18TH SEPTEMBER, 2021
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
THE POWER TO GET WEALTH
Psalm 67:7 NKJV
God shall bless us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
It is God that gives us the power to get wealth (Deut. 8:18).
What is the power to get wealth?
It is the creativity, skill, strength and ability to create wealth.
It is instructive to note that there are two ways God gives us wealth: transfer of wealth and creation of wealth.
Transfer of wealth takes place when God puts it in the hearts of others to give to us financial and material gifts out of their own wealth: so they transfer some of their wealth to us (Luk. 6:38).
Creation of wealth takes place when God gives you creative ideas that create goods and/or services that men will buy from you, creating wealth for you.
It is God alone that gives creativity. Most men copy from the creative ideas God gives to others.
It is the light of God’s life that causes men to be creative and so gives power to get wealth (John. 1:4).
Without the influence of the light of life on the intellect of man, man can learn and copy but cannot be creative!
The wealth men get by copying the ideas of others, or living off the ideas and products created by others is limited; but the wealth that comes from creative ideas is unlimited.
It is creative wealth that God is going to bless His Church with in this third day, making the Church the most powerful financial institution in the earth, so fulfilling Deuteronomy 28:11-13.
It is the third day, perfect Church, as the spiritual seed of Abraham (Gal. 3.29) through the Lord Jesus Christ, which will fulfill the fullness of this scripture, by fulfilling all the law, by the law of love, using the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
This wealth will be used for the discipleship of every tribe, tongue and kindred on earth, through the preaching, demonstration and practice of the gospel of the Kingdom (Matt. 24.14).
Recall that God’s purpose in giving us the power to get or, create wealth is to establish His covenant in the earth.
What does this mean practically?
It means we will have the financial freedom from lack and spiritual freedom from fear (1Jn. 4.18) to preach, teach and demonstrate the gospel of the Kingdom to every tribe, tongue and kindred on the earth in this third day.
Having been discipled ourselves, thereby fulfilling the covenant in our souls and conduct, we can now disciple the nations.
However, for us to experience this as individuals we must, like the children of Israel, allow God to lead us through a financial wilderness before bringing us to this financial promised land.
Observe that in the financial wilderness, there is divine provision so our basic needs of food and raiment are met (Deut. 8.2-4). If we are content (1Tim. 6.6-8) with this during this time, it will be great gain to us spiritually. During this financial wilderness time, our souls are still being humbled, so God will not release to us the abundance of creative wealth yet.
Why does God have to humble us?
He does this because of the pride we have all inherited (Ps. 51.5) from the satanic/sin nature, which would surface in rebellion, as it did with Lucifer (Eze. 28.17-18), once we come into great creative wealth.
God will not take us by the way of the Philistines (Exo. 13.17-18), the way of the world; of corruption, greed, covetousness and the pride of life, even though that may seem to be the shorter way. However, we will find that ultimately, God’s way, through the wilderness, is actually faster, easier and most importantly, the only sure way.
God takes us through the way of the wilderness, to help us overcome by His blood, Word and Spirit, the sin nature in our souls, that if not dealt with, will cause us to forget God when this great creative wealth comes into our hands. Remember Solomon (1Ki. 11.1-9)!
So its crucial now to submit to God’s dealings as He, as it were, takes us through a financial wilderness, to bring us into the promised land of unprecedented creative wealth!
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