The blessings listed in Deuteronomy 28 are a case in point. Here you’ll find a wealth of insight about financial prosperity and how to grasp hold of it.
“The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand.” Deuteronomy 28:8
As outlined in the writings of Moses, the Hebrews farmed and measured what they needed each year in terms of storehouses.
These storehouses were where they housed and kept their produce safe until another harvest could be gathered to replenish the previous year’s storehouse.
Storehouses were built to store what God had provided through the productivity of His people.
The Israelites were used to living with at least three storehouses of grain at all times—two or three years of income stored away to cover their needs. To have less was foolhardy; to have more was unnecessary.
Two to three years of reserves were all the grain they needed at all times unless there were catastrophic problems like multiple years of drought, war, or famine.
Wisdom dictated they have at least three storehouses…
…faith and their relationship to God would take care of the rest.
People didn’t live hand-to-mouth unless they were beggars.
They didn’t spend this month’s paycheck to pay for this month’s rent or have to wait until payday to buy groceries because they had nothing in their checking account (yes, bank accounts are a form of storehouse).
Storehouses set very real limits.
There was only so much grain in the storehouse—once it was empty, there was no more.