Dr. D's Devotional
Title: Finances 38
by Dennis Reschke
Finances 38
Prosperity is to have God manifest Himself to you through His
word. This makes you rich. You can always contact Him through His word.
The gifts of the Spirit, unlike the Word, are not a way of life. They are
for ministry. Jn14:23 "If a man love me, he will keep My words: and My Father
will love him, and We will come to him, and make our abode with him". God
manifests Himself to the world by this means (v.22). The only way to have
God live with or in you is by abiding in the Word. Feelings and emotions
are excluded. There are some people who are waiting to be saved. They don't
have to wait. We are born again through the Word (1Pet 1:23) and His Word
is here now. Some people want a Paul-type experience when it comes to prosperity.
There is no need for such an experience to receive prosperity, it is being
offered by Jesus in His Word now. Remember it is God Who has given us the
power to get wealth to establish His covenant in the earth (Deut 8:18).
Wealth is the ability to use God's power to meet the needs of humanity,
regardless whether financial, spiritual, physical or social. If you got
the Word, you can meet any kind of need there exists.
In the world, income allows outgo. In the Kingdom it's reversed: outgo gives
income. "Well, I don't have it to give". That's not true, if nothing else
you have a smile and a hand shake to give, you have a testimony, you have
a song or hymn, your pots and pans, you have a coat, you could fast a meal.
God said He gives seed to the sower (2Cor 9:10). If you determine and decide
in your heart to be a sower, God will provide. Give your best, not your
left overs. Sow left overs, get left overs; sow good stuff, get good stuff.
Matt 6:19,20 "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust corrupts, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts,
and where thieves do not break through nor steal." We have taken our church
pencils and written right behind this and said you can't get it till you're
in heaven (We've taken the same church pencil and erased the 12 and 14th
chapters of 1 Cor. too). Jesus said where your treasure is there is your
heart also (Lk 12:34). My heart is in heaven right now. There is enough
of the Word in my heart now so that I'm not earthly minded anymore. I don't
think like the world anymore. Set your affections on things that are above
where He is now at the right hand of the Father (Col 3:1,2). My treasure
is in heaven, my heart is set in heaven, He'll meet our needs according
to His riches in glory, His riches are where my riches are. Now put these
things together and you can get what you need when you need it. If I'm earthly
minded, then I'm limited to the earthly way of doing things. If the banker
says I can't, then I can't.
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