New Thresholds of Faith by Kenneth E Hagin

Author:Kenneth E Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Faith, Pentecostal & Charismatic, Christianity
ISBN: 9780892760701
Publisher: Faith Library
Published: 1976-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Lesson 15

Faith for Prosperity

For many years I did not understand that it is God's will for His children to prosper. I thought, as many do, that poverty is a characteristic of humility — and in order to be humble, one must be poor.

I thought that a righteous man could not be wealthy, and a wealthy man could not be righteous.

I thought any promise in the Scriptures regarding financial blessing applied only to the Jews. I have since learned, through studying God's Word and applying it in my own life, that God wants His children to "prosper and be in health, even as thy soulpros-pereth" (3 John 2).

Someone might say, "The Bible says that money is the root of all evil." However, the Bible does not say that at all. First Timothy 6:10 says, "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." A person can be guilty of that sin and not have one dime!

I have heard people say, "Well, I guess I'm just another Job." Some people think that poor old Job went through life poverty-stricken, sick, and afflicted. However, the entire Book of

Job happened within a period of nine months, and the last chapter says God turned Job's captivity, and "the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before" (Job 42:10).

When the thieves broke in and stole Job's things, he was in captivity to Satan. When the fire fell and burned up his crops, he was in captivity to Satan. When the storm came and blew the house down on his children and they were killed; when Job was smitten with boils from his head to his feet; when his wife turned against him and said, "Curse God and die," Job was in captivity to Satan. But God turned Job's captivity.

If you think you are another Job, that means you'll be one of the richest men around! You'll have twice as much as you've ever had before. You will be healed and live to be old. (Job lived 140 years after the events recorded in the Bible.) If you are another Job, you will prosper.

Redeemed from the Curse of the Law

GALATIANS 3:13,14,29

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for

it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith

29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

The above Scriptures tell us that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. What, then, is the curse of the law? We turn for this answer to the first five books of the Old Testament, referred to as the Pentateuch, or the books of the Law. There we learn that the curse, or punishment, for breaking God's law is threefold: poverty, sickness, and the second death.

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