Ephesians 3
We are walking in today: KINGDOM PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL INCREASE: Prosperity, The Most High’s Will for You!!!!
Witness incresse throughout the Bible: H8393 tĕbuw'ah--produce, product, revenue, product, yield, crops (of the earth usually), income, revenue, gain (of wisdom) (figuratively), product of lips (figuratively)
Genesis 47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, H8393 that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of
your households, and for food for your little ones.
The Torah ..................…
Deuteronomy 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase H8393 of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
The prophets ...............…
Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: H8393 all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
The writings .............
2 Chronicles 31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase H8393 of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
Isaiash 30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase H8393 of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
Money is a tool, a trial and a test. If you want to expose a man’s true character, give him access to large sums of money. Money reveals the heart of a man and the quality of his character. The great King Solomon said, “Money answers all things.” In essence, money explains everything. The poor want it. The rich hoard it. It will control those who do not control it, but the wise man makes it work for him. The subject of money is almost taboo, especially for the religious, yet the bible speaks more of money than prayer and fasting.
Having the correct understanding and appreciation for this very illusive component of life is critical and must be based on biblical principles.
The Most High has chosen this generation as the runners of the last leg of His great spiritual relay race. It is up to us to accomplish what The Most High has called us to do in these last days and to finish the race. However, that will only be possible if we learn to succeed financially.
This is why The Most High is raising up teachers in the body of Christ. As you teach the Word line upon line and precept upon precept, the anointing in the Word will go forth to break every yoke of financial bondage. The truth is financial miracles are beginning to explode throughout the body of Christ. You may ask, “But why isn’t that kind of financial breakthrough happening in my life?”
That is the question I want to answer for you. The Most High wants to perform financial miracles in your life as well, and He is capable of doing infinitely more than you can ask, think, or dream (Ephesians 3:20). And not only is He capable, He also desires to perform those miracles for you.
Sometimes we limit The Most High by how little we believe Him for, and if we settle for less than His best, then less is all He can do. I’m going to do all I can to convince you not to settle for less. Let’s go after The Most High’s highest and best in the realm of prosperity!
You can’t just read about The Most High’s principles of increase and expect anything to change in your financial situation. You have to do what The Most High says in His Word to do.
If you want your financial situation to change, you need to be just as diligent to learn The Most High’s principles for financial increase and apply them to your life. As you do, His spiritual laws regarding finances will ultimately govern the way you think, what you say, and how you act. And you will operate in these godly principles of prosperity as a way of life.
God’s Will for You
“Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:17)
You see, if you want to become financially successful, the first step is to firmly grasp that it is The Most High’s will for you to prosper. Once you know that truth in your heart and grab hold of it in faith, nothing can shake your confidence that prosperity is yours to claim!
It is possible to know The Most High’s will, because The Most High put His will in His Word. Therefore, we can know The Most High’s will. In fact, Paul wrote, “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:15) The entrance of The Most High’s Word brings light and reveals the knowledge of His will.
Of course, at certain times in our lives we have to seek The Most High in prayer to find out His will in a particular matter. We may have to pray, “Most High, please tell me specifically which job to take,” or “Lord, which house should I buy?”
But there are many other matters we don’t have to pray about because The Most High already revealed His will on those subjects in His Word.
As a Kingdom citizen you probably don’t get up every morning and quote Romans 10:9 ten times for salvation: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved”. More than likely, the truth of that scripture is already so alive in your spirit that if I talked to you for hours trying to convince you that you’re not a Kingdom Citizen, you still wouldn’t believe me!
That’s how firmly you must grasp every one of The Most High’s blessings in your life including prosperity.
Thy Will Be Done on Earth
You can see a particular phrase in the Lord’s Prayer in a whole new light once you realize prosperity is The Most High’s will for His people. Yeshua taught His disciples the Lord’s Prayer before He went to the cross as a guideline on how to pray.
So many people pray this all the time and don’t realize what they’re saying! They pray, “Most High, we want Your will to be done. Whatever is going on up there in heaven, we want it down here on earth.” If you and I want The Most High’s will to be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven, then we must find out what His will is in heaven.
If you aren’t prospering financially, you are out of the will of The Most High.
The knowledge that it is The Most High’s will for you to prosper must become so strong on the inside of you that the moment you begin to experience lack, you refuse to accept it because you know it isn’t from The Most High. Instead, your first reaction should be to confess in faith, “Most High takes pleasure in my prosperity. He wants me to be successful and prosperous. He has given me abundant life. So according to The Most High’s will, I believe I receive abundant provision for my every need!”
The Most High Takes Pleasure in Our Prosperity
We as parents want to see our children do well and be abundantly blessed. It grieves us when our children struggle and go through hard times. So it shouldn’t surprise us to find out that The Most High feels the same about His children. We’re certainly not better parents than He is!
The Most High is a good father, he doesn’t find any joy in seeing His children live on Barely-Make-It Street. He doesn’t derive any pleasure from watching them struggle financially all of their lives. What makes The Most High happy and gives Him joy, fulfillment, and excitement is to see his children prosper. In fact Yeshua said:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:11)
Now if you tell me that you’re broke because you haven’t taken the time to pray or study The Most High’s Word, I can accept that explanation. But don’t ever say that The Most High is the one keeping you in lack, because then you’re actually claiming to be a better parent than He is!
Yeshua came to give us life! That in itself is a blessing but He did not stop there! He was not satisfied with giving a little, but giving to His special treasure a life of overflowing abundance.
When we come to fully understand that Yeshua has overflowing abundance prepared and ready for us--how dare we life and expect anything less??!
Romans 8:37 (KJV) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Malachi 3:10 (KJV) 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 hosts, 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.
There are too many believers in the Most High's word that are not living up to the provisions in His word! His children were never to live in lack. He is the King of Kings and is the Creator of the universe.
Psalm 50:10-12 (KJV) 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
Haggai 2:8 (KJV) The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
Do those above scriptures give you an idea of the wealth and prosperity of the Most High?? We are made in His image and likeness would He want His children to live at a level less than His best??
Genesis 15:5 (KJV) and he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
When the Most High told Abraham to look at the stars and to number them that would be the number of his seed and generations that the Most High would bless and watch over for the obedience he had to the directions of the Most High. In this counting of the stars we could suppose that Abraham counted for a while yet we now know that there is billions of stars in the night sky. He is the Most High, the God of way too much!! Ten thousand stars would have easily made His point yet Abraham is looking up at ten thousand upon ten thousand upon ten thousand stars!!
While we are coming to the understanding of the Most High being the God of too much, He is also our Father, our Source and supply of everything! So what is it that He is showing us right now?! He is abundance, plentiful, all surpassing provision yet too many of us accept far below what He has waiting for us. As we keep studying His principles we determine His will for us is to never be in lack in any area of our lives! Anyone teaching anything else is just misunderstood in the scriptures!
Here is an equation: how does the Most High of too much, who's word speaks of His plentiful abundance have children of too little? Are there believers who are living in lack and say that they serve the All-Sufficient One? How does that add up? Where do you find a scripture that says that His children are to be in any kind of insufficiency? In His Son coming to walk and teach us His ways and paid the greatest price with His life--would the Most High hold back anything from us--whether bills or any other needed provision?
John 10:10 (KJV) The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Now let's take a look at what determines our prosperity--there are three key points that give us His desired outcome. The Most High tells us that He is constant and changes not! He does not bless some and not others--He is the Most High of Love that He has for everyone! His mercies are renewed every morning and He is no respecter of persons.
Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV) 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Acts 10:34 (KJV) Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Point number two is that His word is unchanging! It does not work for some and not others! When you are in His understanding and proper interpretation--you will receive exactly what it is that His word says!! So in the first two points we have the unchanging, infallible God, the Most High and His unfailing constant word!
Matthew 24:35 (KJV) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Numbers 23:19 (KJV) God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
The last and final point is us. We are the last factor in this equation. So what is it that we have and are missing? The time has come to totally dismiss the idea of getting a check from the sky--all of our provision is here for us on the Earth. So when the first two parts are unable to fail or cease from working we find we are the hold up to our no longer being in lack. How do we overcome such a condition? With the first keys more than covered where is the breakdown?
1 Peter 5:5 (KJV) Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
When our vision clears we see that we are the problem it is not with Him nor His word. If we would humble ourselves to learn what He is willing to teach us in His word. We would be renewed in our minds and obtain His understanding to walk in His abundance in our lives and be the example of His children that we were meant to be. The question is do you desire to have His grace and favor operating freely in your life? You have to be willing to change everything in your life to line up with His word!
That is the three ingredients for success, the Most High, His word and our obedience to His instructions leads us to His purposed provision! We have to know that the Bible that just sits on the shelf does just that sits. This word was to be a constant mediation in our mouths and minds.
Joshua 1:8 (KJV) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
This is when wisdom comes in, the application of the knowledge that you have obtained from the study and search of His word. The learning of the principles should be that we actually apply this to our lives. We have to change whatever is keeping us in lack. Which is to say that if you are in lack it is no one's fault but your own.
You are filled to the level of your hunger and thirst for Him and His word. You have exactly what you have settled for. Every answer needed in your life from sickness, poverty, worry, depression, oppression, is all found in the word of the Most High. Yet if you don't have the hunger to search out these answers in His word--you will never find it. While many believers live all their lives claiming the Most High as their God and King and yet wonder why they lived, barely getting by yet in scripture you see that is never His intention. When we make it our priority to study His word we find every answer for our lives in His word. While there is many that are growing in His word due to their hunger and thirst for the Most High we find that He is even accelerating the pace due to the time that we are in right now. Now is not the time to play--we have to be serious and truly seek Him if that is our true desire!
Why is it necessary to hunger after the Most High's word?? It is His word that He watches over to preform!! This same word is settled in Heaven forever! This same word has been magnified above His name!
Jeremiah 1:12 (KJV) Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Psalm 119:89 (KJV) Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalm 138:2 (KJV) I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Yet the Most High says that He has magnified His word above His name. As all powerful His name is His word is lifted up above His name. So if He has to honor and uphold His name above His name how can we do any less? All that He has declared in His word is not able to be altered but we can stand firm that it delivers on all that it speaks!
Fiveamprayer as we hunger for His word we come to understand the mighty work in His word that can work in our lives when we work with and not against it!
We all need to catch the spirit of complete provision that the Most High has given to those who believe and walk in obedience to His word. This is a spirit filled life led by the Holy Spirit's anointing and includes selfless giving.
We see Yeshua taught here:
Luke 4:18-19 (KJV) 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Yeshua was anointed by the Holy Spirit to give the good news, the Kingdom of the Most High had come to walk among the people and comes to teach us directly! It is this good news that causes the captives to be freed, that the blind would be made to see. That even the poor would be able to live in abundance!! You can see that the Most High knows what has our concern that we have an answer from Him in His word. Being made free, made to see and cease from all types of lack in our lives as we seek to walk in the footsteps of Yeshua.
Yeshua's key message was giving--it is the same spirit that is in us as well. He came to teach the poor would be able to live in increase. There is much that can be accomplished with money used for the up-building of the kingdom than without it. While the gospel is free, there is a cost to teach this message to reach every man, woman and child with this life ordering message!
The Most High wants to use His people in a mighty way and to channel large sums of money through the in order to reach all of those that hunger for more and more of Him and His word. It is the only answer that heals, restores and gives life!
Yet there are many that would say that Yeshua was poor. He was even born in a manger because there was no room in the inn. Do poor people go to the inn to ask for a room if they have no money? This was the time of year called sukkot or the feast of tabernacles and many would be in Jerusalem and the children were to stay in temporary shelters or tents in the open fields. This is where and when Yeshua was born. In the fall not the winter or December, definitely not Christmas! Recall that the wise men that had traveled from afar to see this child-king gave Him costly gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, so when His family had to flee to Egypt they were provided by those gifts.
Every need of Yeshua was covered while He walked the Earth. For many of the things that He did shows all that provision. The feeding of the multitudes, having the upper room readied for the disciples to have the Passover dinner together. How can anyone presume Yeshua did not have total provision? There was even a treasury in His ministry that Judas Iscariot was over. What kind of poor person has a treasury??
We are never to settle for anything less than the Most High's best. It is this understanding that He has already provided all things for us that we should continually move up higher and higher knowing that what we are thinking is too small. He has much better and more for you!
We have to stop limiting Him in our lowered expectations. For He will not surpass our expectations that limit Him when we settle for less. This is a truth that we must grasp a hold of firmly to keep all that we have learned in error to be totally removed and hold fast to scripture. This abundant life was intended for all not just a select few. Yet will you walk in what the Most High has already planned and purposed--we must align with His word and not our faulty understanding!
Shema Selah, the Mos High is the Creator of the Universe, His very being is of increase--He brings more and more forth according to His plan but will you align with His purpose or continue on your own??
That is the three ingredients for success, the Most High, His word and our obedience to His instructions leads us to His purposed provision! We have to know that the Bible that just sits on the shelf does just that sits. This word was to be a constant mediation in our mouths and minds.
Joshua 1:8 (KJV) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
This is when wisdom comes in, the application of the knowledge that you have obtained from the study and search of His word. The learning of the principles should be that we actually apply this to our lives. We have to change whatever is keeping us in lack. Which is to say that if you are in lack it is no one's fault but your own.
You are filled to the level of your hunger and thirst for Him and His word. You have exactly what you have settled for. Every answer needed in your life from sickness, poverty, worry, depression, oppression, is all found in the word of the Most High. Yet if you don't have the hunger to search out these answers in His word--you will never find it. While many believers live all their lives claiming the Most High as their God and King and yet wonder why they lived, barely getting by yet in scripture you see that is never His intention. When we make it our priority to study His word we find every answer for our lives in His word. While there is many that are growing in His word due to their hunger and thirst for the Most High we find that He is even accelerating the pace due to the time that we are in right now. Now is not the time to play--we have to be serious and truly seek Him if that is our true desire!
Why is it necessary to hunger after the Most High's word?? It is His word that He watches over to preform!! This same word is settled in Heaven forever! This same word has been magnified above His name!
Jeremiah 1:12 (KJV) Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Psalm 119:89 (KJV) Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalm 138:2 (KJV) I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Yet the Most High says that He has magnified His word above His name. As all powerful His name is His word is lifted up above His name. So if He has to honor and uphold His name above His name how can we do any less? All that He has declared in His word is not able to be altered but we can stand firm that it delivers on all that it speaks!
Fiveamprayer as we hunger for His word we come to understand the mighty work in His word that can work in our lives when we work with and not against it!
We all need to catch the spirit of complete provision that the Most High has given to those who believe and walk in obedience to His word. This is a spirit filled life led by the Holy Spirit's anointing and includes selfless giving.
We see Yeshua taught here:
Luke 4:18-19 (KJV) 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Yeshua was anointed by the Holy Spirit to give the good news, the Kingdom of the Most High had come to walk among the people and comes to teach us directly! It is this good news that causes the captives to be freed, that the blind would be made to see. That even the poor would be able to live in abundance!! You can see that the Most High knows what has our concern that we have an answer from Him in His word. Being made free, made to see and cease from all types of lack in our lives as we seek to walk in the footsteps of Yeshua.
Yeshua's key message was giving--it is the same spirit that is in us as well. He came to teach the poor would be able to live in increase. There is much that can be accomplished with money used for the up-building of the kingdom than without it. While the gospel is free, there is a cost to teach this message to reach every man, woman and child with this life ordering message!
The Most High wants to use His people in a mighty way and to channel large sums of money through the in order to reach all of those that hunger for more and more of Him and His word. It is the only answer that heals, restores and gives life!
Yet there are many that would say that Yeshua was poor. He was even born in a manger because there was no room in the inn. Do poor people go to the inn to ask for a room if they have no money? This was the time of year called sukkot or the feast of tabernacles and many would be in Jerusalem and the children were to stay in temporary shelters or tents in the open fields. This is where and when Yeshua was born. In the fall not the winter or December, definitely not Christmas! Recall that the wise men that had traveled from afar to see this child-king gave Him costly gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, so when His family had to flee to Egypt they were provided by those gifts.
Every need of Yeshua was covered while He walked the Earth. For many of the things that He did shows all that provision. The feeding of the multitudes, having the upper room readied for the disciples to have the Passover dinner together. How can anyone presume Yeshua did not have total provision? There was even a treasury in His ministry that Judas Iscariot was over. What kind of poor person has a treasury??
We are never to settle for anything less than the Most High's best. It is this understanding that He has already provided all things for us that we should continually move up higher and higher knowing that what we are thinking is too small. He has much better and more for you!
We have to stop limiting Him in our lowered expectations. For He will not surpass our expectations that limit Him when we settle for less. This is a truth that we must grasp a hold of firmly to keep all that we have learned in error to be totally removed and hold fast to scripture. This abundant life was intended for all not just a select few. Yet will you walk in what the Most High has already planned and purposed--we must align with His word and not our faulty understanding!
Shema Selah, the Mos High is the Creator of the Universe, His very being is of increase--He brings more and more forth according to His plan but will you align with His purpose or continue on your own??
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