The Power of Binding and Loosening

The Power of Binding and Loosening

I have taught about binding and loosening several times. However, I have not taught on just how important binding and loosening is to your walk with the Lord.

Matthew 16:19    And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Jesus said to Peter, I am giving you the keys to the kingdom of Heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in Heaven… whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.

By these words Jesus conferred on Peter what was the most tremendous authority. Authority that is to be exercised on earth, but effective in Heaven.

The reason Jesus conferred this authority on Peter is because Jesus knew it would be needed.

This encourages me to believe that if someone like Peter needed this knowledge, certainly the rest of us will need it too. Especially in this twisted world that we live in today.

Guess what? Jesus conferred the same power on us. Confer means to give or bestow…

Matthew 18:18-20    Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

¹⁹ Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

He repeats the same promise and extends it to all believers who meet the conditions of agreement and believing it the power and authority of Gods word.

He is saying, I can guarantee this truth, whatever you imprison bind or allow, whatever you set free, or loose, God will set free or loose.

I can guarantee again that if two of you agree on anything here on earth my father will accept it. Where two or three have come together in my name, I am there among them. The spirit of truth…

The word agree in Greek is subpoena which gives us the English word symphony. It doesn’t mean a mere intellectual agreement; it means musical harmony.

If two of you can harmonize, agree together in one accord, in touching anything that you ask, it will be done. This is a harmony in the spirit, not just a mental decision about an item on a prayer list. It goes much deeper. Your mindset and faith in God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit; that they will hear and answer our prayers.

Then Jesus goes on to say, where two or three are gathered together in my name. When two or more are gathered in Jesus’ name it always magnifies the divine power of God according to the things given to us that pertain to life and godliness.

I use the Word led together instead of gathered together because this action of coming together demands a leader, and the leader is the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:14   ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Jesus is speaking about believers brought together by the Holy Spirit around the focus of the person of Jesus Christ, represented by his name.

He is saying when you’re led together by my spirit in my name and you can harmonize, count on my presence.

There is where the authority is, the exercising of the authority depends upon the leading of the Holy Spirit and being so related to our fellow believers that we can harmonize with them or agree.

When you pray, be sure you are praying your prayer with biblical knowledge as to what you want to be manifested.

You can only bind on earth what has already been bound in heaven, but it still places the responsibility upon us. Why? Because until we pray the binding is not effective. It requires earth action to make Heavens decree effective.

We are given the responsibility for what goes on in Heaven. It is absolutely staggering that we so easily adopt the attitude that we are waiting for God to act.

The truth is, God is waiting for us to act. In fact, He has been waiting a very long time.

We say Lord show me what you want done and I will go along with it… but the Lord is saying, on the contrary you tell me what you intend to do and I will go along with that.

You can see that it is… what so ever you bind on earth that word ye is We… he is talking about us. He is saying you make the decision and I will go along with it. This authority is only given to those who are in right fellowship with God.

God has built a fence around his delegated authority, as long as you are not right in your personal relationship with God, there is no way in. For this to work we must have a good relationship with God.

Ephesian 2:8     For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

We must be full of God’s grace because His grace is sufficient for our lives. God’s grace has already provided salvation that was manifested through faith.

The gospel of grace makes everything available to those whosoever will believe. Healing, prosperity, deliverance, salvation and Born again, only manifested through faith that grace provided.

Something awesome happened the day we were born again. The day we were born again, Jesus took away the old man, and gave us a new creation.

This new creation He gave us is fully equipped with everything that was finished at the cross. When God created us, he invested everything you would ever need, for life and godliness.

Eph 1:3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Every spiritual blessing is already inside you, most of the things you pray for you already have. At this time when you made Jesus Lord of your life, your life was transformed from natural to divine or supernatural.

Supernatural wisdom and knowledge were invested in you by discerning of the word by the Holy Spirit. Everything God has being a child of God through Christ Jesus belongs to you.

Grace through the cross made this available. Now we have the keys of heaven to unlock all these privileges.

Withdrawing is something that most Christians have a problem with, even though everything has been made available through grace and the cross. We tend to withdraw or not accept the power and authority we have been given.

Your healing is already in you, prosperity, deliverance, salvation is already in you. This is part of the finish work of Jesus Christ, and through this great grace, this awesome love and his unmerited favor, he released through His grace, this power and his authority for your salvation through his shed blood.

We need to get our faith to grab ahold of what God has already done. Instead of using our faith to try to get God to do something He has already done.

It’s just a matter of bringing into manifestation what has already been done.

2^nd Peter 1:3-4   According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and Godliness.

Through the knowledge of Him, that called us to glory

And are given to us exceeding, great and precious promises.

You need to change your thinking, if you’re going to change your life.

3^rd John 2   Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

As your soul prospers… above all things

Your soul is your thinking part, or your mind, that’s where the battle is. Right believing produces right living: Christianity is right believing when you believe right you will do right.

Right believing comes by faith in Christ Jesus, and the word of God… Faith is a gift of God, what grace provided can only be manifested through faith.

There is a door that divides the spiritual unseen world, from this seen physical world, the place of manifestation.

We are trying to get what is in the unseen world to manifest itself, or show up in this seen world, the natural physical world

Nothing shows up in this seen world without going through this door of faith.

It is through faith we get saved, through faith that salvation has already been made available through grace…

Everything that is going to manifest its self in this physical world has to go through the door of faith.

You have to work in agreement with what you say you believe; you can’t be double minded. Don’t negate your prayer by saying well I hope it works, or I hope God answers our prayer.

What you say and what you do must be in agreement with what grace has already provided for you.

Under pressure you will speak what you believe. When you get to the point that you’re not moved by what you see and don’t consider things by what you see then you know that you believe it.

2^nd Corinthians 4:18    While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

When you consider the problem more than you consider the promise, you know you don’t believe it.

When you believe with your heart, you believe against your physical senses.

What you believe in, you will support and you will give to, the church.

God did not create you and put you here to worry how am I going to pay my rent, light bill, and how am I going to buy food.

We don’t have time to worry about the things that has already been done.

We need to lay hands on the sick, cast out devils and get ready for the revival that is coming to the Church.

Philemon 6   That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus

Christ in you, the hope of glory, he will meet your demands according to the deposit he has put in you. By the manifestation of His promise.

Question:   How do I withdraw what is already been done?

The gospel of grace makes everything available to those whosoever will believe.

Grace is the power of God that creates blessings. Stop trying to earn what has already been provided.

Living in lack is not the will of God. You are walking around with an account that is a full deposit, everything you will ever need in life.

We have depended on the worlds way so long to take care of things in our lives Until we haven’t taken any time to understand how to tap into Gods way.

What happens when the worlds way doesn’t work anymore? We must learn how to manifest and to withdraw, what has been deposited inside of us.

Grace supplies the need; our need is manifested through faith. It is when we believe it is already been done that causes the door of blessings to manifest

The spiritual unseen world, to the physical seen world, this place of manifestation

When the devil tells you that you don’t have what is promised, remind him of Isaiah 53:5

If you go to Lowes to purchase a new refrigerator, the store will not sell you the display it has on the floor. You have to decide which one you want to buy.

They will then give you a receipt that says paid in full. You take this to the warehouse and the receipt will put a demand on the purchased refrigerator.

Once something is paid in full it belongs to you for the taking. Even though it has been paid for, if you don’t take it you won’t get it.

This is the way it is with Jesus and grace; we must walk through that door of faith and demand what we know has been paid for in full.

YOUR SUPERNATURAL AUTHORITY

YOUR SUPERNATURAL AUTHORITY

If we want the supernatural promises and blessings of God to manifest in our lives we must stop thinking in the natural realm.

We don’t live by the natural world’s way, so why would we make spiritual decisions using the ways of the world.

We are reborn into the supernatural things of God by the renewing of our mind.

If you want your today and tomorrow to be different from your yesterday stop thinking that God can’t, God won’t, and probably never will. Gods thoughts for us are good. He wants the best for his children.

Start confessing God can, God will. Stop blaming God for everything that doesn’t go along with our small way of thinking.

Matthew 10:7-8   ⁷ And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

He didn’t ask them to pray, he told them to go and heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers and cast out devils.

When Jesus said it is finished, it meant nothing according to the word was left undone.  He paid in full for it all.

3 John 1:2   Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

God works through His word through faith, grace and the spiritual laws that He has set into place, according to His will, which is His word.

If you are a believer, have faith; believe God will do what He says he will do.

Then you have the authority to command healing, prosperity, and victory over evil spirits as well as the devil.

1 Timothy 4:11 These things command and teach.

Command to lead or to exercise authority.

Demand Demanding and or asking a request made with authority.

If you don’t command healing to come; it won’t come; if you don’t command prosperity to come, it won’t happen.

We have been authorized to use Gods power. Under our authority to heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out devils.

Matthew 16:19   ¹⁹ And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Keys are to unlock what is bound, to bind is to hold or restrain, loose means freedom from restraint or from what is bound.

We bind first, then Loose what Christ made available for us at the cross. We bind what is hurting us then we loose our healing. All of our blessings come from heaven.

When you walk in authority, you will see things happen. But nothing can leave heaven until it leaves earth first as we speak it into existence.

Mark 16:16-17   ¹⁶ He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

To be damned is to be condemned to eternal punishment, as to Hell.

¹⁷ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

¹⁸ They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

We are to minister healing to people. We are to command demons to leave. We have the power and authority. We are Gods servants on earth, we are to serve and to teach the people the good news of Jesus Christ.

Even though healing and prosperity is the will of the father, and he has authorized you to do it, if you don’t use this authority and do it, it won’t come.

There is so much religion in church today that they, at times, misrepresent God.

Religion and most churches say this: nothing happens without Gods direct or indirect approval.

What they mean by that is God is either causing it to happen or allowing it to happen. This is not what the word teaches.

It has been repeated over and over in our religious circles and in it has been implanted in our mindset for many years.

This just gives people excuses and frees them from all personal responsibility by praying, Lord if it be your will, please heal this person.

1 Peter 2:24   ²⁴ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

They also pray save this marriage. Then if the marriage is saved or a person is healed; it’s great. But if it doesn’t work, then they say it must not have been Gods will.  This kind of thinking and praying is so wrong.

This way of thinking says, we have no responsibility or accountability on the matter at all.

 It is easy to say, if it is your will for them to be healed, then praise God, and if not, it is all on you Lord.  That is not faith

That is an easy way for us not to be accountable, and yet God gave us authority, and his authorization to use his power of attorney to execute His will in the earth.

Taking the easy way out is just wrong. It takes us out of the picture, and that is not what God did, He put us in the picture, at creation.

We have authority in three areas. In heaven: in earth. And beneath the earth. We have authority over all demonic powers.

Matthew 28:18   ¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Remember the devil knows who you are in Christ Jesus.

Salvation is available: healing is available: and prosperity is available. The only thing is that people refuse to believe and accept it. We as Gods people need to command it.

The will of God doesn’t automatically come to pass. You have a choice.

Acts 16: 30-31   ³⁰ And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

³¹ And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Its Gods will for every man and woman to be saved, but they have to make a decision to do so.

Because you get saved, then when they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, they will get saved.

There is so much misrepresentation of God in the church today. False doctrine is sending people to hell every day. Like teaching that there are more ways to Heaven or salvation than Jesus Christ.

John 14:6   ⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me

Here’s what has to be done in this day and time. We must preach and teach the true gospel in order for people to be set free from evil demonic wrong teachings.

Matthew 7:15   ¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Not to get into religion or tradition, we have to make sure the true, over the top good news reaches people, so they can make godly decisions.

People say, if its Gods will they will be healed whether I pray for them or not, or saved whether I pray or not… wrong.]

If someone doesn’t minister to the unsaved, they probably won’t get saved or healed.

Romans 10:13-17   ¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher, or teacher or any believer?

¹⁵ And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

¹⁶ But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

¹⁷ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

If they are going to get saved, we are to do what he told us to do.

We have to minister salvation to the people, God has made everything available, and God needs us to minister to people who are in need.

Our Job is to minister, or command or speak that into the lives of people that need it.

Where salvation is concerned, you have the commission to minister salvation into the lives of people who are not saved.

Same with healing, we have the commission and authority to minister healing, to command healing in the lives of people that need it.

If and when I pray for someone, its Gods power, I minister His power, and they must have faith enough to receive it.

There are people waiting for you to walk in this power and authority.

You are an amazing instrument of God almighty. He is ready to use you. Are you ready to be used?

I am trying to raise up believers to the supernatural status for these last days.

When God gave this authority, He gave it to all mankind. He did not give it to just preachers and teachers but to all that believe.

God’s grace had favored us with His authority to use His power in the name of Jesus.

Grace through faith puts a demand on spiritual laws. Faith put the manifestation of God’s word into motion.

We believe by faith, Hebrews 11:1, substance of things

Faith sets the spiritual laws of heaven in motion.

God’s spiritual laws are his covenant with mankind

Which are his promises and provision?

The finished work at the cross, released: Gods mercy, God’s grace, Gods favor and Gods authorization, our authority under the name of Jesus.

And it is all manifested through…

Commission

To empower or authorize by commission

An authorization to perform certain duties

Authority to act for another.

DECEIVED BY LYING SPIRITS

DECEIVED BY LYING SPIRITS

2 Thessalonians 2: 1-3    Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

² That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Falling away means there will be a great rebellion against God, and the man of lawlessness is revealed.

2 Thessalonians 2:7   ⁷ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

The mystery of iniquity doth already work is concerning false teachings by false teachers.

Only he who now letteth will let. The let here is the church.

Who now let’s, means who now hinders evil will let or will continue to hinder. Until the church be taken out of the way.

For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one holding it back steps out of the way.

Until the church is raptured, which is the one holding back the antichrist, and steps out of the way it will remain secretly.

The pronoun He is speaking of, confuses most people. In verse 4 and 6 the pronoun He is referring to the antichrist. In verse 7 He is referring to the church.

The lying spirits of Jezebel and the antichrist of today will lead to the man of lawlessness.

2 Thessalonians 2:11   ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

And for this cause is referring to the rejection of Christ and the cross. God shall send them strong delusions. This is the ones who don’t want the truth. They will see a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie is pertaining to anything that leads a person away from the cross.

The work that this antichrist will do is already going on, look at America, look at the rest of the world, their eyes have been blinded to the truth.

Matthew 15:   ¹⁴ Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Some of our leaders are blind, and still they choose to lead, thinking they are doing the right thing. Strong delusion has been sent for many years to let America know they need spiritual guidance to fulfill Gods great plan.

Psalms 75:6-7   ⁶ For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

⁷ But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

The antichrist will claim great things, in all actuality he will be able to so nothing that is lasting. But God is the judge, he puts down one and sets up another in the strict interp0retation of this verse. It means that the Lord will put down the antichrist and set up the Lord Jesus Christ.

Daniel 2:21   ²¹ And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

Before Trump we just had eight years of deception and lies with a leader with almost limitless powers, and all the time he was tearing America apart.

From verse 21 we see that God is in control and he does remove kings and He does change the times, and he does set up kings as He chooses.

Massive amounts of young men have been entering Europe but very few of the women and children. The percentage of refugees are 72% men, 15% children, and only 13% women.

From the media images, you would think that mostly women and children are crossing into Europe… Fake news.

History proves that a country that ends up with high numbers of such individuals, men, show a dramatic increase in violent crimes.

These nations with such a high number of unattached males are more likely to engage in an aggressive military action.

These young males are the labor force that will be the army to rebuild the war-ravaged land, or the military age men to protect it.

Matthew 24: 4-5   ⁴ And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Jesus said to them, I will now give the future of Israel and how it will affect the entirety of the world.

Take heed that no man deceives you, places deception as Satan’s greatest weapon.

2 Corinthians 11:13   ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

They have no rightful claim to the apostolic office. They are deceivers. They called themselves to this office. This is why Jesus says take heed. Be careful.

2 Thessalonians 2:11   ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

Context shows that the lie referred to here is: the belief that the anti-Christ is god.

PERILOUS TIMES

PERILOUS TIMES

Jeremiah 29:11   ¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

With obedience to the Lord, with a sincere attempt to follow Gods ways and his words, His thoughts toward us are always thoughts of peace, not of evil.

God is always up to something good, I am sure we would all agree on that, especially if you are a believer. Sometimes it is not easy to believe, this past year has proven that.

We always want to believe that God is up to something good. With what is going on in the news these days, telling us of impending economic disaster it can be so hard to believe. If someone we love gets cancer or some other awful disease it is hard to have more faith than fear.

In our natural way of thinking we want to believe it is God doing this stuff, After all the news can’t be all wrong.

When we base our lives on the worldly news our efforts fail. We fail to see what we are hoping for from God, we start to feel afraid and those feelings will lead us into despair and all hope vanishes.

This leads us to take matters into our own hands instead of trusting God to make a way for us. We jump over into the natural, worldly way of thinking.

The results of this will only leave us physically and emotionally drained, leaving us worse off than we were before we started.

Think about this, let it sink into your heart. I want to let you know that it is okay, God has got this handled and we have all been there.

It is important to recognize who is behind the worldly things that is happening in our world today. It is the strategy of our enemy, the devil, deceiving people into thinking it is okay to kill, steal and destroy.

By distracting and deceiving us with a powerful lie, telling us God is withholding something good from us. Our efforts and striving can not bring freedom and victory to our lives, it has been and always will be the grace of God that brings the victory.

Satan has pointed to economic setbacks and overwhelming fear as proof. He has used this strategy for thousands of years and is still using it very well to influence people’s minds.

There is a way to walk in victory and freedom from the lies of the enemy. These lies are a spirit of pride, a spirit that says, I know better than God. It is deceptive and will work its way into your thinking, often without you realizing what is happening.

1 Corinthians 15:10   ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

By His grace concerns the favor or mercy of God.

John 1:17   ¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

It will always be the grace of God that brings good things into our lives, not our own efforts.

God is still God and He is very well caught up on everything that is going on in this world, he knows who is behind it and what the outcome will be.

However, it is not what the government wants it is about Gods plan for all of us. The bottom line is the way it turns out in the end. Here is what happens to people that think they are smarter than God and do things the way they want.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12   ⁹ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

¹⁰ And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

This is because they reject Christ Jesus and the cross. If one turns away from the truth, God will send them a strong delusion. Delusion means a misleading of the mind.

That is what is wrong with the world today, our enemy the devil who is called Satan has caused a great delusion in our government. It is so deep that it is totally out of control.

Hebrews 6:18-19   ¹⁸ That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

¹⁹ Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

The horror of being in this world without hope and being in this world without God. Hope is the anchor of the soul, with hope springing forth from the Word of God.

Hope is sure and steadfast. It is set before us in the gospel and Gods promises. It is filled with faith and able to enter the holiest of holies, we shall settle in heaven forever.

To live in this hope is a loving way without a sin consciousness. Everything you want is in the word. When the worlds banks are empty, God still has plenty for us. Will you know how to receive it from Him?

PROSPERITY

PROSPERITY

 

Why should we prosper?

Financial prosperity has been a subject that never fails to light a fire in people. Sometimes that fire is one of faith, in others it is a fire of a less favorable kind.

What makes it such a volatile issue? The simple fact that in the minds of many people money is a dirty business. They have seen it tied up so often with carnality and corruption that they just can’t believe that God would ever give any more money than we absolutely need.

Why would he, is a good question. Since we will never fully understand Gods will about prosperity until we know the why behind it. The why is one of the questions we all need to know the answer to.

Think for a moment, what is Gods reason for prospering his people? Is it so we can watch bigger tv’s or so we can buy finer houses and more luxurious cars?

If you’re like most people it may be difficult for you to even imagine any other reason for prosperity. That is because for the most part your ideas about money have been shaped by a world view that pursues it strictly for the purpose of selfishness and greed. In the word of God the Lord provides us with two entirely different purposes for prosperity.

Deuteronomy 8:18   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.

They were to be watchful so prosperity cause them to forget the redeemer who delivered them from the bondage of Egypt and they were to guard against thinking that their prosperity was due to their own intelligence and their own power.

God intends for us to use the wealth he gives us to help establish his covenant on earth.

Ephesians 4:28   ²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Establishing Gods covenant on earth and giving to those in need. That is the purpose of Gods prosperity in your life.

It is absolutely tragic how foreign that is to the way most people think. I have actually heard people say, “I don’t need much prosperity, I am a simple person with a simple life. I just ask for God to meet my needs.”

They think that is having humility, its not, it is actually selfishness. They could have asked God for a enough to meet their own needs and the needs of others around them.

That doesn’t occur to them because when it comes to money brainwashed by a world that says if you have it you have to keep it. What those people are saying is, I only care about meeting my own needs.

Jesus never built a worldly empire for himself, that doesn’t mean he was poor. He was the greatest giver who ever walked the face of the Earth.

It is time to stop pretending that money is not important. God knows it is and you should know it too. That is why he said where your money is that is where you heart is.

Matthew 6:19-21   ¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Psalms 73:12   ¹² Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Most of us don’t realize there are two different types of prosperity, one from the world and one from the word. This psalm is speaking of the one from the world. The ungodly who prosper in the world increase in riches.

Let the word of God inspire you to leave the world behind an prosper in faith, to reach out and receive what you as a redeemed child of the living God have a divine right to. You are not to receive the curse of poverty, but the blessings of prosperity.

3 John 2   ² Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

This is referring to financial prosperity and should be the cases for every believer and be in health, speaks of physical prosperity, as your soul prospers is speaking of spiritual prosperity. We have here the whole gospel for the whole man.

One of the reasons people don’t prosper is not because of lack of faith, but our doubt when we are praying for prosperity. A tiny amount of doubt will cancel your faith and keep you from receiving what God has for you.

Stop thinking God will prosper others but not me.

That’s a lie of the devil. Don’t be deceived, God loves you whether or not your prosperous. Prosperity has nothing to do with Gods love for you.

There is to much money in this world and not enough love for the one who created the world. The love of money is the root of all evil, not the money itself.

Mark 10:29-30   ²⁹ And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

³⁰ But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

The bible presents no data to support the idea that being wealthy is wrong. In fact, we find evidence to the contrary. The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and no sorrow is added with it.

Scripture also offers many notable examples of Godly wealthy people: Job, Abraham, Barnabas and Philemon.

God does not disapprove of people with money but does speak out against those who rely on riches as it is in the following verse.

Mark 10:23-24   ²³ And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

²⁴ And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

Jesus also said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 11:28   ²⁸ He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

You see why Jesus said it would be hard to be rich. It is because most rich people stop trusting God and start trusting in their money. Therefore, the money gets the glory, not God.

People, even Christians don’t seem to understand the importance of money. Everything, even money belongs to God. Human beings own nothing. Everything you have belongs to God. It is only on loan to you to sustain you and help others.