Blessing through Storehouses
The Storehouse is certainly one of the Bible’s key financial principles. God uses storehouses and recommends storehouses dozens of times in the Scriptures. He also warns against the misuse of storehouses. They are to be used to help others, not just ourselves. Then He will bless them for His glory.
In Genesis Chapters Forty-One and Forty-Two, the Bible describes how God saved his people through storehouses when Joseph collected the grain of Egypt into large storehouses. Because of these storehouses, the family of Israel was saved from the drought that would otherwise have destroyed them.
‘The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand.’ – Deuteronomy 28:8
‘The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of His bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. – Deuteronomy 28:12
So God will use His storehouse to bless our storehouses! So we can be lenders and providers, and never need to borrow!
Today’s Storehouses
Like Abigail, the wife of Nabal, bringing provisions to David and his men (1 Sam 25), like the Good Samaritan using his resources to generously assist the stranger (Luke 10), or the five wise virgins with extra oil (Matt 25), we need a stored surplus to enable us to generously respond to the needs around us.
If a farmer and his family consumed all their harvest, they would have nothing to plant for the future. Instead, they must store a portion of their harvest safely so they can plant it at a later time. You are today’s storehouse as I am today’s storehouse.
Think about this…How can God responsibly bless anyone who consumes all they are given, week after week, month after month, and year after year? As well as giving our offerings, it is good to put resources aside in a ‘storehouse’ for God to bless and use.
“For if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?” – Luke 16:11
Driving This Home
Starting a personal storehouse brings assurance that even though one’s finances may be a struggle, all is not lost. Everyone can create a positive in the midst of their hopelessness.
What will you do once you have repaid your debts? Will you waste the opportunity by simply increasing your spending? Will you borrow again and get into further debt? Will you store up wealth for yourself? Or will you have the inclination and self-discipline to create a personal storehouse for Kingdom use?”
God desires that we can lend without borrowing and give without requiring anything in return. God wants His people to have storehouses which are available for His use, in order that He may bless His people through you and me.
More Helpful Bible Verses:
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At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. – Deuteronomy 14:28-29
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Consider the ant, consider its ways and be wise … see how it stores its provisions in Summer. – Proverbs 6:6-8
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A good person stores up an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. – Proverbs 13:33
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In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has. – Proverbs 21:20
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Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there may be food in my house. And try me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the widows of heaven and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. – Malachi 3:10
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Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness. – 2 Corinthians 9:10
Putting a percentage of money aside each pay period into your storehouse fund is a step of faith and an open invitation for God to use those funds to bless one or others in need. By doing so, you’re telling God you’re a vessel He can use, that you are a steward He can trust and allow resources to flow through you, resources to bless others. And for the exciting part…watch God use this storehouse for His glory.
