LESSON
35
The Poverty Mentality
We are moving into a
season of the commanded blessing of God.
The time has come for God to establish His people publicly before the
world; to show them that we are His anointed, His chosen and His blessed. God's commanded blessing that is coming to us will be an
overwhelming manifestation of supernatural blessing in every area of our
life. The world will take notice of us
and ask what it is that we have.
We have listened too
long to a doctrine of poverty and weakness that says, "If I can just make
it through, it's enough." We don't
need personal blessing to hoard to ourselves.
We need them so the world will know that our God is who He claims to be.
Psa. 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
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Isa. 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.
As the world begins to
see the church really blessed, not just a little blessed, they will see that
God is who He claims to be. The church
will be a living testimony of the promises of God.
Psa. 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, [and as
the dew] that descended upon the mountains of
God commands and it
comes to pass. God wants us to operate
in that same way. Why does it work when
God speaks?
Gen. 1:3 And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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When God opened His
mouth and spoke, there was nothing that stood in the way of the force of His
words. When God commanded, it had to
come to pass.
Isa. 14:12-15 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought
down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Even the devil and 1/3
of His angels couldn't change the Word of God when He cast them out of
heaven. There is no devil, demonic power
or human force that can stand in the way of the commands of God.
A biblical study of the
law of first mention states that where a truth or principle appears the very
first time in scripture, it sets the stream of how that principle is to be
interpreted throughout the Bible. It
holds a precedence.
In the Bible, order is extremely important. For example, the correct order is the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit; not Holy Spirit, Son and Father.
The first place where
the word "bless" appears is in Genesis 1. This will give us an understanding of the
purpose for God's blessing on our lives.
Most of us have some
concept or opinion of what the commanded blessing of God is. We often speak of being blessed in a church
service where we have felt the presence of God.
We also use it as a point of confession when we are going through trying
times. This is not the commanded
blessing.
Gen. 1:22 And God blessed
them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl
multiply in the earth.
When the commanded
blessing comes upon your life, every area of your life becomes fruitful and
multiplies.
In the area of your
church, God's commanded blessing will cause fruitfulness in the members and the
church will multiply in members. In the
area of your job and finances, God's commanded blessing will cause
you to be fruitful in your work and your finances to multiply. When the commanded blessing comes upon your
family, your home life will become fruitful and multiply.
The true sign that you
are blessed is you are fruitful and you are multiplying.
Gen. 1:28 And
God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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When we become fruitful
and multiply, the church will begin to replenish all that the devil has tried
to destroy in the earth.
After we replenish the
earth, then we will subdue it. We then
have dominion, which means total control.
We will have dominion over the realm of the spirit.
When the commanded
blessing comes, we will be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue and have
dominion.
In Review:
1. What
is God’s commanded blessing that is coming to us?
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2. What
does the doctrine of poverty “say”?
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3. Can
anything stand in the way of the commands of God? ____________
Prove it scripturally.
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4. What
are the four commands that God gave Adam and Eve in Genesis 1:28? Explain each one.
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5. What
is God’s purpose for blessing us?
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