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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
GOD’S FORMULA FOR PROSPERITY!
This was given to me from God and from the Bible which is the word of God which we will be judged by
those things which are written there in.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, what are you going to do with
it?
The spirit of God woke me up this morning and told me the things that I am
going to write. For the past year or so Satan has buffeted me and my family
in just about every area of our life and I have been asking God to give me
the strength to endure and to overcome every trial and temptation that came
my way. God gave me this, for me, my family and for those who read the
things that I write.
Now God has given me three things that are written for our instruction on
prosperity. God has shown to me that prosperity can only come thru the
obedience to God’s word. I WILL START WITH THE FIRST OF THE
TEN COMMANDANDENTS, as Jesus gave them in Matthew 22:37, thou
shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all of thy soul, and
with all thy mind. Now we can’t come to God without the blood of Jesus
being applied to our souls. Jesus said that I am the way the truth and the
light, no man comes to the father except thru me. So we have to come thru
our advocate who is Jesus Christ. We must love God and seek his blessings
on our lives first. Mathew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness: and all of these things will be added unto you.
Now the next thing that God showed to me was the Lords prayer, Our father
who are in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done on Earth as it is in heaven. Now allow me to put that in personal terms.
My father you are my Lord and savior, my Guide through this life and I
Love you more than anything and will follow all the instructions that you
have given to me in your word. I will set up your kingdom in my heart and
will obey you here on earth just as the angels in heaven obey you.
Now the next thing that God gave to me is the parable of the sower which is
found in Mark chapter four. Here Jesus tell of a sower that sows seed and
some of the seed fell by the wayside, and some fell in stony ground, and
some fell among thorns, and others fell in good ground and did yield fruit.
Now Jesus explains the parable to his disciples, and starting in verse eleven
tells them that the sower is sowing the word, and the things that keep the
word from bearing fruit. The first is that Satan comes and takes the word
from their hearts, next is those who receive the word with gladness, but have
no root in themselves and only endure for a time, and when they are afflicted
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or persecuted because of the word and are immediately offended. The next
are those who hear the word, and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness
of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, choke the word and it
becomes unfruitful. Now what is wrong here? These people have not
properly prepared their hearts to receive the word. The Holy Ghost is the one
that will make the word to become fruitful in your life! Seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all of these things will be
added unto you! This includes understanding the word. Now Satan cannot
take the word from your heart if it is committed to Jesus, and your heart is in
love with the Lord of Glory. The Holy Ghost is the one that will help you
grow roots in the word and, in yourself and will give you the strength to
overcome the afflictions, and persecutions that come from those who hate
God.
Now prosperity is not measured in monetary gains only, but in peace of
mind and peace in your soul, knowing that everything is alright between you
and God, and knowing that if God should send Jesus to receive his children
home that you would be among them.
Now I want to reveal the thing that God has given to me. There are too many
people who attend church that are just playing church and are not really
seriously serving God. They think that God understands me. Yes God does
understand; he knows that you’re not serious, and that you are only giving to
him the leftovers of your time and your love for him is very weak. God
wants the first fruits of your life, not your afterthoughts. God will give to
you the way that you give to him. Do you find time for God every day? Or
do you wait until trouble overtakes you to call on him. Do you take a few
minutes every morning to tell God that you love him? Do you invite him to
spend the day with you? He will if you just ask! The second commandment
is Thou shall have no other Gods before me! What is in your life that is more
important that is taking the time that you should be spending with God? Set
your clock just five minutes ahead of your regular time that you get up in the
morning, and spend those five minutes with God and see the difference in
your life! God wants your first fruits! Now there are twenty four hours a day.
You owe God at least ten percent of that, which is two hours and forty
minutes, so five minutes is only a small portion of that.
First things first, get your spiritual life in line with God’s word, and then
we can start working those other things that need to be in line with the word.
Seek you first the kingdom of God and all of the other things will be easier
to understand will start falling in place with the word of God.
Now I want to tell you what he said about finances! When you pay your bills
each month, what do you pay first? What is your most important thing to
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pay? Let’s go to Malachi and see what God has to say about what you
should be doing.
Now in Malachi God is dealing with Israel about offering polluted offerings
upon the altar of God. God tells us that a son honors his father and that a
servant honors his master, and if god is your father then where is his honor,
or if God is your master where is your fear? Chapter 1:7, ye offer polluted
bread upon my altar; and you say wherein have we polluted thee? In that you
say that the table of the Lord is contemptible.
In the 8th. Verse, God explains that the people were offering sacrifices that
were less than good for sacrifice unto God. You see, God only wants the
best from you and will not settle for less. We expect God to answer our
prayers when we pray, but we do not honor him with our time or our tithes.
But we still expect him to act as though we do. Here God tells the Israelites
to take those sacrifices to their Governor and see if he will accept them. In
verse ten God tells them that he has no pleasure in them and that he will not
accept an offering from their hand. They did not give God their first fruits
nor did they give God the best of the cattle for their sacrifice and God was
not pleased with them, and turned to the Gentiles to make his name great
among them, and will continue so until the rapture, because the Israelites
failed to honor him. Now we are not under the law but under grace, but that
does not excuse us from honoring God with our first fruits. Jesus is our
perfect Sacrifice, but we owe God our sacrifice of praise and
thanksgiving
Now I will talk about tithes. Malachi 3:8, will a man rob God? Yet you have
robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and
offerings. Verse 9; ye are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even
this whole nation.10. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord
of host, if I will not open you the windows of heaven , and pour you out
a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the
fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in
your field, saith the Lord of Host!
Many people say that they do not have enough money to pay tithes. I say
that you cannot afford not to pay tithes first. Faith in God and faith in his
word, God will never fail you, try paying your tithes first and God will do a
miracle with the rest. I am telling you something that I do personally and I
have never come up short.
Yours in Christ Brother Sam.
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