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God's Way to Prosperity
copyright 2008 by Greg Nichols
(excerpted from White Fields Ezine)
Many Christians and non Christians alike have really misunderstood what was being offered by God when He offered the New Birth and Eternal salvation. Some believe it is a fire insurance policy, allowing them to not burn in Hell. That is extremely shallow. Some believe it is a set of rules and dos and don'ts – a lot of hoop jumping using rituals and icons, somehow hoping through vain practices we can achieve salvation and please God.
What I see in the Scripture is that what God really offered was for us to be His children, to come into fellowship and share with Him in a love relationship, to be sons and daughters to Him, to be like Him, to receive His Divine nature, and to be absolute victors in life, able to overcome all spiritual adversaries.
The only way to get this Divine Gift and package, His Divine benefits plan, is to receive Jesus Christ. Before God even offered Jesus to us, He showed us Him, through Scriptures, as a template of who we were to be. Jesus walked in love and obedience to God the Father. That was to be us later. Jesus was righteous. That was to be us later. Jesus commanded evil and subdued it, and defeated it. That was to be us later. Jesus overcame natural forces and abated natural laws. That was to be us later. Jesus did miracles of provision to disarm lack and poverty. That was to be us later. Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, opened blind eyes, destroyed the works of Satan, and restored people to God. That was to be us later. Jesus lived a life that kept angels busy, always helping Him, ministering to Him, and serving Him and His needs. That was to be us later.
One of the most misunderstood concepts of our covenant relationship with God is the covenant of blessing, wealth, abundance and prosperity. The Earth has a curse on it, and poverty is part of that curse. Jesus came to earth to give us abundant life, and part of what He died to give us is abundant prosperity, thereby breaking the curse of poverty.
Many in our land are struggling financially right now, but the covenant of God's supply is still a very true and obtainable part of the New Covenant. God made a Covenant and swore by an oath to keep it, and He made hundreds of promises to us in His Word about finances. Let's make sure we understand what finances He was speaking of.
"then you say in your heart, my power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth. And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers as it is this day." Deuteronomy 8: 17-18.
Our jobs and careers and businesses are the might of our hands. Each of us has a field, and that word "field" is derived from the ancient farmer who grew things in a field. Your field is the work of your hands. Ancient man brought in a tenth of their crop and sacrificed it to God. Later, they brought it to the temple as seed to be sown in God's work. Your field is not covenant wealth, your job is not covenant wealth, it is only seed. Your business is not God's wealth, it is only seed for the wealth. God may use your business or field to bestow covenant wealth on you, but He does not have to. There is a huge difference between income and funds you obtain by the works of your hands, and the covenant wealth God promised. Manna for 40 years is prosperity and covenant wealth. Catching a fish with a valuable coin in its mouth is prosperous, covenant wealth. Throwing out a net in a seeming empty lake and bringing in a haul is prosperous, covenant wealth.
The power to get wealth to establish God's Covenant is supernatural every time. Acts 1: 8 says, "but you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you,..!" And we all know what kind of power that is. It is sick healing, dead raising, demon delivering, blind eye opening, storm stilling, water to wine changing power. God's power is not natural. So how could God getting you your paycheck every week be even remotely similar to miracle, covenant, explosive, dunamis, God-ability to obtain wealth? That check of yours is the way you feed your family, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, and sow seed for God's Covenant wealth. And I don't have to even tell you what the priority is, do I? For people of faith, God comes first where your finances are concerned. If you have it any other way, you need to work on that.
I used to get angry at preachers for talking about their financial blessings when everyone was giving to them. Then God gave me some revelations and I got straightened out. Not only is that His way of doing things, He also showed me He could bless me anytime, anywhere, anyway, preacher or not, if I just mind my own business and obey Him in finances.
I don't think people have seen very many true supernatural miracles of money. That is because I don't believe many have ever sorted out what is the work of their hands and the contrasting "power to get wealth." There are special anointings on people in the Body of Christ to teach and train people to get wealth God's way, and to demonstrate it.
When Peter followed Jesus' instructions and went out and caught a fish with money in its mouth, what Gift of the Holy Spirit was used? (Matthew 17: 27) Did Jesus, by a word of knowledge right then, just know about the fish, or was there a working of miracles and the coin was created in the fish's mouth? We don't know the answer, but we do know that this kind of miracle is repeatable now, using the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. God could make money, gold or a diamond, and by His Holy Spirit, tell you where it is. The family dog could carry in something priceless, and lay it at your feet. You could meet a person tomorrow, and show them a kindness, and they could insert you in their will and die in a week. A winning lottery ticket could blow over the fence and land in your yard. God could give you an idea that you enact and bring you a windfall. God could tell you, by His Holy Spirit about a stock or business strategy.
Now there is one more way to God's wealth, and that is using Godly wisdom to create a blessed situation. Not all of God's wealth comes by miracles, sometimes it comes by using wisdom, and performing God's Word, over much time. This can look like natural wealth, and the wealth or income gotten by your hand, but is it always trace-able back to God. No matter how something happens, God has set things up in His Kingdom surrounding giving, and sowing into God's work as a main focus. Sowing starts the process, and leads a person down the road to Biblical and Covenant prosperity with God as one's partner. If you face a financial crisis, the solution is to use faith and sow your way out of it. Trust God to show you how and where. The first thing that begins to flow once you become a liberal giver to God is revelation. Divine revelation increases in you very quickly. Divine revelation leads to transformation. You become transformed into a son of God where money is concerned. Then, transformation leads to manifestation. God is able to manifest miracle money and supply to you. We never stop sowing, we just keep advancing into larger fields of sowing, and reaping.
Religion will not find the place of revelation. Pouring over your Bible with intense study may not do it either. Often, revelations must be taught and caught. God has revealed the truths about covenant wealth in a mystery, as He so often does subjects like this. "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it has not been given." Matthew 13: 11. How to get from revelation to manifestation is a Divine mystery that God wants to reveal to the church for the end time harvest of souls to His Kingdom. I have shared a few mysteries here, and there are so many more. There is a scripture about the first being last, the last being first. Many believers use it as a joke about butting in line at the cafeteria. But I believe it to be a Divine mystery. In these last days, as God is moving, many likely "first" people who seem to have life by the tail will fall financially, and many unlikely "last" people will come forth with huge amounts of God given covenant wealth and be used by God to bring in the harvest. It will not matter their position in the church, or their status in life, or if they are a preacher or not. Are you the likely or the unlikely? It is a great mystery.
Go get a revelation, and understand that God wants to manifest things to you, even more than you want Him to. Why? So we can establish His covenant on the earth, and in our lives.
Bless His Name.
Greg Nichols
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