Is Money the First Test of the Kingdom?| Broken Altars Series | 3 July 2026
- William Abraham
- Jul 15
- 4 min read
A woman who had bled for twelve years reached out and touched the fringe — the tassel at the hem of Jesus' prayer shawl. She was in a crowd pressing in on Him from every side, yet her touch in faith released healing power.
Luke's word for that fringe is the same word the Greek Old Testament uses for the tassel commanded in Numbers, tied at the corner where a man's own eye would find it, so that he would remember the commandments of the Lord rather than follow his own heart. Malachi later names that same corner — the kanaph, the wing — as the place healing would rise with the Sun of Righteousness. She did not grab a stranger's robe out of panic. She reached for a place Scripture had marked centuries in advance as a place of healing power.
Notice what Jesus does not say. He does not say He decided to heal her. He says power went out of Him, and that He felt it leave. The power did not begin when she touched Him. It was already present, already governing that moment, because of who He was and whose He was. And she had faith in the Word that said there was healing in His wings.
We are called to be like Him and he said we would even do greater works than He did (John 14:12). Why do we in the ekklesia — the ruling body of kings and priests Christ is building — not see this kind of miracle flow more often? Could we be missing some of the first steps of faithfulness?
Zechariah's mouth was shut because he gave doubt a voice against a word already delivered by an angel. However, the Shunammite guarded her confession when her son died, refusing to let her mouth report her son's death to anyone but the one who had authority over the word she was standing on. Jesus didn't try to raise the faith in the room — He cleared out the room, removing the unbelief before He raised Jairus' daughter from the dead. Likewise, in His own hometown, He marvelled that the people had created an atmosphere of unbelief that restricted what even He could release there. They were certainly not touching the hem of His garment in faith.
Jesus teaches one of the first steps toward greater truth and greater works. What is the first step?
He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little thing is dishonest and unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the case of unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? … No servant is able to serve two masters … You cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:10-13, AMP
Dealing with money He calls "a very little thing," and sets it beside what He calls the true riches, then asks who will entrust the true riches to one unfaithful in the small one. Money is the small, visible territory where Heaven tests whether a larger, invisible territory can be safely handed over. If we want the flow of power, we need to have laid the righteous foundation first. This is where the greater works Jesus promised — the ones He said would exceed His own — have gone missing.
That is why I wrote the book, Kingdom Finance Revolution: Building Your Life as an Altar of Blessing. It is focused on this first step of the journey toward the greater works and the transformation God has promised in Isaiah 61:4:
And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Isaiah 61:4, AMP
Isaiah ties healing directly to breaking a yoke (Isaiah 58), and the yoke ruling much of the modern ekklesia is economic: debt, fear, an inherited scarcity passed down as though it were simply how life works, a system of provision that is not the Kingdom of God and has never been named as an altar. We are like the mourners Jesus cast out, or Zechariah, who had to be silenced. We need to be renewed and transformed so that we can master this first step and move on to transformational impact: healing, miracles, releasing people from economic and physical bondage, and rebuilding ruined systems and the discipling of nations.
Egypt controlled Israel's economic output before it did anything else to them, and God dealt with Pharaoh before He gave His people a single strategy for Canaan. Freedom and economic release came first, and the investment in the Golden Calf was part of the same mindset of bondage that kept them from moving into their promises. Faithful in the very little precedes being entrusted with the much, and that order has not changed.
The way back is repentance and the rebuilding of an altar that has fallen into disrepair — left broken by generations of unexamined agreement with Egypt. Solomon was given the sequence at the dedication of the Temple, and it has not changed since: humble, pray, turn from what has actually been ruling, and healing follows.
The woman did not receive because she was near Christ. The whole crowd was near Him. She received because she reached for what already ruled that moment, before she ever arrived. The greater works are the same — waiting on a question of authority, whether the true riches can be entrusted to a people who have finally dealt honestly with the very little. May we walk in that same faithfulness — servants proven trustworthy in the very little — so that the greater works, and the power of the Kingdom, can finally be released through us.
Scripture Focus
Luke 8:44–46 · Numbers 15:38 · Malachi 4:2 · Luke 1:18–20 · 2 Kings 4:22–26 · Mark 5:38–43 · Mark 6:5–6 · Luke 16:10–13 · John 14:12 · Isaiah 58:6–8 · Isaiah 61:4 · Exodus 1:14 · Exodus 20:5 · Exodus 32:1–6 · 1 Kings 18:30 · Daniel 9:3–19 · 2 Chronicles 7:14 — AMPC
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