"Jesus spent more time teaching on money than on heaven and hell combined" Apostle Geoffrey Kiriungi, Jesus Wave International
Breakthrough in money will cause an overcoming of 70% of demons. To be able to justify this claim, let us as first look at doctrinal concepts - the concept of abundance. You cannot rise higher than your faith. Your faith cannot go higher than knowledge because faith comes by knowledge.
Romans 10:17 'So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.'
Prosperity is provided in the redemptive work of God as one of the seven blessings of salvation.
Genesis 22:8 'And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.'
Provision is part of the redemptive work of God.
2Corinthians 8:9 'For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.'
God's mindset is that the only solution to poverty is by REDEMPTION.
Romans 8:32 'He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?'
Adam and Eve were in a world of material abundance (Gen 1). God saw that the abundance is good. Only after God had finished His creative process, was man introduced into an environment of abundance. God's idea was that man would multiply the abundance in the garden of Eden. Man was to super abound.
Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Gen 3:17-19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eatof it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
The consequence of sin was the curse. Destitution and material poverty resulted. In other words, poverty is a spiritual condition caused by the fall. If poverty is merely physical, then many people work extremely hard but never get relief. However much you earn cannot be a solution to your financial condition. Poverty is Satan's way to break human will and keep a person subjugated . It destroys hope for tomorrow so that we may not believe that abundance is God's will. Poverty is universal – New York to Nairobi, London to Lagos, the poor we will always have with us. This leads to compromising on the joy of salvation. The devil has used greed, evil, lust, deceit and covetousness to bring society under his will. That is why we have the rich over the poor, lords over slaves and men over the women. Satan has conditioned humanity to believe that God desires scarcity. This makes people think that lack is a major spiritual milestone, that we make do with less than we have. This has become the default thinking of man. However through the scriptures, we can restore our thinking and bring FREEDOM TO BELIEVE. Schools and economic systems teach us that supply will never match demand. However, we have seen at creation that God created a super-abounding environment. God has created in our inner being the desire for prosperity. Just look at children before they are taught to hate prosperity. Each one dreams of becoming something big when they grow up.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they mighthave life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
John 10:10 Le voleur ne vient que pour dérober, égorger et détruire; moi, je suis venu afin que les brebis aient la vie, et qu'elles soient dans l'abondance. (Louis Segond Version - LSV)
The devil is a thief, and tries to steal the abundant life of god in a man. The French translation says that they may be in abundance.
2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Prosperity has been abused by people who through smooth talk make money from others. This the bible calls filthy lucre.
Titus 1:1-10
Contemporary media constantly bombards the public with negative positions of prosperity taking advantage of people and making moneyof them. So what is God's Perspective?
Psa 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches,and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Luk 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
You have to be rich towards God and have abundance to yourself. Otherwise, it is dangerous because when things are not working out, one can easily blame God for not fulfilling His promises. It is dangerous to the point of backsliding.
Warnings
Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Mar 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Mar 10:22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mar 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Mar 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with manysorrows.
1Ti 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
1Ti 6:13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
1Ti 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Ti 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is theblessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
1Ti 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things toenjoy;
Blessings – Positive Attitudes No prosperity phobia – fear is of the devil and God cannot trust you. You must know that God does not have second class citizens. God is not a grandfather.
Psalms 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Therefore, to desire good is to be a Christian. One of the requirements of an elder according to Titus is to be a lover of good.
3Jn 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Psa 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Deu 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deu 28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deu 28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven 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.
Pro 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Riches are not blessing but blessing brings riches. Therefore get the blessing. Then every creativity in you will produce after its kind.
Psa 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Ecc 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Hag 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Lev 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Psa 36:7 How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Psa 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Psa 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Psa 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
This article is an excerpt from a message entitled "Mastering your Finances" preached at Life Church International by the late Apostle Geoffrey Kiriungi, Jesus Wave International, a minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
