Gospel of Wealth – Chapter Nine

Of the Spirit Reap

God has a definite plan for you. He also has a definite way for you to do that plan. He has provided a way for you to have as much life/wealth as you could ever need or desire. He isn’t reliant on some hit or miss scheme. It won’t come the way you think. It’s above what you think. It’s beyond what you know. Man’s ways aren’t God’s.

Most people walk around not knowing what to do. They end up doing nothing. When seeking your answers don’t look to your circumstances. Never form opinions based on what things look like. What seems to be rarely is.

NO DEPENDENCE ON THE NATURAL – NO CONFIDENCE.
God’s ways are higher than man’s ways. His works are beyond man’s reason. He is not dependent on situations or circumstances. By not being dependent on circumstances His wealth is potentially available to anyone, anytime, anywhere on earth. If God worked according to circumstances He couldn’t be the same to everyone everywhere. He would have to change this nature according to the situation.

You might think it would be easier for God to prosper a banker in London than a beggar in a remote village in Asia. That is not so. It may be easier for a man to make things happen in the more favorable circumstances but God works on a different set of laws. It is not your talents, your looks, or your money that makes any difference with God. It is your relationship with Him.

China or Africa, New York or Paris, intelligent man or low I.Q., oil rich nation or oil poor, cotton producing or wheat lacking, drought stricken or lush rainforest; God does not change. Circumstances have no effect upon God and lack doesn’t affect his ability to do things.

God has the habit of removing all favorable circumstances in order to prove that He is the one at work. By doing this, He retains all the credit for producing the desired result and you learn your lesson -– to trust in the living God and not uncertain riches that largely disappoint.

From the beginning God has dealt with the physical creation from his position in the spirit realm. God is a spirit and He operates in the spirit. He lives in the world of spiritual things. He walks in the spirit, He talks in the spirit. Everything He does or has to do with is accomplished through spiritual means for He is a spiritual being.

God never touches anything in the natural/physical realm. His effects can without question be seen and experienced there but He never did anything there. God does His work in the spirit world and what happens in the natural is a direct result of that spiritual effort. This is why when you come to God with a problem His first response is… pray. Prayer puts spiritual forces to work. It’s His kingdom that rules over all.

God is not dependent upon the natural, neither should you be. Stop looking in that direction for your answer it’s not where it comes from. God isn’t overly concerned with the relatively insignificant things going on in the natural world. You are. His main concern is the spiritual forces that affect everything. Physical occurrences are a direct result of a more significant and powerful spiritual action.

First spirit, then natural. Get that straight. Jesus said seek the Kingdom first and then all other things will be added unto you. That is the process. Put spirit first and the natural must follow. It has no choice.

God operates supernaturally. He functions on a higher and better plain. He then says to us, "Come up to this better way and forsake that old, worn-out low way." Stop looking in that direction for your answer, it’s not where it comes from. Stop looking to your phone, the paper, the people you know, or your mailbox.

He that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life. You shall, of the spirit, reap. You from the spirit reap not from the natural reap. It is a spiritual manifestation that you are looking for – a spiritual result of a spiritual sowing. Keep spirit first. You are going to reap from the spirit.

SOW TO THE SPIRIT AND FROM THE SPIRIT REAP
Don’t look to the natural. The natural is neutral. The natural has no power of its own – other than the power to corrupt or distract. Paul said, "I never frustrate the grace of God." What would frustrate the grace of God? Adding your own two cents. Remember that grace is free.

Never be influenced by the natural. Don’t let it corrupt you. Good or bad, negative or positive, never take into account physical manifestations. Natural circumstances are neutral to you for you are operating in a higher realm. You effect them, not them you.

Don’t look for God in the natural, that’s not where He lives. He is a Spirit. He never promised to come down into the natural realm and create a solution to your problem. His solutions call for you to come to them and they are spirit and life. His answers are spiritual and His solutions are life to you in every situation. Every action God takes is spiritual and those actions have an effect on your natural circumstances, always.

True wealth comes not by human might and not by human power but only by the work of the Holy Spirit. Once you learn this most valuable lesson you will stop judging people, circumstances, or anything else from a purely natural point of view. Nor, will you keep relying on those weak things for your sources of success. All things become spiritually significant. Spiritual accomplishments become a valuable commodity. This is the spiritual imperative: God moving in your life.

Welcome to a different world. A world where everything is opposite from what you were used to.
This world operates on different laws and powers – the powers of the world to come. A world that you can’t understand with your mind because the mind is mental and the spirit is spiritual. Trying to understand the spirit realm with your mind is like trying to see with your ear or hear with your nose. It just doesn’t work.

You never will mentally figure out how God is going to do everything or get natural provisions to you. These things are spiritually understood, estimated, and appreciated. You must, in fact, be out of your mind.

Put down the mind. Casting down imaginations, reasonings, and every high thing that exhalts itself against the knowledge of God. Your mind can not be the master. The carnal mind is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be. The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.

Can you mentally explain how Aaron’s rod budded, how Jesus multiplied the loaves and fish, or how Joseph knew of a famine seven years before it occurred? No, you can’t! You must have an understanding of the spiritual tools that caused supernatural prosperity or an understanding that these men lived in a world other than the one you could see with your eyes – a life in the Spirit.

SPIRIT LIFE
The supernatural is effortless to the spirit man. You were born for this. You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. This is the way that you are like God. Your body contacts and understands the physical world, your mind understands and lives in the mental world, and your spirit understands, contacts and lives in the spirit world.

Most people if they are not fleshly dominated are intellectually ruled. You must control your mind and body through the real you – your spirit. When you operate in any level of the spirit world your mind isn’t in control any more, your spirit is. This is why praying in tongues is SO important. It is the gateway to the supernatural.

Jesus didn’t walk on water without preparation. He spent most of that night in prayer. Through communication with God he found the place in the spirit where walking on water was possible. Give yourself over to this kind of praying and you will begin to spiritually understand how supernatural things work.

It’s on you knees where your true life with God in His world will begin. By spending time alone with God, learning how to get in His presence and stay there, learning how to flow and move with His Holy Spirit, learning how to hook up with The Teacher and go on.

It won’t be easy. Everything in the world and most of your relatives will try to keep you out of that place in the Spirit. Some will even violently oppose you. Don’t be surprised. Religious people may even hold secret meetings trying to figure out how to correct you. Then they’ll have meetings with you to try to bring you back under their control.

Most people never get into what God has for them. They stop right at the door. As soon as they decide to pray for an hour, their flesh starts a rebellion shouting, "I’m hungry!" Then their mind erupts with every kind of distraction it can think of, from the lawn needs mowing to the house is on fire. Your house is rarely on fire and the lawn can wait!

People have been trained since childhood to obey the impulses of their mind and body. Most people are not willing to pay the price that it takes to get their mind and flesh quiet. People don’t like to change. It’s uncomfortable. But, the bible calls us to change from glory to glory. Not changing means we don’t move on to the next level of God’s wealth. Are you one of those who will pay that price?

EVERYTHING YOU NEED YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THE SPIRIT
There is a way, but it’s not of this world.
You may say, "I can’t see it." That’s right, you can’t.
It’s not a natural way. It’s hidden.
It’s supernatural.
It can be seen with the eye of faith
It can be felt with the hands of your spirit, but
It will never be known
nor will the way ever be traveled
without the one main ingredient that brings it all together,
that thing called prayer.
Praying in the spirit is like putting words on a palette and continuing therein will paint the picture so clear. The problem, it seems, is a lack continuance and the dreams for remain vague year after year.
Stop yielding you lips as instruments of carnality and begin yielding them to Me as your Teacher and Guide. I will take you to places that you’ve yet only dreamed of and make you a stone in My royal diadem. Prophesy, August, 1995

Take time away from other legitimate tasks and spend it in prayer communicating with God. Paint that picture, paint, paint, paint... Make the picture ever clearer and come alive through praying in tongues. No one ever became a renowned artist overnight and if you are to learn to articulate in the spirit – exactly the plan of God – there must be a price paid up front.

The sacrifice is time away from the world of things that seems to be so important. They aren’t nearly as vital as speaking those syllables that will frame your future. The way of your future will be paved with your tongue – a yielded member.

If you’ll allow the Holy Ghost to speak through you on a regular basis, He will recreate your world into what it should be. He created it in the beginning and now He will recreate it once more using the same material, words.

There is a place for you in the spirit where you can live and move and have being. A place from which all you’re needs wants and desires will be met. There is a place in the spirit where nothing’s impossible. The same place in the spirit where Jesus walked on water, that place where He calmed the sea. The same place where He multiplied food, paid taxes, healed the sick, and walked through the persecuting crowd unscathed.

A place in the spirit? Most people don’t even know there is a spirit world, let alone a place in that world where they can see things and know things. There is a place in the world of the spirit where you walk with God in the cool of the day and His angels minister to you. There is a place in the world of the spirit where things can’t harm you, sickness can’t touch you, and poverty can’t find you. It’s called the secret place.

You enter this secret place through worship and prayer. Praying as the Spirit gives utterance. Praying for hours in other tongues. Hours? Yes, hours. Pressing into realms and places that have been shut up for years. Pressing back into those things that the first Adam lost in the fall. Pressing past the place the flesh wants to go. Pressing past your minds questions into the place of true knowing. Pressing into the realm of God where his wealth becomes your all in all.

It’s one thing to say God knows you. It’s another thing to say I know God. You must walk with God as a friend. Have a living vital relationship. Be so intertwined with Him that you wouldn’t even think of doing something that would break you connection or offend His Holy Spirit.

Your connection with God is your prosperity. Instantly obey the smallest prompting of the Spirit.
Learn day by day, hour by hour, what pleases Him and causes Him joy. Make the time to sit in His presence and say: "I worship you Father. I worship you Jesus. I worship you Holy Ghost." This alone will launch you further in your pursuit of God than any other thing.

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