I spent ten years or more ministering the gospel in three facilities, the Wayne County Jail, Dickerson Detention Facility, and the Detroit Rescue Mission. It wasn’t hard to get people to pray the prayer of faith in Christ, to believe in salvation. Wayne County was a place where inmates were waiting for court cases. Dickerson Detention Facility was a minimum security prison where people were serving short prison sentences for things like drug offenses, traffic violations, theft, and carrying a concealed weapon. The Detroit Rescue Mission is a homeless shelter for people who were who had no place to call home.
The common issue among this population was a lack of financial support. They had no source of income. Some could not find jobs. They stole and stripped houses to put food on the table.
I had to try to help them see that God was their support and that he would meet their needs. Lots of times the inmates had grandmothers and parents praying for them. That one issue has been around from the beginning of time.
Poverty is a generational inheritance. If you as a born-again Holy Spirit-filled believer have never been taught that Jesus died you might have an inheritance, Acts 26:18. You modeled lack and dependency. They had no way of knowing that God is/was a provider.
A common complaint that I hear constantly, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. No matter how glorious the promise is or how faithful God is to his word, it is almost impossible to get people to believe God wants to prosper them and that he has already made provisions in place for them.
PRO-VISION
God already made provision for the vision. For example, God provides supernatural seed for the vision. He gave Adam and Eve dominion over the works of his hands. God set aside the seventh day of creation as a Sabbath. A day when he invited Adam to enjoy the bounty of the work of his hands. Yes, we know Adam messed up everything. But God never walked away from his original intent going as far as sending His Son to die on the cross to redeem man back to his original purpose. Now, here are a few things that God has provided:
“Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?” James 2:5 (KJV)
People who read this promise, first don’t recognize that God is no respecter of persons. God is good to all. People don’t know the difference between a government and the kingdom of God. People are mentally stuck in the government of man and are unable to see the benefits and blessings of the kingdom of God. For example, the Kingdom of God is present with us every single day, functioning in the realities that affect our livelihood. Jesus put it this way if God provides for the lilies of the field, the fowls of the air, are you not of much more value?
When Israel came out of Egypt, God brought them out with silver and gold and not one feeble person among three million people. Psalms 105:37. God commanded the clouds to shade the people from the hot sun by day and he provided a fire to give light at night, Psalms 105:39. He gave them manna for their food and he gave them water out of a rock.
Psalms 103:1-5, He forgives all of our iniquities and heals ALL of our diseases. He redeems our life from destruction and he crowns us with loving kindness and tender mercies. He satisfies the desires of the heart with good things and he renews our strength.
God executes righteousness for all who are oppressed
James 1:11, says the rich man is like a flower, he shall fade away in his ways.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are currupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of the sabaoth.” James 5:1-4
We are going to be recipients of the greatest transference of wealth the world has ever seen. Everything that Satan has stolen through fraud and deception is about to be restored sevenfold. And we might be right in the midst of that restoration. All of the forced labor in the fields of slavery is going to be released. The cries of the laborers have entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts, the LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
“God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation.”
Solomon calls this wealth transference vanity and vexation because he stole the people’s inheritance to finance his extravagant lifestyle through oppression and taxation, 1 Kings 12:4 & especially verses 16. This wealth transference is vanity and vexation to those who have stolen the wealth.
If believers all over the world could get a vision for wealth transference and begin to cry out for justice and judgment, we would see one of the greatest moves of God in our times.
Haggai 2:4-9
Yet now be strong, O Zerrubbel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Jishua, son oif Josedech, the gigh priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of the latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Again, what place is God talking about Mark 10, the hundredfold return; the first being last and the last being first.
Hebrews 8:1-6, Jesus is seated on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty of the heavens. He is a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle that God pitched and not man. Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry by which he the mediator of a better covenant was established on better promises.
ONCE MORE
God shook the earth in the days when he brought Israel out of Egypt. He revealed his glorious acts for all nations to see.
“He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.” Psalms 105:37
We have come to God the judge of all
“And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Dee that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. WHEREFORE WE RECEIVING A KINGDOM WHICH CANNOT BE MOVED, LET US HAVE GRACE, WHEREBY WE MAY SERVE GOD ACCEPTABLY WITH REVERENCE AND GODLY FEAR: FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.” HEBREWS 12:24-29 (KJV)
We are witnessing judgments breaking forth in the earth. We are seeing destruction by fire. City systems are being shaken to the core.
I pray that the immigrants who came to the United States to seek a better life could recognize the promises that God extends to them. They can transform their lands and communities.
I pray that they can get a revelation of the true riches that God offers because it is not money, silver, and gold. It is eternal life, the breath of GOD. GOD TOOK THE RIVER OF LIFE AND PUT IT ON THE INSIDE OF YOU. JESUS CALLED RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS, JOHN 7:37-38.
IT IS THE WELL OF LIVING WATER THAT SATISFIES EVERY THIRST, JOHN 4:14
THIS RIVER IS THE PROMISE OF POWER, MIRACLE-WORKING POWER OF ACTS 1:8
THIS IS THE WATER THAT FLOWS OUT OF THE THRONE OF GOD, REVELATION 22:1
THIS IS THE SUBSTANCE THAT ENABLED JESUS TO OFFER HIMSELF AS A SACRIFICE.
“HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD, PURGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD?” Hebrews 9:14 (KJV)
The Force of Life is a testimony in and of itself
What if the people fleeing from violence and oppression knew God because God says “…I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” Jeremiah 9:24
The key issues are not about how much money you have. It is not about how much wisdom you have or how much influence to have! God offers eternal life. Jesus said, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy but I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly (JOHN 10:10)
One final thought: If we believe the witness of man, the witness of God is greater! If I laid hands on a sick person and they were healed immediately, that is a witness of God’s power. Eternal life is a witness to the resurrected Christ!
“If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God which He has given concerning His Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he does not believe the testimony that God gave about His Son. AND THIS IS THE TESTIMONY: that God has given us eternal life, and this LIFE is in His Son. WHOEVER HAS THE SON HAS LIFE, and whoever does not have the Son of God does not have LIFE.” 1 John 5:9-12 (NKJV)
What if those who feel stuck, and without hope, receive the gift of God, eternal life, the life of God!
The Spirit of Grace fulfilling covenant promises!
Grace & Peace
2 Timothy 3:1 Know this, there will be terrible times in the last days. The Lord Jesus is coming soon! Repent, believe in the gospel, and be born again!
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