The God Of Heaven Prospers Us

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Nehemiah 2:20

“Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, He will prosper us; therefore, we His servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

I think when we think of God prospering us, we think of God being far off in heaven and only prospering us to be where He is one day.  However, Nehemiah said “the God of heaven He will prosper us” while embarking on something that was well beyond his qualifications and experience. Nehemiah was aware of God being present there with him to help him prosper in accomplishing the greatest thing he would ever do.

Paul said in Romans, 8:31 “…If God be for us, who can be against us”. Imagine that, God is for us not against us!  God is for and not against our dreams and goals. He is for and not against you starting that business, getting married, writing that book, or having that baby.   He is right there with you to see that you prosper in all these things or whatever you desire to do.   He is your heavenly cheerleader.  Hallelujah!  No one wants you to prosper more than God.  So much so that He Himself came to live in us to assure us of prosperity.   Now ask yourself, has God ever failed? Of course not.  Therefore, you cannot fail.  Paul goes on to say in Romans 8:32, “He who spared not His Son but delivered Him up for us all how shall He not with Him freely give us all things”.  My friend, “all things” includes prosperity.

Listen, regardless of what you have to face as you work towards your dream or desire, know that you are prospering and the devil is in a constant state of defeat.  Think about that, if you are prospering anyone or anything that opposes you is defeated.   Romans 8:37, “Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.”  The key here is knowing that you are not alone.  That God is with you to prosper you.  You must persuade yourself of this very fact as Paul did.  Paul said “I am persuaded …”  Romans 8:38. It might take you some time to become fully persuaded but don’t stop, keep confessing what you want to see until you can say “I am fully persuaded that the God of Heaven prospers me.”

Success Is Given

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Joshua 1:8″

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

Success is not something we gain, success is something we’ve been given.

However, does this mean that we don’t do anything?  No, of course not.  This means that God is letting us know the ending from the beginning.  This means that whatever God has told you to do, He has promised you success in doing it.  This is why we don’t give up because success has already been given.  It would be unjust for God to tell us to do something knowing that we might fail.  Imagine Jesus saying “lay hands on the sick and they might recover and they might not.”  Do you think the disciples  would have wanted to lay hands on the sick if they knew there was a possibility of the sick not recovering? Would you?   No, Jesus said “…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they SHALL recover” (Mark 16:18).  God tells us to do a thing, gives us the ability to do it and guarantees our success in doing it.

After Moses’s death Joshua was afraid and he lacked the courage he needed to lead the people of Israel over into their promise land.  However, God reassured Joshua by saying “there shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good courage for unto this people shalt thou divde for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them” (Joshua 1:5-6).  God told Joshua what to do, gave him the ability to do it and guaranteed his success.

The world works to get success, we work because we’ve been given success.   Even when it looks like you’re not succeeding, maybe a door has closed, or maybe you were going in a direction and you’ve had to change course and start in a another, God is with you.  He told Joshua “…for the lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest” (Joshua 1:9).  Because  He has guaranteed you success He is leading and guiding you into that success.

God gave us success when He gave us Jesus for without Him we can do nothing (John 15:5).

The Face Of Glory

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2 Corinthians 4:6
“For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Genesis 1:2 describes the state of the earth before God said “let there be light.” The earth was dark, without form and void. But when God said “let there be light” things changed. The earth began to prosper and bring forth because the light had come.

Jesus said in John 8:12, “…I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Jesus Christ is the light of life. He is the light that causes us to prosper in life, we only need to look upon him.

When Moses went up to Mt. Sinai for the second time to receive the law, the bible says in Exodus 34:29, “…that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.” The glory of God was on the face of Moses. But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses they were afraid to come close to Moses. Moses put a veil on his face so that the people could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished (2 Cor. 3:13). The veil on Moses face separated the people from the glory of God just as it did in the tabernacle. The veil separated the people from the holies of holies where the shekinah glory of God presided, where the light of God presided.

When Jesus died on the cross the veil was torn from top to bottom and the glory that was behind the veil was placed on the face of him who came and died and rose again and released to us the covenant of grace. And as the candIestick in the holy place of the tabernacle gave light to the shewbread, altar of incense and the holies of holies, when we look at Jesus Christ, the Holyspirit gives us revelation into the knowledge of the glory of God. His glory that gives us life, sustains us keeps us and causes us to prosper.

This is why Paul could say “we are troubled on every side yet not in distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair” (2 Cor. 4:8); because every time we are faced with trouble as we are beholding Jesus Christ and the finish work of Calvary the light of the shekinah glory of God shines into our life and we prosper.

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body” (2 Cor. 4:10).