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I'm glad to join you and I want to pop in on your home, your business, or wherever you're watching at your church and just want to come in with a real quick word. The Lord has been speaking to me about finances. And how many of you out here are struggling with finances? Come on. I know it's tough, but let's see some hands. Holly, I believe we all struggle with finances, cuz look at the stuff going on in the world. Our health insurance, the gas keeps going up, the food keeps going up. I can just go on and on. Things just keep going up and up, and we seem to have less and less. But I'm going to show you how God will multiply that. Praise God.
As you know, you're watching the Marketplace Network and you are here watching Ministering God's Word, and I will be your guide, Apostle Jason. As always, I appreciate your valuable time and of course, I don't want to waste your time. So I want to give you this quick thought, and if it will stay with you for the next few minutes. We get into this thought here, and it's about steps to prosperity. In steps to prosperity, God is willing to prosper you. He gives you wisdom and knowledge and understanding. Well, how do you know that? Because the word says so. Check this out. The book of Proverbs, chapter 2, verse 6: "For the Lord giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding." So he gives you that wisdom, the knowledge, and understanding. Wisdom is so that you can be more educated and smarter how to do things. And the knowledge, this resources that you can have in this knowledge to know what God's going to do. And understanding so you can really break it down and really understand it.
Seek God's wisdom like silver and gold. Oh, isn't the things that we're prospering in if we're in investments is silver and gold? That those things are supposed to prosper as long as it goes up and keeps going up? I mean, but I'm talking about spiritually, the silver and gold that cannot be burned up. It is so powerful metal that it has the quality, of course, more than brother, you know, stubble and hay and wood, all that burns up. But it takes a lot to burn up silver and gold. It's very precious and it takes a lot.
So, we go to the book of Psalms, chapter 21, verses 1-5, and you'll see, uh, what a desire is about in your steps to prosperity. In Psalms 21:1-5 says this: "Give ear to my words, O Lord." So we want to have a hear to what the Lord is saying. Remember understanding. Okay. Chapter 21:1-5 says, "The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation. How greatly shall he rejoice." Hallelujah. Rejoice. For he has made you glad. "Thou hast given him his heart's desire." Yes, he gives us our heart's desire, what he has placed in us. So our heart's desire becomes his heart's desire. And that is not we're wishing for a snake or or a stone, but we wish for bread, maybe finances, maybe a wife, maybe a husband, maybe a child, whatever it is, a car, a house, a ministry, whatever it is that God has birthed in you, that's desires coming together. And so King of Kings desire for you. And then also we go forward into this. "Thou hast given him his heart's desire. Hast not withholden the request of his lips." So we can request of the Lord. A lot of times we don't get anything because we don't ask. We have to ask. But we ain't going to get anything. "You have not, because you ask not." The Bible says in the New Testament. So start asking. Ask in his love. Ask in the authority. You know that the Lord is who he is, that he's Jehovah Jireh, your provider. Praise God. "For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold upon his head. He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever. His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him." Give him all the glory. When God has blessed you, make sure you give him all the glory. Don't give it to your job. Don't give it to the person that blessed you. You can honor those that blessed you, whatever. You know, honor those that have labored, you know, for the ministry and for what they're doing for the Lord. But what I'm saying is is that he wants to bless you because you glorify him. You give him the thanks. You don't forget God, what he did for you, that he will bless you.
So when you pray, you desire. You pray for that desire that God has birthed in you. Let's say I want a wife and I'm not married anymore. Whatever. I want a wife. Well, I got to do things. I got to clean myself up. I got to have a place prepared for her. I've got to be equally yoked so that we can work together in ministry or whatever the Lord's going to do in the marriage. But we pray for our desires. He might desire and want a child. Are you ready to have a child? You know, and you've got to look at all these things. I know some people, yeah, bless the Lord, I'm going to have a child because, you know, I'm in marriage and of course, I've given birth to for a child and now I have to trust God. But what I'm saying is when you're believing and you have it, pray for that desire, knowing that God will meet that desire and give him all the glory and thank him and keep doing it. And then I'm going to show you how to stand on it. You go to the New Testament, you pray, and you believe. So you pray and you believe, and believe means acting upon it. It's an action word. So that verb, you act on it.
Mark 11:24 says, "When you pray," praise God, as I'm turning there, I'm also getting ready to quote it, too. "You're going to believe that you receive it." That's it. In other words, take hold of it. Grab hold of it. Don't let it go. So Mark 11:24 says this from the very scripture: "Therefore I say unto you," this is Jesus speaking, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." See, what you desire, what you have need of, what you think that the Lord wants you to have in your life. It's not you're desiring, you know, something sinful. So, you're desiring something that God wants you to have. "When you pray, believe you receive them, and you shall have them." That's what I meant by grabbing hold of it. Take hold of it. Take it. Not like you're taking it by force in an evil way, but you're taking it by force because God says you can have hold of it if you'll grab a hold of it, not let it go. Don't let the promise of be taken away from you. When you pray, believe you receive it.
It also talks about when you pray and believe and receive that mountain that's in the way. That that bondage is in your way. That thing that's in the way that's blocking you from getting your blessing. Have it thrown into the sea. How? Have doubt thrown into the sea. Praise God. It talks when you don't doubt in your heart. That's why you got to believe and stand on the word of God. When you pray, believe you will receive it. So you don't doubt, you don't you don't complain. You just trust God because then you tie God up when you do that. You know, he can't move on on on complaining, bickering, hoping, wishing, and begging. He moves by your faith in him. And he will meet that need. He'll take that mountain. He'll cast it in the sea. Hallelujah. It will be removed. It will be out of the way. That bondage, that wall, whatever it is.
And so when we pray, we desire these things. We believe we receive them. And then we get into when God dwells in you. See, God dwells in you. Colossians 2:9 and 10. I'm going to read that as we go there in the New Testament. I want to talk about this dwelling in you. Like God dwells in me. I mean, literally, I am part of God. You're not God, but you're part of God. Hallelujah. And I'll get into that. Glory to God. 2:9-10 says this: "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily: And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power." See, he's the head. Hallelujah. And I'm just part of that, uh, attachment, praise God, of his spirit and his life. And that fullness can reside in me because Christ lives in me. So if Christ lives in me and the power of his resurrection power, all of the Godhead lives in me and it can be usable. It can be, uh, used for your purpose, uh, in God. Hallelujah. In people's lives. And so that purpose is there for you because all that God says he is, and you can do if what he says that we're allowed to do. Praise God. And that's to lay hands on the sick and they're going to recover. Cast out devils. They shall be cast out. Praise God. Speak with a new tongue and be filled with his spirit. Hallelujah. And have interpretation and have the gifts of healing. All these things we can covet and desire in the book of, uh, 1 Corinthians, I believe, chapter 14, verse 1. We can desire these things. And we have those things we can use. Maybe that ain't the thing that I'm niched in. I'm not the one that has the gift of healing, but I can use it. I can desire it, cuz it's needed. He wants the body of Christ to lay hands on the sick and recover. How are they going to get healed if you don't, you know, have the desire to do that? Or maybe you're better at gift of faith or discerning spirits, you know, discerning what's going on in a person and the the demons that are or pressure that's going on in a person's life, different things. And speaking faith, hallelujah. And things are turned around because when you speak in faith, it comes to pass as you speak it, and you see it come to pass.
So in his presence resides all of this. We can have all the fullness of God if we want if we will just give ourselves to him, as we give ourselves to him in our in our our reasonable service of life to him, reading his word, because in order to get a lot of that in us, we need to get the word in us. So get the word in you, and God will start filling up in you. Hallelujah. And let it come alive in you, and then come out of you as you speak life into people's lives. Hallelujah. And you watch God turn it around for them. Hallelujah. I'm talking about the full Godhead dwelling in you. His resurrection power can live in you if you'll let him. Hallelujah. It's not just being saved. It's more than that. He's given us so much more than just salvation. He's given us the authority to take on the enemy through Christ. Of course, that's why he's the head. That's why he's the authority. We just operate from his authority. Hallelujah. Praise God.
This path of life is forevermore. Psalm 16:11. I want to read that. So, in Psalm 16:11 talks about this path of life. Remember, we're dealing with finances, and we're talking about your path of life. Do I need to continue to live in poverty? I grew up in poverty. I was on food stamps. I had to go through so much. I had terrible jobs when I first grew up. But as I grew in the word, God blessed me and moved me, elevated me, put me in better positions, better places, better finances, promotions, raises on jobs, among other things. 16:11 says, "Thou wilt show me the path of life." See, he will show you the path of life. "In thy presence is fullness." There's fullness of blessing for you when you get into his presence because you're getting in tune with God. He's directing your steps. He's directing your path. "There is fullness of joy." Joy of the Lord is your strength, right? "And at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." Right hand is authority. Hallelujah. Authority to be blessed. Authority to take position what God has put you in for your job or whatever you're doing for the Lord. Hallelujah. It's that kind of authority that we have in that path of life, and it could be forevermore if you continue to walk in it. I know many people that walk in it. I can testify, my pastor walks in it. He's always walked blessed. Yes. And when he was younger, he went through a lot of struggles, and I'm sure we all go through struggles even when we're walking in his blessings. But we don't stay there in that. We get through it. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death," I'm walking through it. I'm getting through it. I'm not stopping there. Don't stop when you're going through hell. Get out of there and get the victory. Get to the other side and know there's a victory waiting for you. Hallelujah. Cuz the victory is on the other side.
Then we want to break the hold. Proverbs 21:5 talks about diligently but not giving up. Don't give up. Even when things seem tough, just stand on his word. I know you said, "I shall not be in it out of need, but you shall take care of me. You said if I seek your kingdom first that you would add all these things unto me," in 6:33 of the book of, uh, Matthew. We just keep standing on his word. "My God shall supply all my need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus our Lord." That's enough for you and for others around you. Praise God. That's the kind of riches he's talking about. Hallelujah. And you not only diligently not give up, but you pursue it. You pursue the word of God. You pursue your vision on what you want to be blessed with so that you can move forward. Whether you're moving into ministry, whether you're moving into higher place in your job, you pursue it. Well, maybe I need to go to school somewhere. I don't know. Whatever you need to do to pursue it. In other words, don't give up and continue to keep that vision and going forward, and you just keep keeping your eyes focused on God, and he'll take you in the right direction if you pursue him. He'll he'll guide you.
I'm talking about breaking the hold in your life. A lot of people think they're living under a curse, and maybe you are, and you need to be broken from the curse, cuz curse there hangs on a tree. Jesus was, you know, died for our curse. Praise God. He became the curse for us. He died on that cross. That's what the tree is talking about. But you do not have to be hanging on a cross. Hallelujah. He did it for you. So, he wants to bless you. He's for you, not against you. And that's why you got to be for him and not against him. And you watch what God's going to do. Praise God. Talk about breaking the hold. You're diligent, not giving up. You're pursuing. You're being willing and obedient. It talks about that in Isaiah 1:19. He was the visionary of Isaiah 1:19 says this: "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." You want to eat the good of the land. You want to have your vegetables. You want to be able to have your fruit. You want to be able to have your steak and eggs, your steak and shrimp and lobster. I'm talking about the good of the land. I'm talking about the good things of life that God has for us. You want to be have nice suits or whatever, you know, just the good of the land. He has it for you. The nice crops, the nice fields that are nice and green, the metals and all that stuff, and the brooks that run with, you know, rivers running through it and creeks and all that stuff and fresh water. I'm talking about the good of the land. Hallelujah. God has that for you. It's yours if you'll seek and you'll find it.
Right now, I'm looking for an apartment. And so, I'm seeking and I will find because I'm not going to give up, cuz I want to get out where I'm at. Praise God. It's time to move on and move up and move better. I'm moving on up just like the Jeffersons. Maybe not the penthouse, you know, but I'm just saying I'm moving up. So, I'm just praising God for that. And I haven't even gotten there yet, but I will. You watch. I thank the Lord for that, cuz I'm going to pursue. And God's going to open that door. So, when you pursue, he can open the door for you where no man can shut. Praise God. So, when he opens the door, walk through it, and you know it's him. Walk through it because you'll know that God has done this thing because he'll shut the door. He don't want you walking through it. And then understand the reason why you ain't walking through that door as much as you might want it. He knew why why you wanted that car or that wife or that husband or whatever. So know that God has it for you and seek him and find him. That's praying. That's communicating with God and looking and finding. In other words, putting all your faith on everything that depends on God, but you working it out. Hallelujah. You're working your faith. So, it's not dead. You are working it out, but putting your faith all in God as you work it out and you walk in this faith. Hallelujah. And watch God bless you in the days ahead. Those are some steps of prosperity in, uh, my life that I wanted to show you that God can do for you.
Now, here's another thought. Praise God. I've always promised I've got another key for my latest book title, and that's "The Spirit of God, the Healing One." And so, I promise another key for my latest book and dealing with, uh, prosperity and finances. This is what I came about in my book. Even though, uh, this one is about healing, but it can not only be spiritual healing or physical healing, but what about your finances? What your hands do, how you make it, your livelihood in life. And so, and and if you have my book, it's in chapter 30. Uh, it's in, uh, page 39, and it talks about encouragement everyday challenges. So if you or someone is facing financial difficulties or other challenging situation, remember the word of God is incredible. It is powerful. It's like a two-edged sword. It'll even cut to the very marrow of your bone. It'll cut right into the situation. Hebrews 4:12, and it's very powerful, quick, and alive. So teach people in their life, Aunt Sue, Grandma, Uncle Mo, or anyone who can encounter to have even a little faith. That's why I have was a little faith of a mustard seed. Just have faith in God. What example did Jesus give us when people only had a small measure of faith? He still called them, healed them, and restored them.
Colossians 1:13 talks about, "Who hath delivered us." That means he's set you free from the power of darkness and translated unto the kingdom of his dear son. You have been translated. You have been adopted into the heritage of the Lord. And when we consider who our dear son is, we recognize him as Jesus Christ, the anointed one, our savior, our redeemer. Praise God for his goodness, his mercy. He has brought deliverance to us through his divine anointing and through the abiding presence of his spirit. The key is that we don't need to pray for more faith, but only activate our faith when we have it. In other words, acting on the word of God, and that's how our faith will go into action. That's what it is. Faith is an action word. So, we put it into action. So, put your faith into action. "My God shall supply all my need according to his riches and glory." So, you know that he's going to supply because you're speaking it and you're trusting him, and you know that he will. And then you stand on it, and you stand on it until it happens, because it will happen. He's not going to leave you forsaken. He's not going to leave you begging and wishing for bread. He's going to take care of you. He promised that he is Jehovah Jireh, our provider. Praise God.
So that's what I want to share from the nugget from the my first book. And I felt the Lord is leading me to mention to go deeper, and I will give you another key to my book. Praise God. And I did that already. So, how many of you are struggling with the cost of insurance? Like I said before, insurance keeps going up. I keep paying more of my insurance through my job. It's the people that don't even have a job. They're retired. They're paying even more. They got their points, and it still ain't enough. And they're still struggling to have to pay for health insurance. That's what I'm talking about. Because we need our help. That's why we have to stand on the word of God. We can't just rely on doctors, cuz they'll take you for every penny you get if they if they could. And it's the system. It's not just the doctors. I'm just saying the system itself of health costs, health insurance. And they, you know, want to take, and God wants to bless. He wants to make you whole. So you don't have to be in sickness. It says, "By his stripes you were healed," in 1 Peter 2:24. So we stand on the word of God. I'm not saying if you aren't sick and you ain't getting a healing, don't go to the doctors. Don't use wisdom. But if you get healed, then you don't need to go to the doctors. God's taken care of you. You don't need surgery. Hallelujah. You maybe you might go to the doctor. Hey, first I want to get this done to prove that I don't have that no more. And then the testimony is, hey, the cancer's gone. It's not in you no more. We just did an MRI on your CAT scan, and it's gone. That's cuz my God healed me. That's my Jesus. Amen.
And so now the Bible talks about the, you know, uh, Philippians 4:19, that "Your God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory." Like I said, that's enough for you and enough for others. So, you need that. You don't need to be paying all this health insurance. You don't need to be paying all these, uh, uh, fees that you have to pay for referrals and and visits and stuff like that. It costs. And God don't want that. You don't want to be going in for a headache just so they can give you some pill when Jesus said, "I could touch your life and you to be made whole." And so, trust him first before you run to the doctors. Hallelujah. Cuz he's the great physician. Amen. He's the great physician. So, health is one of the needs. So, if you know God will supply and make what is in your life to heal you. And how do you do that? Our health on our health. How do you do that? I want you to stand on the word of God. As I've been mentioning, "By his stripes, I am healed." You know, he's took all my infirmities and sicknesses and healed them all. Praise God. He's healed all my diseases and all those things he has taken away from me and made me whole. Hallelujah.
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." So, we need our soul to prosper. We need our mind, our emotions, everything of our thought pattern to prosper. Put on the mind of Christ. Think about things of Christ. What's so lovely, what appear, holy, just, you know, things that are positive of the word of God. And then in the word of God, you confess with your mouth and call it, and it will manifest. It will come alive in your life. It will turn your situation around. You won't have to claim that no more. It'll be your victory instead of your defeat. Amen. I will explain in detail in that in my book as I bring out my next book, and that's you can see the QR code on it. It's going to be called "Healing Deliverance: Brokenness to Wholeness." It'll be out by Easter. You can get it for $10. Barnes & Noble, uh, Walmart, and, uh, the other one, praise God, is, uh, uh, of course, Amazon. Those are the most popular three. Or you could do the QR code that is on the screen along with my book, "Healing Brokenness." You can get it that way too. And so when you do that, it'll take you right to the site. It'll show you how to get right in to order the book. And so you can do that.
Let me pray for you. Praise God. As I want to pray for your financial situation, the Bible talks about a powerful scripture in Ezra 6:14 about want and not lack or need. Praise God. But you will prosper through the prophetic, praise God, prayer. And that's what I'm going to do right now. A prophetic prayer into your life. I'm going to speak into your life and believe God that he's going to turn your situation around. But you got to trust God. Praise God. You got to believe him. And I want to also challenge you, 30 days, just give it a chance and give to the Lord. $5, $10, whatever you want to give, whatever he puts upon your heart towards this ministry, Ministering God's Word, and watch God turn your situation around. You won't want to stop giving. Hallelujah. It's like when I was doing missions, I didn't want to stop giving because God was blessing what I was doing for the missions. I was taking care of some little girl that needed it, clothing, resources, food, and all that stuff in Brazil. And so that was a blessing when I did that. And so just keep on finding ways to do things for God. And this might be one of them. And God will turn your situation. He will bless you if you'll trust him. And keep your word on the word of God. Like it says in Philippians 4:19, "My God, your God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus our Lord." Ain't through me. I can't do nothing. It's through the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah Jireh, your provider.
So, if you'll do that, I'm going to pray. Father, right now, in the mighty name of Jesus, I speak increase into their lives. Lord God, maybe it's increase in a check they're waiting in the mail or something they don't even expect. Maybe it's, uh, someone that owes them money or someone that wants to bless them, someone that whatever blessing on two feet can walk in or a check, however it can come. Sometimes money just pops up on the floor and you pick it up. I've picked up $100 before, and I know he'll do it for you. But what I'm saying is that he wants to put increase in your life. If you'll put increase into God, in your finances, in your service for the Lord, he wants to know what you can put into him so he can put it into you, and he'll multiply it. He's the one that increases it. So I pray right now as you increase into their lives, Lord, that you will bless them spiritually, physically, and financially right now, Lord God, that they will see finances. They'll have a way to drive, fix their car, get it fixed, like our brother testified about his car. So Lord, I know you'll make a way where there seems to be no way. We'll call things as though they were, as though they were not, so that I'm not cursed. I'm blessed. I am, uh, uh, surviving financially because God has blessed me. He has taken care of me. So I pray that you'll take care of them that are reaching out in faith right now, Lord God. That you'll bless each person that gives today, Lord God, in their lives to you, Lord. We thank you and we praise you that you're going to turn things around for them because now they're giving unto you, Lord God. And who can outgive God? I believe that you'll bring increase into their life financially, Lord God. And let it be a blessing to them, Lord God. And let them give you all the glory in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God.
And just want to let you know Easter's coming up. Praise God. Remember, he is risen, and Jesus Christ is alive today. And know he's the Lord of your life. If you believe on him, walk with him, live for him. And this is Apostle Jason. This is Ministering God's Word. I'll see you again next time. Thank you. Hey. Hey.