Pastor Rich, you started talking last week about making a change, and about "getting it together" for my family and for their future ...
But "HOW" can we do this?
This week we are going to put forth some principles for success that we already know to do, but we seldom choose to do them! They work ...
but you have to "work them"!
They haven't changed, and they are not cancelled, or now void.
THEY STILL WORK!
GOD said in His Word, that "I the Lord, DO NOT CHANGE!" GOD does not change. HE is the very same today, and forever! What does that mean to you and me, in light of today's topic? It means that whatever GOD said ... about success, about prosperity, about living our lives before HIM ... applies to us, here, today ... just like it did when HE first said it! So, let's look at some of these things!
In Jeremiah, GOD tells us HIS vision and HIS plan, for us, in that HE has been of this attitude from the beginning, and remembering that HE does not change, HE still thinks this way ... today:
"
For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope."
[Jeremiah 29:11 - NASB]
Now, notice that GOD used the word "welfare" in that scripture. Now I need to explain that because when we here in America hear the word "welfare", we think of food stamps, and barely squeezing out a living, with just enough to barely survive! It's a horrible picture! But the dictionary's very first definition of the word "welfare" says:
wel-fare
1. a. Health, happiness, and good fortune; well-being
b. Prosperity
It is not until you get to the 3rd definition do you get the US government version of "welfare" and it's definition. But GOD was not talking about the U.S. government's version of welfare, but HIS version! And people, I tell you that GOD's version of welfare is abundance of health and "wholeness" (nothing missing, nothing broken), an abundance of happiness and joy and good fortune! It is filled with prosperity, more than you can handle! And this is not my definition, but an everyday run-of-the-mill dictionary off-the-shelf!
Webster's Dictionary puts it this way:
1. "the state of doing
well, especially in respect to happiness, and to prosperity."
So, understand this:
GOD wants you ...
1.
healthy - physically healthy and whole, nothing missing, nothing broken, healed, free of disease and sickness, of aching bones and muscles, and such ... "healthy"
2.
happy - emotionally, mentally and in your soul ... "happy" and at peace, with yourself, with others ... "happy"
3.
prosperous - wealthy and in full abundance, in full sufficiency of provision, not just spiritually, but financially ... "prosperous"
It is very important that you understand fully, that GOD does not want you "just making ends meet". THAT is absolutely NOT at all HIS best for you! In fact, to wish and to pray for "just enough" is very selfish ... on YOUR part! You see, if you only ask GOD for "just enough", then you do not have an abundance, and therefore will have none left over, to give, to share, to bless and to sow ... into the lives of others!
So, just making it is ... selfishness, laziness and falling short, of GOD's very best ... for you! Oh, I know this is not comfortable to think about, but its' the truth! If you are born-again, then you are a member of the Royal Family, of GOD's Family! And "that" puts you in a state of absolutely "being" over-in-abundance .. in everything from health and healing to happiness to financial prosperity! That covers it all ... it's called "The Blessing"! (see Deuteronomy 29)
So, for this week, I want you to meditate this ...
Think about the fact that GOD ... wants ... YOU ... to be totally and completely healthy, abundantly happy, and overwhelmingly prosperous! And in so being, you will "prove the Word of GOD" in your lives. You cannot be a blessing, a source, a provider of blessings and goodness ... if you have ... nothing.
So, our goal is to get "in-line" with GOD's plan for us!
Think about these things, pray about them, and "settle" them in your heart, because next week we are going to begin to practice this, and to "DO" what we need to do, to walk in these promises!
THIS MONTH - I want you to remember:
"This is YOUR day ... YOU control it, how it goes, how you deal with the obstacles that come, and how you finish it! Master it! And don't let the day, or the little bumps that come with it determine how "YOUR DAY" is going to be. This is "YOUR" day!"
Master it! Conquer it! MAKE IT ... what your Father wants it to be!
Make me proud!
-pastor rich-
WORD CHURCH is a church, a ministry, and a fellowship, even an outreach, where like in the days of the Apostles and Acts, the people joined together! 
