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Destroying Lack & Poverty!
Rich Oliver was teaching on financial issues on Sunday, in a very inspiring Word from God, and he was exhorting us at FCC to really stand for God in these times and see His deliverance and supply. As a body, on Sunday, we at FCC under Rich's leadership came into strong agreement for blessings and supply. We need to keep seeking God and His Word daily and believe that He is a good God, and more than ready to bless us and meet needs, and carry on His work. As Rich was teaching, the Holy Spirit was speaking to me some insights and showing me some things I'd like to share here.
Financial breakthrough for many simply means believing God at His Word to provide abundance and plenty and supply for our every need. We need to not only believe, but believe it is "now." Hebrews 11:1 says "Now faith is..." and you could also invert that and say, "faith is now...." because after all, "today is the day of our salvation" or, "give us today our daily bread." God blessing us is unconditional if we will believe Him, and we need not wait a week, or a month, or for something to align, we can go get the blessing now, NOW, TODAY!!!!!! You cannot believe yesterday for today after it is passed, and you cannot believe tomorrow for today, only today can you believe for today (and the future). Picture the harvest of blessing in your personal life like a harvest being full and ready to take in and you have until tonight to get it in, just like a farmer would. That farmer is going to go get his tools or his harvesting equipment and go take the harvest in. He will not wait until tomorrow, for you never know what tomorrow brings. Procrastination is a great thief of believers. If we will believe God's promise of blessing is today, then today we will do something in faith that breaks things loose for us. Today we will act on our faith. That faith which is not acted upon is not faith. In each of our lives, individually and as families, and as church bodies, we can act on God's Word today, in faith, and move some mountains. Lack may be your Goliath, so look for five smooth stones in your business or job, but don't forget your sword so you can cut off the giant's head. Take some action today to slay that giant.
Lack is like the Egyptians who chased the Israelites, right up to the
If we can heed this and seize the moment of a Word from God, by taking action, then for many of us, Mose's words of Exodus 14:13 will be true of us and of lack.
"For the Egyptians (lack) whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever."
Through faith, many of us, truly "all" of us can and could say, "lack, we will see you no more forever!"
If you stand before the sea of debt and lack, with the water licking at your feet, and no way to cross, and evil and the day of reckoning of financial crisis is fast approaching from behind, like your past mistakes, maybe bills and collectors and repossessions and foreclosures, then you have no where to go but forward. God will have to make you a way, where there is no way.
Your rod to stretch out over your sea of lack is your verbal declaration of faith. One great man of God said, "faith is voice activated." I can prove that principle from the Word. God told Moses to hit a rock for water, and later told him to speak to the rock. Moses did not, and hit it again, and God was angry. This was a lesson to us, because Moses was type of Christ, but more fallible, and more accurately, a type of the typical Christian. "He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall strike the wicked." Isaiah 11:4b This is Jesus, and we are born again in His image.
Old Covenant believers had to hit rocks, but New Covenant believers get to speak to and command rocks, and mountains, and disease and lack, etc. Each new covenant believer would be issued a rod of power, at their New Birth, which would be God's spoken Word in their mouths. You have your own rod of power. Jesus came to earth showing us how, speaking faith and commanding, and moving mountains. (Mark 11:23) Use your rod of power, which is your Word from the Lord, first formed in your heart, and then spoken by you. Declare your answer, decree it. Maybe the only action today you can take in faith is to declare your answer. That is faith in action. Then stand, and stand until it is true of you that you see this enemy of lack no more forever! Today is your day or harvest and salvation! Rich gave us a written confession of faith full of the truths of God, to declare daily, we need to use it or something like it, declaring the Word of God and the promises of God. Once you have declared your faith, take a practical step to get your harvest.
For ministries and pastors who are seeking God for financial breakthrough, I want to pass on a great quote I heard once.
"Divine prosperity from God is simply having enough supply to do everything He has told you to do."
If I may expound, God told you to open that ministry, and He is responsible to fund it. God may have even led you into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (lack) Trust that God will not only uphold you in the wilderness, but He will lead you out. Your pro-vision will come through your vision. Trust that, and be faithful to the heavenly vision, and watch God make a way for you, your family and your ministry. My wife and I have found out that God's simplest and best answers were always by using something that was already in our hands, we just didn't recognize it as our solution until He mercifully overcame our ignorance or temporary blindness and told us the answer. Rich told us at FCC on Sunday to ask God for wisdom. God will give you wisdom if you ask for it and believe you receive it. Your solution may be right before you, or around you. Allow Him to reveal it. With God, everything is always so simple; we Christians often do the complicating of the issues. Today is the day. Ask for wisdom, believe, act and stand, and see your breakthrough.
Are surrounded by a sea of lack? Listen to God one more time: "Why cry to me, tell the people to go forward, and you lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it."
Bless and praise Jesus, for He is so good.
Greg Nichols
Family Christian Center
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