the Lord to bring a business or investment along your path to increase it, and He will do it.
Blessings in Him.
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I have some clarifications.
I was taught that storehouse where we were fed the Word of God.
Can you explain this to me? It’s not very clear to me.
love Sid
I have some clarifications.
I was taught that storehouse where we were fed the Word of God.
Can you explain this to me? It’s not very clear to me.
love Sid
Hello Sid
A storehouse is where we have our source of abundant supplies, where we keep our goods. Our goods could be material, or spiritual.
Also, if we take care of our physical being with exercise and a good diet, that would also be considered a storehouse of health.
The verse in Duet talks about our barn, where we keep our supplies.
In Gen 41:56, Joseph opened the storehouse to feed the people.
So a pastor can be praying, meditating and reading the word of God all week, so that he would have a storehouse from his Spirit to feed his sheep on Sunday mornings.
We all have a storehouse, we just need to find it, tap into it and begin to fill it.
Hope that helps to clarify it a bit.
Blessings,
Yvette
With regard to finances, is it a bank that will be a storehouse? If so would God call it His storehouse?
My mother wanted to know too. Because we haven’t seen the results of tithing and offering as we have been taught.
Does this mean we shouldn’t bring our tithes and offerings to the church?
Not clear to me.
Sid
Yes, the bank would be your savings account, our your storehouse. We currently have a storehouse account, and we ask the Lord to bless it.
We still bring our tithes and offerings to the church, as that is what is taught in scriptures.
Consider this verse: 1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”(NKJ)
Pastors of the church are worthy of their wages. We must always tithe to help support the work of the ministry. What is not taught in the churches is that we are to have our own saving account, apart from tithing.
Hope this helps, and blessings.
Yvette
Thank you, Yvette, for the confirmation. I’ve been convicted to concentrate on being financial responsibility, not just because it’s a good idea, but because it’s God’s will and a requirement for blessings.
I need to build and fill my storeshouses. The United States of America needs to build its storehouses now too. On my blog, I posted last night about the current crisis here, in a piece called “$700 Billion Ticket to Hell.”