The Word Of God - Part 2
I.
The only way you change
what you believe, root out that image, and prosper your soul is through the
Word therefore the Word of God is the highway to the world of wealth
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 of God will
prosper your soul, change your image/belief, to where think, feel, and decide
like God and you’ll see yourself the way God sees you
a. Hearken-Hear, Give your
attention to, Obey---Diligently-Steady in application, constant in effort, not
idle or negligent
b. Eat-Jeremiah 15:16-Your words were found and I did eat them: and your
words was unto me joy and rejoicing of mine heart---Job 34:3-For the ear tries words, like the mouth tastes meat---Milk
1 Peter 2:2-As newborn babes desire
the sincere milk of the word, that they may grow thereby---Water Ephesians 5:26-That he might sanctify
and cleanse it by the washing of water by the Word
c. That which is good-The
gospel is the good news
d. Fatness-Prosperity,
abundance
e. Let your soul-Permit your
soul to prosper by feeding it the Word of God
f.
Hear
and your soul shall live prosperously
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 long enough to where you see yourself the way God sees
you-Diligence
b. An old broke soul needs
to be saved/made whole by this Word
3. This is how God sees you
financially-2 Corinthians 8:9, 9:8, Luke 6:38, 1 Tim 6:17, Matthew 6:33, Romans
8:32, Galatians 3:14, Proverbs 10:22, 3 John 2, Malachi 3:10, Proverbs 3:9-10, 1
John 4:17, Philippians 4:19-This is how he sees you
a. For Satan this all comes
back to your identity; He didn’t it with Adam, Jesus, and he hasn’t changed
B. The Word seed and the
money seed work with one another, not independent of one another
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 responsible
for changing your image and when that changes you’re financial well-being will
begin to change
2. The money seed is
responsible for multiplying and coming back to you, but only to the level of
the image that you have
a. If you don’t sow the
money seed then your image has nothing to support and work with
C. The poor need the gospel
preached to them because the poor man is poor outside because he’s poor inside
1. The answer for a poverty
is the Word of God-Matt 11:5, Luke 7:22, 4:18
a. The answer for the poor
is to have the gospel preached, not their needs met
b. Jesus fed 5000 people in a
desert place. He was capable of doing the same thing with every poor person
that he saw.
(1)
He
said I only do what hear and see of my Father to do (John 5:30, 8:28,29)
(2)
In
dealing with the poor Jesus 1) Gave alms 2) Gave the Word---He gave them both
seeds
c. They need to find out
what the word says, prosper their soul and do it; That’s the way out of poverty
(Deut 15:4)
(1)
If
we’re going to address the poverty in a poor man’s life, then we must first all
address the poverty of his soul
2. 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; you have to prosper in your soul
financially, know the principles that make the law work and do it (Romans
10:8-15)
a. People don’t believe in
the God that will make you abundantly rich; they believe in the God that will
meet your need
(1)
14-They
haven’t believed God will make you abundantly rich because they haven’t heard
it
(2)
14-How
can they hear it without it being preached? How can it be preached if God didn’t send
them?
b. How are you going to call
upon Him (His Word) if you don’t believe it?
(1)
How
are you going to believe in it without hearing it?
(2)
How
are you going to hear without a preacher to preach it?
(3)
How
is the preacher going to preach if he hasn’t been sent?
c. 15-This is a prosperity
gospel not a poverty gospel
II.
The seed of God’s word is
going to bump into an old broke image that’s been built up over the years
A. The are strongholds that
get built up in our mind through our experiences,
exposures, and instruction (2 Cor 10:5)
1. Strongholds-Fortresses of
thought (ways of thinking), built by what you’ve been exposed to,
designed to trap you in a way of life
2. EX: Bold Eagle and a
buzzard-At the edge of the woods, near a small farm, a baby eagle fell out
of the nest. The farmer found the eagle, and thinking it
was one of his own, brought him to the chicken coop with his other
chickens. As time passed, the baby eagle grew up learning to
do what chickens do. He clucked, he strutted around the coop pecking
at the corn and even tried his voice at the morning wake-up call. A neighbor
came to visit his friend the chicken farmer. He was surprised to see the
eagle strutting around the chicken coop, pecking at the ground, and
acting like a chicken. The farmer explained to him that he had
brought the bird to the coop as a chick and only later discovered that it was
an eagle. He further told his friend that since the bird had been raised
a chicken that the bird actually believed himself to be a
chicken. The neighbor knew there was more to this noble bird than his behavior
showed as a chicken. He was born an eagle and had the heart of an eagle,
and nothing could change that. The neighbor reached down and lifted the
eagle onto the fence surrounding the chicken coop and said,
“Eagle, you are an eagle. Stretch your wings and
fly.” The eagle only look blankly at the man and clucked. He
jumped off the fence and continued doing what chicken do. The farmer was
satisfied. “I told you - he thinks he’s a chicken,” he said. The neighbor
couldn’t sleep that night and returned the next day to convince the
farmer that the eagle was born for something greater. The man took
the eagle from the dirty coop and carried him to the top of the
farmhouse. Setting the bird down on the roof, the neighbor spoke to
him: “Eagle, you are an eagle. You therefore belong
to the sky and not to the earth. Stretch your wings and fly.” The
large bird blinked at the man, clucked, and then jumped down into the
chicken coop. After another restless night, the friend returned the next
morning to the chicken farm and took the eagle and the farmer away from the
chicken coop to the foot of a high mountain. They could not see the farm nor the chicken coop from this great height. The
man lifted the eagle on his outstretched arm and pointed high into the sky
where the bright sun was beckoning above. He spoke: “Eagle, you
are an eagle! You therefore belong to the sky and not to the
earth. Stretch your wings and fly.” This time the eagle stared
skyward into the bright sun, straightened his large body, and stretched his
massive wings. His wings moved, slowly at first, then surely and
powerfully. With the mighty screech of an eagle, he flew away.
3. 3-The battle is not in
the physical, natural realm-(Just like in Numbers 13)
a. The battle is inside; the
biggest enemy is your inner-me
4. 4,5-You pull down strong
holds by:
a. Casting down imaginations
that exalt themselves against the Word
b. Then bring your thoughts
into obedience to the Word
B. Paint a new image
1. You have to take the
thought and say it until you don’t have to think to say it (Matthew 6:31)
a. You have to do that until
the word in you becomes more real than the world outside of you
b. EX: In my eyes I was rich
long before I had any money
c. You’re going to have to
go to the paint of God’s word, use the brush of your tongue, and paint an image
on the canvas of your heart that you are a rich man (Psalm 45:2)
2. Matthew 12:33-37
a. 33-Make the tree good
b. 34-You’re going to speak
based on and from the image in your heart (Numbers 14)
c. 34-You got to get to the
place where it’s not just coming out of your head, but your heart
d. 35-You bring forth things
from your heart
e. 37-By your words you’re
justified and condemned
3. Believing and speaking is
how you got into this thing and this is how it works (Mark 11:23)
a. Your words and your image
are hindering your money seed; they are stout against it
b. You’re sowing seed, but
your image and your words are disabling and crippling
it
C. Meditation is the key to
inner transformation
1. 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
2. Meditate so that you can observe/see
to do
a. Meditate the word to see
yourself rich and then do rich
b. Meditate-Utter a sound,
thoughtful deliberation with the implication of speaking to oneself, to
imagine, to speak, to talk
3. Don’t take a broke image
into battle
a. It seems like we’ve been
trudging through the mud financially because we’re taking broke image into this
financial battle
(1)
You
can’t sow and tithe with a broke image and then stand in holy wonderment about
why you don’t prosper
b. Psalm 1:1-3-No matter
where I go I’m bringing the Word and my prosperous soul with me
D. 8 Keys To Effective
Meditation
1. Separation is key in
meditation
2. Meditate the Word with
purpose
3. Speak the Word out loud;
this controls your thoughts
4. Apply the Word to
yourself personally
5. Place yourself in
agreement with what the Word says about you
6. Ponder how that changes
your situation
7. See yourself as the Word
says you are
8. Remember the blood
covenant and that God can’t lie
E. 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
2. If you’re looking into a
mirror that’s reflecting a broke image back to you, you’ll become what you
behold
a. What you behold will put
the same thing in you and that’s what you’ll becom