ESTABLISHED AND PROSPEROUS (Part One)

ESTABLISHED AND PROSPEROUS

(Part One)

         I believe it is the Father’s will to “establish” and “prosper” His redeemed blood bought people in the earth. I truly believe that it is His good pleasure to do so. I believe this has been His intention from the beginning. The command to mankind, His son Adam, was to “be fruitful and to multiply upon the earth.” Genesis 1:26-31.

         I also believe we must teach this with some balance, and we must not go to the extreme in making applicable the teachings on establishment and prosperity. We must not allow covetousness to drive us for gain and an abundance of substance at the expense of the prosperity of our souls and walk with God.

         From the beginning God blessed mankind and pronounced the benediction over his life. He “blessed” man. That is, He empowered him with everything he needed to be productive, fruitful, and successful. He gave him the power and His blessing to succeed successfully in his assignment, life, and reign on earth over all the things He had created or made. Man was created to rule, reign, succeed, worship, praise, and maintain constant and unbroken fellowship with His Creator, etc. But before he prospers in every area of life God desires for him to prosper, God desires to establish him first. First, be established! Then let God give you the power or ability to prosper and increase in wealth (naturally and spiritually).

         In this teaching session I want to deal with being established first. I believe we need to be really “established” and “rooted” in Christ and His love before “prosperity” comes. You can be very prosperous with much substance and many carnal and material things. Yet you may not be established in the faith and have come to spiritual maturity in Christ. Now I truly believe that it is our Father and God in heaven’s will to bless and prosper His children in more ways than one. I do. But I also believe that His will is that we are established in the faith first, and experiencing the deeper depths of Yeshua [Jesus]. Then we will learn like the apostle Paul to “be content in whatever state we are in”; and find all of our sufficiency in God and our Shepherd Jesus. Read – 2 Corinthians 3:5; Psalm 23:1.

“I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how

to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned

the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance

and suffering need. I can do all things through HIM who strengthens

me.” (Philippians 4:12-13, NASB)

         True prosperity is learning how to trust God at all times and in every circumstance. He is our Father, and He is the SOURCE of everything we need or stand in the need of. YAHWEH is the One from whom all of our help comes from. He is the origin or beginning of who and what we need. There is no lack in Him, no want when the Lord is our Shepherd. God has already given us everything pertaining to life and godliness, as well as everything we need to succeed and be prosperous in this present life and world. But the Psalmist did warn us when he said, “. . . If riches increase, set not your heart to them.” Make sure your heart is established with Christ in God first. Then expect increase and prosperity to come to you and your children (Psalm 115:12-15).

         When King Jehoshaphat of Judah prayed to the God of heaven and earth concerning the kings and nations that we coming to make war against Judah, he prayed and sought the LORD (“The Source”). He was afraid. But he also knew he could trust and count on YAHWEH. They fasted and prayed. Then the LORD spoke through the prophet Jahaziel and gave him the battle strategy for this battle that they would not have to fight. The next day King Jehoshaphat said to the army and people of Judah, “Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the LORD your God, and you will be established. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed” (2 Chronicles 20:20, NASB).

         The King James Version says, “Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe in His prophets, so shall ye prosper.” God wanted both for His covenant people. He wanted them to be established first, then prosperous. As we trust God and put our confidence in Him, He establishes us. Then as we hear or listen to His chosen prophets or designated mouthpieces, He causes us to prosper or succeed in every endeavor He ordains or purpose of His for our success. Read – Romans 8:28.

      The Hebrew word for “establish” is aman, aw-man’. It properly means “to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; to confirm, support, uphold, reliable, stand firm, to be certain, to trust.”

         It is the will of YAHWEH that His people not fear anything or anyone. He had rather we put our confidence or total trust in Him, even in the midst of great odds, difficult circumstances, violent threats, material or physical needs or necessities. God himself takes the initiative to build up His people and be their support. God himself will take the responsibility to bear and hold you up with and in His strength. He will personally sustain you so that you can withstand and endure the pressure, strain, stress, or weight of whatever it is you are facing without giving up or fainting.

         Now increase and prosperity will come. But allow God to establish you first. When God establishes you, you are established. You are placed and positioned in a firm and permanent place in Christ where nothing has to move you. Your house will be built on the foundation of God’s Word with Him as your support. He has vowed to hold His own with the right hand of His righteousness.
#H.I.E.