Dearly Beloved,
As we head towards the ending of the first seven years of this end time revival and move into the second seven years of famine, the Lord is increasing the prosperity and breakthroughs in each of your lives, both personally and corporately. Many of you sought to tap on this triple wave of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. For future readers of this talk, this principle applies to all prosperity and any other waves. As we are in the middle of this triple wave, I would like to point to some principles and strategies of tapping onto this flow so that each of you can be ready for the years of famine.
- The flow of righteousness
Remember that the peak of the wave is the crest of the waves which is the highest mid-point with the most energy supporting it (in a three-year wave the midpoint is 1.5 years). We have just past the crest of this three-year wave and should surf on its waves to the next level of prosperity. This wave is built upon the energy of righteousness, especially those of us who have been walking faithfully, doing righteous deeds, practicing a disciplined devotional life with our God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Knowing God, He would have put each of you through various tests of righteousness to see what is in your heart. God tested Abraham by allowing him to be offered prosperity via the king of Sodom which Abraham refused. After which God proclaimed Himself as Abraham’s exceedingly great reward (Genesis 14:21-15:1). Immediately after that, God made a covenant with Abraham. God favours the righteous and has pleasure in their prosperity (Psalm 36:27-28). Righteousness and prosperity are tightly linked together in the Bible (Jeremiah 23:5-6). Daniel warned Nebuchadnezzar that he needed to break of his sins by being righteous, showing mercy to the poor that God might lengthen his prosperity (Daniel 5:27). It is important to guard against greed, live righteously in the sight of God in both small and big things, so that God can bless you with great abundant prosperity. The test usually comes before the reward. Just before your greatest moment of prosperity might be a critical moment of test to see what is in your heart.
- The flow of thoughts and ideas
Every financial problem is just an idea problem. There is always a way to solve every financial crisis, if we are willing to pray and receive God’s wisdom. Also note that the solution might involve making decisions that we are unwilling to make because of fear. Wisdom is always the producer of riches, honour; yes, enduring riches and righteousness (Proverb 8:18). It is wisdom that enables the prosperity and reign of kings, rulers, princes, nobles and judges (Proverb 8:14-16). Those who love wisdom will inherit wealth and have their treasuries filled (Proverb 8:21). Anyone who has spent abundant time with God in prayers and worship will notice a flow of ideas that come to them supernaturally. This can come in the morning, noon or night. Or even at times of relaxation. Write down all those ideas that God give and pray over them. Those thoughts and ideas that come from God will lead you to favour, prosperity and growth. Tap upon these ideas and they will lead you to make decisions that will increase abundantly the flow of prosperity to you.
- Hear and Do, not just Hear
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord Jesus speaks of a wise man contrasted to a foolish man. The wise man built his house upon the rock whilst the foolish one on sand and we know which house fell when the floods and rains came (Matthew 7:24-27). In the parable both the wise and the foolish were active but the invisible factor was what was underneath the ground of their houses. In reality, the foolish man was inactive as he hears and does not do but the wise man hears and do! It is the action that makes something which we hear from God into concrete rock. Hearing and hearing alone without action will not lead one to true knowledge. True knowledge comes from within and not from without. All the four types of ground in the parable of the sower received the same seed!! It was how each respond to the word that determined their ability to reproduce (Mark 4: 14-20). Same word, different soil, different circumstances, different results. God can give us similar ideas but planted into different types of hearts and minds, brewed through differing circumstances, produce different results. As James advised in his epistle, faith without works is dead (James 2:17). Perhaps many, many good people of God has received the faith of God in their hearts but because they lack action, they have no results, as everything exists only in their minds but no concrete action was every taken. The biblical Joseph might have been a dreamer but he was definitely also a man of action. In the end, we are not rewarded based on our ideas or dreams but on our works that we do through God (1 Corinthians 3:13-15). Is there anything that God has spoken to you in your heart and mind, and that God is still waiting for you to take action? Having considered and prayed through all things, it is time to take action to bring blessings into your life.
- Be bold, overcome your fears
It is the time to possess the kingdom as decreed by the Ancient of Days, especially in these days of the ten toes (Daniel 2: 44; 7:21-22). We are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken and the only fear allowed is the fear of God (Hebrews 12:28). Those who fear are not worthy to fight God’s battles. Those who are fearful and fainthearted are told to leave God’s army before the battle begins (Deuteronomy 20:8). God would rather He have fewer people than to have a multitude of fearful ones. Everyone born into this sinful earth have fears in their lives as a result of sin nature. The first place to conquer anything is to conquer the fear in our own lives. Out of twelve spies sent to spy the land of Canaan, ten have fear and only two, Caleb and Joshua, had conquered their fear of giants (Numbers 14:6-9). Out of thirty-two thousand people gathered together under Gideon, twenty-two were sent back because they were afraid, leaving only ten thousand (Judges 7:2). In both accounts, those who are fearful were higher in percentage: 83% of twelve leaders were fearful and 68.75% or more than two-thirds of soldiers gathered were fearful. How many fearful Christians are there today? I am certain that they are in the majority but we must change that percentage to 100% bold followers of Christ, maturing into the perfect church, the bride of Christ. There is no place in God’s army for the fearful in Bible times; there is still no place in God’s end time army in our modern times. It is OK to feel fear but it is NOT OK to give in to fear. God constantly has to exhort His leaders and His people to NOT be afraid. In a similar vein, we exhort each believer to rise up, be bold, conquer your fears and go forth and extend the kingdom of God’s influence.
- Know the seasons, used seasoned methods
There are only four seasons a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; there are only four seasons of fruiting the word: resisting doubts that steal the word, growing roots in time of tribulation, rejecting worldliness to bear fruit, and abundant fruitfulness thirty, sixty and a hundredfold (Mark 4:14-20). There is a time of sowing and time of harvest. Different instruments and different strategies need to be used according to the season. In the season of sowing, patience is required; in the season of reaping, speed and efficiency is required less the harvest is spoiled. We are in the season of harvest as we hit the crest of the three-year prosperity, speed and efficiency is important. Strike while the iron is hot, so that you can forge a sword for times of famine. When we get the season mixed up, planting in summer and trying to harvest in winter, we will suffer starvation. Tools and methods adapt to the season of our times. Like David, used only tools and methods that you have tested and forged through the seasons of your life (1 Samuel 17:39). Do not use untested methods in your life, even if others were able to use them. David cannot use Saul’s armour nor can you use another man’s armour. Use ONLY the methods and principles that you have worked out successfully in your life. What may work for someone else might not work for you. Look into your own life, how you conquered your bears and lions; then no matter how ridiculous you look like David going out with sticks and stones, take your proven strategy into the battlefield. With God’s help, your slingshot and stone will pierce the head of the giants you face. When there is no battle, you may train and learn other methods and strategies, but in the heat of battle, only use proven and tested methodologies.
- Listen to God-sent people, relationship opens doors
God does not just send angels into our lives and ideas into our heart and head; God sends people into our lives! Many people are looking for their next vision or angels and fail to develop proper relationships with those around them. Many are listening to their own hearts and minds but are not listening to the people whom God sent into their lives. Then when failure or disaster strikes, they wonder why God never helped them. Help does not always come in the form of angels or visions from heaven, even though we need both these to grow in God. Help sometimes come in the butler who was sent to prison to be cared for by Joseph (Genesis 40:14; 41:9-14). The enemy also sends people to hinder you like Mrs Potiphar or Sanballat or Haman (Genesis 39:19-20; Nehemiah 4:1; Esther 3:6). May God open your eyes to know who is sent by God and who is sent by the enemy. Naaman would have died of leprosy if not for him listening to the words of a servant girl. And when in Israel he nearly lost his one chance to be healed if not for the words of his servants (2 Kings 5:3, 13). He had already formed in his own mind, the method by which he will be healed, i.e. the prophet will come and wave his hand over him and heal him (2 Kings 5:11). So many people in their pride have already formed the opinion of how God should work in their lives, thus missing the biggest blessing of their lives! All God’s methods will the need for humility and the meekness to listen even to the people God sent into our lives, no matter who they are; whether it be a servant, a child or an insignificant slave. In the worst of the worst times of David’s life and his mighty men’s lives at Ziklag, their success rest upon the directions of a little Egyptian slave boy given up to die (1 Samuel 30:11-16). Are you really listening to God? Are you listening to the people God sent into your life or are you resisting their words? They might be the key to your future, maybe not now but months or years later. He who has an ear hears what the Spirit has to say, no matter what instrument God uses, whether it be direct visions, dreams, angels, inner voice, thoughts, promptings of the heart or even the voices of people God sent across our lives.
- Be a Giver, Be abundantly generous
Our Father God is a generous and abundant giving God. The nature of God has always been that of mercy and benevolence. It is the devil who is stingy and miserly who steals, kills and destroy while Jesus always gives abundantly (John 10:10). Before you deserve prosperity, check your own nature. Are you a stingy person or a generous person? Would God give abundant prosperity to those whose nature are not synchronous with His nature? Would God release abundant prosperity on those who are sting as the devil? There is nothing wrong in being a good steward but a good steward is NOT the same as a stingy steward. A good tree will bear good fruit but a bad tree CANNOT bear good fruit (Matthew 7:17-20). Our Father God gives sunshine and rain to both the just and the unjust, all out of the generosity of our God (Matthew 5:45). A life of giving is a life of sowing, always having abundant harvests. If we don’t turn on the tap for water to flow, how can more water flow? If we don’t start a life of generous giving with whatever we have, whether little or much, how can more prosperity flow into our lives? The only answer to selfishness is generosity in selfless giving and helping others besides just ourselves. Why should God help our selfish nature by giving more to a selfish person? To such, maybe less prosperity is better until the person learns that life is MORE than food and clothing (Matthew 6:25). Life is about loving people, helping people, caring for others, being like Jesus, being like God. We start this with whatever little we have and being faithful to little, God will bring even more prosperity to flow not just TO US but THROUGH US unto others. This is the most powerful way in which the flow of prosperity can move, through us unto others. Don’t look at the worldly people who seem to be prosperous now because all those will be taken from them in the end times. Do not serve mammon but lay your treasures up in heaven, start a life of giving now, release an unending cycle of giving that flows through your lives, for this is indeed the only satisfying way to live life on earth.
Take your spiritual surfboards and boldly swim to the waves of prosperity that God is creating in these end times to bless those who are His. Isaiah 60 will be fulfilled in fullness in our lifetimes. The Lord prosper you in all of your spirit, soul and body in Jesus Name. Amen.