TODAY’S DEVOTION (Thursday 24th April 2025)
“Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.” Genesis 13:1-2 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 114TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
We bless the Name of the LORD for giving us 114 days already, this year. Obviously, few who started the year are dead and gone. He did not keep us because we are better than them. It is out of His mercies that we are not consumed, for His compassion fails not.
If the LORD should mark iniquities, we shall not stand. But there is forgiveness with Him so that He may be feared.
It’s a great privilege to serve the God who created Heaven and earth and to have Him call us His own. It’s a privilege to go out of sin, Satan and the evil and corrupt systems of this world and be separated unto Him alone. That was in effect what Abraham did when he was called Abram.
Genuine salvation involves leaving darkness and clinging unto Jesus Christ, the true light. Not for one day, one week, one month, or one year but forever. That is how we become rich in spiritual and earthly Blessings. However, the greatness of each one’s riches is determined by so many factors which space will not let me state.
One of it is our ability to follow Jesus without missing one step – our ability to make His footsteps our pathways.
No one follows Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth and miss riches (the prosperity of the righteous); especially this end times. The reason for that is simple. The prosperity of the righteous will be a tool for doing God’s true and blessed will this end time.
Friend, there is so much to do with both spiritual and natural riches of the righteous this end time. In today’s devotion I will be sharing with us about the natural aspect of the prosperity of the righteous.
To start with, understand that God wants you to prosper. I am sure you have heard these words over and over from the lips of so many preachers.
RECENTLY FOR A PERIOD OF 21 DAYS, WE RECEIVED DEEP SPIRITUAL TRUTHS FOR THE SAME.
Indeed, like every good Father will desire for his Children, God wants every of His serious-minded child to prosper financially. Sadly, some are not prospering because they do not understand so much. Some even believe economic Prosperity is not for the righteous.
Few others believe poverty and adversity are marks of true discipleship. They take that position after observing the prosperity of the wicked. No one has sat them down to show them another kind of prosperity in the Holy Scriptures; the prosperity of the righteous; the very package the LORD has preplanned that they have.
Satan will prefer they stick to the wrong believe so that they remain poor, and not economically fit for the things God want to do with them. But God wants us all to come into the revelation knowledge that will unleash the prosperity of the righteous upon us.
Revelation remains Heaven’s clearance to the earth to come into things supernatural; especially things that will equip us spiritually and financially to do God’s blessed will.
These are not days of walking in darkness or wrong understanding of things in the kingdom. These are days of clarity of vision and revelation. Your life will become clear and exciting if you walk in clarity of vision and revelation of the LORD concerning things in the kingdom.
Jesus indeed said if we want to be His disciples we must carry our cross daily and follow Him. But that cross is not perpetual poverty and adversity but the price of doing divine will, which might be staying away from the prosperity of the wicked, and suffering for doing so for a season not for a lifetime.
In other words, the price is not a permanent life of lack and poverty. So, people who believe permanently being poor is a sign of true discipleship are getting it wrong.
THERE ALSO THOSE WHO HOLD ANOTHER DANGEROUS VIEW; THEY BELIEVE JESUS WAS POOR SO THEY SHOULD ALSO BE POOR.
In fact, someone attacked me with this school of thought sometimes back when he heard me preach about financial abundance and the prosperity of the righteous. But Jesus was not poor. What the Bible described as “the poverty of Jesus” has nothing to do with the earthly.
Paul was comparing the eternal glory Jesus stripped Himself off with the earthly glory we celebrate as glory. The Bible made it clear that whatever the earth considers as glory is poverty compared to what Heaven considers as glory. That was what the apostle meant.
God cannot afford to keep His own poor this end times because the execution of His end time redemption programs rests upon our shoulder.
The faith of Lazarus will be needed at this age, but his financial state will not be needed. The reason his financial state will not be needed is because he was too poor to serve God with his finances. Thank God he made Heaven; however, he did that with no soul to present to Jesus.
In the final day when we will all appear before God, he will only have one out of the five crowns kept for the righteous as reward. God cannot afford to watch us live poor this end time, like Lazarus was. There is a plan for us all. It is not the prosperity of the wicked, but that of the righteous.
We cannot be eating under the table of the rich and be able to preach on the media and do all the money things that need to be done to save souls today.
So, Jesus was not poor in the sense that we know poverty to be. In fact, if you look at Bible History, He was not even poor by earth’s definition of poverty. So why should we be?
IF HE WAS POOR, HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THE MANY THINGS HE DID.
The Bible made it clear that though He owned no Estates, He had a house even before stepping into ministry. He was a carpenter but into what we will call real Estate today, because carpentry was not just furniture making in His days. They built homes for clients.
He created wealth by being a carpenter instead of sitting in the synagogue praying and lazing Himself about like many do in church today. Through this system of wealth creation, He ended up having a large cliental, that was why everyone knew Him as the son of the carpenter.
So, He was indeed rich; He was rich both in Spirit and in truth. Those who call Him poor are ignorant of the holy scriptures and the historic facts of the Jews. Of course, if you call a man who could get money from the mouth of a fish “poor” it means you are ignorant!
He was rich enough to pay all His bills when He was physically on earth!
Those who studied the details said, His garment was so expensive that people who killed Him had to cast lots to determine who will own it. If it was just some rags He wore, no one would have bothered. The Bible says it was a seamless garment knitted by one of the women.
In His days seamless garments were the most expensive!
For conveying His disciples around, He could hire ships and small boats to embark on His ministry trips without financial stress. Don’t forget boats and ships were the highest level of transportation in His days. That means if He were physically on earth today, He will not just be hiring the best cars for ministry trips but airplanes and private Jets.
He was so rich that He made a thief His treasurer. The man was stealing yet His money never ran dry. If you steal from the poor, you will see what will happen. He will close and go home. But Jesus was not poor. He remained standing despite the stealing.
Jesus also had a team of notable women supporting his ministry financially. In other words, He had financial partners. The Bible made it clear in the book of Luke that those who were healed of different diseases supported His ministry financially.
YOU MAY NOT HAVE SEEN ALL THESE IN THE BIBLE, BUT THEY ARE THERE.
That is why it’s important to learn to read the Bible yourself and not just stop at what people are saying. Jesus enjoyed the prosperity of the righteous as King of kings and LORD of lords walking the earth realm. He never had the prosperity of the wicked or that of a fool.
If we are to look unto Him as the author and finisher of our faith, we must also look unto Him in money matters. He walked this earth in the prosperity of the righteous to show us how to walk the earth living in the prosperity of the righteous.
He spoke about money in the same spirit and passion He did about Heaven and Hell. The only thing He frowned at is a disciple making money his or her god. He warned that we cannot serve God and mammon. We cannot be loyal to both. If we are loyal to mammon, we will never be loyal to God.
Today, His Spirit is teaching us that Money becomes a curse in our lives if we become more loyal to riches than to God.
I guess this is where some prefer poverty. However, they forget that it’s easier to serve God in riches than in poverty if you are mature in faith and closely intimate with the LORD.
Actually, being a servant of the mammon spirit is not a matter of economy but a matter of the state of the heart. One can still be a servant of mammon even in poverty. In fact, mammon worshipers are made up of both the poor and the rich, the great and small, the sick and the healthy etc.
So, it’s not about our financial status but the state of our heart. The question lies in who enjoys our allegiance. Is it God or mammon?
The word mammon simply means riches. Mammon was a Canaanite god in charge of riches. It is a spirit that makes Christians trade relationship with God on the altar of money making.
THAT IS WHY GOD WILL NEVER GIVE HIS CHILD MONEY IN SURPLUS UNTIL HE DELIVERS HIM FROM THE MAMMON SPIRIT.
Money to those who have been delivered from the mammon spirit is simply an instrument for serving God and advancing His purposes. The more of it they have, the more of God’s will they can do. The less of it they have, the less of God’s will they can do.
That is why God cannot afford to watch us live poor; especially those of us who understand His will.
The Bible made it clear that His cities or purposes can only be spread through our prosperity. It is our prosperity that will put the word of the LORD on radio, Television and satellite. It is our prosperity that will feed the poor, clothe the naked, build houses for the homeless, and send the fatherless to schools.
And it’s important to note that the prosperity of the righteous is not limited to finance. It is a whole package! There is marital prosperity. There is the prosperity of sound Health, which many do not have. There is prosperity of the mind.
When God said His cities or plans and purposes will prosper by our prosperity, He was referring to prosperity as a total package.
As you embrace this day, I want you to understand that money was not meant to be on our head but under our feet. God created earthly treasures not to be served but to serve His will.
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY
“Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “My cities shall again spread out through prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”‘” Zachariah 1:17 NKJV
