BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

This is the safeguard on God’s storehouse. It’s what protects us. If we have our hearts set on Him and we’re living like He tells us to, we’ll know how to handle godly wealth when it comes. We won’t be doing drugs with it. We won’t use it to pursue immoral activities and harm ourselves with it. We’ll use it to do good and serve the Lord. God is so good and generous, He’s searching all the time for people who qualify to receive His riches. As 2 Chronicles 16:9 says, “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.” The "James Moffatt Translation" puts it this way: “The Eternal’s eyes dart here and there over the whole world, as he exerts his power on behalf of those who are devoted to him.” The word devoted means “faithful, loyal or consecrated.” It speaks of someone who loves God with his whole heart and keeps His Word. If that’s you, then God is looking for you; and He always finds the one He’s looking for. He doesn’t miss anyone. You could be in the deepest part of the jungle, and if you have faith in what God said about your prosperity and you’ve put Him first in your life and obey Him, He will not miss you. He’ll find you and make you rich. This is good news, isn’t it? And you can get in on it if you want! But you can’t fake your way through it. You can’t just join up with a good church that preaches prosperity, keep living a carnal, disobedient life, and think God’s riches are going to fall on you supernaturally. It won’t happen. God looks at the heart. He sees our thoughts and our affections, and He’s saying to us, as believers today, essentially the same thing He said through Moses to the Israelites in the Old Testament: “What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?” (Deuteronomy 10:12-13). When you have that kind of wholehearted devotion toward God, you want to do more than just go to heaven when you die. You want to be a good witness for the Lord right here on earth. You want to live in victory and BLESSING, and do everything you can to spread the word about Jesus. That’s why you need to prosper! It’s not just about you and your family and your needs. It’s about advancing the kingdom of God. It’s about being a billboard of His goodness and having plenty of resources to do whatever He says needs to be done. God has preachers and missionaries He wants to send out. He has nations and people He wants to reach with the gospel. He has churches that need to be supported, and buildings that need to be built. It’s going to take a lot of money to do in the kingdom of God what we have to do between now and the time Jesus returns! So throw aside the traditions of men that have made you feel badly about believing in prosperity. Forget what the religious crowd is saying about you. Who cares what they think? Just go ahead and believe God. Take Him at His Word, receive the wealth He has laid up for you, and laugh all the way to the bank. Enjoy your prosperity and enjoy giving millions of dollars toward the work of God’s kingdom. Sure, it will make the devil mad because he wants the money. But it doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to God and He wants us, as His sons and daughters, to have it. He wants us to know that rich is not a dirty word. V ****************************** ****************************** Points to Get You There: The Riches of God The devil has convinced great numbers of believers that the material riches on earth belong to him. He’s given financial wealth such a negative connotation that many Christians today actually believe that rich is a dirty word. But rich is a Bible word. It’s a blessing word. It’s God’s word. So go ahead and receive the wealth God has laid up for you. Here are a few points to get you there: 1) Ever since the days of Abraham, God has prospered His covenant people. Genesis 13:2: “…Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.” 2) Material wealth has always been a part of God’s BLESSING. Proverbs 10:22: “The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” 3) God was the One who made Solomon the richest man of all time. 2 Chronicles 1:12: “…I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.” 4) Love for God and wholehearted obedience to His Word is what qualifies us to receive His riches. Deuteronomy 10:12: “What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.” 5) If you believe God and put Him first in your life, He will find you and prosper you. 2 Chronicles 16:9: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.” BVOV : 31

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