Prosperity Principles - To Read and Understand Flashcards
I. It’s God’s Responsibility to Make Up What You Give
a. With each cycle of this process, you accomplish the
three-fold purpose of the financial harvest.
i. You fund the preaching of the gospel.
ii. Your needs are abundantly met.
iii. You have plenty left over to give joyfully to
others.
II. Common practices that spoils the harvest
a. Tithes and Offerings Are Not for Educating Your Children
b. “Oh, Pastor, You Can Have It All When I Die!”
III. Problems in giving evasion
a. The person who releases his tithes and offerings into the ministry at his death does not give anything to the Lord
b. This is not a proper way to pay tithes or plant seed.
IV. Do your part when you feel God’s leading.
a. Use your Holy Ghost-given unction.
b. Use your good common sense.
c. Care enough to investigate.
V. Commonality of Verses on Patience
a. Each speaks of patience.
b. Each verse promises that those who patiently wait (allow time to pass) receive the thing they wait for.
VI. Destructive enemies of the harvest
a. Insects. They eat the lush leaves. They destroy the
precious grain. Left unchecked, they will soon render
the best of crops unfruitful.
b. Weeds. They compete with the seed for the precious nutrition of the ground. Anything that takes the ground’s nourishment from the crop will eventually render it unfruitful.
c. Vermin will eat the stalks and leaves of the plants. This
also will prevent the farmer from enjoying a bountiful
harvest.
Three areas of maintenance you cannot overlook if you expect to receive an abundant financial harvest.
Mark 3:14 He appointed twelve– designating them apostles–that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach
a. You must put God and a godly lifestyle first.
i. You must seek the Kingdom of God before
anything else.
ii. You must seek His righteousness as vigorously
as you seek His Kingdom.
b. You must make world evangelism a top priority.
c. You must discern deception.
IX. Kingdom of God
a. Simply where God, Jehovah, and His Son, Jesus Christ,
reign.
b. It does not have geographic (tangible) borders. It is a
spiritual kingdom.
Prosperity Principles Set A
a. Seed-faith (faith that a seed will multiply) is the system God depends on to assure the propagation of every life form He created on earth.
b. The Holy Bible is a book that was originally written in the language of farmers, using illustrations common to farmers. With this book, you must discern God’s will for your life.
c. David knew that an offering that cost him nothing would bring him absolutely no benefit from God. The offering had to cost David something so that he could show God his love for Him.
Prosperity Principles Set B
d. Do not use the money God has designated for His purposes to accomplish your own purposes. Give God that which is His, and trust Him to supply you with the extra finances needed to meet the additional expenses you face.
e. The kind of seed you sow always determines the kind of harvest you will reap.
f. It is the kind of seed you plant that determines the kind of harvest you will reap.
Prosperity Principles Set C
g. Carefully read our Lord’s words from Luke 6:38 again: Give, and it shall be given unto you…. Notice the word it. It represents whatever you have given.
h. No matter how convenient it would be, you cannot wait until the day of harvest to decide the size of your harvest. If that were possible, the farmer would never face shortage. Just prior to harvest time, he would determine how much harvest he needed, then sow accordingly. If his needs were great, he would plant much.
Prosperity Principles Set D
i. Wise farmers know they must always plant more than they might need, for it is much easier to adjust to the problem of having more than enough than it is to adjust to the problem of having too little.
j. By some misguided piety, they reasoned it was spiritual not to desire more than enough. This attitude is nothing more than an attempt to cover up their lack of faith to believe God for more than enough. Ignorance of God’s purpose, coupled with insufficient faith in His power to give an increase, brings men to this unscriptural conclusion.
Prosperity Principles Set E
k. You Need More Than Enough to Be a Good giver
l. You Cannot Be a Blessing if You Have Not Been Blessed
m. We always had to plant our seed well in advance of our
harvest.
n. Have Eyes to See Your Harvest.
o. You must learn to look about you to identify God’s
increase.
Prosperity Principles Set F
p. Remember, a faith promise is designed to stretch your
faith to believe God for more seed.
q. With your God-given unction you can discern the good
ground.
r. What is it that you can plant that immediately comes
back to you in a harvest?” A nice, big smile!
s. Impatience Will Cancel Your Harvest.
Prosperity Principles Set G
t. There is something you must realize when you follow
God into the financial harvest. You must remember that you are leaving the realm of the natural and entering the realm of the supernatural.
u. Whatever you do, do not become impatient. Make up your mind not to allow your mouth to stop your harvest. It will come if you planted in faith and stand in patience. Keep on believing God. Let patience take your faith to its full potential. In the end, you will have the victory. You will reap the harvest you planted.
