1CHRON 29: 10-13
- “BELOVED, I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT THOU MAYEST PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH, EVEN AS THY SOUL PROSPERETH
- THE WORLD’S DEFINITION OF PROSPERITY IS FINANCIAL ABILITY AND POWER.
- YET THE WORLD ITSELF ADMITS THAT IT HAS NO POWER TO OVERCOME POVERTY, SICKNESS, SPIRITUAL ILLS OR SOCIAL ILLS.
- TRUE PROSPERITY IS THE ABILITY TO USE GOD’S POWER TO MEET THE NEEDS OF MANKIND IN ANY REALM OF LIFE.
- THIS COVERS MUCH MORE THAN JUST FINANCES, POLITICS AND SOCIETY.
- MONEY IS NOT THE ONLY DEGREE OF PROSPERITY.
- YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD AND STILL BE VERY POOR SPIRITUALLY, MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
- MONEY IS THE LOWEST FORM OF PROSPERITY AND POWER THAT EXISTS ON EARTH.
- DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HIGHEST FORM OF PROSPERITY AND POWER IS TODAY?
- YOUR FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST IS THE PERFECT PATH TO VICTORY AND PROSPERITY 1 JOHN 5:4-6
- THE HIGHEST FORM OF PROSPERITY TODAY ON EARTH IS ALSO THE POWER OF PRAYER!
- YOU CAN PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, AND GOD WILL USE HIS ABILITY TO HANDLE YOUR SITUATION, WHATEVER IT IS.
- IT TAKES THE POWER OF GOD TO MAKE YOU COMPLETELY WHOLE.
- GOD’S POWER IS THE ONLY POWER THAT COVERS THE ENTIRE NEEDS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.
- GOD IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!MONEY CAN NEVER MAKE YOU WHOLE
- TO LIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE, YOUR SOUL MUST PROSPER IN ALL THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD.
- AND GOD’S POWER IS IN DIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS WORD.
- HE HAS USED HIS WORD TO RELEASE HIS POWER.
- HE HAS SENT HIS WORD TO US SO THAT WE MAY BE IN CONTACT WITH HIS GREAT POWER. ISAIAH 55:11 SAYS “SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH: IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING WHERETO I SENT IT”
- GOD’S POWER COVERS EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES AND SO ALSO THEN DOES HIS WORD.
- HEBREWS 1:3 SAYS THAT GOD IS UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER
- HEBREWS 4:12-13 THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND THAT IT COVERS OUR SPIRIT, SOUL, BODY .
- IT COVERS OUR THOUGHT LIFE.
- NOTHING IN THE EARTH IS HIDDEN FROM THE WORD OF GOD.
- YOUR FAITH IS IN DIRECT RELATION TO THE LEVEL OF THE WORD IN YOU.
- IF YOU INCREASE THE LEVEL OF GOD’S WORD IN YOU , YOU CAN INCREASE SPIRITUALLY, MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY, FINANCIALLY AND SOCIALLY.
- YOU WILL BE IN THE POSITION TO HANDLE ANY PROBLEM THAT COMES YOUR WAY ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD.
- YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE ANSWER TO ALL YOUR PROBLEMS , BUT GOD HAS ALL THE ANSWERS
- GETTING THE ANSWERS THROUGH TO YOU IS HIS ONLY DIFFICULTY GOD HAS!
- GOD ALWAYS KNOWS THE ANSWER, BUT WE ARE NOT ALWAYS IN A POSITION TO HEAR WHAT HE IS SAYING.
- NOW HERE IS ANOTHER PROBLEM, IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE GOD’S ABILITY TO RECEIVE HEALING
- AND YOU NEVER USE IT TO HELP ANYONE ELSE BUT YOURSELF, THEN IT WON’T WORK VERY LONG FOR YOU .
- IF YOU CAN BELIEVE GOD FOR HEALING, YOU MUST ALSO HELP SOMEONE ELSE GET HEALED.
- IF YOU WANT THAT ABILITY TO WORK WELL FOR YOU ,YOU HAVE TO SPREAD IT AROUND!
- IF YOU KNOW HOW TO BELIEVE GOD FINANCIALLY, START HELPING THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU TO DO THE SAME.
- YOU WILL BEGIN TO GROW AS YOU REACH OUT TO OTHERS.
- IN JOHN 14:18-23, JESUS WAS TEACHING HIS DISCIPLES AND GAVE THEM PERFECT OUTLINE OF PROSPERITY:
- I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS: I WILL COME TO YOU. YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WORLD SEETH ME NO MORE; BUT YE SEE ME: BECAUSE I LIVE, YE SHALL LIVE ALSO. AT THAT DAY YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM IN MY FATHER, AND YE IN ME, AND I IN YOU. HE THAT HATH MY COMMANDMENTS, AND KEEPETH THEM, HE IT IS THAT LOVETH ME: AND HE THAT LOVETH ME SHALL BE LOVED OF MY FATHER, AND / WILL LOVE HIM, AND WILL MANIFEST MYSELF TO HIM. JUDAS SAITH UNTO HIM, NOT ISCARIOT, LORD, HOW IS IT THAT THOU WILT MANIFEST THYSELF UNTO US, AND NOT UNTO THE WORLD? JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, IF A MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS: AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME UNTO HIM, AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM.
- THIS SCRIPTURE IS SPEAKING OF A MANIFESTATION OF GOD.
- IT IS SPEAKING OF GOD REVEALING HIMSELF TO US
- WHEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU AND LIVES WITH YOU, THEN YOU ARE LIVING IN PROSPERITY.
- GOD IS HERE IN THIS WORLD TODAY BY THEPOWER OFTHE HOLY SPIRIT
- HE IS READY TO MOVE WHENEVER A SINNER MAKES JESUS THE LORD OF HIS LIFE
- BUT HE WILL NOT REVEAL HIMSELF IN A PERSON’S LIFE UNTIL THAT PERSON CALLS ON HIM.
- IF GOD’S PRESENCE WERE ENOUGH, EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH WOULD GET SAVED BECAUSE WE ALL ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
- HE WAS SENT TO EARTH ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST AND HE IS STILL HERE TODAY.
- THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD IS THE IMPORTANT THING.
- WHEN WE OPERATE IN THE WORD OF GOD, WHEN WE KEEP HIS WORD, THEN JESUS WILL MANIFEST HIMSELF, OR MAKE HIMSELF REAL, TO US.
- HE WON’T JUST BE AROUND YOU HE WILL LIVE IN YOU ! DO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE?
- IF WE PUT HIS WORD FIRST IN OUR LIVES, JESUS WILL REVEAL HIMSELF TO US.
- THEN WHENEVER A PROBLEM ARISES IN THE PHYSICAL REALM, WE KNOW THE ANSWER IS IN HIS WORD.
- WE ALSO KNOW THE GREAT ONE LIVING IN US WILL DELIVER US WHENEVER WE ACT ON THAT WORD, NO MATTER HOW IMPOSSIBLE THE SITUATION IS.PSALM 103:20
- SOME PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR A SPECIAL MANIFESTATION OF GOD’S GRACE BEFORE THEY WILL GET SAVED.
- THEY WANT SOME SPECIAL SIGN BUT THEY DON’T HAVE TO WAIT AT ALL.
- WE ARE BORN OF HIS WORD 1 PETER 1:23.
- IF ANYONE WILL CONFESS JESUS AS LORD AND BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, HE WILL BE SAVED SEE ROMANS 10:9-10.
- IT IS A SIMPLE MATTER OF BELIEVING GOD’S WORD. YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT TO RECEIVE SALVATION—IT IS BEING OFFERED.
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT TO RECEIVE FINANCIAL PROSPERITY IT IS BEING OFFERED
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT FOR DELIVERANCE ,IT IS BEING OFFERED
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT FOR IT IS BEING OFFERED
- HOW ABOUT ,PEACE JOY AND HOLINESS ?
- ALL THESE THINGS ARE BEING OFFERED BY JESUS CHRIST IN HIS WORD.
- YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS IN PHILIPPIANS 4:19 THAT GOD WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS.
- GOD SAYS:”IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND” ISAIAH 1:1.
- HE ALSO SAYS “WHAT THINGS SOEVER YE DESIRE, WHEN YE PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE THEM, AND YE SHALL HAVE THEM’ MARK 11:24.“..
- HE SAYS .YE HAVE NOT, BECAUSE YE ASK NOT” JAMES 4:2.
- WHEN YOU ACT ON THE WORD OF GOD, THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART WILL BEGIN TO GROW AND LINE UP WITH GOD ‘S WILL FOR YOUR DESTINY
- WHEN YOU ACT ON THE WORD OF GOD ,THEN HE CAN CAUSE ALL GRACE TO ABOUND TOWARD YOU
- BUT THE FIRST STEP IS TO GET YOUR MIND OFF YOURSELF.
- TRY FOR ONCE TO FORGET ABOUT YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO HAVE VICTORY AND PROSPER
- BEGIN TO TAKE UP THE NEEDS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AS IF THEY WERE YOUR OWN.
- THE BIBLE STATES VERY CLEARLY THAT IF A MAN COMES TO YOU NEEDING FOOD AND CLOTHES, DON’T JUST PRAY FOR HIM AND SEND HIM AWAY COLD AND HUNGRY.
- FEED HIM AND CLOTHE HIM! MATT 25:31-46
- ANOTHER THING THAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT , GOD WILL NOT JUST MEET YOUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO YOUR EDUCATION , TALENT OR JOB.PHIL 4:19
- IF YOU HAVE MORE FAITH IN YOUR JOB AND YOUR OWN ABILITY TO WORK THAN YOU HAVE IN THE WORD OF GOD, THEN IT DEFINITELY WON’T WORK FOR YOU.
- GOD WILL CERTAINLY USE WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN YOUR JOB TO BLESS YOU OR EVEN GET YOU A BETTER ONE.
- BUT HE IS NOT LIMITED TO YOUR JOB UNLESS YOU LIMIT HIM TO IT.
- ABRAM TURNED TO THE KING OF SODOM IN GENESIS 14:23 AND SAID, “I DON’T EVEN WANT THE STRING FROM YOUR SANDAL BECAUSE YOU COULD SAY A MAN MADE ABRAM RICH” .
- NO MAN MADE ABRAHAM RICH. GOD MADE HIM RICH. CAN YOU SEE THIS?
- BUT THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BIBLE,
- IT RUNS THROUGHOUT GOD’S HISTORY OF DEALING WITH MAN.
- EVERY TIME THERE WAS A NEED, NO MATTER WHAT THAT NEED WAS, GOD HAD A MAN SOMEWHERE WHO HAD THE RESOURCES TO MEET THAT NEED.
- SPIRITUALLY, MENTALLY OR FINANCIALLY GOD ALWAYS SENDS SOMEONE TO MEET THAT NEED
- FOR ISRAEL, THERE WAS MOSES. FOR THE WORLD, THERE WAS JESUS CHRIST.
- EVEN FOR THE LORD JESUS, THERE WAS A MAN WITH A DONKEY.
- FOR EPHESUS, THERE WAS PAUL.GOD ALWAYS HAS A MAN TO PROVIDE EVERY NEED.
- NO PERSON WILL EVER BE SO SPIRITUAL THAT HE DOESN’T NEED OTHER PEOPLE. WE ALL NEED ONE ANOTHER.
- BEGIN TO INCLUDE THE BODY OF CHRIST IN YOUR NEEDS. BEGIN TO INCLUDE THE LOST IN YOUR NEEDS.
- JESUS SAID, “WHY DO YOU WORRY ABOUT WHAT YOU WILL EAT AND WHAT YOU WILL WEAR? YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS YOU HAVE NEED OF THESE THINGS” MATTHEW 6:31-32.
- BUT HE ALSO SAID, “GIVE, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU; GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, AND SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER, SHALL MEN GIVE INTO YOUR BOSOM” LUKE 6:38.
- WHEN I REALIZED THIS AND BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE NEEDS OF OTHERS BEFORE MY OWN, I FOUND THAT MY NEEDS WERE MET SUPERNATURALLY!
- KENNETH COPELAND SAID I HAD SPENT PRACTICALLY ALL OF MY ADULT LIFE IN DEBT.
- IT SEEMED THAT EVERY BUSINESS VENTURE I TRIED JUST FELL APART, LEAVING ME EVEN FURTHER IN DEBT.
- THEN I TURNED TO THE LORD, DETERMINED TO COMMIT MYSELF TO HIS WORD, AND BEGAN WALKING MY BEDROOM FLOOR WITH MY BIBLE IN MY FIST, SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE,
- “MY GOD MEETS ALL MY NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS!”
- I JUST KEPT CONFESSING THIS HOUR AFTER HOUR, DAY AFTER DAY!
- MY SITUATION LOOKED ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE AT THE TIME
- I HAD NO PLACE TO PREACH AND NOTHING MUCH TO SAY! (ONE THING I COULD SAY WAS, “MY GOD MEETS ALL MY NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS!”
- I KNEW THAT SENTENCE VERY WELL!) ELEVEN MONTHS LATER I WAS COMPLETELY OUT OF DEBT.
- THE MEANTIME, I LEARNED TO INCLUDE OTHER PEOPLE IN MY NEEDS BY GIVING TO THEM AND GETTING INVOLVED WITH THEM.
- I BEGAN TO GIVE, I SUDDENLY REALIZED ONE DAY HOW VERY BUSY I WAS WITH GOD’S WORK. YEARS HAVE COME AND GONE AND I HAVEN’T CAUGHT UP YET.
- HE SAYS WHEN YOU DO THIS, GOD WILL MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH IF NECESSARY TO REACH YOU.
- NOW, A BIG QUESTION IN THE MINDS OF MANY CHRISTIANS IS DOES SATAN BLESS PEOPLE FINANCIALLY?
- MANY TIMES IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE UNGODLY MEN HAVE ALL THE MONEY, BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE.
- THERE IS MORE WEALTH HIDDEN AWAY THAN WE WILL EVER POSSESS.
- THE BIBLE SAYS PLAINLY THAT GOD WILL CAUSE US TO HAVE THE HIDDEN WEALTH OF THE WORLD, THE HIDDEN RICHES OF THE SECRET PLACES SEE ISAIAH 45:3.
- THE WORD TELLS US THAT “…THE WEALTH OF THE SINNER IS LAID UP FOR THE JUST” PROVERBS 13:22.
- WHY THEN DOES THE SINNER HAVE IT? BECAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN FACTS OF FINANCIAL LAW THAT WILL WORK WHEN PUT TO WORK. ISRAEL HAS PROVED THIS.
- GOD TAUGHT ABRAHAM CERTAIN THINGS THAT THE JEWS ARE USING TODAY, AND THEY ARE STILL WORKING.
- YOU WON’T FIND A JEW WHO BELIEVES IN POVERTY BECAUSE POVERTY IS NOT IN THE OLD COVENANT.
- YOU CAN LOOK AT THE WORLD’S SYSTEM OF FINANCE AND SEE A PERFECT PICTURE OF SATAN’S WHOLE PATTERN.
- IT CAN BE STATED IN JUST A FEW WORDS—”THE THIEF COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY” (JOHN 10:10).
- HOW DO YOU KILL A BODY OF WATER? STOP IT FROM FLOWING.
- HOW DO YOU KILL A PHYSICAL BODY? STOP IT FROM FUNCTIONING.
- HOW DO YOU KILL THE BODY OF CHRIST FINANCIALLY?
- PILE UP ALL THE MONEY IN THE BANKS AND STOP IT FROM MOVING.
- SATAN IS A DECEIVER. HE DOES NOTHING THAT IS AN ABSOLUTE BLESSING
- . PROVERBS 1:32 SAYS“THE PROSPERITY OF FOOLS SHALL DESTROY THEM.”
- IT MAY LOOK AS IF HE IS BLESSING, BUT HE ALWAYS DESTROYS.
- HE ALWAYS PRESENTS A DEAD END, NO WAY OUT.
- IN FACT IT IS EASY TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WORK OF GOD AND THE WORK OF SATAN,
- JUST REMEMBER THAT SATAN ALWAYS TELLS YOU THERE IS NO WAY OUT, BUT JESUS SAYS, “I AM THE WAY” JOHN 14:6.
- IF YOU EXPERIENCE DOUBT, DEFEAT OR DISCOURAGEMENT, IT IS ALWAYS FROM SATAN
- BY BELIEVING GOD AND INCLUDING THE NEEDS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST IN YOUR NEEDS
- YOU BECOME AN OPEN CHANNEL FOR THE THINGS OF GOD TO FLOW THROUGH TO OTHERS.
- EVERYTHING YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM GOD FLOWED THROUGH JESUS.
- DID JESUS EVER LOSE ANYTHING BY GIVING IT TO YOU? NO, HE STILL OWNS IT ALL.
- 1 JOHN 4:17 MAKES AN AMAZING STATEMENT, “…AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.”
- IT DOES NOT SAY AS HE WAS OR AS WE ARE GOING TO BE; IT SAYS AS HE IS, SO ARE WE.
- IN HIS POSITION AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, JESUS HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO GIVE.
- WELL, WE ARE HIS JOINT HEIRS, AND HE IS READY TO SEE TO IT THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH TO GIVE SEE PHILIPPIANS 4:10-19
- AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CHANNEL OF BLESSING CAN BE SEEN IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
- GOD GAVE HIS REVELATION TO JESUS, WHO IN TURN GAVE IT TO HIS SERVANT JOHN BY HIS ANGEL;
- THE ANGEL GAVE IT TO JOHN; JOHN WAS TO GIVE IT TO THE CHURCHES.
- AND THEY, IN TURN, WOULD GIVE IT TO THE BODY OF CHRIST WHO WOULD FEED IT TO THE WORLD.
- JESUS CHRIST IS THE CONSTANT CHANNEL, A CONSTANT FLOW OF THE LOVE OF GOD
- HE IS THE CONSTANT FLOW OF POWER.
- HE IS THE CONSTANT FLOW OF MONEY…THE FLOW OF FOOD…THE FLOW OF EVERYTHING YOU NEED!
- THIS IS THE BASIC PRINCIPLE GOD HAS PLANNED TO USE
- HE SUPPLIES THE BODY OF CHRIST AND ALLOWS THE BODY OF CHRIST TO SUPPLY THE WORLD
- THIS IS SUMMED UP IN ONE VERSE FROM ECCLESIASTES,:
- “CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS FOR THOU SHALT FIND IT AFTER MANY DAYS” (ECCLESIASTES 11:1).
- GIVE, AND AFTER A WHILE IT WILL COME BACK TO YOU AGAIN.
- BUT YOU HAVE TO START “CASTING YOUR BREAD” INTO MANY WATERS
- YOU CAN’T WAIT UNTIL YOUR BREAD COMES BACK BEFORE YOU CAST IT OUT.
- MANY WHO ARE WAITING FOR THEIR BREAD TO COME BACK DFROM MANY WATERS HAVE NEVER SENT IT OUT ON ONE!
- THINGS DON’T WORK THAT WAY.
- IT WOULD BE LIKE SAYING TO A STOVE, “GIVE ME SOME HEAT, AND THEN I’LL PUT SOME FIRE ON YOU.”
- NO YOU MUST FIRST GIVE— THEN IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU AGAIN.
- THE KEY IS TO GIVE CONTINUALLY.
- AS YOU ARE WALKING IN THE WORD AND GOD’S PROSPERITY IS BEING PRODUCED IN YOUR LIFE,
- YOU WILL REACH A POINT WHEN YOUR BREAD KEEPS COMING BACK TO YOU !
- IT IS YOUR JOB TO FIRSST PUT IT ON THE WATER.
- AND IT IS GOD’S JOB TO SEE THAT IT COMES BACK!
- YOU DO YOUR JOB AND LET GOD DO HIS, THEN YOU WILL BE RECEING CONTINUALLY .
- THE MORE YOU GIVE, THE MORE YOU WILL GET; THE MORE YOU GET, THE MORE YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE.
- GOD INTENDED FOR THESE THINGS TO WORK THIS WAY.
- WHEN YOU GET TO THIS POINT, MORE WILL BE COMING IN THAN YOU CAN GIVE AWAY!
- SATAN OPERATES IN A WAY EXACTLY OPPOSITE FROM THIS.
- EVERYTHING HE DOES SPELLS REBELLION AND STOPPAGE.
- WHEN YOU SEE A WICKED MAN WITH A GREAT AMOUNT OF WEALTH, YOU ARE LOOKING AT A FINANCIAL RESERVOIR CREATED BY SATAN TO STOP THE FLOW.
- THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE SAYS IN MARK 10:23, “AND JESUS LOOKED AROUND AND SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, WITH WHAT DIFFICULTY WILL THOSE WHO POSSESS WEALTH AND KEEP ON HOLDING IT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD!”.
- IF A MAN HAS A MILLION DOLLARS IN A SAFE AND WON’T SPEND IT, IT IS ABSOLUTELY WORTHLES TO HIM AND TO EVERYONE AROUND HIM.
- THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM IT,INCLUDING HIMSELF
- BUT HE HAS BLOCKED THE CHANNEL BLOCKED.
- THE ONLY ONE PROFITING FROM THIS KIND OF THING IS SATAN.
- HE USES THE FORCES OF HATE, FEAR AND GREED TO KEEP FINANCIAL RESOURCES LOCKED UP.
- PROVERBS 1:19 TELLS US THAT GREED TAKES AWAY THE LIFE OF ITS POSSESSORS.
- SATAN CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY, BUT HE CAN’T SHOW YOU HOW TO KEEP IT.
- SELFISHNESS IS NEVER ABLE TO MAINTAIN WHAT IT BUILDS—IT ALWAYS DESTROYS.
- SUPPOSE A MAN DECIDED TO SAVE HIS LEFT ARM AND JUST USE HIS RIGHT ONE,
- HE IS THINKING THAT YEARS LATER WHEN HIS RIGHT ARM GOT TIRED, HE COULD SWITCH OVER AND USE THE LEFT ONE AGAIN.
- WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIS LEFT ARM? IT WOULD LOSE ITS ABILITY TO FUNCTION?
- NOW, THIS IS A FOOLISH IDEA, BUT THE PRINCIPLE IS TRUE FOR A MAN WITH $100,000 KEPT AWAY BECAUSE OF FEAR THAT ONE OF THESE DAYS THERE WOULDN’T BE ANY MONEY LEFT.
- IF YOU ARE EXERCISING THIS KIND OF FEAR WITH A FEW DOLLARS, YOU ARE JUST AS GUILTY OF BEING A RESERVOIR AS THE MAN WHO KEEPS A MILLION DOLLARS LOCKED UP IN HIS ACCOUNT
- A DEAD END, A SATANIC STOPPAGE—SOMEONE WITH NO MORE THAN A SECONDHAND SHIRT CAN BE JUST AS GUILTY OF GREED AS A MAN WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PILED UP SOMEWHERE.
- ONE IS JUST AS DECEIVED AS THE OTHER.
- TO A PERSON WHO IS SELFISH, A SECONDHAND SHIRT LOOKS VERYGOOD.
- THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY THAT MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL;
- IT SAYS THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL 1 TIMOTHY 6:10,
- AND THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE COMMITTING THAT SIN WHO DON’T HAVE A CENT!
- GOD CAN DO MORE WITH 15 CENTS GIVEN IN FAITH THAN KINGS CAN DO WITH MOUNTAINS OF GOLD!
- THE LITTLE WIDOW PROVED THIS WITH HER TWO MITES SEE MARK 12:41-44.
- REMEMBER NOT TO LIMIT GOD TO ONLY WHAT YOU CAN SEE AND UNDERSTAND WITH YOUR HEAD.
- WHEN THE ENTIRE WORLD IS COMPLETELY DESTITUTE, GOD WILL STILL HAVE PLENTY AND CAN MAKE IT ABOUND TOWARD YOU.
- AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.
- SO DON’T BE AFRAID TO BECOME A CHEERFUL, FREEHEARTED GIVER.
- IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM AS A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER, YOU HAVE LIFE AND THE ABILITY TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS.
- YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO GIVE THIS LIFE TO MEET THEIR NEEDS.
- YOU HAVE THE LIFE-GIVING FORCE OF GOD HIMSELF RESIDING INSIDE YOU, AND THE WORLD IS DESPERATE FOR THAT LIFE! DON’T BE STINGY WITH IT.
- FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED…FREELY GIVE.
- WHEN YOU MAKE IT YOUR NEED TO GET SALVATION INTO THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE,
- WHEN YOU MAKE IT YOUR PURPOSE TO FEED THE GOSPEL TO THE UNSAVED, GOD WILL SUPPORT WHAT YOU DO.
- THIS IS TRUE PROSPERITY!
- GOD HAS OBLIGATED HIMSELF TO COMMUNICATE THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD.
- HE WILL MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO DO IT BECAUSE, TO THE MAN WHO HAS NEVER HEARD IT, JESUS HAS NEVER DIED OR BEEN RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.
- TO THAT MAN, THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS MEANS NOTHING. THE WORD SAYS IN 1 JOHN 4:17, “…AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.”
- GOD IS FEEDING US THROUGH JESUS.
- WHEN YOU GO TO THE LORD, HE HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO MEET THE NEED.
- HAVE YOU EVER TURNED TO THE LORD WITH A PROBLEM AND HAD HIM SAY, “WELL, THAT’S NEW! YOU’VE COME UP WITH SOMETHING HEAVEN CAN’T COVER”? OF COURSE NOT!
- GOD HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO SOLVE THE WORST PROBLEM YOU COULD HAVE.
- JESUS IS THE CHANNEL TO US, AND WE ARE THE CHANNEL TO THE WORLD.
- TRUE PROSPERITY IS THE ABILITY TO LOOK A MAN IN THE EYE IN HIS MOMENT OF IMPOSSIBILITY AND TAKE HIS NEEDS AS YOUR OWN.
- THOSE WHO ARE SPIRITUAL ARE TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE NOT.
- WE ARE TO BEAR ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS.
- WHEN A BROTHER COMES TO YOU WITH A PROBLEM, JOIN WITH HIM IN PRAYER, JOIN YOUR FAITH WITH HIS.
- PUT PRESSURE ON SATAN WITH THE NAME OF JESUS AND GET HIM OFF THE MAN.
- PUT PRESSURE ON THE LAWS OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS.
- LEAN ON YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN JESUS CHRIST.
- LEAN HARD ON IT! LEAN HARD ON YOUR SONSHIP.
- PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. PRAISE GOD, THEY WORK!
MINISTERATION
SONG; WHAT A FELLOWSHIP
ALTAR CALL FOR SALVATION