Prosperity: The Choice is Yours by Kenneth Copeland

Author:Kenneth Copeland
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: prosperity, Bible, Christ, Jesus, Prosperity: The Choice is Yours, Prophecy, finances, Wealth
Published: 2011-09-30T10:48:20+00:00

The Wealth of Solomon

The book of Proverbs says more about wealth and riches than any other book in the Bible. Why? Because no one has ever surpassed Solomon in real goods. He was the wealthiest man who ever lived.

Let's see what Solomon said concerning prosperity. Proverbs 6:6-11, Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Notice that Solomon used the ant as an example. Are ants poverty-stricken? No! They are hard workers. The more you put into something, the more you will get out of it.

Also, pay attention to how he refers to poverty as a traveling armed robber. Who does the Bible say goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour? The devil. That roar is his arm—his weapon.

In the past, Satan has made us back off from him because his roar convinced us that he could really bite. But, that's not true.

Jesus pulled his teeth! The Captain of our salvation disarmed the adversary through His substitutionary sacrifice at Calvary. Thank God, Jesus took his armor away from him and then armed the body of Christ from head to toe so that we could stop the devil.

Poverty destroys. It goes around like an armed robber. God calls lack a curse and there is no way it could ever be a blessing.

Jesus came to minister to the poor. Why? To make them more poor? Of course not. The Bible said that He became poor that we might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). He bore the curse of poverty in order to get us out of it, not to leave us in it.

The Blessing of Abraham

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (Galatians 3:13-14).

Remember, God has given us a choice. Let's go back to the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy and see what a blessing is so that we will know what to choose.

Verse one and two, And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee.

Look at verse four, Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

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