Entering into your wealthy place. Psalm 66 v12

This two Sunday message is presented as one post here for completeness.

The message focused on the foundation of wealth. Deuteronomy 8 v6-10 describes a wealthy place. It is a place of abundance, more than enough, overflow and dominion & dignity.

Is for every Christian? I know it is for me. YES, everyone can have wealth as recorded in 2 Corinthians 8 v9; Exodus 11 v3 and Psalm 105 v37.

To be wealthy requires being in the right position to receive. John 10 v10 staes how to be rightly positioned.

Having the right foundation is important for entering into the wealthy place. Psalm 11 v3 describes 3 things needed: Mindset, Motive and Mastery.

two types of mindset come to play in regards to wealth: Owner or trustee. The owner believes the money is his/her own as shown in Luke 12 v16-21 and 1 Timothy 6 v7. This type of mindset leads to destruction. The trustee mindset believes God owns all things and uses us to distribute his wealth to others. David had a trustee mentality and was able to provide resources for the temple after knowing he would not build the temple as recorded in 1 Chronicles 29 v10-16.

It is important to know why you want to be wealthy. Money is not bad but the love of it leads to evil as stated in 1 Timothy 6 v10. Two important reasons to be wealthy are (1) Kingdom expansion: Luke 7 v1-6 and Acts 16 v9-15. Investments in God's work require funding. Give and God will forget your labour. (2) Demonstrating compassion to people: Matthew 25 v34 -46; Galatians 6 v10. We should give to the less privileged in society and those we can help. God will use it to remember us in the day when we cannot pray Psalm 20.

Money is a good servant but a poor master. We should learn to be master over wealth and not the other way round. 1 Timothy 6 v17-19; Matthew 6 v24 and Acts 4 v34-35.

The Blessings of God

Pastor Tope of House of Praise (RCCG) used Deuteronomy 8 v7-14 and mark 8 v35-41 to illustrate the need to trust God and act on his promises. It may seem that God who has called on us to go to the other side will leave us to destruction. However, in that situation or circumstances Jesus is with us and all he has to do is speak the word and all will be well.

When we start a journey with God, He knows the end. It is the process that we take to get there that may cause anxiety or fear. To overcome this feelings, we need (1) to have Jesus; (2) Speak the word of God to the situation; (3) Act with faith concerning the word of God to the situation; and (4) thank God for what he has done while waiting for the manifestation of his promise.