FIRST FRUIT HONORS GOD
“Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine”
Proverbs 3:9-10 (KJV)
As a believer, the kingdom of God is within you; this kingdom is governed by principles, one of which is the principle of first fruit. First fruit is a more excellent sacrifice which honors God. The first fruit sacrifice is a hundred percent (100%) of the first and the best of the harvest of your labor or service at the beginning of each year. This is the first of any stream of income or profit you receive at the beginning of the year, and the first portion of any increase or raise you receive during the course of the year. The first fruit is the multiplying factor for the full ingathering of your harvest. The first fruit is holy and consecrated unto the Lord; you are not to keep or use it.
Giving of your first fruit should be done in faith and by revelation, with the right heart-attitude, because God sees the heart. When the first part offered to the Lord is “holy”, it sanctifies the entire harvest from which the first fruit was taken (Romans 11:16).
In Genesis 4:3-5, Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. But Abel, by faith, brought the sacrifice of first fruit: the firstborn of his flock and their fat, to God and it was accepted. Cain did not follow God’s divine order of first things first and his offering was rejected (Genesis 4:6-7). Cain did not repent when God corrected him; instead, he killed his brother (Genesis 4:8). Abel operated in the Spirit of faith and offered a more excellent sacrifice. Hebrews 11:4 says, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh”.(KJV). Though Abel is dead, his sacrifice still speaks. Your first fruit will distinguish you from others, and make a memorial of you for generations to come. Glory to God.
PRAYER
Dear Father, I honor you with the first fruits of all my increase. I thank you for filling my barns with plenty, and my presses bursting out with new wine in the name of the Lord Jesus.
WISDOM NUGGET
“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16 (KJV).
