Prosperity

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

We all see and have heard, and done so ourselves when in trouble. We turn to Almighty God begging for Him to hear our prayers, our petitions and our supplications. We question if he hears our prayer, or if He ever hears us as shown in Ps 5_3. God gives you the measure you have given to Him.

1) GIVERS GIVE. The first principle of Financial Freedom is to know that Givers Give to God the first measure of all of their blessings.

Yet as cheap Christians we make a love offering each week that is committing theft from Almighty God. $2.00, $10.00 or even $20.00. Our Church has fallen down miserably in teaching this principle.

I was at mass the other day and the priest was telling the parish that the church needed a new roof and that a fund raising project would have to be started. This need is now necessary because there is a bunch of Cheap Christians in this parish. As Christians this parish as in all parishes, have not supported God and His Church simply because they have not given to God His measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.

Our priests, diocese, and the Church have failed the people by not teaching God’s principles of giving God His fair and just measure. They do not speak of it because it is not popular, too radical. They themselves do not believe in His Holy Word, or if they do, they fail to teach it.

2) PLANT YOUR SEED I am now going to tell you something that is not popular to hear, nor is it going to be heard except by those who know it requires that you truly put your total Trust in Jesus.

Luke 6:38 “ Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

Please refer to the attached Holy Scripture on the clearly stated Word of God, which is Eternal. A fair measure is 10% of all of the First Fruits. That is 10% of your gross and first earnings. Your going to say, I am on a fixed income, I am retired, I have too many mouths to feed and many other excuses. God’s purpose produces Financial Freedom for all of His children. Paul shows us in

Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Ecclesiastes 3:2 “a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot”

2 Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”

God wants each and every one of us to prosper. To enjoy prosperity. To have more then enough for all of our needs, Jesus wants you have more then enough so that you can now share with others your surplus in doing good works and having the means to do these good works.

I get angry when I see and hear the concept that Jesus was a poor man. Baloney, Jesus wore the best of clothing. Scripture shows us where He brought the apostles to His home and entertained them. At the Cross-they cast lots for His cloak. That is because it was all one piece. It was expensive, the best that money could buy, it was the Gucci of His day, the finest. That is why they did not want to cut it up, but rather cast lots for it. Jesus wants you to be wearing Gucci or the top names comfortably. God wants you to have everything of this world without exception, remember in Paul we are taught he says “ALL THAT YOU NEED” Plant your seed and TRUST IN JESUS and in His ETERNAL WORD.

3) Do it - You will TITHE as His Zion Children.

Malachi 3:8

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, `How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings.

Proverbs 3:9

Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops.

Let me clarify your thinking. You are not TITHING TO THE CHURCH; you are tithing to God and to God alone. The parish, the church, and the bishop have the obligation and the responsibility as custodians of God to help the needy, feed the poor and care for the sick. If they fail to do so God will hold them accountable. God wants you to have the prosperity to provide for all of your needs and to be His disciples in treating your neighbors, as you would want them to treat you. He will give you 10 times, 30 tomes, 160 times that which you give to God. His Word is alive and He is alive and His word is Eternal.

4) Plant your seed in good ground. The Kingdom of God is Good Ground. The Kingdom of God is the Church here on earth. Plant your seed in your parish, in your diocese, in the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Matthew 13:8

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

5) You must wait for your harvest.

Luke 8:15

But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

Hebrews 10:36

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

Numbers 14:28

So tell them, `as surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say:

Galatians 6:9

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

6) God gives you wealth to be a blessing to others

James 4:3

When you ask, you do not receive; because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

7) Change your attitude of abundance. To receive abundance you must get rid of poverty thinking.

Romans 4

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring--not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." ^[1] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed--the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

Deuteronomy 7

Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.

He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land--your grain, new wine and oil--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you.

You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.

The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

John 1

Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?" They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

"Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour.

8) God’s purpose for you produces Financial Freedom for you, and for your family.

Romans 8:28

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, ^[1] who ^[2] have been called according to his purpose

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."

9) Release the Anointing of Almighty God.

Isaiah 10:27

In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.

Jeremiah 9:29

Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.

10) Release the Anointing of Almighty God to get out of debt.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

11) Place your seed in anointed hands. Before the Blessed Sacrament, give all of your assets to the Lord and let Him do with them as He wills.

John 6:9

"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

Whenever you do not have enough that is because your seed was not enough. You have to maintain your level of commitment by weekly committing to your Tithe first and foremost to Almighty God-El Shaddai.

Almighty God’s Word on Tithing

Leviticus 27

"`A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

If a man redeems any of his tithes, he must add a fifth of the value to it.

The entire tithe of the herd and flock--every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod--will be holy to the LORD.

Numbers 18:26

"Speak to the Levites and say to them: `When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the Lord’s offering.

Deuteronomy 12

You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

Deuteronomy 14

Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.

Then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 26

When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied

2 Chronicles 31

As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave the first fruits of their grain, new wine, oil and honey and all that the fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything.

The men of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the LORD their God, and they piled them in heaps.

Nehemiah 10:37

"Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our [grain] offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and oil. And we will bring a tithe of our crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.

Malachi 3:10

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

Almighty God’s Word on Prosperity

Deuteronomy 28

The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

Deuteronomy 30

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.

Job 20

Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.

Job 21

They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave ^[1] in peace. ^[2]

But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 22

"Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.

Job 36

If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.

Psalms 25

He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

Psalms 72

The mountains will bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.

In his days the righteous will flourish; prosperity will abound till the moon is no more.

Psalms 73

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 106

That I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.

Psalms 122

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Psalms 128

You will eat the fruit of your labour; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,

Proverbs 3

For they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.

Proverbs 8

With me are riches and honour, enduring wealth and prosperity.

Proverbs 13

Misfortune pursues the sinner, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

Proverbs 21

He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity ^[1] and honour.

Ecclesiastes 6

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.

Jeremiah 17

He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Jeremiah 29

Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."

Jeremiah 32

"This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.

Jeremiah 33

Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honour before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.'

Jeremiah 39

"Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Cushite, `this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfil my words against this city through disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.

Lamentations 3:17

I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue."

Zechariah 1:17

"Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: `My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.'"