Thursday, 8 July 2010

Wealth Is Not Tangible - Season Finale

The things that we have learnt so far seem to point to the fact that most of the people we have always thought as wealthy probably don't even come close. Knowing what we know now, I will refer again to Hosea 4:6 “My people are DESTROYED for LACK of KNOWLEDGE, .......” Now that we know that we are immensely wealthy beyond measure, and we even know how to unlock this wealth, it is important for you to understand that you don't go from evidently poor to wealthy in one day. It takes time but more so it takes character.

Let me share this amazing truth with you now. You are a product of your thoughts and not your environment, as we have been so wrongly told all this time (Prov 23:7). Whatever dominates your thoughts is what you will become. You are the only person who is responsible for your character. Words lead to thoughts, thoughts lead to emotions, emotions lead to actions, if you act a certain way repeatedly that becomes your character because actions lead to character, character then leads to destiny. This means that if you speak encouragingly and positively unto other people (Prov 18:21), then you will have life giving thoughts or positive thoughts. By the way this is where giving also begins from. And it will lead to positive emotions which will lead to positive actions, leading to a positive character, which will inevitably lead to a positive destiny.

You cannot go to a place physically where you haven't been in your mind. If you see yourself as poor then that is who you are going to be. In order to see a physical manifestation of your wealth, you have to start thinking like a wealthy person so that you can develop the character of a wealthy person and then when your wealth manifests it won't kill you or mark the beginning of your end. If you have not developed the character to manage 1 million Uganda Shillings, then you are in no position to possess 1 million US dollars. And so if you feel like you are struggling with poverty allow me to say that it is an act of mercy towards you otherwise the wealth you want to have could kill you.

Question is how can you think like a wealthy person when everything around you points to the fact or is always reminding you of how poor you are? Simple! You do this by faith (Heb 11:6). Your wealth is in a place that you cannot perceive with your 5 senses. So just like God, whom none of us has seen because he is spirit, you have to believe that your wealth is indeed there (Gal 3:7-8). Please note that Faith is not believing something so that it can become true (Heb 11:1-3). Therefore giving, even when you are in need yourself, is an act of faith (James 2:14). Let us take Joseph as an example, he got his first dreams about becoming a very important person when he was 17 years old (Gen 37:2). He saw his first indicator that this was indeed going to happen when he was 30 years old when Pharaoh made him his second in command (Gen 41:40,46). But his brothers bowed to him, like the dream had indicated when he was 37 years old (Gen 42:6). that is a total of 20 years. Do you know that at age 30, Joseph could have enforced his dream? All he had to do was grab a number of chariots and Egyptian soldiers, ride down to Israel and force his brothers to bow before him. But he had developed character to handle the success he was now positioned to enjoy because he knew his source, God who always fulfils his promises. The character that can handle the kind of wealth that is greater than anything the world has seen is that of an individual who won't do something wrong even if he can get away with it (Gen 39:9).

Remember the Bible says that if you can be trusted in the little things then you can be trusted in the greater things as well and if you can't be trusted in the little things then you can't be trusted in the greater things also (Luke 16:11). So you hold the key to your wealth and nobody but you is responsible for unlocking it. Let me tell you that this really works and I am living a very prosperous life since this was revealed to me because I have put it into practice. As a matter of fact I always feel happy, peaceful and like I have been fed every time I give. It has become a part of who I am that I don't have to set targets about how many people to bless in a given period of time because there is no shortage of people to give to in this life (Matt 9:37).

If these lessons have blessed you like they have blessed me then think about them and let us bring heaven down earth because it is the will of our Father (Matt 6:10).

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