It is God’s will that all his children are financially sound and successful. He wants you to go from glory to glory in every area your life, including your finances. God is not idle, it just isn’t in his nature and we were created in his image. So many people struggle with this concept, and somehow think it is bad to desire financial abundance. “Well, money is the root of all evil, it says so in the Bible.” How many times have you heard someone say this? If you are going to quote the Bible, be sure you know what it says. So what does it say?
For the love of money is the root of all evil… 1 Timothy 6:10
Clearly it is not saying money is evil. In fact, money is neutral. It takes on the character of the person who possesses it. It can be used for evil, but money itself is not evil. Nor is it bad to have a lot of it! If it becomes your idol, if it governs you instead of you governing it, that is when it is bad.
You will find example after example of people in the Bible that God increased and blessed (substantially) with material things and wealth. What about God is poor? And are we not his children? Do you wish poverty on your children? Is it not your desire that they even exceed your accomplishments in life and have success? Why in the world would we insult our heavenly Father with such notions that he wants us groveling in poverty. It is absolutely absurd to think that and it is a character assassination of God himself!
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. Isaiah 48:17
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. Proverbs 8:21
We can’t say God doesn’t want us blessed, because he wouldn’t teach us to profit if it wasn’t his will. The word “substance” in Proverbs 8:21 is the Hebrew word for “wealth”, so God is definitely talking about tangible things.
How do you experience supernatural increase and wealth?
- First, you have to recognize and settle in your heart that it is God’s will to prosper you, otherwise you will not be able to walk in faith to receive it. Let a poverty mentality have no place in you!
- You have to renew your mind so that you believe the truth (that will make you free), build your faith, and starve all doubt (get rid of your “double mind”).
- Practice and learn to hear the voice of God so that you can be led by him.
- Get committed to tithing and offering. I can’t stress this enough. I have seen the covenant benefits materialize in my own life because of this. I have done this faithfully since I was in my early twenties when I got a revelation of what it meant. People want to experience the abundance of God, but they squeeze their hand so tight around their cash that if it were a living thing they would have choked it to death. God says if we don’t tithe, we are robbing him, remember he has given us everything we have anyway. “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me… Malachi 3:8-9” A lot of people argue that is Old Testament and doesn’t apply. First of all, why do we need to argue so hard? It is a heart issue. People aren’t willing to believe it because they aren’t willing to do it. Back to the other argument about it being the Old Testament, check out what Jesus said about it: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matthew 23:23 This verse is New Testament, and spoken by Jesus directly, so that settles that. Real happiness comes by building the kingdom, not hoarding everything to yourself. And that is where the covenant is for financial abundance as well. I heard Joyce Meyer say once that God told her (when she was complaining about making a life change that others were allowed to do that she didn’t think was that big of a deal), “Joyce, you’ve asked for a lot, do you want it or not?”
- Lastly, you act on what God tells you to do! Step out in faith and keep your eyes on the promise of provision from God, not matter what it looks like in the natural. Expect God to back up his word!
How do I renew my mind?
You renew your mind with the word of God. You meditate on the word nonstop concerning financial prosperity (or any other need you have). That is where your supernatural breakthrough comes in. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The Bible says you will be “transformed” by the renewing of your mind!
Listen to Provision Scriptures
The following recording is a mix of scriptures regarding financial blessings as well as scriptures to build faith that highlight God’s faithfulness and promise to perform his word. All the scriptures on the recording are written out below, so you can read along while you listen. Put the word of God in front of your eyes, faith will come by hearing (according to his word) by listening to them and putting them in your ears, and speak them out of your mouth in faith!
God’s Provision & Faithfulness
(Compiled by Frances Lange on 1/11/2020)
Psalm 34:10 They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Proverbs 10:24 …the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance (wealth); and I will fill their treasures.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise…
Deuteronomy 28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy 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.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
John 15:7 If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Matthew 21:22 And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye SHALL receive.
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?
Deuteronomy 30:5 And the Lord your God will bring thee into the into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the Lord, the God of ALL flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Deuteronomy 30:9 And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous (abound) in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good…
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them ALL.
Isaiah 48:17 …I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Psalm 107:6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Jeremiah 15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Joshua 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.
Psalm 57:2-3 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Luke 12:28-32 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Psalm 66:12 …we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Proverbs 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding (high esteem) in the sight of God and man.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Psalm 37:3-6 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psalm 37:23-26 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the Lord with thy substance (possessions), and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses (vats) shall burst out with new wine.
Psalm 37:30-31 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Psalm 37:34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalm 37:39-40 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Malachi 3:10-12 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
