Secrets of Wealth Pt 2

Lets do a recap. Last time, we defined Wealth and Poverty as:

“Wealth is the condition, position and nature of abundant resources over accumulated need. It exhibits superiority and sufficiency in settling need and having left over”

While …

“Poverty is the condition where your resources are less than your need. It is a position of lack and insufficiency in relation to your accumulated need”

So wealth and poverty are defined based on the relativity between their accumulated needs and their overall resources able to solve those needs. So the question is, does God want us to prosper? Absolutely yes. Anything contrary is an abuse of the scriptures and an insult to God.

    

Ps 35:27

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

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God never changes. He cannot all over a sudden begin to despise prosperity

    

Deut 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, as it is this day.

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Eccl 5:19

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

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This is truly the gift of God. That same God has not changed. He still boldly identifies himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. These were all men of wealth and influence. He is not known as the God of Lazarus or of any poor person in the bible. Yet he is their God and is prompt to bring help to them. But a man is not poor because he lacks resources, but because he lacks grace to utilize his resources to satisfy his needs.

There were those who were poor and weak, but God turned their story around. Their testimony wasn’t that God was with them in their poverty, but that God turned their story. You cannot have God and be poor anywhere. That is not just impossible, it is UNpossible.

Let us see David’s secret of wealth.

    

Ps 16:5-7

The Lord himself is my inheritance, my prize. He is my food and drink, my highest joy! He guards all that is mine. 6 He sees that I am given pleasant brooks and meadows as my share! What a wonderful inheritance! 7 I will bless the Lord who counsels me; he gives me wisdom in the night. He tells me what to do.

TLB

Do we know the implication of the Lord being our portion and inheritance? Can a man inherit God? He made all things that is and exist. He said, silver and gold are mine. Can a man inherit God and be unable to meet his need. God is big! The use of the word ‘big’ to describe God is the worst understatement of the millennium. God is infinite. The whole universe, or universes (whatever scientists call them) exist within God. He makes up every fabric, every material, every matter, every space, every energy. Can a man inherit God and be poor? Never!

This is why King David could boldly declare

    

Ps 23:1

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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Another way to put it is like this.

“The Lord is my shepherd, I have all that I ever need”.

To claim that a Christian can have God and yet be unable to satisfy any need is to reject the very name of God, Elshaddai – which means, self sufficient God, Almighty. Meaning, he has the ability to be over surplus.

So how can we be wealthy? By having God. Some will say, there are many rich men who do not know God. In fact, the wealthiest men are secular. I will correct you to say that the men with the highest currency are the secular guys. You cannot quantify the wealth of the Christian. His main resource is invisible, yet active. Our resource is God. I am not just rich in any form of currency and lands, am rich in what makes dollars, pounds etc. I am rich in what made all the lands in the world. Rich in the creator. I can create whatever I ever needed even if it never existed before. This is the riches in glory by Christ Jesus that Paul spoke of.

    

Phil 4:19

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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I am rich in the Holy Ghost! That is why he says, “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world”. When Jesus went to heaven, he commissioned us for the work, and then promised to send the resources we needed to do this work. He sent us the Holy Ghost. This is all that we need to be wealthy and high influence. He is the greatest gift to mankind.

Many wealthy men having over $200 billion have died of a terminal illness. His need was greater than any money he could ever have. But some men who have N2,000 have healed so many of even more dangerous diseases and themselves never get sick.

Never pursue the riches of this world, for they are but a mirage. True riches come in Christ Jesus. In Christ, all riches in this world are yours by inheritance. No money in this world can raise a dead man back, but a simple hand laid by one rich in the Holy Ghost can do all things.

This is the true wealth. This is the wealth of the Kingdom of Heaven. It is a pity how many Christians remain poor in spirit. I know many celebrate the beatitudes where he says blessed are the poor in spirit, but he never said they should remain so, he said, for they shall be satisfied. Glory to God! Be rich in God today.

In the kingdom, there are keys of the Kingdom given to us. You might have God and yet be poor, I will now show you the keys to wealth in Christ Jesus. See you again!