SERIES: PROSPERITY
TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 8:11-20 (18)
“But thou shall remember the Lord thy God; for it is He that giveth thee to get wealth that He may establish his covenant which He swear unto thy fathers, as it is this day”-Deut. 8:18.
In this passage of the scripture, the Bible talks about power to prosper. It is a good thing to talk about prosperity and to preach about it. But the subject of prosperity must be balanced with the subject of holiness so that after we have prospered, we would not go to hell.
In Psalm 84:11, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
Our God is clothed in glory and there is no reason why His children should wear rags because it will not make any sense.
In Psalm 24:1, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.”
Since God owes the earth and the fullness thereof, and I am His child, I must prosper.
All the money (silver and gold) in the world belongs to our heavenly Father. If you don’t have a share of it now, perhaps somebody is keeping it for you, waiting for you to grow and up before handing it over to you. Time is coming and time is now for wealth transfer from unbelievers to the real children of God.
Allowing the economy to be run by unbelievers hinders the course of the gospel.
There are many believers who have the keys of prosperity in their hands and until they drop these keys, there is absolutely nothing God can do to help them.
God’s plan is that He places first things first. The blessings of Abraham are ours but we must be willing to walk with God in the faith of Abraham.
Abraham first became a friend of God. He was righteous, He had faith and then God blessed him.
Today we want money first, we want comfort first before we can serve God. Anyone who cannot serve God when poor will not be able to serve Him when he or she gets rich.
If you and I are holding these keys of poverty, we must pray hard to drop them otherwise our labor be in vain:-
TWENTY KEYS OF POVERTY.
- Stinginess-Proverbs 11:24.
“There is one that scattareth and yet increaseth; and there is one that withholdeth more than is meet but it tendeth to poverty.”
- Stinginess leads to poverty.
- This is where God is different from us.
- For us we like to keep money, hoard it or pile it up to become rich.
- God’s law says that he that scatters, increases but he who withholds, gets poor.
- Someone was getting Kshs. 5,000 salary and faithfully tithing Kshs. 500. Then his salary was increased to Kshs. 25,000. He found hard to tithe Kshs. 2,500. God demoted him to Kshs. 5,000 salary.
- A stingy person is cursed, the key to receiving is giving. When we refuse to give we become dead seas.
- Loving sleep-Proverbs 20:13.
“Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.”
- If you want God to prosper you and you still wake up every morning with the help of an alarm clock, something is wrong.
- Students who excel above their fellows will not love sleep.
- To sleep for 12 hours a day demands deliverance from the key of sleep.
- Loving vain persons-Proverbs 28:19.
“He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread, but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.”
- When someone is constantly found in the company of unserious people and those who don’t work hard, such a person would put himself into poverty.
Laziness
- Many Christians are lazy, instead of them to pray for ideas that would fetch them money.
- Such a people fold their hands and keep on saying “O God, we are looking at your face.”
- Anyone who is lazy cannot get anywhere with God.
- If we are spiritually and physically lazy, we will not get anywhere.
- The Christian journey is not for the lazy ones.
- Mocking the poor-Proverbs 17:5.
“Whosoever mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.”
- People who mock the poor by saying “Me, I am not in your category, I am made of better stuff; I wear only expensive clothes and not mitumbas which you wear.
- If you tell the poor “I don’t mix up with people like you” you have mocked the poor and reproached their maker.
- You did not create them, some have had no choice.
- Poverty is lack of choice.
- Sisters who tell their husbands “you are a useless man, you have no car.”
- You are mocking the poor and reproaching his maker.
- Failure in tithes and offerings-Malachi 3:8-10.
- Failure to tithe and give your offerings is a strong key to poverty.
- Failure to tithe closes the windows of heaven, making you poor.
- Failure to contribute to the work of God-Haggai 1:6-8.
- Anytime there is work to be done in the church (Building the wall) don’t be left out.
- It is fraudulent in the house of God to bring some item and ring the bell asking for 10 times its value.
- Giving to God in small measures-Luke 6:38.
- God does not look at what you have given but how much you are left with.
- Engaging in the wrong business-Luke 5:4-6.
- Peter was engaged in fishing fish when He was supposed to be fishing for men’s souls.
- When Jesus died, Peter went back to fishing and still did not catch anything-John 21:3-6.
- Not caring for ministers of God-Matt. 10:41.
- Not giving to the poor-Proverbs 28:27.
- Giving to the poor helps you to have abundance.
- The curse of poverty-Gal. 3:13-14.
- The curse of the law includes poverty, disease and death.
- Ignorance-Hosea 4:6.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
- Some believers are ignorant of God’s provisions for their lives.
- Some people who claim to be living by faith, tell lies because they are living by begging.
- Ignorance is the major cause of human failure in many endeavors.
- Some people feel that they are too big to do some jobs whereas they have no job.
- They don’t want to start a baseness in the market place.
- Ostentatious living.
- Some people like showing off. They want to look better than anybody else. So they enter into debt.
- When a person refuses to leave closed business he will suffer.
- Many people give up too soon. The spirit of the loser and the tail.
- Lack of good counseling. Many of us go to things without asking for counsel leading to failure.
- Engaging in secret sins. Sin hinders blessings.
- Demonic activities. The major factors responsible for the poverty of the black people in this environment are demonic activities-Isaiah 19:1-16.
MAMMON
- Mammon is the demon spirit power that controls money.
- It is the power behind those who sell charms, witchcraft materials and do all kinds of things to make men sell their souls for money.
- Mammon spirit also distributes spirits of poverty to attack human race particularly Christians.
- Mammon is the demon that controls greediness, selfishness, poverty and financial bankruptcy.
- Many Christians have to defeat mammon in their lives. They have to bind the power and the spirit of mammon.
- Mammon is an evil spirit that grips men and women and enslaves them through money.
- Mammon is an evil spirit working in the world and has made many people to become slaves to money.
- God withholds money from some people, because some people when they get money they go mad and land them into hell fire!!
- “God made man, man made money, money made man mad.”
- God does not want us poor, but the keys to poverty must be dropped.
PRAYER POINTS.
- O God, locate and revive my divine potentials in the name of Jesus Christ.
- I break every curse of poverty in the name of Jesus Christ.
- You spirit of poverty, be bound, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- O Lord create profitable opportunities for me, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- O God reveal the secret of spiritual prosperity to me, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- All my stolen blessings, be returned to me, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- I refuse to inherit the spirit of poverty in the name of Jesus Christ.
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