God Wants You Rich by Ashley Terradez

Author:Ashley Terradez
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781680318883
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers

CHAPTER FOUR

KINGDOM ECONOMICS

AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, there are those who are blessed and believe it. And there are those who are blessed and don’t believe it. If you’re born again, you are blessed. But are you someone who believes it?

The spiritual truth is that you are already prosperous. As a son or daughter of God, you are rich in the Lord and rich in possessions, even if you don’t yet see it in the natural.

As an example of this, let’s consider Joseph.

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful [prosperous] man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand.

Genesis 39:1-3 (brackets added)

God looked upon Joseph and said he was a prosperous man. Even his master, Potiphar, saw that he was blessed. But how can that be? How can God see someone who is a slave and yet call him prosperous?

Because prosperity isn’t what we have, it’s who we are.

Citizens of a New Kingdom

Many believers don’t understand their identity as a prosperous person because they don’t yet realize they have changed their address.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

Colossians 1:13

When we become born again, God plucks us out of one kingdom—the kingdom of this natural world—and places us into a new Kingdom: the Kingdom of the Son of His love. As a born-again believer, you are now living spiritually in a different world. You’ve moved from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light. Spiritually speaking, the day you gave your life to Jesus, you changed address. You packed up and moved.

In a new kingdom, there are different rules, different ways of living, different ways of doing things. There are different laws in operation. One of the most frustrating things for Christians is when, after they have been born again, they continue to live as though they are not.

When my family and I moved to America, I got a quick lesson in how much your world can shift by simply changing your address. We moved from the kingdom of Great Britain to the kingdom of America, if you will. Well, in Great Britain, you drive on the left side of the road, while in America, you drive on the right.

One day, after we’d moved to America, I pulled out onto the road after leaving a gas station and began driving in the left lane. That was what I was used to doing. That was how we drove in my home country. It was natural to me. There was only one slight problem: the three cars driving head-on toward me in the left lane!

It didn’t hit me at first.

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