Study Notes

I.      You change what you believe, root out that image, & prosper your soul through the Word

A.    The Word of God is the key to unlocking your financial prosperity because it’s going to prosper your soul (Isaiah 55:1-3)

1.     The Word is the seed that’s going to change the inside of you, your inner image

a.    That money has seed has no power to change the inside of you

b.    You can sow financial seed, but until this word seed comes in and changes your image, financial prosperity will not manifest at the potential that it could manifest

c.     This Word is going to go in you and change your image and when that changes you’re financial well-being will begin to change

d.    The Word seed & money seed work w/ 1 another, not independent of 1 another

2.     James 1:21-The Word that you stay attached to will become one with your soul and make your soul whole (nothing missing/broken)

a.    You got to stay attached to this word until you see yourself the way God sees you

b.    An old broke image needs to be saved/made whole by this Word

c.     2 Corinthians 8:9, 1 John 4:17-This is how he sees you

d.    For Satan this all comes back to your identity; He didn’t it with Adam, Jesus, and he hasn’t changed

B.     The poor need the gospel preached to them because the poor man is poor outside because he’s poor inside (Matt 11:5, Luke 7:22, 4:18)

1.     The answer for the blind is sight; the answer for the lame is to walk; the answer for the leper is cleansing; the answer for the deaf is to hear; the answer for the dead are to be raised; the answer 4 the poor is 2 have the gospel preached, not their needs met

2.     The answer for a poverty is the Word of God

a.    Jesus fed five thousand people that one day in that desert place.  That shows us that he was more than capable of doing the same thing with every poor person that he came in contact with.

(1)      He said I only do what hear and see of my Father to do

b.    They need to find out what the word says, prosper their soul and do it; That’s the way out of poverty

3.     Somebody has to preach prosperity to you; the same way somebody had to preach salvation to you, you had to act on it and then you got saved (Rom 10:8-15)

a.    14-People don’t believe in the God that will make you abundantly rich; they believe in the God that will meet your need

b.    14-They don’t believe God will make u abundantly rich b/c they haven’t heard it

c.     14-How can they hear it without it being preached?  How can it be preached if God didn’t send them?

d.    How are you going to call upon Him (His Word) if you don’t believe it?

e.    How are you going to believe in it without hearing it?

f.      How are you going to hear without a preacher to preach it?

g.    How is the preacher going to preach if he hasn’t been sent?

h.     15-This is a prosperity gospel not a poverty gospel

C.    The seed of God’s word bumps into an old broke image that’s been built up for years

1.     The are strongholds that get built up in our mind through our experiences, exposures, and instruction (2 Cor 10:5)

a.    Strongholds-Fortresses of thought (ways of thinking) built by what you’ve been exposed to designed to trap you in a way of life

b.    3-The battle is not in the physical, natural realm-(Just like in Numbers 13)

c.     4,5-U pull down strong holds by casting down imaginations that exalt themselves against the Word & then bring your thoughts into obedience to the Word

2.     You have to take the thought & say it until you don’t have to think to say it-Matt 6:31

a.    You have to do that until the word in you becomes more real than the world outside of you (EX: In my eyes I was rich long before I had any money)

(1)      Ur going 2 have 2 go 2 the paint of God’s word, use the brush of ur tongue, & paint an image on the canvas of your heart that you are a rich man (Ps 45:2)

b.    Matt 12:34-37-You’re going to speak based on and from the image in your heart

(1)      34-U got to get to the place where it’s not coming out of ur head, but ur heart

(2)      35-You bring forth things from your heart

(3)      37-By your words you’re justified and condemned

c.     Believing & speaking is how you got into this thing & this is how it works (Mk 11:23)

(1)      Your words are hindering your money seed; they are stout against it

(2)      You’re sowing seed, but your image and your words are disabling & crippling it

3.     Joshua 1:8-His victory or defeat was not determined by the strength of his opponent outside, but by what was going on in his heart on the inside

a.    Meditate so that you can observe/see to do

(1)      Meditate the word to see yourself rich and then do rich

b.    Don’t take a broke image into battle

(1)      That’s why it seems that we’ve been trudging through the mud financially because we’re taking broke image into battle

(2)      You can’t sow and tithe with a broke image and then stand in holy wonderment about why you don’t prosper

c.     Ps 1:1-3-No matter where I go I’m bringing the Word & my prosperous soul with me

D.    2 Corinthians 3:18-That image is going to change as you look at the right thing

1.     As we look in this Word it’s going to change us inside and then we’ll change outside