"God Can't Pay Enough to Meet My Needs"

There are many Christians who make this statement all the time when asked about helping serve in the Kingdom works of God. “I want to serve God, but that will take a lot of my time. I’ve got a family to feed, a house payment, and bills. God wants me to take care of my family and pay my bills. I can only do so much.” Now something along this line is what people say, and they are not making this up. They are serious about their answer, and there is truth to it. Why do people have this answer, and what is the truth in the matter?

Matthew 6:8 says that your Heavenly Father knows the things you have need of before you ask. So it is safe to say that God understands a person’s needs and what it will take for them to live, and the needs for today and the days ahead. But what we want and what God knows we need are not the same things.

Now, is God against Christians having a nice home or car? A farm or a house in a town? A business or being CEO? Certainly not. God wants His people to be successful and prosper and to have the resources they need and help to do it.

But what I hear in the ministry is these words a lot: “Ministry doesn’t pay enough.” I’ve experienced this with people very talented that could greatly benefit the kingdom of God.  What happens generally is that people are so over-extended in their finances and owe the world too much.

God doesn’t sit around. God moves around. God has plans, and He’s constantly looking for candidates to be used by Him. Some people are willing to be used of God if He will let them do things their way, and that never works. And then they get disgusted and say, “Well I guess He doesn’t want to use my life.” If we are not careful, we will get ourselves so attached to this world that it will rob us of our ability to be used by God, and it can do so very easily when we sign up in its programs and accept its terms. God takes care of what you have need of, if you’ll just be concerned with what He has need of.

When you will put aside your own ambitions for God’s plans, He will take care of every detail. Where you think, “I can’t,” He can. When you say, “It’s not possible”, He says, “Try me because I make all things possible.” Instead of thinking, “God can’t pay my bills,” won’t you let Him reorganize your life and reconstruct your future? It is never too late.