Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ Jesus,
A new year, a new consciousness, and a new attitude. We’re not going to let satan rob us any longer of the fulness of salvation. Eternal life through salvation is equivalent to making it to first base. There is still the “fulness” of salvation to claim in this earth: healing and wholeness, protection, deliverance, and prosperity. Jesus paid a tortuous and tremendous price for this fulness. We are not going to let satan and his tool of religion deceive and steal it from us any longer.
The reason Believers struggle financially and don’t enjoy the prosperity Jesus purchased is because they can’t see what is already there. Why? Because of the way we are trained consciously and unconsciously from our youth. We are trained to see what we don’t have, the lack, rather than consciously remembering that God has provided everything for us and to us from the foundation of the world. If this is true, then our supply is right in front of us. But we can’t see it because we are focused on our lack. When The Godhead comes to dwell inside of us at salvation, we have The Kingdom of God in our Spirit. The Kingdom of God is one of great abundance. There is no such thing as lack. The word, lack, doesn’t exist in The Kingdom of God. We are told by God in I John 4:17, “because as He [Jesus] is, so are we in this world.” Is Jesus suffering from lack? No. God said in Revelation 5:12 that Jesus has been given “power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.” This is what we have as Believers, NOW, in this earth. It is in us in The Kingdom of God. We must exercise Spiritual Laws, which God has given us, to manifest the blessings from the Spiritual to the natural.
Let’s set the table for this teaching by going to the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1. In the very first verse, God purposely reveals His character to us. “In the beginning, God created…..” God is The Creator. Therefore, He is creative. In Genesis 1:26, God tells us He made Believers in His image and likeness. We also learn from Genesis 2 and 3 that God is a Believer’s Source. When He made us in His image and likeness, we became a “resource.” And as “resources,” we have the image and likeness of “creativity.” When we say God is the Source, we are saying God is The Origin, The Fountainhead, The Primary Cause, and The One from Whom all things flow. In the context of a Source, the resource is something that draws from The Source and channels it onward, or it may be better said a resource is something that receives from The Source to supply, steward, or transmit what it has received. Think about it. God gives seed; a Believer sows it. God gives breath; a Believer lives by it. God gives revelation; a Believer proclaims it. God gives authority; a Believer exercises it. God gives wealth and power; a Believer manages it. Believers are to be the vessels, channels, and stewards of what God has originated and given to us before the foundation of the world. Genesis 12:2-3 expresses this concept vividly. God blesses us and makes our name great so we can bless the families of the earth. God is the well; we as Believers are to be the pipes. God is the light; we as Believers are to be the lamps. God is the vine; we as Believers are to be the branches that bear fruit. We are to take The Word of God, and the authority and power within us, and through the same “creativity” God reveals to us in Genesis 1:1, we are to create Heaven on earth. This is God’s will.
In Genesis 1, God created everything before man. God created the garden before He added the gardener. God put the assignment there before He put the assignee there. Notice what is said every time God created. “God saw that it was good.” Remember I’ve said so many times that when one studies God’s Word, you must pay attention to every Word. We know the Hebrew language has 22 letters, and the letters also represent numbers. How many times is the word “good” listed in Genesis Chapter 1? Seven times. What does the number seven mean in the Hebrew language? Seven is the number of “completion.” Now, when is the eighth time the word “good” is mentioned? Yes, Genesis 2:12.
Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
What does the number eight represent in the Hebrew language? Eight is the number for a “new beginning” and for “infinity.” I ask myself, “why does God go out of His way to mention “the gold of that land is good” and “there is bdellium and the onyx stone?” Why does Adam and Eve need gold, bdellium, or onyx? Did they have to purchase something? Was there someone they needed to sell to or buy from? No. Wasn’t everything free in the Garden of Eden? Yes, everything was free – given to Adam and Eve. Then why? Because God wants us to understand that opulence and abundance are natural resources in the Kingdom of God for the children of The King. Aren’t the streets of Heaven paved with fine gold? Yes. Didn’t Jesus teach us to pray “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven?” The Kingdom comes with opulence and abundance in addition to great health, protection, and deliverance. satan and religion have taught us otherwise.
The first time that gold is mentioned is in Genesis 2:11-12. It portrays “providence,” which means “to provide in advance.” The second time gold is mentioned is in Genesis 13:2, and it portrays gold as a “possession” of God’s people. The third time we see gold mentioned is in Genesis 24:51-53. It is “proof” of God’s blessing on God’s people. The fourth time we see gold mentioned is in Genesis 41:42 in conjunction with someone who is not a child of God – Pharaoh put a gold chain around Joseph’s neck. This is “provision” for God’s people. The gold chain represented a position of power whereby Joseph could provide for God’s people. As I always say, God breathed every Word in The Scriptures for a reason.
Solomon wrote a book about wisdom (Proverbs) and a book about foolishness (Ecclesiastes). The theme of Ecclesiastes is “if one lives their life for life under the sun, they have wasted their life and tortured themselves.” If one can understand this, it will unlock the verses of this perplexing book. Otherwise, Ecclesiastes will be too confusing to understand. Solomon lived much of his life for God, but he had a period where he was drawn away by the pleasures of sin and forgot God. Eventually, Solomon comes to his senses, returns to God, and writes the Book of Ecclesiastes to warn of the foolishness of living one’s life for oneself and one’s selfish pleasures. He sums up what he learned in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Now, of great interest is a question that is asked by many, many Believers and others throughout the world today – which Solomon answers in Ecclesiastes 2:26. “Why does God allow evil people to have wealth and riches?”
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God giveth to a man that is good in His sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner He giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he [the sinner] may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
To the “good man,” God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy. To the “sinner,” or the “evil man,” God gives travail, to gather and to heap up (hustle and grind), that the sinner [the unsaved] may give his wealth and riches to him that is good. Solomon also speaks to this in the book of wisdom, Proverbs.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Notice what it says in the second part of Proverbs 13:22. “And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” This is exactly what Ecclesiastes 2:26 is saying. God says in Proverbs 13:22 that the good man (this is a saved man or woman) leaves an inheritance to his children and his grandchildren. This is a command, not a request. And God tells us “how” we are to leave this inheritance. Through the wealth transfer from the sinner, the unsaved, to the just, the saved. “Well, I’m not so sure about this, Larry. I don’t see how some person is just randomly going to transfer their money to a saved person.” Don’t worry, with this attitude and belief, it won’t happen to you. God is the God of the impossible. Our job is to believe, confess, and receive. God’s job is the “how,” and He doesn’t need our advice on how to make the how happen. I believe that He knows what He is doing. He is the Creator after all. Creativity is Who He is, not just something that He does.
In Genesis 15, God tells Abram his seed will come out of bondage “with great substance.” For 400 years, God had Egypt travailing, gathering, and heaping up to give to His people (read Ecclesiastes 2:26 and Proverbs 13:22 again). When the Children were preparing for the exodus from Egypt, God had the Children go and ask the Egyptians for their gold, their silver, their precious stones, and their expensive raiment (Exodus 11:2-3; 12:35-36). And the Egyptians willingly gave this to the Children who were the Egyptians slaves. See how God works the “how.” We must believe, confess, and receive – just like the Children of Israel. The blessing on God’s Children continues in Exodus 25:1-2 and Exodus 35:4-5, when God commands Moses to take up a freewill offering to build the tabernacle. The Children brought so much that Moses had to tell them to stop. In Exodus 36:5-7, Moses had to tell the Israelites to stop giving – “For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.” They had given more than enough to build the tabernacle. The Blessing. God’s original design for wealth was for His people. God never ordained that His people be poor or struggle financially. Jesus said, “the poor you have with you always.” If the poor are with us always, then they need us. It’s not a sin to be poor, but it’s not God’s best for a Believer. And it’s not a good testimony for God and Jesus. This is not to condemn anyone. It is to bring the revelation that NONE of God’s Children should be poor or struggling financially if they follow The Word, the commandments, of God. This, again, is why God declared to Abraham in Genesis 12:2-3 that He would bless Abraham and make his name great, and that Abraham and His seed would be a blessing to the families of the earth. We’re instructed to take care of those that are poor. We can’t do this, or do this sufficiently, if we’re not blessed.
Now, let’s go to a clear example of God’s people struggling with lack when prosperity is right in front of them. Why did God put this example in His Word? To teach us because He knew generations of Believers would face this struggle because of satan’s and religion’s deception. In Genesis 21:14, Abraham, at God’s command, sends Hagar, his wife Sarah’s handmaiden, and his son Ishmael, away. When we read Genesis 21:14-21, we see Hagar is sent away into the wilderness of Beersheba. The wilderness was not one of trees and shade. It was a desert. Soon, Hagar and Ishmael run out of water. Hagar puts her son under the little bit of shade provided by a desert shrub, goes off an arrow’s shot distance from Ishmael and begins to weep. She didn’t want to witness the death of her son. Her mind was made up to wait on death. She could only focus on the empty bottle and the outcome of death that she imagined for her son.
In Genesis 21:17, God asks, “what aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not.” We might say, “isn’t God omniscient? Doesn’t He already know why Hagar is ailing and weeping?” Yes, of course, God is omniscient, and, yes, before the foundation of the world, God knew Hagar would be in this position of need. So, why would God ask what seems to be a silly question? There is a substantial lesson in God’s very question of Hagar. “What aileth thee” is a Hebrew idiom which means, “why are you afraid?” The question is not for God’s information. It is for Hagar’s restoration. When God asks a question that He already knows the answer to, it is designed to draw the person out of fear, shame, despair, or confusion and into relationship, attention, and faith. Other examples of this are when God asked Adam, “Where are you,” asked Cain, “Where is Abel your brother, “ asked Moses, “What do you have in your hand,” and asked Mary at the tomb, “Why are you crying?” God redirects Hagar’s focus from one that is overwhelmed, despairing, and expecting her son to die to one of reassurance. God is saying to her, “Hagar, lift your eyes from despair. I AM is here.”
In Genesis 21:19, God “opens Hagar’s eyes” and she sees a well of water. God didn’t make a new well. He just showed her what was already there. Hagar was so focused on the empty bottle and her situation of lack, she didn’t look up and see the well of water. An empty bottle doesn’t mean an empty well. We must stop focusing so hard on what’s missing that we miss what is already there. All Believers have a deep well of “creativity” because we were made in the image of God. God’s image in us is “creative.” He “created” the Heavens and the earth. This is the first thing God tells us about Himself. He is The Creator; therefore, He expresses Himself through creation. Don’t keep looking at the empty bottle. Ask God to open your eyes and show you the well of water you already have in your life.
Deuteronmy 8:18
But thou shalt remember The LORD thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He sware unto thy fathers [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob], as it is this day.
God gives a Believer the power to get wealth. This is a covenant promise. This power is “wisdom” and “creativity.” We need to ask God to open our eyes, as He did for Hagar, and show us the well of water He has for us. God is expecting us to do this. If we fail to do this as Believers, we will be judged at the Bema Seat by Jesus for what we didn’t do with what He suffered and died to give to us. It’s not a judgment for sin; it is a judgment for rewards. Will we be found worthy of what Jesus gave to us in The Kingdom of God?
Remember, we are a “whosoever” and we can have “whatsoever” (Mark 11:23-24).
I pray this new year is a year of great revelation and Truth, a year of great health and abundance, and a year of wondrous tithing and offerings for your family and you.
In Jesus’ Name. Amen!
Larry