The Prosperity Of The Soul
I.
Prosperity in any realm
of life begins with the prosperity of your soul (3 John 2)
A. There’s a spiritual law
here that says: You cannot prosper in life beyond the prosperity of your soul
1. Your soul is you mind,
will, and emotions
a. Your soul encompasses
your self-image, what you believe about yourself, how you think about/see
yourself
2. That’s not talking sole
about financial prosperity, prosperity in any realm of life begins inside
a. If you’re going to
prosper you first must see yourself prosperous on the inside
B. Believers have tried to
prosper through tithing giving, all the while neglecting this spiritual law that says you can’t prosper in life
beyond the prosperity of your soul
1. You give and you tithe
with an impoverished soul
a. You have think rich, talk
rich, act rich, and see yourself as rich
b. Your prosperity in life
is going to come back to the prosperity of your soul
2. People are tithing and
giving believing that their tithing and giving will cause them to be a
prosperous person; instead of tithing and giving believing they are a rich and
prosperous person.
C. You have to believe that
you have received to receive (Mark 11:24)
1. You’re going to have to believe your rich, talk rich, think rich,
and act rich before you are if
you’re ever going to be and that encompasses your soul prosperity; You can’t
wait to believe you’re rich until it shows up
a. EX: It’s just like a
person who’s sick believing their healed when that can’t see it
2. Until you see yourself
rich financially, you will never be-Proverbs 23:7
D. Here’s some stuff you
going to have stop doing if you want to prosper financially
1. Shut up your old poverty
talking mouth
a. “We can’t afford”----“We
don’t have the money to do that right now”----“That’s too expensive”
2. Shut up your old poverty
mentality
a. Always looking for the
cheapest----Saving junk because you mind need it----Gawking at items and
amounts of money
II.
The image you have finaically, is what you have financially
A. Proverbs 23:7-Your
financial prosperity outside is a reflection of how you see yourself inside
1. Think-Reason out,
calculate, estimate, reckon
2. You’re not something
different outside than what you are inside
3. What you are must line up
with what you believe or how you see yourself
B. Numbers 13:30,33, Hebrews
3:19
1. Their image
a. 30-They saw themselves as
well able
b. 33-We are in our own
sight as grasshoppers-They saw themselves as grasshoppers
2. Hebrews 3:19-It was their
unbelief that kept them out of that land
a. They wanted to blame it
on the giants, the walls, and the people in the land, but it was their
grasshopper image that kept them out; in
their minds it was the giants, the walls, and the people that kept them out
b. They biggest enemy was
their inner-me
3. It’s not what’s outside
of you that’s keeping you from prospering financially, it’s that old poverty
mentality in you
a. We’ve wanted to blame our
boss, the government, and walk around feeling sorry for ourselves, but our
biggest problem has been that old broke image on the inside of us; in our minds it’s our job, the
government, and the economy that’s kept us out
4. There’s a financial
prosperity promise land waiting on believers, but most aren’t entering in and
it’s not because of the economy or what they do for a living, but it’s because
of their inner image
a. You can plunk every last
dime you have into the bucket, but until your image changes you aren’t changing
C. Numbers 14:28-They start
talking based on and from that grasshopper image; the same thing happens to a
person with a broke image, they start talking based on and from that broke
image
1. Financially you’ve been
saying you can’t afford, that’s too expensive, you could never have that, and
you don’t have enough and that’s exactly what you’ve gotten because you believe
that and speak that (Mark 11:23)
a. You talk like that
because you don’t see yourself as rich
2. 34-They’re old
grasshopper image and talk caused a breach of God’s promise
a. Your old poverty image is
causing a breach of promise
D. Proverbs 4:20-23- That
image in you is created by what you’ve been exposed to (words, experiences,
circumstances, and what you’ve been taught)
1. Your life is simply the
result of what you’ve allowed into your heart
2. There’s an image that’s
been built in your heart by what you’ve been exposed to, taught, and experienced
and your life is coming from that image
a. Maybe you came from a
family that didn’t operate in abundance; but the day you’re in a new family now
with a rich daddy
E. You get in life what you
got in your heart
1. Matthew
8:8,13-Centurion-Jesus spoke the Word and he was healed just like he believed
2. Matthew
9:18,23-25-Jairus-Jesus touched her and she lived just like Jairus believed
3. Matthew 9:21,22-The issue
of blood-She touched his garment and got healed just like she believed
F. Mark 11:24-What you
believe you have, you have
1. If you believe you can’t
afford, you don’t have enough, and you’re middle class that’s what you’ll be
III.
We got to change our
image to where we stop seeing ourselves as middle-class people who are just
getting by nicely and start seeing ourselves as rich, prosperous people who
have overflowing proportions financially
A. Your image has been
working against you to keep money from you
1. That’s why all this money
is out there and many believers can’t seem to get their hands on much of it;
because their image/belief is working like a two magnets of the same charge and
it’s pushing that money away and keeping it from them
2. If we will be diligent to
change that image to line up with what the word says we can reverse that magnet
and draw money two us
B. Peter was in that boat
all night, but he was in that boat with the wrong image (Luke 5:1)
1. 5-When Peter was out
there toiling all night there were fish in that lake
a. Peter had the image that
sometimes the fish just don’t bite and sometimes you just have a bad day and
don’t catch anything
2. 4-When Jesus got in the
boat the right image got in the boat
a. Here’s Jesus’ image:
Launch out into the deep and let your nets down for a draught
b. We’re going to catch an
abundance of fish and I don’t care what time of day it is
3. When the right image got
into the boat, the same fish, the weren’t coming to that boat at night, came to
that boat in the daytime, when you’re not supposed to catch fish in the day
a. The reason was because it
wasn’t about what time of day it was, it was about the image that was in the
man and when the right image got in that boat the fish that where being pushed
away before by the wrong image came now because the right image demanded that
they come
b. The image in your heart
will demand that the natural change to line up with it
(1)
Those
fish had to come even if they didn’t want to because the image said so
4. The fish where there there whole time, but until somebody got in the boat with
the right image the fish didn’t come
a. The money is there the
whole time, but until somebody gets in the boat with the right image it isn’t
coming
C. You’ve had good meaning
believers who tithe and give, but their image is working against them
1. God’s mercifully and
gracious particularly with ignorance so that’s why we’ve kind seen a little a
bit of this work
2. If we want to unleash the
law of prosperity, then we must continue to give, but do it with the right
image
3. That broke image begins
to block:
a. The supernatural
financial wisdom of God from coming into your life
b. The supernatural
financial favor of God from coming into your life
IV.
Satan attacks your
financial prosperity by trying to plant something in you to produce
something in your life
A. Matthew 4:1-Satan comes
over here to Jesus and says, “If thou be the Son of God.”
1. That image in you is
created by what you’ve been exposed to (words, experiences, circumstances, and
what you’ve be taught)
2. What’s he trying to plant
in Jesus?---Maybe I’m not
a. He’s coming after how
Jesus sees himself
b. Jesus is the son of God
whether he sees himself that way or not, he is
(1)
If
Satan can get an image in Jesus that says he’s not, he will still be the Son of
God, but it won’t manifest in this world
(2)
EX:
Jesus is out here 40 years old still building houses because he doesn’t believe
he’s the son of God
c. Jesus didn’t take the
bait and the next that happens is this “Son of God” starts manifesting (Luke
4:16)
(1)
He
had to believe he was the son of God with no physical evidence to back that and
when he did, it started manifesting
(2)
Your
prosperity is waiting on your image
3. He’s trying to plant an
image in Jesus that, “You’re not,” and the reason that he’s trying to plant
that image in Jesus that “he’s not” is because Satan knows “he is”
4. How’s Satan trying to
plant that image?
a. He’s using words and
experiences in the natural
b. If Jesus would have tried
anything of those things he wouldn’t have succeeded because they would not have
been done in faith
5. Satan’s approach with
you:
a. Satan wants to plant a
middle-class, paycheck to paycheck, comfortable enough image in you to produce
that in your life
(1)
He’s
using your salary, paycheck, checkbook, your circumstances, the government, and
the people in the world to plant something in you that says you’re not rich;
That has to be rooted out
(2)
Poverty
is dangerous for him because if you get living in a box you’ll get so desperate
you’ll have to rely on God and you’ll end up being extremely rich
b. Even though you are rich,
if he can get you to see yourself a different way, rich will never manifest in
your life (2 Cor 8:9)
c. He’s going to use words,
experiences, and circumstances to get the wrong image in you that you’re not
rich and the reason he is doing that is because he knows you are rich
B. Matthew 15:11
1. 11-What comes out of the
mouth goes into the heart and defiles a man
a. It’s not what’s going on
in this natural world that’s defiling your financial prosperity it’s what
you’ve allowed in your heart
2. 13-Every image that God
didn’t plant has to be rooted up
3. 14-They can’t see because
they are blind; they don’t see the truth
a. If you go somebody
leading you that doesn’t see himself rich, you won’t see yourself rich
4. 19,20-These things in the
heart defile a man and they must be rooted out