It is a dominion over which a king reigns. Saudi Arabia is a kingdom. It is a land over which a king reigns.
An example is King Charles, the king of England. My generation knew him as Prince Charles.
Lots of people are confused about the kingdom of God.
The Kingdom has its own government. Its own army. It has an economy. Administration. It is governed by laws. It has representation, for example, Jesus is called a high priest forever. It has a throne room and an altar. It has a sacrifice. Jesus the Lamb of God!
Jesus said, It is then Father’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. But what does the kingdom mean? What advantage is it adding to your life if you don’t understand its meaning?
Early believers understood the significance of the kingdom. They asked Jesus, “… Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” Acts 1:6
The apostle Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 4:19-20,
“But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but power.”
He also shared in Romans 14:17, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
So many Christians are living way beneath their privileges. They could be healed, but they look to the medical establishment.
Even if the medical establishment is easy to access for healing, give faith a try. It’s about learning and developing. This is what the disciples did when they walked with Jesus.
Grace & peace
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God foretold the defeat of the Serpent in Genesis 3:15
God said to the Serpent, “The seed of the woman shall bruise thy head.”
The definition of “bruise” as used in scripture carries the meaning of being overwhelmed, to snap, and break.
If you follow this seed through scripture, you will see it started with a promise to Abraham and Sarah. God made a covenant with them. He took a ninety-nine-year-old man. He took a barren ninety-year-old woman. He gave them the strength to bring forth a son. He called him Issac, which means laughter. God gave them land and seed that became a blessing to all people.
Jesus, the seed of the woman, appeared. He taught them the kingdom and what partnership looks like. In Luke 10, he illustrated. He saw Satan fall from heaven like lightening.
The Trap
If the princes of this world had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
That He would set free the human race from eternal damnation and slavery to Satan
He presented himself, the right time in history. The Roman yoke was cruel
He won the hearts of the people. His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, to fulfill the prophecy from Zechariah 9:9:
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
He cleansed the temple, He turned their tables over and drove out the herd. He sat and taught the people.
God put a Judas on his team. Jesus said, “Have I not chosen you and one of you is a devil.”
God did all this to destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring nothing the understanding of the prudent.
“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness. But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, the wisdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:22-24
“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.” Hebrews 3:4
According to Genesis 1:11-12, God created the seed on the third day of creation. God certifies the process was good, see verse 12. The seed-to-harvest system will stay with us for a long time after debt no longer exists. Revelation 22:1-3 reveals the tree of life. The leaves are for the healing of nations.
The seed time harvest process will be with us a long time after debt no longer exist. Revelation 22, says, the tree of life bear twelve kinds of fruit each month. The leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of nations.
(Just a thought: Is not the tree of life enough for the healing of the nations?Adam used the leaves of the trees of the garden as tincture. Sores had begun to break out in his body. He knew the leaves had healing abilities. God prophesied in Ezekiel 47:11 that the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations. The green leafy material may be some new type of clothing
God is called LORD of the Harvest
Seed has unlimited potential. It produces on a supernatural scale.
Seed honors God and God honors seed. Adam’s generation dealt with the curse of the ground. They struggled with the ground to get it to produce, Genesis 5:29.
In Genesis 8, The first thing Noah did after getting off the Ark was build an altar and offered a sacrifice to God. God smelled it and was pleased. Noah was fulfilling part of Adam’s responsibility, by offering that sacrifice.
God made a new covenant, and he promised never again to destroy every living thing. He also promised not to curse the earth, because of man’s sin. He said, ‘as long as the earth remains seed time harvest shall not cease, summer and winter shall cease.’ He set the rainbow as a sign of the covenant. This rainbow is present now around his throne in Revelation 4:3; this is an example of partnership, an unshakable partnership.
Debt
The world is in 315 trillion dollars in debt.
The United States is 38 trillion. Six billion is added daily.
Debt undermines the partnership arrangement with God.
God’s creation is based on partnership.
The borrower is servant to the lender, Proverbs 22:7.
“Debt creates a relationship of obligation and control where the borrower is subject to the lender’s authority. Taking on debt gives the lender power over the borrower’s financial decisions and future, as the borrower’s income must be used to to repay the debt, limiting their freedom.”
Debt reduces your seed and your harvest
Debt works on you 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Debt is addictive
It goes against God’s plan to make you the head and not the tail. God’s instructions in Deuteronomy 28:12
“The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heavens to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”
“The borrower i
You got to have a revelation
Jesus said, ‘They that follow me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.‘
What life is he talking about? Eternal life! The original source of God, the breath of life, an infinite power source. The gift of God is living waters, John 4:10-14. Rivers of living waters. The living waters flowing out the throne of God. Come to the waters and drink freely.
The seventhday of creation was designated, set as for every human being to experience the free favors, the blessings, the works of his hands. The seventh day of creation is an act of love. God’s plans are perfect
The kingdom of God is unseen, a spiritual kingdom. Much like the kingdom of darkness. You can not see Satan with your physical eyes, but you see his works. Every murder, killing, drug ring, fraud, deceit, war, and act of bloodshed is a work of the kingdom of darkness.
The people asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would appear. He said, The kingdom will not come with observation. The kingdom is in you, Luke 17:21
You cannot serve two masters
Matthew 6:24, you cannot serve two masters
God is the legal owner of the earth and all that is in it, and they who live on earth.
The beast system is designed to be the answer to all of your needs. They say, you will own nothing and be happy, the truth is your God given birthright is to exercise dominion over creation.
Battles are raging over your future, particularly Social Security and Health Care, which are about control and manipulation. It is the stripping away of your resources.
God’s resources are unlimited. The gift of God is LIFE, John 4:10
HE is the One who multiplies your gold and silver and all that you have, Deuteronomy 8:1-20.
“But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is that giveth thee POWER to get wealth, THAT HE MAY ESTABLISHhis COVENANT which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.” Deuteronomy 8:18.
God promises us so much more, unlimited power. LIFE, true wealth, not based on the man-beast system but based on Jesus, the Lamb of God.
If you have a problem understanding this, look at Revelation 22:1-2. The river coming out of the throne is the power that God offers. It is based on a covenant, backed by the throne of God, based on the covenant power of the sacrifice, the Lamb of God.
The demystifying of life will be one of the greatest revelations of the generations alive on earth.
The Beast System
The beast system is plunging many people into a deep, dark hole.
Jesus said, in Matthew 6:33, Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all those other things shall be added to you.
The issue of righteousness
Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. What about righteousness? It is not based on works of righteousness. It’s about faith, walking by faith. Abraham believed in God, what God promised, and God counted his faith as righteousness, a legally binding right to what was promised.
Without faith it is impossible to please God, Hebrews 11:6
Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God, much like paper dollars, cryptocurrency, and gold are the currencies of man’s system.
The kingdom of God
The kingdom of God is a government. Adam was the first steward of creation, sold out the family inheritance to the devil. It’s comparable to being the owner of your own castle. And squatters moved in, changed the locks, and take possession of your property. Meantime, you paid the lights, gas, phone, food, taxes, and maintenance on the castle.
In Luke 10, Jesus the harvest is great but the laborers are few. Pray the LORD of Harvest sent workers into his field. This harvest is a recasting of the original vision for creation. Jesus sent out his disciples to preach the kingdom of God. They were to heal the sick and declare to the kingdom of God is come near to you.
The disciples returned with much joy and told Jesus, even the devils are subject us through your name, Luke 10:17
Then Jesus said, “I saw Satan as lightening fall from heaven.”
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 testimonyof 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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In this article, I want to discuss a real issue? Could there be a reason why Believers in Jesus Christ are missing out on their blessings?
Could there be a reason why people are not connecting with God’s provision?
Could it be possible that no matter what is going on in your country or economy, God is able to put food on your table, clothes on your back, shoes on your feet. He heals the sick, set the captives free and he opens the door of the prisoner?
The Blessing
The blessing as defined and or revealed in Genesis chapters 1-2, in the beginning; God blessed creation. He empowered it to prosper, to grow and increase. Anything and everything associated with creation was blessed to excel. Adam’s job was to manage creation bringing it to a logical conclusion. His assignment was not open-ended. It was a one thousand year assignment.
Adam and Eve’s disobedience caused the blessing to be turned into a curse. God lifted portions of the curse in the days of Noah after the flood. Noah built an altar and offered up a burnt sacrifice and God said,
Genesis 8:21, “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground more for man’s sake…”
The sacrifice is the determining factor in the created order. It was the case in the Garden of Eden. It was the case in Cain and Abel offering of a sacrifice. It was the case in the Old Testament. And according to Revelation 22:1, it is and will for all eternity. So much pain and suffering can be adverted if we truly understood how to work the sacrifice.
God hid things from certain people
What is the secret, the hidden secret to experiencing more of the power of God in your life?
In Luke 10 Jesus commissioned seventy of his disciples to go before him to preach the gospel in towns and villages. He told them, they were to make no provisions for their journey. He told them whatsoever house they entered into speak peace over that house. He said, if the son of peace be in that house , their peace will rest upon that house, if not their peace will return to them. He said, don’t go house to house.
Next, Jesus told them to eat whosoever is set before them because the labor is worthy of his hire. It may seem that these instructions are superficial but Jesus is setting the seed time harvest principle into effect whereby whole cities and villages are blessed with the blessings of God.
Jesus also told them to heal the sick that are in those houses and say unto them the kingdom of God is come nign unto you
If they entered into a city and they were rejected, they were remove their shoes and shake the dust off their feet as a witness against that city
“But unto whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be yesure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nign unto you.“
There were people who could have been healed, who had a covenant right to be healed but were left sick. The opportunity was made available for their families to be blessed but because they rejected God’s provision, they were left in the darkness.
The Disciples’ Report
The seventy disciples returned again rejoicing saying, “… Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through your name.”
Jesus said, “… I beheld Satan as lightening fall from heaven. Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall be any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
The next statement Jesus makes is recorded for our benefit. It tells us to whom the secrets of the kingdom is revealed! This is not an isolated incident.
“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.”Luke 10:21
Jesus said, O Father, the LORD of heaven and earth you have hid the secrets of your kingdom from the wise and prudent. FOR it seemed good in to him to hide these things and reveal them to the meek.
In Matthew 13; Jesus disciples asked him why he taught the people in parables? Jesus said,
“He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.” Matthew 13:11-13 (KJV)
Jesus said, the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled in them: “By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.”
The people had harden their hearts against the word of God. This hardness of heart put them outside of receiving the blessings of God.
The secrets of the kingdom which was revealed to them could have resulted in people being healed, delivered and saved. They could have seen the power of the kingdom of God manifested their lives, in their communities.
Season of application, application, application…
God reveals the mysteries of his system and as these mysteries are put into practice on a daily basis, you will see harvests of 30, 60, 100 fold returns. Abundance will be added to your life. But if you don’t have these mysteries/ revelations, what you have you will lose. This puts the ball squarely in your hands.
I experienced these blessings during the covid crisis. I had always wanted to be debt free. I prayed and studied God’s word and I sought to put God’s word into operation by being a blessing to people. Within a 16 month period, I paid my mortgage off six years ahead of time. I paid off my credit card years ahead of time. I am debt-free. I put a new roof and new gutters on my house debt free. I give God all the glory and honor for his glorious goodness.
I am so glad that I pressed into the things of God because everything has doubled and tripled in price.
You must apply the word of God in your life on a daily basis. You will see harvests manifest in our life. It is seeing the rewards of his blessings that gives you confidence to overcome anything “by faith” that comes against you!
Jesus taught on these principles in Mark 4:26-29, he said, the kingdom of God is as a man sow seed in the ground.
The kingdom of God functions independent of the world’s system. So many good hearted people are languishing in the system of this world when their needs could be adequately supplied. God is turning the wisdom of this world into foolishness.
“For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” 1 Corinthians 1:19-21
People are stuck in this world’s system because they put more faith in man than they do in God.
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Psalms 146:3
“He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. THE LORD TAKETH PLEASURE IN THEM THAT FEAR HIM, IN THOSE THAT HOPE IN HIS MERCY.” Psalms 147:10-11
People are putting their faith in politicians to right wrongs. They put their faith in institutions to meet their needs and neglect very fountains of living waters.
Does it seem like God is desperate for people to believe in him?
“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
It seems like to me, God gives everybody an opportunity to believe and act upon his promises. It seems like God is calling for certain types of people to become his sons and daughters.
Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness or his ways of doing things and all of these things shall be added unto you! What things? Food, water and clothing! Matthew 6:33
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.”
Psalms 8:3-6
I struggled for many years, thinking my success was dependent on other people rather it was the banker who was willingly to give me a loan or an employer who was willing to pay me a salary. I was dependent on credit cards to put gas in my car.
Sometimes I was successful, other times I burned out on the side of the road. I was stuck working other people’s visions.
I saw something in the word of God that changed my perspective on life. I saw that God had a vision. Although I read this scripture thousands of times, it finally came alive in my heart. It is one of those secrets from the garden of Eden that changed my life forever!
God created man in his image to be like him
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
God created man in his image! Genesis chapter 1, show us an image of God of which he was deliberately creating the heavens and the earth. He took pleasure in each created act and he said it was good and he blessed it and said, multiply! You never seen God depressed, angry, bitter or frustrated. The only time this occurs is because man turned the earth into cess pool.
God created us in his image after his likeness! God created us to act like him. When God wanted something he planted a seed, which became a fruit tree yielding fruit.
When God wanted fruit that could produce eternal life, he planted a seed that became a tree that yielded fruit called the tree of life. We see that same process in Revelation 22:2!
God’s Vision for Man
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 (KJV)
Adam inherited a fully functioning system
Adam inherited a fully functioning system; all he had to was work the system. God gave him dominion, seed and fruit trees for the vision. God said,
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.””
Genesis 1:29-30
Seed was designed by God to transmit life. God designed fruit trees for generating fruit which produced a multitude of fruit. Seed is provision. Seed is pro-vision. Seed is for the vision.
Seed communicates vision. God said, to Abraham, ‘your seed shall be as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the seashore’ Genesis 15:5 & Genesis 22:17.
The problem we encounter when it comes to understanding seed is, we only see seed as one dimensional, in its herbal form. Seed comes in many forms. For example, when God addressed the serpent in Genesis 3:15 God said, ‘I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed and the seed of the woman shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.’
Genesis 3:15 also reveals something else! The serpent gained seed out of the transaction that took place in the garden of Eden. In the parable of the sower sows word, Jesus said,
“He answer and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.” Matthew 13:37-39
How did Satan birth these children? The same way God birth his children. The seed of the word of God is sown in the heart and a persons believes it and are born again by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Satan has a multitude of people rapping his lyrics (satan’s seed) and people are acting on and giving birth to Satan’s vision.
The Word of God is compared to incorruptible seed, 1 Peter 1:23-25
The seed which the LORD God hath blessed, Isaiah 61:9
The system that was created in the beginning exists today and is called the kingdom of God. It works on the same principles as in the as in the beginning.
Jesus compared the kingdom of God to the smallest of seed,
“And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: but when it is sown , it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.”
Mark 4:30-32
While the world’s system is getting more technologically advance in its money making operations, the kingdom of God will outlast them all.
“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which can not 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 12:28
Why is it important that we reconcile the works of our hands in alignment with the kingdom of God? For one thing, all of our works shall be tried by fire. God is going to shake all things.
“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 host. 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.”
Haggai 2:6-9 (KJV)
There is coming a judgment. God is going to shake all things. He is going to shake the heavens, the earth, the sea and the dry land. There will be a redistribution of wealth. God is the legal rightful owner of all things. The first family, Adam and Eve, were given stewardship responsibility in creation. They were given an assignment and that assignment has not changed.
Sow Seed
“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER. AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU; THAT YE, ALWAYS HAVING ALL SUFFICIENCY IN ALL THINGS, MAY ABOUND TO EVERY GOOD WORK.”
2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (KJV)
Personal Testimony
There are so many ways to sow seed. I sowed seed for years through volunteer work. But my most effective way of sowing seed has been through giving money. I sow seed into ministries, mission organizations and those ministries who feed the poor. There was one season, where I gave money to the customers of the Dollar Store. I would walk up and ask someone, “Can I be a blessing to you” and I would put a $20.00 bill in their hand. God always multiplied my seed for sowing. He always blessed me to be a blessing!
We get stuck in the latter two categories, that is, our own vision and Satan’s vision. God’s vision is the best vision.
If you want to know what Satan’s vision look like, look around you. It is a world full of chaos, pain, sorrow, death, destruction and trouble.
If you want to know what our vision look like, look around you as well. If there is sickness, sorrow, disease, and broken promises; it is because we have had help from the wicked one in crafting our image.
The image of God has been marred in us.
When the image of God is marred, it causes everything around us to be marred. Marred according to the Bible means “to destroy,” “to disfigure,” “to damage” See Nahum 2:2, Leviticus 19:27; 2 kings 3:19; Isaiah 52:14; Jeremiah 13:9
It is difficult to get things right when you function from a marred reality. For example, in my earlier Christian walk, I saw myself as defeated, so I made decisions based on that image. I saw myself as broke and I borrowed heavily to put gas in my car and to finance my ministry.
Proverbs 18:22, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
I became a servant to the lender. I remember many days standing in line to pay my credit card bill and my house mortgage payment. If I was late, they charged me a late fee. When the credit card provider went up on their interest rate, they said, “if you don’t agree, stop using the card.” I was so dependent on credit that I had developed a lifestyle around credit debt.
Every year I received a credit card statement of the total interest paid during the year. It always came out to over $1,000.00. Now that I am debt-free, I have money in my savings account more than the credit card debt I was carrying. I made about $1.44 in interest off my savings. I could have invested my money in a higher interest bearing account. But what I am talking about is three different visions; God’s vision, man’s vision and Satan’s vision.
God has storehouses in heaven. He instructs us to store treasure in heaven where moth can’t eat, rust corrode or thieves breakthrough and steal.
The difference between the two visions; my vision and the world’s vision is slavery. I was plowing other people’s fields.
“The global debt reached 305 trillion American dollars in 2022, including debt by both public and private debtors.” Global debt- Wikipedia
Coming out of the debtor’s prison
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2
I realized, if I was going to come out of slavery to man, I had to get God’s vision. God doesn’t borrow money. He doesn’t suffer depression. He doesn’t eat out of garbage cans. He doesn’t beg for a loan. He isn’t starving!
I wish I could say the transformation was over night. It wasn’t. It was gradual, little by little, I slowly came out debt! I made a decision that I wasn’t going be in debt to man. I started giving and sowing. The harvests came in and I was able to pay off my mortgage, credit card and put a new roof on my house debt-free.
God created us in his image
In Genesis 1:26, God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness: and let them have dominion over…
You have to accept the fact that you are created in the image of God. God never changed his mind about making man in his image.
The truth is, God did something about the marred image of himself in man.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
He did something more, he sent his Son Jesus Christ to tell us what his will is
Hebrews 1:2-3,
“Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; whom being the brightness of his glory, and the express imagine of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of his Majesty on high.”
We can also see what God is like by reading the Bible, especially these four chapters among many others that gives us a picture of what is the true image of God; Genesis, chapters 1-2 and Revelation chapters 20-22 presents a picture of the image of God.
Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
God uses the word “over” five times to communicate his vision for Adam and Eve. For example, God wanted them to manage the earth. They were to reproduce heaven on earth. They were to create things by speaking words! Like God did and still does!
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
The Communication Void
The communication void is the big issue. There is a chasm between what God created us to be and what we are now! We must fill that chasm by speaking God’s word into void.
Pray for God to open our eyes so that we can see what he wants us to see. Pray for God to open our ears so that we can hear clearly what he wants us to hear.
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
Today, I encourage you to speak light into your darkness, into the empty void of pain, sickness, disease, and lack. God created you in his image and likeness!
“Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; BUT if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.” Proverbs 6:30-31
If the thief be found, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD!
The big question that we struggle with, WHO IS GOING TO MAKE THE THIEF PAY BACK?
The Answer:
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always have all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”
How:
“And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.” Psalms 9:8
“But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setters up another.” Psalms 75:7 (KJV)
“For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.”
“Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.” Psalms 9:19 (KJV)
“The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and the nations that forget God.” Psalms 9:16 (KJV)
“Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.”
You must have faith in God’s system
“O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained.“ Psalms 8:1-3
Ordained means, “yasat”, appointed, established, founded, foundation, set, ( Source; the Bible with Strongs #H3245)
Psalms 8 is very powerful chapter. However, Jesus uses this verse to illustrate the power of God to use little children to overthrow the works of wicked crooked people and bring forth the system that he put into operation in Genesis 1-2.
According to Matthew 21:12-16, (KJV)
Jesus kicked out the thieves out of the temple. Jesus sat daily and taught the people. The blind and lame came into the temple and he healed them. Think about the millions and billions of dollars made off of sickness and disease, yet God has already made provision for the lame and blind to be healed. These people didn’t have to pay a dime for their healing. Scriptures declare,
“… the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5
“And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, and they said unto, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?”
The God created the heavens and the earth to be a mirror of his glory. The system of creation was set in placed, “ordained of God.” A system was set up from the beginning and it is still fully functioning. A river went out of Eden to water the garden and it became four rivers and flowed into the earth.
The temple was to be reproduction of the Garden of Eden. God’s life flowing into the temple out to the people. Ezekiel 47:1-12 is a prophetic image of the temple functioning as the garden of Eden.
Thieve got into positions of power and began masking the purpose of the temple. They turned the temple into a money making operation, profiting off of the people’s misery.
Once Jesus drove the thieves out of the temple and RE-STORED God’s system people were healed and the little children began crying out to God in worship.
God had to by-pass people who have become compromised by the system of man. God worked through little children to manifest his glory. The scriptures declare,
“Let everything that had breath praise the LORD.”
“He created ALL THINGS and for his pleasure are and were created,” Revelation 4:11.
Praise is the saving health among the nations. When you praise God, you acknowledge him and his righteousness.
“Let the people praise thee, O God; let the people praise thee. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon the earth. Selah.” Psalms 67:3-4
It was always God’s will for the nations to glad and sing for joy. But presently, the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) turns the nations into wilderness and will not open the doors of his prisoners, Isaiah 14:17.
You have to appeal your case before God
Parable of the wicked Judge, Luke 18:1-8
I had four tires stolen off my car in my driveway in the middle of the night. When I got up in the morning, my car was sitting on bricks. It was a rental car. I didn’t file a police report or an insurance claim. I was in the middle of a hard place. I went to several tire shops and everybody wanted cash, no credit cards. I went to a Good Year shop and they just happened to have four tires with rims setting in the shop. It cost me $2,100.00 to replace the tires and the rims on a rental car. I was extremely angry and mad. But I knew enough to appeal my case before the God of heaven and earth.
God answered my claim for justice. This initial claim for justice opened so many other doors. I am claiming justice and judgment in situations where my ancestors were denied justice and judgment. I am claiming sevenfold of all that were stolen from them. I am claiming sevenfold return from all that has been stolen from me through false insurance claims.
In the parable of the wicked judge in Luke 18:1-8,
Jesus taught a very powerful lesson about trusting God and having faith in his system.
“And he spake a parable unto them to this end that man ought always to pray, and not faint.” Luke 18:1 (KJV)
Jesus said people ought to always pray and not faint. Prayers don’t get fully answered because people faint in the beginning or in the middle of the process of justice! A widow woman, probably the most disadvantaged citizen in any country, sought justice from a wicked judge. A judge who didn’t fear God or man. She kept pressing for justice. She wore the judge down through persistent pursue of justice and she won her case. Jesus said,
“And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:7-8.
We look at our bills and our pay check and there is not enough to cover the cost of living because its been stolen through flawed and deceit. Have faith in God! Have faith in his system!
Grace & peace
Where is your treasure?
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal.”
The other side to this set of instructions are, don’t store your treasures on earth, For where your treasure is there will be your heart also.
Theft touches everybody everywhere, no matter who you are and what you do, thieves will rob you because all theft originates spiritual. We have stolen from God!
People steal because it is in their nature to steal. You might not steal candy from a candy store but you might sleep with your neighbor spouse. You might take office supplies from work or cheat on your taxes.
‘You are not your own. You are brought with a price.’ 1 Corinthians 6:14-20
God hates theft
“For I the LORD love judgment,I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.” Isaiah 61:8
The cost of theft is pass on to everybody through higher insurance rates and the cost of goods sold.
I am making less and paying double and sometimes triple the cost of goods sold three years ago. For example, I’m paying 5000 a year in auto insurance what use to be 2000, which the high end of insurance rates because I live in Detroit.
I learned years ago while serving as a police chaplain, there are rings of thieves. Gun rings, drug rings, and prostitution rings.
Jesus exposed a den of robbers operating in the temple of God. The thieves operated under the direction of the chief priests out of the temple. The thieves made money called money exchangers. They made money selling animals to be given to the priest as sacrifice.
Jesus dealt with thieves in the temple, John 2:13-17
He found them (a) that sold oxen and sheep (b) those who exchanged money.
He made a whip (a) drove them out of the temple (b) he poured out the exchangers money and he overthrew their tables
I hate robbery for burnt offerings, Isaiah 61:3
Will a man rob God? This whole nation has robbed me? You are cursed with a curse! Malachi 3:8-12!
People don’t understand God’s system. It is a partnership. It was created to be an irrevocable partnership! You have to “give” God the fruit of partnership!
Den of robbers, Jeremiah 7:11, “Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?”
Den of robbers– Matthew 21:2-16
Jesus loves the thief, he hates the sin. He was crucified between two thieves. One found fault in Jesus, the other asked for mercy and found it.
“I call heaven and earth to recored this day against you, that I have sat before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20
God has restored the tree of life. That gift is found in John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.’
According to John 4:14, ‘the gift of God is a well of living water springing up in everlasting life. It satisfies every thirst and hunger.’
The problem that most people encounter when it comes to receiving the promise is faith. They don’t know how to partake of the promises or the power!
The Spirit ofPoverty
Ephesians 6:10-12, says our warfare is not with flesh and blood, but against spiritual principalities, powers,rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.
The spirit of poverty is a personality that strips the soul of any spiritual or moral value.
There are many battles being fought:
Battles of the soul– People who are inwardly tortured, suicidal, bipolar. Mark 9:14-29, young man who was thrown in the Fire and Water.
The man crying night and day in the graveyard and cutting himself with stones, Mark 5:1-19
Outward battles– prince of the power of the air! Demonic influences in and over communities. Matthew 4:16 (KJV) “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”
Battles of between the flesh and spirit– Romans 8:5-10
Spiritual battles– Jesus said, Luke 10:18, ‘I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning’
Cultural battles– The Hebrew & Greek widows, Acts 6:1
Corporate Battles– Union fighting against the move of God, Acts 19:1-41
Political Battles– Herod sought to kill Jesus when he was born! He murdered all the children two years and under that where in Bethlehem, and the coasts, Matthew 2:11-18
Racial Battles– The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans, John 4:9
Family Battles- Genesis 25:19-23
We are confronted with the same spiritual forces of darkness that our fore-fathers struggled against.
One common excuse I heard as a chaplain in the jail & prison ministry, “I sold drugs to put food on the table. I stripped houses to buy diapers. I gambled my retirement, pension, disability, and social services check to hit the lottery for millions. I’m waiting on my favored number to hit. If you don’t play, you can’t win.”
Global forces of the spirit of poverty, which is of the “power class” of the demonic power structureis driving population shifts
We are in a season where there is a massive flow of people! People are on the move! The spirit of poverty strips people of resources and the ruler of the darkness of world are pushing people into prostitution, sex trafficking, political corruption, drug dealing and much more!
Decisions are being made in high places. The Whore of Babylon, the kings of the earth and merchants are fornicating in high places. They are plotting and planning global commercial endeavors.
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:3 (KJV)
Watch population shifts– During the late 1880s Europeans migrated to the United States from many different parts of the world bringing their cultures with them. In Detroit, these nationalities were separated into different parts of the city.
During 1900s, stories of extreme poverty had rooted itself all over the nation, especially in the south. You heard stories of extreme poverty but you rarely heard stories of people who honored God, applied his word and prospered. People were pushed into the darker side of life. People prospered off of vice. Their prosperity was always temporary. They had to plunge deeper into darkness in order to sustained the flow of income.
I was born in Detroit Michigan. My father and his brothers migrated from Granada Mississippi to Detroit to find work in the car factories. They were running from racism and economic hardships. The Detroit Rebellion of 1967 was a manifestation of the frustration many felt during those times.
The forces of global of economics
During the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, even into the 90s, the spirit of poverty drove people into darkness. The lifestyle of pimps and drug dealers was glorified as a way into riches.
Growing up in the north exposed you to a different kind of racism called corporate greed. The system provided certain population groups enough education to work as a laborer in the automobile plants.
As a young Christian, I remembered trying to fit into man’s system. I finished my military enlistment during the recession of the 80s when finding employment was difficult. I knew enough to give tithes and offerings. My faith in God kept me safe and blessed. I prospered but I didn’t know enough to keep prospering. As I look back on that time, I suffered from a lack of vision. I had other people’s visions. I amassed a large amount of unnecessary debt. All of that changed as God opened my eyes to his vision. Once I got God’s vision, means, and method, things changed for me.
Times have Changed
Times have changed, the spirit of poverty is still driving people into darkness. There are more millionaires and billionaires than ever before. A person can play $2.50 lottery ticket and hit the numbers for millions and millions of dollars. The same lie that the serpent sold Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has not changed.
The Serpent said, “You’re not going to eat ‘Because God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden! You shall not die, God knows your eyes shall be opened and you shall be like God knowing good and evil.’
Eve saw the fruit that it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and good to make one wise and she took the fruit ate it and turned and gave it to her husband!
After Adam and Eve experienced the consequences of what God told them would happen, Eve said, “The Serpent deceived me and I ate.”
According to Revelation 12:9, the same Serpent who deceived Adam and Eve is deceiving the whole world.
People are still buying into the lies of the devil and eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They want to be gods. They want to be judges of good and evil. It never works. It was always God’s will for us to eat from the tree of life.
Jesus said this about Satan: He was a murderer from the beginning, he doesn’t abide in the truth, there is no truth in him. He lies to take advantage of you. He is a lair. He is the father of the lie. John 8:44.
How can Satan be a murderer from the beginning? Satan used Cain to kill Abel because Abel was threat to Satan’s future. Satan thought that Abel could be “the promise seed” that would bruise his head, (Genesis 3:15). The truth is, he murders people!
The Lie
Over the years, I have heard the same lie over and over.
The American Pimps calls it “The game or Our Game”
The Mafia call it, “the Black Hand”; “Our Thing”
Adam Smith, the father of capitalism called it, “The Invisible Hand”
Old time Amway distributors called it, “The Business”
Internet scammers call it “The Black Hat”
Internet profiteers call it “The White Hat”
Rappers call it “M.O.E”, Money Over Everything
There are many names but its the same old lie
But really, “What is it?”
God says, “My ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-13
God gave Adam land in two places, in heaven and on earth. God gave Adam seed and fruit trees. Adam was to tithe the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as a sacrificial offering. Adam’s assignment was to transform earth into the garden of Eden.
God’s vision for earth has never changed. Whereas Adam’s assignment was producing beauty upon the earth; Satan turned the earth into a wilderness. He destroyed the cities and refused to open the doors of his prison (Isaiah 14:17).
Jesus does the exact opposite. He preached good tiding to the meek. He binds up the broken hearted, proclaims liberty to the captives and opens the prison cells of those who are bound, Isaiah 61:1.
Adam broke trust by eating the fruit of the sacrifice. The system judged him immediately because that’s designed of creation the beginning. Death began to manifest in their bodies. They applied the leaves of the garden as a healing balm.
The Serpent is now Adam’s new spiritual head and partner. The Serpent gained seed in the new partnership. The Serpent is enforcing his will on mankind.
God judged Adam’s sin in order to make a way out of eternal damnation. God never walked away from his vision for creation. God redeemed man to original purpose! He still hold people accountable.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)
He still makes provision for the just as well as the evil, Matthew 5:45. God holds people accountable as in the days of Noah. Every person will judged according to their works, Revelation 20:11-15
Glorious Promise
Isaiah 55:8-12
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
All hell can be breaking out around you but the Word of the Lord shall stand forever. The Bible is full of examples of God’s ability to keep his word. One of the most powerful examples outside of raising Jesus from the dead is bringing 3 million people out of 400 years of bondage. He fed them 40 years in the wilderness. Their clothes did not wear out or their feet swell.
The testimony that came out of the forty year journey in the wilderness is, the people lived by trusting in the Word of God.Jesus spoke to this after spending 40 days fasting and praying in the wilderness. He testified when Satan tempted him to prove that he was the Son of God. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
What is the Word? God so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life!
As is often the problem, people don’t go on to perfection.They stop growing. They don’t have God’s vision, “be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue, have dominion over the earth.”
Seed is pro-vision, “for the vision.”
They don’t have his means: Seed, fruit trees and eternal life
They don’t have his method: Seed time and harvest
I believe, if the immigrants that are coming to the United States, would invest their energies into the Word of God. They could turn any part of the world into an oasis. Why?
Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all those other things shall be added unto you! Creation was designed to be a partnership between God and man!
The Truth is many governmental leaders, as far as partnership is concerned are fornicating with the Whore of Babylon (Revelation 17-18) and the people are suffering the consequences.
Get a bigger vision
Jesus said, I am the vine and my Father is the caretaker. Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he take it away. Every branch in me that bears fruit, he cleans it that it might bring forth more fruit. My father is glorified when you bear much fruit!
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 (KJV)
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