INCREASE IS A TEST PART 2

Matthew chapter 6













Today we are walking in: Increase Is A Test Part 2













Genesis 1:29




And God said, Behold, I have given H5414 you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.









GIVE








Today we look to the word-GIVE- H5414 nathan-- to give, grant, permit, ascribe, dedicate, pay wages, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, report








The Torah testifies...............




Deuteronomy 3:18




And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given H5414 you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.













The prophets proclaim..................




Isaiah 40:29




He giveth H5414 power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.








The writings bear witness...........................



Psalm 84:11




For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give H5414 grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.













Now, let me take you deeper because until you understand this next principle, you will always struggle with anxiety about money. What I am about to share with you is one of the most liberating truths in the kingdom of Yah. And once you see it, fear will lose its grip on your life.




Write this down very carefully. No manufacturer gives ownership of the factory to the product. A product is never created to own the system that supplies it. The manufacturer retains ownership while the product enjoys access. This is true in every industry on earth.




You do not own the electric company, yet your house has power. You do not own the water plant, yet you drink water every day. You do not own the cellular network, yet your phone works. Ownership stays with the source. Access is granted to the user.




Now listen to me closely. Yah is the manufacturer, and you are the product. Tehilliym 100:3 says, “Know ye that Yahuah, he is Yah. It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves.” That verse sets ownership permanently. You do not own yourself. That is why suicide is rebellion. That is why pride is dangerous. That is why independence from Yah is illegal in the kingdom. You were manufactured. Therefore, you are managed.




When Yah created man, he did not hand over ownership of the earth. Bere’shiyth 1:28 says he gave man dominion, not ownership. Dominion is authority to manage, not the right to possess. Ownership remained with heaven. Tehilliym 115:16 confirms this. “The heaven, even the heavens, are Yahuah’s, but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” Given does not mean transferred ownership. It means delegated responsibility.




This is why stewardship is central to the kingdom economy. Write this down. Yah does not finance owners. He finances managers. An owner does whatever he wants. A manager follows instructions. And heaven only funds obedience. That is why Yahusha said in Luqas 16:10, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.” Faithfulness is a management term, not an emotional one.




Now, here’s where many believers miss it. They want Yah to give them ownership-level freedom while they reject stewardship-level responsibility. They want blessing without accountability. But in the kingdom, access is granted based on trust. Trust is proven by obedience. And obedience is demonstrated through stewardship.




Let me make this practical. When you buy a phone, the manufacturer does not ask you to understand how the chips were made, how the software was coded, or how the satellites operate. They simply give you a manual. Why? Because the product does not need ownership of the system. It needs instructions. The manufacturer assumes responsibility for supply, maintenance, and updates as long as the product is used according to design.




That is why the Bible is called the word of Yah. It is not a religious book. It is a manual. And every promise in scripture is backed by prior testing. Yah never promises what he has not already proven. Yesha’yahu 46:10 says, “Declaring the end from the beginning.” In other words, Yah finishes before he starts. That includes your provision.




Now, hear this. Ownership produces pressure, but access produces peace. When you think you own something, you worry about losing it. When you know you only manage it, you trust the source to replace it. That is why Iyov could say, “Yahuah gave and Yahuah hath taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahuah.” Iyov understood the manufacturer principle. He did not panic because his confidence was not in possessions. It was in the provider.




This is also why Yahusha lived so lightly on the earth. He had no property, no bank account, no stored wealth, yet he never lacked. When he needed taxes, he accessed a fish. When he needed food, he multiplied loaves. When he needed transportation, a donkey appeared. Why? Because access responds to assignment. Heaven funds purpose, not comfort.




Write this down. Yah does not ask, “What do you have?” He asks, “What are you assigned to?” The moment assignment is clear, access is authorized. That is why provision dries up when people walk away from purpose. It is not punishment. It is misalignment. The manufacturer only supplies what the design requires.




Let me confront you lovingly. Some of you are asking Yah for money he cannot release because you would own it instead of steward it. And Yah will never give ownership-level freedom to someone who refuses stewardship-level discipline. That is why Yahusha said in Mattithyahu 25:21, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. I will make thee ruler over many things.” Ruler, not owner. Authority increases when faithfulness is proven.




So stop praying for ownership. Start praying for alignment. Stop asking Yah for more money. Start asking him for clearer assignment. Because when the manufacturer trusts the product, access becomes unlimited. And once you understand this principle, you will never fear lack again, not because you have much, but because you know the one who owns all things.




Now let us examine scripture because principles are not theories. They are proven truths. Yah never reveals a concept without demonstrating it in history. And one of the clearest demonstrations of kingdom economics in the entire Bible is how Yah fed his people in the wilderness.




Turn your attention to Shemoth chapter 16. Yashar’el has just left Mitsrayim. Mitsrayim was a world system. Mitsrayim paid salaries. Mitsrayim stored grain. Mitsrayim hoarded resources. Mitsrayim trusted barns, banks, and Pharaoh. But when Yah delivered Yashar’el, he did not merely deliver them from slavery. He delivered them from an economy. And the first thing Yah had to change was not their location but their thinking.




The people cried out, “What shall we eat?” And Yah responded not by giving them warehouses, not by giving them farmland, not by giving them money, but by giving them daily bread. The Bible says in Shemoth 16:4, “Then said Yahuah unto Mosheh, behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day.” Every day. Not once a month, not for a year, every day.




Write this down. Yah designed provision to be daily so trust would be continuous. If Yah had given them food for a year, they would not need him tomorrow. But the kingdom is built on relationship, not independence. Yah was teaching Yashar’el that survival in the kingdom does not come from storage. It comes from obedience.




Now, here’s the critical part that exposes our hearts. Yah gave them a clear instruction. “Let no man leave of it till the morning.” In other words, do not store it. But the Bible says some of the people disobeyed. Shemoth 16:20 tells us, “Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto Mosheh, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank.”




Watch this carefully. The same provision that was a blessing when trusted became corruption when hoarded. The manna did not rot because it was bad. It rotted because it was disobeyed. This is a powerful kingdom lesson. Provision misused becomes poison. What Yah gives you for today will destroy you if you try to make it tomorrow’s security.




Hear me. Yah is not against preparation. He is against fear-based storage. The problem was not keeping manna. The problem was keeping manna without instruction. Because on the sixth day, Yah told them to store it, and it did not rot. That teaches us something critical. Storage is only safe when Yah authorizes it. Otherwise, it becomes a substitute for trust.




Yahusha reinforced this principle centuries later in Mattithyahu 6:31-34. He said, “Take no thought, saying, ‘What shall we eat or what shall we drink?’ For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Then he said something radical. “Take therefore no thought for the morrow.” Yahusha was not teaching irresponsibility. He was teaching dependence.




Now listen carefully. Worry is evidence that you are trusting tomorrow more than trusting Yah. Anxiety is not a mental issue. It is a theological one. It reveals where your confidence lies. Yahusha said in Luqas 12:22, “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body what ye shall put on.” Why? Because life is sustained by source, not supply.




Let me say this plainly. Yah feeds birds daily, not annually. Yahusha said, “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn, and Yah feedeth them.” Birds do not have savings accounts, yet they eat every day. Why? Because they stay connected to the system Yah designed them for.




Now, here is where this becomes personal. Some of you are living with fear because your confidence is in your reserves. You feel safe when the account is full and anxious when it is low. But the kingdom was never designed for you to draw peace from numbers. Peace comes from knowing the source cannot fail.




Write this down. Yah did not promise you tomorrow’s bread today. He promised himself today. And when you have him, you have everything you need. That is why Yahusha could sleep during a storm. That is why Eliyahu could survive a famine. That is why the widow’s oil did not run dry, not because they stored enough, but because they trusted enough.




The wilderness was not a punishment. It was a classroom. Yah was reprogramming a slave mentality into a citizen mindset. Slaves store because they fear masters. Citizens trust because they know the king. And until you learn this lesson, money will always control your emotions. But once you understand that your life is sustained by access to Yah, not accumulation of goods, fear loses its power.




Now let me slow down here because this is where many people misunderstand the message and fall into extremes. The kingdom of Yah never promotes ignorance, laziness, or recklessness. Yah is a Yah of order, not confusion. What he confronts is not preparation but misplaced trust.




So we must clearly separate two concepts: savings and stewardship. Write this down very carefully. Savings is a practice. Stewardship is a mandate. They are not the same thing. Savings is something you do. Stewardship is who you are. And whenever you elevate a practice above a mandate, you will distort the system.




Savings simply means setting aside resources for future use. There is nothing evil about that. Mishlei 6:6-8 says, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise, which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.” Notice, however, the ant gathers according to season and purpose. The ant does not hoard endlessly. The ant responds to cycles. That is stewardship.




But stewardship goes far deeper than savings. Stewardship means managing resources on behalf of the owner according to the owner’s intent. Tehilliym 24:1 settles this permanently. The earth is Yahuah’s and the fullness thereof. If Yah owns everything, then whatever passes through your hands is not yours. It is assigned to you.




Write this down. You are not a possessor. You are a manager. And managers do not make emotional decisions. They make instructed decisions. A steward never asks, “What do I want?” A steward asks, “What does the owner require?”




This is where many believers get trapped. They save money, but they do not steward purpose. They store resources, but they ignore assignment. And then they wonder why anxiety remains. Anxiety persists because money was never designed to replace direction. Without clarity of purpose, no amount of savings will ever feel sufficient.




Yahusha addressed this confusion in Luqas 12 with the parable of the rich fool. The man had a bumper harvest and said, “I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.” Notice the language. My barns, my fruits, my goods. Ownership language. And Yah responded, “Thou fool. This night thy soul shall be required of thee. Then whose shall those things be?”




Why did Yah call him a fool? Not because he planned, but because he planned without purpose. He stored without assignment. He accumulated without stewardship. He never asked, “Why did Yah give me this increase?” He only asked, “Where can I keep it?”




Hear me carefully. Stewardship always asks why before where. Why was this given? Why now? Why this amount? When purpose is clear, savings becomes a servant. When purpose is unclear, savings becomes a god.




Yahusha said in Luqas 16:11, “If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?” Faithfulness is not about how much you have. It is about how well you manage what you have been given. Yah increases trust, not balances. And increase follows trust.




Let me say something that may challenge your theology but will free your future. Security is not the result of accumulation. It is the result of alignment. When you are aligned with Yah’s purpose, provision flows naturally. When you are misaligned, even abundance becomes stressful. That is why some wealthy people are miserable and some poor people are at peace. Peace is not tied to money. It is tied to obedience.




Stewardship means recognizing that every resource has an assignment. Your income has an assignment. Your time has an assignment. Your gifts have an assignment. Your gifts. And when you steward it properly, heaven releases more responsibility. That is why Yahusha said, “Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” Increase is not a reward. It is a responsibility.




So do not ask Yah to give you more if you have not managed what he already gave you. Do not pray for overflow if you have ignored instruction because in the kingdom increase is not a blessing. It is a test.




And once you understand this, you will stop chasing money and start managing purpose. You will stop asking Yah for security and start trusting his system. And when that happens, savings will take its proper place as a tool, not a throne.




Now we come to one of the most powerful revelations you will ever understand about money in the kingdom of Yah. If you grasp this principle, fear of lack will permanently lose its grip on your life. This is the difference between worldly wealth and kingdom wealth. And I want you to write this down very carefully because it will redefine success for you forever.




Kingdom wealth is not possession. It is access. Let me say that again slowly. Kingdom wealth is not how much you own. It is how much you can access when the assignment demands it.




This is a completely different way of thinking, and it is the reason Yahusha could live with such freedom. He never carried money, but he was never broke. He never owned property, but he always had a place to be. Why? Because access responds to purpose.




Access means guaranteed availability when required. It means that when the need arises, the supply is already authorized. In the kingdom, wealth is not measured by storage, but by readiness. Readiness to meet demand. Readiness to respond to assignment. Readiness to obey instruction.




This is why Yahusha could say in Mattithyahu 6:25, “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink.” That statement would be irresponsible in the world system, but it is perfectly logical in the kingdom system. Why? Because the kingdom is not sustained by human effort. It is sustained by divine government.




Let me show you this principle in scripture. Eliyahu had no income stream, no savings, no investments, yet he never starved. Why? Because Yah gave him access. First, access to ravens, then access to a widow, then access to supernatural multiplication. Eliyahu did not own any of these sources. He simply obeyed instruction. And wherever Yah sent him, provision met him.




Write this down. Access always follows obedience. Not effort, not ambition. Obedience. Yahusha himself demonstrated this repeatedly. When he needed money to pay taxes, he did not ask Yahudah for the treasury. He told Kepha, “Go to the sea and take up the fish that first cometh up.” And inside the fish was money. That is not a miracle of money. That is a miracle of access. The supply already existed. It was simply hidden until the assignment required it.




This is why the Bible says in Tehilliym 50:10, “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” Yah does not lack resources. He controls access to them. And when you are aligned with him, lack becomes impossible. Not because you own everything, but because you are connected to the one who does.




Hear this carefully. The richest man in the kingdom is not the one who has the most stored, but the one who lacks nothing. Sha’ul understood this when he said in Philippians 4:12, “I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound.” Abundance is not a condition. It is a mindset rooted in trust. The world panics when accounts go down. The kingdom rests because the source never changes.




Ivriym 13:8 says, “Yahusha Ha’Mashiach the same yesterday and today and forever.” If your source is eternal, your supply is stable. That is why fear is illegal in the kingdom economy.




Let me confront you again. Many believers are not poor. They are disconnected. They are disconnected from assignment, disconnected from obedience, disconnected from understanding kingdom access. They want Yah to give them what they want instead of aligning with what he wants done.




But when you align with purpose, access opens, doors open, people appear, ideas come, favor flows, supply manifests, not because you chased it, but because you positioned yourself correctly.




This is why Yahusha said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of Yah. Seek first the system. Seek first the government. Seek first the authority, and then everything else becomes supplemental.”




When you understand access, you stop hoarding. When you understand access, you stop worrying. When you understand access, you stop measuring your life by numbers and start measuring it by obedience. And once you reach this level of understanding, money loses its power over you because you finally know who controls the supply.




Now, let me take you into a law that many people violate without realizing it. And because they violate it, they frustrate the flow of Yah in their lives. This law is simple, but it is absolute. And like all laws, it does not care how sincere you are. It only responds to obedience.




Write this down carefully. Everything in the kingdom of Yah is designed to flow. Yah is a flowing Yah. His love flows, his mercy flows, his power flows, his word flows, and anything that stops flowing in Yah’s system begins to decay.




Stagnation is never neutral in the kingdom. Stagnation is rebellion against design. This is why hoarding is so dangerous. Hoarding is not saving. Hoarding is fear-based accumulation. It is the attempt to control tomorrow by imprisoning today’s provision. And the moment you try to control provision, you reveal that you do not trust the provider.




Let me say this plainly. Yah does not supply storage. He supplies circulation. Money in the kingdom is not meant to sit. It is meant to move. It is a tool for distribution, not a monument to security. When money stops moving, it starts mastering you.




Yahusha addressed this law without apology in Luqas 12:15. He said, “Take heed and beware of covetousness. For a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.” Covetousness is not wanting more. Covetousness is wanting more for yourself. It is the desire to terminate the flow at you.




Now hear this carefully. Whatever stops with you dies with you. But whatever flows through you grows through you. This is a kingdom law. It applies to money, gifts, ideas, influence, and opportunity.




When Yah sees movement, he releases more. When he sees stagnation, he withholds increase not as punishment, but as protection. This is why Yahusha said in Luqas 6:38, “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” He did not say, “Save, and it shall be increased.” Giving is not charity. Giving is circulation, and circulation is the proof that you trust the system.




Yah does not respond to need. He responds to faith expressed through obedience. Let me show you something powerful. The Dead Sea is called dead because nothing flows out of it. Rivers flow in, but nothing flows out. As a result, nothing lives there. That is a perfect picture of hoarding. You can have inflow and still experience death if there is no outflow. Many believers are financially dead not because they lack income, but because they lack circulation.




The widow in Melekiym Sheniy 4 understood this law. She had a little oil, not much, but enough to obey. And the prophet told her to pour. As long as she poured, the oil flowed. The moment she stopped pouring, the oil stopped multiplying. The miracle was not in the oil. The miracle was in the flow.




Write this down. Yah multiplies what is moving. He does not multiply what is hidden. That is why Yahusha fed the multitudes by breaking bread and distributing it. The bread multiplied while it was being given, not while it was being stored.




Now, let me confront you gently but truthfully. Some of you are praying for increase while clenching your fist. You are asking Yah to open heaven while closing your hands. But heaven responds to open systems. Fear closes systems. Faith opens them.




Mishlei 11:24 says, “There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” That is not poetry. That is economics. Withholding violates flow, and violation of flow produces lack no matter how much you possess.




Hoarding is rooted in the lie that Yah may not show up tomorrow. Giving is rooted in the confidence that Yah cannot fail. That is why generosity is not about money. It is about trust. Yah is not impressed by amounts. He is interested in obedience.




So understand this. Yah does not bless savings. He blesses obedience. Savings becomes blessed only when it is submitted to stewardship and purpose. Otherwise, it becomes an idol that quietly replaces Yah as your source.




When you release fear, flow begins. When flow begins, increase follows. And when increase follows, peace becomes permanent because you finally understand that supply does not come from what you hold, but from who you trust.




Now let me bring this teaching down to where you live because revelation without application produces frustration. Yah never reveals principles to impress you. He reveals them to position you. And if you are going to function confidently in the kingdom economy, you must understand the laws that govern supply.




These are not suggestions. These are not motivational ideas. These are laws. And laws work for anyone who obeys them.




Write this down at the top of your page. The kingdom of Yah is predictable. Success in the kingdom is not accidental. It is lawful. Just as gravity works every time you step off a building, kingdom laws work every time you align with them.




Let me give you four foundational kingdom money laws. These laws govern access, supply, and peace.




Law number one, the law of purpose. Money in the kingdom follows assignment. Yah does not fund ambition. He funds purpose. That is why Yahusha said in Yochanon 4:34, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.” Yahusha never chased provision. He chased obedience. And provision chased him.




If you do not know why you are alive, money will always confuse you. Purpose answers the question, “What am I sent to do?” And once that question is answered, heaven becomes obligated to supply what that assignment requires.




Write this down. No assignment, no authorization. Yah does not release resources to undefined missions.




Law number two, the law of stewardship. Stewardship determines trust. Yah does not increase what you waste. He does not multiply what you mismanage. Yahusha said in Luqas 16:10, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.”




Faithfulness is proven in private, in small amounts, in daily decisions. Stewardship is not about how much you give. It is about how well you manage what remains. If Yah cannot trust you with what is in your hand, he will not release what is in his. Increase is not a blessing. It is a responsibility. And many people are praying for increase when Yah is waiting for discipline.




Law number three, the law of circulation. Everything in the kingdom is designed to move. When you interrupt flow, you interrupt increase. Yahusha said in Luqas 6:38, “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” Giving is not generosity alone. It is proof that you understand flow. Circulation is how the kingdom breathes. When resources move through you, Yah keeps them moving toward you.




Write this down. Yah does not replenish containers. He replenishes channels. A container fills and stops. A channel flows and multiplies.




Law number four, the law of access. Access is released when purpose, stewardship, and circulation align. When you obey Yah fully, heaven opens strategically. This is why Yahusha said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of Yah and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Added means they show up without stress. Added means you didn’t chase them. Added means they came because alignment was present.




Let me summarize this framework for you. Purpose defines what is needed. Stewardship qualifies you to handle it. Circulation keeps it flowing. Access guarantees it arrives on time.




When you live by these laws, panic disappears. Fear dissolves. Anxiety has no place because you are no longer living by chance. You are living by covenant.




Now, let me bring this teaching to a close by restoring your identity because money problems are never really money problems. They are identity problems. When you don’t know who you are, you misuse what you touch.




Write this down and never forget it. You are not a consumer. You are steward. Consumers take. Stewards manage. Consumers ask, “What can I get?” Stewards ask, “What is required of me?” And the kingdom of Yah advances through stewards, not shoppers.




Yahusha never called his disciples owners. He called them servants. And servant is not a low word. It is a trusted word. A servant in the kingdom is someone entrusted with authority. That is why Yahusha said in Mattithyahu 25:21, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” Joy follows alignment. Peace follows obedience. Confidence follows understanding.




Let me reprogram you one last time. Say this in your heart as I say it aloud. Yah is my source, not my job, not my savings, not my connections, not my skills. Ya`aqov 1:17 says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.”




If your source is eternal, your supply is secure. Markets may fail. Economies may shake. Systems may collapse. But the kingdom of Yah cannot be moved. Ivriym 12:28 says, “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved.”




If the kingdom cannot be shaken and you are a citizen of that kingdom, then fear has no legal right in your life. Stop praying for money. Start aligning with purpose. Stop trusting storage. Start trusting the source. Stop living like a beggar. Start living like a citizen.




Because when Yah becomes your source, money becomes a tool. And when money becomes a tool, it loses its power over your peace, your joy, and your destiny.




This is kingdom money. This is kingdom access. This is kingdom.