Keith Moore
Everyone has something—usually more than one something—that they yearn for, dream about or deeply desire. Most of those desires fall in line with the Word of God—financial prosperity, health, family, ministry and all-around success. Yet, so many desires go unfulfilled. Why? You may already know the basics of what it takes to receive from God: Faith (believing, speaking right words, putting faith into action) Obedience (Forgiving, tithing, giving, humility, etc.) Love (loving others according to 1 Corinthians 13). But, if you’ve been pursuing each of these (and it does take continual pursuit), and still don’t have what you desire most, you might be wondering, What am I missing? At the 2020 Southwest Believers’ Convention, Keith Moore brought a powerful word over three days that just might shed some light on what has kept you from crossing the finish line into your promised land. Here, we’re sharing some key hindrances and faith principles from his teaching to help you discover why you don’t have what you desire most, so you can make a change and turn things around! 1. God Is Not Your ONLY Source “Yet for us there is [only] one God, the Father, Who is the Source of all things.” –1 Corinthians 8:6 (AMPC) If you don’t have what you desire most, it’s time to ask some questions. Who are you relying on to get you what you desire most? Your income? Your connections? The government? In other words, who or what is your source? It’s easy to say that God is your Source, but if you suddenly find yourself out of a job—you find out who your source is by the way you respond. If you panic and become stricken with fear, you know you’ve made your job your source. If you’re afraid of losing your job or you search the internet and ask friends for the answer to relationship or health problems, God is not your ONLY source. Certainly, God uses many channels to help and bless you, but if God is not your ONLY source—the ONLY one you rely on—then your faith is in the wrong place. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. And only when you trust fully in Him will He give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4-5). 2. You Don’t Dream Beyond the Possible “All things are possible to him who believes.” –Mark 9:23 (NKJV) Do the things you desire most far exceed what seems possible? Do you allow yourself to believe for things outside what your salary, your circumstances or even your body can accomplish? If not, you haven’t made God your ONLY source. There are natural limits to everything here on earth, but His means are limitless! The key to doing this, Keith Moore says, is that “you have to discipline yourself not to try and think of HOW it could happen. Faith is evidence of the unseen.” What if you’re believing for something and two years pass, five years pass, 10 years pass without it? Well, time is passing anyway, isn’t it? You might as well believe for something in the meantime and do so without wondering if God would actually give it to you. Keith Moore says, “If the Father was ever going to withhold something and say, ‘That’s too much,’ it would’ve been Jesus. If He was willing to give you Jesus, everything else is small potatoes. Why would He not freely give us all things?” Watch as Keith Moore shares a powerful example of believing beyond what you think is possible. Want to get notified the next time we upload videos like the one above? It’s easy, simply subscribe to our YouTube channel 3. God Is Not Your ONLY Source of Value “For God bought you with a high price.” –1 Corinthians 6:20 What makes you feel like you have value? Most people have their identity and sense of self-worth attached to something in their life. It can be your appearance, your material belongings or the opinions of others. Many times, people see their value as tied to their profession. But what happens when those things are no longer there? Who are you? What are you? If tomorrow, you could no longer do what you do professionally, would you lose your value? That’s what happens to pro athletes and celebrities when they are injured or age. All their identity was wrapped up in what they did, instead of who they are, and if they lose what they do, they don’t know who they are anymore. When God is your ONLY Source of value, you won’t be insecure. You won’t need lots of compliments and pats on the back. You won’t need to be promoted to feel valuable. That’s because you know that your value was set before you were born. So, the next time the enemy tries to bring a thought to you that you’re not worth much, ask him, “How come the highest price that’s ever been paid for anything was paid for me?” The economy changes, professions change. But your value never changes. Let God be your ONLY Source of value and your heart will be prepared to receive what you desire most. SEE Good News Daily Ministries.com/G.A.M.E. July and August 4. God Is Not Your ONLY Rock “Only—from his excellency they have consulted to drive away…. Only—for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him [is] my hope. Only—He [is] my rock and my salvation, My tower, I am not moved.” –Psalm 62:4-6 (YLT) Some people believe they can’t make it without a particular person—they see that person as their rock. If they lose that person, they don’t feel like they can go on. If that’s how you feel, too much of your heart is given to another person—a place where the Lord should be. When the Lord has your whole heart, you can make it thorough anything because He is your Rock and the Anchor of your soul. He will always be there. The Lord will NEVER leave you. He will NEVER forsake you. He will NEVER let you down. And you will always be just as valuable to Him as you were when He paid the highest price for you. When God is your ONLY Rock, you are positioned to have what you desire most because you’ve put Him in the proper place in your life. 5. God Is Not Your ONLY Source of Peace “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.” –Psalm 20:7 (NIV) We have experienced some trying times recently—and they continue. In times where the norm is shaken or disrupted, you find out who your source is, who your rock is, where your identity is and where your peace is found. Do you find your peace in the state of the economy? The DOW? The state of politics? Your supply of toilet paper? There are only two directions you can look for what you need and desire—to God or to man (including yourself). Most Christians are shaken to the core and lose their peace when things change because they’ve been relying on man. But that is misplacing faith—taking it from God and giving it to man. Psalm 20:6-9 shows us that trusting in the wrong thing—trusting in man instead of God—will end in demise. No matter who people are or how wonderful they are—they’re not God. You can’t substitute anyone or anything for God. That place in your heart is exclusively reserved for God ALONE. Now that doesn’t mean you can’t have confidence in other people, but God alone should have that major place in your heart. Faith in people is optional. Faith in God is not. And just look at the life of someone who has learned to make God their ONLY Source of peace: “Blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit” (Jeremiah 17:7-8). That’s the key to having what you desire most. When God is your everything, you can have anything. 6. You’re Forgetting to Give Glory to Whom It Is Due “Remember the LORD your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful.” –Deuteronomy 8:18 When your job is going well, you’re prospering, your family is tight and you’re healthy—what do you say when people compliment you? It’s easy to want to take credit. “Well, we do work hard,” you might say. It sounds innocent enough, but if you’re forgetting to give glory to whom it is due, in any area, you’ve moved into the carnal realm. That’s claiming to be the source of your increase, and that’s a lie. You’re not the source of your salvation, Redemption, strength, grace, peace and abundance. God is the reason for anything good in your life. That doesn’t mean you didn’t cooperate, but forgetting to give credit to God for every good thing is pride. Pride will shut off the flow to what you desire quicker than anything. When things go well for you, that’s a testimony to people of the goodness of God. That’s why Abram refused to take anything from anyone. He told those who offered him financial reward, “I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich’” (Genesis 14:23, NIV). He didn’t want credit for his success going anywhere but to the glory of God. It can be challenging to look inside your heart and see why you don’t have what you desire most, but the wise are eager to do so because they know it will help them overcome, break through and finally receive those desires. They belong to you! God wants you to have them. Get with God and ask Him to help you in these areas. He wants to! Then, prepare to receive what you desire most.
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THE WORD
JOHN 1:1-3 The Eternal Word In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. NLT In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. MSG The Life-Light The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one. Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!— came into being without him. AMPC In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. GNT The Word of Life In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. MATTHEW 4:4 BY EVERY WORD OF GOD He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” NLT But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” MSG Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: “It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God’s mouth.” AMPC But He replied, It has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God. GNT But Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.’” JOHN 6:35 THE BREAD OF LIFE Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. NLT Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. MSG Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have told you this explicitly because even though you have seen me in action, you don’t really believe me. AMPC Jesus replied, I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me will never be hungry, and he who believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me will never thirst any more (at any time). GNT “I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 2:3
Times of hardness are inevitable. You need to know that. It's true that we've been redeemed from the curse, and there's nothing Satan can do to reverse that, but he is going to challenge you on it. So don't be surprised when things get tough. Times will come when you have to stand strictly by faith, when you'll have to speak and act as though what God says is true even when you can't feel it or see it happening around you. There will be times when everything looks terrible. That's when you must endure hardness as a good soldier. So many people hear the word of faith about healing or prosperity and they think, Hey! I'm going to try that. Then when the hard times come, they give up and cave in. Let me warn you, living by faith is not something you try. It's a lifestyle. You do it when it's hard. You do it when it's easy. You do it all the time because you're not doing it just to get in on the benefits. You're doing it because you know that faith pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). Things may get a little rough at times, but let me assure you, you'll always come out on top if you endure hardness as a good soldier. If you refuse to faint and fall away, you will have the victory. The only defeated Christian is the one who quits! Scripture Reading: Numbers 14:1-24 Gloria Copeland Spend time listening to this short VIDEO (less than 30 minutes). Take good notes! “LIVING IN PROSPERITY” https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+prosperity+copeland&view=detail&mid=5C9C7875C3D13983B14A5C9C7875C3D13983B14A&FORM=VIRE&cc=US&setlang=en-US&cvid=191fe35750e04d0093d105897f01fcab&qs=SW&nclid=5B878FEF516900CECB3A3A5185C53D13&ts=1622302198067 Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:3 Times of hardness are inevitable. You need to know that. It's true that we've been redeemed from the curse, and there's nothing Satan can do to reverse that, but he is going to challenge you on it. So don't be surprised when things get tough. Times will come when you have to stand strictly by faith, when you'll have to speak and act as though what God says is true even when you can't feel it or see it happening around you. There will be times when everything looks terrible. That's when you must endure hardness as a good soldier. So many people hear the word of faith about healing or prosperity and they think, Hey! I'm going to try that. Then when the hard times come, they give up and cave in. Let me warn you, living by faith is not something you try. It's a lifestyle. You do it when it's hard. You do it when it's easy. You do it all the time because you're not doing it just to get in on the benefits. You're doing it because you know that faith pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). Things may get a little rough at times, but let me assure you, you'll always come out on top if you endure hardness as a good soldier. If you refuse to faint and fall away, you will have the victory. The only defeated Christian is the one who quits! Scripture Reading: Numbers 14:1-24 Gloria Copeland Spend time to listen to this VIDEO. Take good notes! “LIVING IN PROSPERITY” https://www.bing.com/videos/searchq=youtube+prosperity+copeland&view=detail&mid=5C9C7875C3D13983B14A5C9C7875C3D13983B14A&FORM=VIRE&cc=US&setlang=enUS&cvid=191fe35750e04d0093d105897f01fcab&qs=SW&nclid=5B878FEF516900CECB3A3A5185C53D13&ts=1622302198067 THE BLESSING makes every living thing God created productive…including me!
Genesis 1:22 Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.” Jesus is the One who makes THE BLESSING and all His riches, the possession of whoever will believe and receive…I do! Galatians 3:13-14 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. THE BLESSING makes the riches of heaven abound on earth…right where I live! Proverbs 10:22 THE BLESSING of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it. THE BLESSING of my heavenly Father makes everything I need to live, available even before I need it. I can be sure of it because I seek the kingdom of God! Matthew 6:31-33 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Genesis 12:1-3)
Contrary to popular belief, when God spoke those words of BLESSING, He wasn’t just commanding Adam and his wife to produce babies to populate the earth. He was saying much more than that. Look at Genesis 1:28. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” In Hebrew the phrase “be fruitful and multiply” means to increase and have abundance in every way. The word “replenish” means to fill up, to perpetually renew, supply and keep full. When God spoke those words, He endowed mankind with the divine power to increase and excel in everything good. He empowered mankind to fill the earth with that goodness. Through the empowerment of THE BLESSING, God was saying to mankind” Proper and fill this planet with My glory! Finish what I’ve started here. Fill this place up with Me. Fill it up with compassion. Fill it up with love and life, faith and holiness, and everything good! A blessing is defined as “not only saying something good about someone, but also as a declaration that empowers him or her to prosper.” Because God’s words carry creative power (as seen throughout Genesis 1), His BLESSING does more than express a positive sentiment. It releases power to bring that BLESSING to pass. That’s the reason THE BLESSING God spoke over mankind is Genesis 1:28 is so significant. God’s declaration actually empowered man to prosper. It released the divine resources that would make THE BLESSING not only a spiritual reality but a material reality as well. It endued God’s family on earth with all the power they would ever need to fulfill the command to, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it. Rule [have dominion] over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” JESUS IS LORD God didn’t create Adam to be a servant of the earth, but lord over it. So when Adam bowed his knee to God’s enemy, all his lordship and dominion over the earth went to his new, illegitimate stepfather, satan (Luke 4:6; John 8L34; Romans 6:16). The idea of man’s lordship in the earth makes religious people nervous, and it upset people in Jesus’ day too. The religious people wanted to kill Him for speaking and acting as if He had dominion on the earth-for operating in THE BESSING and authority of the first Adam. But Jesus didn’t back down. He went to the Cross to fulfill the plan of redemption, becoming the curse for us (Galatians 3:13) so mankind could be free to walk in THE BLESSING once again. When He came to earth, Jesus immediately began heading toward the cross, as the final sacrifice of the Abrahamic covenant, paying the price for Adam’s treason. He didn’t just take the curse on Himself; He became the curse for us. God never released the curse that has resulted in all the evil in the earth (Genesis 3:17). Adam did by putting THE BLESSING God gave him into the hands of satan (Luke 4:6, John 8:34; Romans 6:16), under whose influence and control THE BLSSING was twisted into the curse-the exact opposite of what God created it to be. Jesus came as the second and last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45) to win man back to his original place of sonship (2 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 2:11), fellowship (1 John 1:30, and dominion (Luke 10:19) as God’s under-ruler in the earth. After His death and resurrection, THE BLESSING was secured forever in Him. It can never be taken from an immortal man. His death and resurrection produced another race of man that never existed before the Cross of Calvary-born again into the image of the Son, Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:18) (Genesis 12:1-3)
Contrary to popular belief, when God spoke those words of BLESSING, He wasn’t just commanding Adam and his wife to produce babies to populate the earth. He was saying much more than that. Look at Genesis 1:28. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” In Hebrew the phrase “be fruitful and multiply” means to increase and have abundance in every way. The word “replenish” means to fill up, to perpetually renew, supply and keep full. When God spoke those words, He endowed mankind with the divine power to increase and excel in everything good. He empowered mankind to fill the earth with that goodness. Through the empowerment of THE BLESSING, God was saying to mankind” Proper and fill this planet with My glory! Finish what I’ve started here. Fill this place up with Me. Fill it up with compassion. Fill it up with love and life, faith and holiness, and everything good! A blessing is defined as “not only saying something good about someone, but also as a declaration that empowers him or her to prosper.” Because God’s words carry creative power (as seen throughout Genesis 1), His BLESSING does more than express a positive sentiment. It releases power to bring that BLESSING to pass. That’s the reason THE BLESSING God spoke over mankind is Genesis 1:28 is so significant. God’s declaration actually empowered man to prosper. It released the divine resources that would make THE BLESSING not only a spiritual reality but a material reality as well. It endued God’s family on earth with all the power they would ever need to fulfill the command to, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it. Rule [have dominion] over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” JESUS IS LORD God didn’t create Adam to be a servant of the earth, but lord over it. So when Adam bowed his knee to God’s enemy, all his lordship and dominion over the earth went to his new, illegitimate stepfather, satan (Luke 4:6; John 8L34; Romans 6:16). The idea of man’s lordship in the earth makes religious people nervous, and it upset people in Jesus’ day too. The religious people wanted to kill Him for speaking and acting as if He had dominion on the earth-for operating in THE BESSING and authority of the first Adam. But Jesus didn’t back down. He went to the Cross to fulfill the plan of redemption, becoming the curse for us (Galatians 3:13) so mankind could be free to walk in THE BLESSING once again. When He came to earth, Jesus immediately began heading toward the cross, as the final sacrifice of the Abrahamic covenant, paying the price for Adam’s treason. He didn’t just take the curse on Himself; He became the curse for us. God never released the curse that has resulted in all the evil in the earth (Genesis 3:17). Adam did by putting THE BLESSING God gave him into the hands of satan (Luke 4:6, John 8:34; Romans 6:16), under whose influence and control THE BLSSING was twisted into the curse-the exact opposite of what God created it to be. Jesus came as the second and last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45) to win man back to his original place of sonship (2 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 2:11), fellowship (1 John 1:30, and dominion (Luke 10:19) as God’s under-ruler in the earth. After His death and resurrection, THE BLESSING was secured forever in Him. It can never be taken from an immortal man. His death and resurrection produced another race of man that never existed before the Cross of Calvary-born again into the image of the Son, Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:18) True prosperity verses false prosperity and understanding what it really is.
When you’re talking about prosperity, or when most people hear the word prosperity they immediately think money. They are not incorrect but they are incomplete because money by itself can not define prosperity. When you talk about TRUE PROSPERITY you must first of all understand that True Prosperity can only come from God and His Word. Then you understand that True Prosperity deals with every arena of life, your spirit, your soul and your body. To prosper in your spirit means you’re Born Again. To prosper in your Soul means having a sound mind. To prosper in your Body means you’re healthy and prosper in your relationships. What we really want to do is to get people to change their thinking and come into a Bible definition concerning prosperity. Being successful in every arena of life, Consider a PIE divided into slices. You have a family relationship slice, a Healing slice, a Faith slice, Salvation, Financial prosperity and more. If you take two slices out of the pie you don’t have a whole pie. Something is missing. To prosper means that every slice is a part of that pie. It is wholeness, complete, total, well being in every area. As fathers we are not satisfied if our children are just financially prosperous, but they are sick or they are healed but have terrible relationships. As fathers we want our kids to have a complete, well-being in every arena of their lives. God is our Father and He is concerned about us having total success in every area. To truly be rich cannot be defined by how much money you have in the bank. To truly be rich is defined by the wholeness of your life. If a man has a million dollars in the bank but dying of cancer, he’s just a poor man with a million dollars in the bank, healed but no money in the bank. He’s still a poor man with a healed body…. So let’s redefine how you look at prosperity. Prosperity does not just deal with money. Money is a part of the pie. We are talking about an ABUNDANT LIFE! in every area. Excelling to the point desired. God is interested in our living this prosperous abundant life. We must learn how to operate in the Kingdom of God. For example, how do we get from point A to point B? First you have to know about it. But just knowing about it is not going to feed your family, or heal your body, or fix your financial situation. There is something that has to happen while you are at A to get over to where the goal is, B. God started it with the Garden of Eden and Eden was God’s own handiwork. He planted that Garden. He grew it before He ever created the man (Adam) and put him in there. So here he is in this place that we are talking about. He started out a success. Then he lost it and he went about as far down as any man can go. In the Garden he experienced THE BLESSING that is so powerful. He had the power in him and on him to take the Garden to the whole earth, to bless the whole earth. Everything in it: Everything that walked. Everything that breathed. He had the power to bless it. When he fell he was removed from that Garden out into a place that was violently against him instead of for him. Once he got out from under THE BLESSING, he never was able to prosper enough to get out of sight of the Garden. So we can use the Garden now as the place we are trying to get to. Notice in the Garden there was seed. He planted seed in the ground. There was prosperity in that Garden, healing in that Garden, health, joy, successful relationships. What we want to know is how do I get my life back to the place of where it can operate as if I’m in the Garden of Eden again. And learn how to operate in the Kingdom of God, (God’s way of doing things.) But not only God’s way of doing things, but WHAT IS HIS WAY of doing things. If this is the Garden of Eden over here and I’m somewhere over here, everything in my life should be looking toward this. Not necessarily toward heaven but here on earth. God designed it to be here on the earth. That’s been His Will all the time (Revelation 27). Somehow, in Jesus this is still available. He is the last Adam. Since it’s still available, how then do I take the next step toward that, knowing that it is available to me now in Christ Jesus. The key to that is in the first step, understanding God’s way to doing what He does. I’ve got to get hold of how does God think? How does He govern things? How does God bring about healing and deliverance? His ways of operating can be located. We can locate all those keys right there in the Garden. What we want to do is to break this down and to walk people from where they are in life right now back into the Garden of Eden. Eden means “voluptuous” supply, unending supply. What did Jesus say? “I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” Let’s interpose those two. He could very easily have said, I have come that you might get the Garden of Eden back in your life like God planned it in the first place. That’s why I’m here. In Genesis it very plainly states that thorns and thistles were not there until that curse struck the land and the land began to produce thorns and thistles which were in direct opposition to Adam and THE BLESSING that was originally there (Genesis 3:17-18). Let those who favor my righteous cause and have pleasure in my uprightness shout for joy and be glad and say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, Who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. Psalm 35:27, The Amplified Bible
If traditional religion has taught you that God wants you poor and oppressed, I have good news for you today. The Bible says, "God takes pleasure" in your prosperity. God wants you to prosper! Not just in the financial realm but in every area of your life...spirit, soul and body. No matter where you are or who you are, God wants to see you delivered from every adverse situation. Why? Because He loves you and He has a job for you to do. He wants you to help meet the needs of mankind and He's smart enough to know that you can't give away what you don't have. You can't give to spread the gospel or buy food for the hungry when you're broke. You can't go out laying hands on the sick when you're lying in a hospital bed. You can't minister joy to others when you're being held captive by depression. No! You have to be blessed to be a blessing. If you really want to tap into the riches of God today, make up your mind to be a blessing to others, and before you know it, you'll be receiving more from God than you ever dreamed. That's what happened to me. I decided years ago, first and foremost, to be a giver. I developed a lifestyle of giving. Today, I literally "live to give." And I don't mind telling you, God dumps blessings on me by the truckload! He'll do the same for you if you'll become His servant—if you'll lay down your time and your money and your love for those who need it. Become a giver—and God will take pleasure in prospering you! Scripture Reading: Genesis 12:1-4, Genesis 13:1-4 Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:12, The Amplified Bible We're to live in hope. We're to rejoice. So, when Satan comes to steal your victory and tell you that God is not going to help you this time, you just think on the Word of God and start rejoicing. Rejoice that you're in Him. Rejoice that heaven is your home. Rejoice that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Rejoice. Brag on God today. The devil can't stand it! "Be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation...." Tribulation means "being under pressure." When pressure comes, don't cave in. Don't faint. Instead, go to the throne of grace. Go boldly in the Name of Jesus and get the help you need. Remember this: When things get hard isn't when you let go of the Word. That's when you double up on it. That's when you are "constant in prayer" so that you are immovable. Rejoice. Be patient under pressure. Be constant in prayer. The devil won't be able to steal one thing from you! Scripture Reading: Romans 5:1-5 Gloria Copeland |
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