OT Promise 297: Plenty and New Wine

Proverbs 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

The condition for this conditional promise is in verse 9: “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase.” If you honor the Lord with your substance, then He will grant plenty and abundance. When you seek the Lord first then these things shall be added to you. Honoring the Lord with your substance must mean giving something of the wealth, money, and property that you control over to the Lord for use in His mission. When one gives substantially to the Lord’s work the Lord provides an abundance of wheat for the barns and new wine for the presses so that they burst with it.

Whatever form the “filling” and the “bursting out” will take, we can be sure that the Lord provides enough and more than enough. The return blessing may be material blessings, physical health, emotional stability, mental acuity, happy family relationships. All this abundance comes freely to the one who puts the Lord first and gives to the Lord’s work generously.

We cannot usually see the connection between our “giving” and our “receiving” but we believe there is a connection because God says so.