Kingdom Prosperity We are children of promise. Every promise in God’s Word is available to you. God is a God of New Beginnings. He leaves a thing to begin another. Every day is a day of new beginnings. God gives us a new chance. Sunday is a holy day. If you miss Sunday you miss the corporate anointing and the word that God wants to speak into you. God wants you to understand some principles so that you can start walking in them. What God wants you to do for 2011…Get ready now for 2011 so when you get to January you will have a made up mind and your course is set. Anticipate the very blessings of God. 3 John 1:2-4 (NKJV) 1 The Elder, To the beloved Gaius,  whom I love in truth: 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I  rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater  joy than to hear that  my children walk in truth. 5 Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers, 6 who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well, 7 because they went forth for His name's sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles. Introduction: This letter epistle is written to Gaius the Elder By the apostle John. The basic theme of this letter to command and encourage Gaius on his leadership for his adherence to the truth and his hospitality to missionary send out by John. 3 John 1:9-11 (NKJV) 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. (High status importance owing to marked superiority) 10 Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church. 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. Prosperity teachers turn some people off but they also turn some people on. I had some bad experiences so I didn’t want to teach about money. I feel it has stunted my growth because who am I to decide what to teach and what not to teach. God wants his people to prosper. It is not only about material things and money. The world sees prosperity with material things and money but God’s see prosperity in many other ways. When you receive salvation to God you have just prospered. When you understand the things of God you have prospered. God wants you to prosper in every single area of your life, peace, joy, relationships… God is prospering you to glorify HIM. When you get blessed, somehow God has to get some glory. God desires for his people to prosper. When people hang around they will received favor. God told Abraham that I will bless those that bless you. You are in the world to be a blessing. Our job is to point others to Jesus. God giveth and he also takes away. Don’t fall in love with a specific thing because he just may take it away. God wants you to prosper First area of prosperity we need to deal with is money Is the misunderstanding of the kingdom prosperity There's a lot of damage has been done Money measures where you are, money tells where you are. Psalms 24:1-6 (NKJV) 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. (God says I own it all I even own what you think is yours) 2 For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters. 3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. Kingdom prosperity has to do with the soul. The soul gets corrected before the harvest comes. You can’t get your harvest until you get right with God. Your hands have to be dirty before you can clean it off. There is a harvest waiting for me. 5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. He is talking about the person that has washed and cleansed his hands. We are children of promise. God has blessed you. 6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah This is the content in which a power scripture is taken from This may be boring, but it’s important that you understand the context of the scripture The bible declares in all your getting get an understanding The devil cannot steal from you what you understand Psalms 35:27 (NKJV) 27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, "Let the Lord be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant." God gets pleasure when his children are blessed. The laws of God works for the unsaved as well as the saved. God wants you to be blessed! Deuteronomy 8:18 (NKJV) 18 And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 18 But remember the Lord your God is the one who makes you wealthy. He's confirming the promise which he swore to your ancestors. It's still in effect today. When God blesses you it is because of his covenant. He blesses us so that his kingdom will be blessed. God wants his people blessed. Malachi 3:7-12 (NKJV) 7 Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," Says the Lord of hosts. "But you said, 'In what way shall we return?' 8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the Lord of hosts; 12 "And all nations will call you blessed. Prosperity is when God fights your battle. They are not fighting you they will have to have a fight with God. God blesses us to further the Kingdom of God. He wants the tithes and offerings (the gift that is within you). It is not about what you can’t do it is about what you can do. You can’t be obedient to a can’t but you can be obedient to a can. You can’t have kingdom prosperity until God releases it. You can’t be a blessing until you are blessed. You have to decree “I’m blessed”.