Ok, I get it! I've had a week to think about it and pray about it ... and I cannot argue, the Bible teaches us that GOD really
does want us to be healthy, happy and prosperous!
I have also decided to set aside my religious thinking ... sometimes called "stinkin' thinkin'" in other circles, and I am going to embrace GOD's promises and HIS goodness for my life! I have decided that I "WANT" to have
ALL that GOD has provided for me, that came "with" my salvation! Jesus paid a heavy price for me to only
pick 'n choose what I want to walk in, so I have decided to totally and completely ...
sell out to GOD, and to do my best to
walk in "everything" HE has to offer me ... in
this lifetime!
I want you to read the paragraph above, and I want you to confess and say this ... out loud, before GOD. You need to
decide to make a change, or you will just be wasting your time. GOD cannot bless a son or daughter who will not follow HIS instructions. It's not that HE
will not but rather that HE
"cannot" ...
BLESS you ... if you are in disobedience, and are stubbornly holding on to what the devil has said and taught about GOD's promises! You heard me right, these teachings of poverty, of sickness, and of GOD beating up HIS own kids ... to teach them something, these are not from GOD!!! HE did NOT teach these so-called men of GOD who preach this stuff, to teach this to HIS kids! It is in direct opposition to GOD's promises, to HIS plans for you, and to HIS Word.
So, today you must step over the line. Today, you must make the decision that you are going to "BELIEVE GOD" and set aside
anything that you have been taught that does not directly line up with THE BLESSING (of Abraham), THE COVENANT ... THE PROMISES. These are all the same - different titles, but the same message, the same promises, the same earnest desires for all of GOD's very best ... for you! And "today", you must decide that either you believe GOD, or you don't. If you "do", then read the above confession ... out loud, before GOD. Make it
your confession of faith!
Last week, we discussed that 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"
This week, we have to apply the principles that are taught throughout the Bible, on "getting on-track" with GOD.
1.
Be holy - the Bible calls us a "Holy Temple", where the Spirit of GOD lives. the Spirit of GOD lives in your heart! And to keep it holy, we must confess our sin when we sin (1 John 1:9). "
If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleans us from all unrighteousness." In order to remain holy and clean, before GOD, we must avoid sin, and when we do sin, we must confess those sins before GOD, so that we can be made clean again.
2.
Study the Word - Jesus said in John 8:31-32, "
If you continue in My word, then are you truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." Folks, rare is the time you will ever see someone skip eating for the day, let alone days upon end. But we do that all the time
spiritually. The Word of GOD is food for our spiritual bodies! We
need that spiritual food, for spiritual energy, and for the
faith that we need ... to live the life that GOD has called us to live, here in the Earth. When we study and meditate the Word of God, our spirit man grows strong, in much the same way as a battery is charged! (Romans 10:17) But when we do NOT study the Word, our spiritual
battery begins to run down, and the natural man begins to surface. We act more like our "old self" than like the renewed man that GOD created us to be. In other words, the "flesh" wins out.
3.
Pray in the Holy Spirit - Paul teaches us that we are to
pray in the Holy Spirit. "But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the spirit." [Jude 1:20 - AMP] Our supernatural energy, our faith, is
charged and built up when we spend time in the presence of GOD, and when we "pray in the Holy Spirit". We are told in Ephesians 6 to "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might", putting on the whole armor of GOD. We cannot
be strong if we do not spend time in GOD's presence, and in
supernatural prayer!
GOD created man for fellowship with HIM. HE earnestly desires "time" with HIS creation! And while we spend that time with GOD, our
faith, the whole time, is being re-generated and renewed, supernaturally! We are being "cleansed" by HIS presence!
So, our goal is to get "in-line" with GOD's plan for us!
In order to do so, we need to be at a point where we can literally "hear" from GOD, easily. We need to be at our "peak" spiritually, and the only way to do that is to follow those 3 steps above.
Folks, these are not new teachings, but in our lifestyle of fast food and change, we espect GOD's promises to be the same ... delivered fast and quick, and constantly being new and different. It is not that way! GOD is solid, lasting, and powerfully consistent and persistent, and HE is not changing or wavering. HE ... "IS" your answer!
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! 
