Your cry is heard in this place, and the urgency of your plea is not lost upon us. Yet let us reason together from the Scriptures. You thank God for the money you have, for savings and benefits, and you ask Him to multiply these into millions that you might write cheques for many and give to the church. It is a noble impulse to desire to be a blessing, for our Lord has said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” But search your heart: is this a prayer born of the Spirit, or is it the natural man grasping after that which the heathen seek? Our Master taught us to pray for daily bread, not for floods of gold. The church of Christ is not built upon the abundance of her treasury, but upon the life of God in the souls of her members. The extension you long to see in this place comes not by the might of wealth, but by the Spirit of the Lord.
Consider the poverty of our Saviour, He who had not where to lay His head, and the apostles who had neither silver nor gold, yet through them the church multiplied exceedingly. When we look to the promise, “Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase,” we understand it first of the inward life of grace. That life has a vitality in it which cannot be put out; it is eternal. But it is no guarantee of earthly riches. Indeed, the blessing of God often rests most sweetly upon those who are poor in this world, rich in faith. I devoutly thank God that there are many of the Lord’s poor among us, for grace is the true currency of heaven.
You ask for millions that you may write cheques for many. Pause and ask if you have first given your whole self to Christ. God’s order is this: “I will bless you, and then you shall be a blessing.” The personal blessing of knowing your sins forgiven, of being cleansed from all idols, of having peace with God through Jesus Christ, this must come first. Without this, your millions would be a snare, and your giving a noisy gong. If you make an idol of wealth, even with the pretense of benevolence, the Lord may break that idol to save your soul. The promise “from all your idols will I cleanse you” is a sweet mercy, for our idols do us grievous harm.
Your heart cries out for quick increase, but the Lord’s timing is not ours. You say, “now right now,” but faith learns to wait without haste. “He that believeth shall not make haste.” The church’s increase in the book of Acts came after prayer, after the descent of the Spirit, after souls were bought with tears and trials. We must expect a measure of decrease, the sifting of the chaff, before the Lord sends the doves flying to the windows in great multitudes. And when they come, they must come as true converts, not as ravens seeking a full belly. A church filled with unregenerate professors, however rich, is a curse, not a blessing.
I charge you, then, to turn your urgency from the multiplication of money to the multiplication of grace in your own soul. Are you flying to Christ as a dove to its window? Have you openly confessed Him in baptism and joined with His people? If you have not, you rob the church of your witness. Make no delay in that, for it is the confession of Christ that brings true increase. Then, as a living stone in His temple, you shall be a blessing indeed, not merely by writing cheques, but by reproving sin with a bold face, by comforting the weary with words from the Comforter, by teaching the ignorant the way of salvation.
Go on blessing God from the first word of the prayer to the last. If He has saved you, serve Him forever and ever. And if He sees fit to entrust you with greater means, it will be that you may be a steward, not a hoarder. But set not your heart upon it, for the life is more than meat. The riches of His grace are the only millions that can never fly away. May the Lord add His blessing, for Jesus’ sake.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
