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Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer are three names that will definitely come up in the 2011 election in America but I am not here to talk about politics; I want to address something that has hindered so many Christians from exploiting their potentials and thus becoming what they are destined to be. The phrase “windows of heaven” like most other words or phrases in the bible, is mostly used in error thus creating inefficient and ineffective results especially while praying.

 

The way a man thinks is the way a man is; what comes to your mind when the above phrase is mentioned? Take some time to think about it; my first thought is Malachi 3 verse10 where God promises to open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there might not be room enough to receive it if you pay your tithes and offerings. The condition to the above promise appears quite simple (at least to me) but the perceived result is hardly attained.

 

Note that I use the word “perceived”.  If I tell you that for every comment you make below, I will give you ten dollars. You are very much aware of the outcome so it is easy to follow through on the task above but for the task discussed in Malachi 3:10, you are uncertain about the outcome or you are not achieving the perceived outcome. This is one of the least discussed topics in the Christian circles; why do people keep on sowing the tenth of their hard earned labor without achieving their perceived result?

 

First, let’s visit the concept of “sowing and reaping”; the bible has said in so many places that whatever you sow, you must reap not wherever you sow; another interesting thing about this concept is that if it takes labor to sow, it would also take labor to reap. This is the way I used think about this concept; if I earn three hundred thousand a month and I pay thirty thousand in tithes, I would miraculously get back the rewards. The question is when and how?

 

 

When I think about the way I used to think, I realize how spooky it was; how can I be stupidly expecting money to come; from where; from the sky; from my fellow brother and sister? I realize this type of thinking has never really helped me and it dawned on me that if I labor to sow, I would definitely labor to reap. This is one of the few verses that made me think this way; Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few.”

 

 

Why would the harvest be plentiful and fewer laborers? Good question; because so many people do not expect to labor to harvest or cannot see the harvest. I would use the story of King David in the bible to buttress my point; David’s harvest was Goliath and he had to labor to get to it. After the death of Goliath, David came to notoriety. David’s seed was the killing of the bear and lion that attacked his father’s sheep.David would never have recognized Goliath as an opportunity to wealth and fame if he had not been killing the bears and lion that attacked his father’s sheep. While others were running away from Goliath, David was busy asking for the reward for killing Goliath. There are so many harvest that so many people are running from; the ongoing global financial crisis is one of them, living in a developing country is another and the list goes on.

 

If you have been seeding with the right frame of harvest, you would definitely be harvesting. Now what does the “windows of heaven” have to do with all this? Remember, it is windows (plural) not window (singular). “Windows of heaven” is a figurative term for a spiritual intuition. Jacob made the definition very clear to me when he had a dream on his way to his uncle’s house. In that dream, he saw a ladder set on earth, reaching the heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending. You may read Genesis 28: 10 – 18 for full understanding.

 

Jacob described the experience as the window of heaven (NKJV). I really do not want to go onto full analysis because of time but this is what happens when you pay your tithe and your offerings; your eyes would be opened either through intuition, dream or inspiration to know where to labor to maximize your resources. The key word here is labor. Your level of productivity depends on what you are seeing; what you see depends on how far you will go.

 

When the windows of heaven are opened, you will see opportunities where people don’t see. It is now your conscious choice to labor to acquire it either by seeding or harvesting. Everybody that pays tithe can see but only a few percentage of them labor. In my controversial article titled Tithe or Tight, I compared tithe to taxes. You may read the article by clicking HERE. The three names in the first sentence of this article were nominated by the Obama transition team to run crucial economic sector of their country but they all avoided paying their taxes and this singular act would definitely affect the Democrats in the 2011 election. Imagine the effect of not paying your tithe…………