Dr. D's Devotional
Title: Finances 22
by Dennis Reschke
Finances 22
Whatever problem you may have, the Word has the answer. That's
why the Word is the answer to prosperity. Jesus is anything but a poor man:
"... according to His riches in glory" (Phil 4:19) will he supply all our
needs. Doesn't sound like He is poor. Prosperity is not according to the
Dow-Jones Industrial average, or Boeing, or the gross national product.
God created the universe. God's prosperity is not dependent on these factors.
It's true that prosperity may be different in different situations. For
instance, a cow in certain parts of the world is a manifestation of prosperity.
In our country, during this time, it may be a Cadillac. Should the economy
fall in this country, prosperity may be having food and shelter.
How can
God be followed by a bunch of poor-mouth folk without proper clothes and
medical care? This doesn't say much for the Man we are following, unless
He's poor and beat up too. Earth is a copy of heaven. I believe heaven is
a planet because it describes it in terms of north, south, east, west. These
compass directions have not meaning outside a sphere. Isa. 14:13 says, "For
you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north". If He created us after His image, it could be
said He created earth after the image of heaven. The descriptions of heaven
are opulent. We worship the God of this heaven. If His desire for heaven
is the be arrayed in gold and precious gems, and He said we should pray
the will of heaven down to earth, then it must be His will for us to have
good things while here on earth (). But our motives must be right: to give
to the poor, and to establish His covenant.
What would it be like to be God on earth? We use about 12-15% of our brain
capacity. We use about 14% of the earth's surface. What if you we had the
mental capacity to use 100% of our mental, physical, and social capacities?
The Holy Spirit, our Teacher, can bridge this gap. These things are available
because we have the mind of Christ. We can use 100% of everything. Maybe
we wouldn't have a drug problem, or fuel shortage with 100% mental capacity.
"So why don't you do it, Dennis? You're a scientist." I believe in these
things mentally but right now my faith isn't up to that level. You got to
start somewhere though by first talking about it and rehearsing it mentally.
We have a contract with God. Its called a covenant. God initiated it, we
accepted it. We can make demands on it: Isa. 45:11 "Thus saith the LORD,
the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning
my sons, and concerning the work of My hands command Me". This is not presumption
because the contract and its bylaws were written by God Himself. If he didn't
want it this way then He shouldn't have initiated it and had it written
down. But since He did, He must want it this way. The way God operates is
the way He wants us to operate (2Pet 1:4).
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