Walking in Truth
If I told you about heaven, I
couldn't give you any firsthand information because I haven't been there. But
when I teach on prosperity, that is something I have experienced from minus zero
to abundance. Kenneth and I have been walking by the laws of abundance for 33
years.
We weren't exactly walking in
prosperity when we married. I wore a $2 veil with the white cotton dress my
mother made for the wedding. Ken's friend married us at his home. His wife
baked a cake. We even borrowed $100 for our honeymoon. We had no money and no
wisdom. You would be hard pressed to find a couple that was more pitifully
ignorant than we were at that time.
But then something happened that
totally changed our lives. We began to hear the truth of the Word of God. First
we got born again. We were changed inside, but outwardly you couldn't tell much
difference in us. Once we were filled with the Holy Spirit, there was some
outward change, but not a lot because we were still ignorant of the Word. The
real changes in our outer lives came when we started walking on the Word and
letting the wisdom of God become our way of life. Everything began to change!
We found that the first step to
increase is walking in truth. That means walking in the light of God's
Word, according to His ways, His wisdom, what He says is right. You can't do
that and not be blessed. Jesus said, "If ye continue in my word, then are
ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free" (John 8:31-32).
I'm not just talking about reading
scriptures about prosperity. You prosper when you walk in all the words God
says to you. That's the wisdom of God.
Walking in truth is living a godly
lifestyle—living in obedience to what God says is right. The blessings God
outlined in Deuteronomy 28:1-14 manifest as a result of obedience. "And it shall come
to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God,
to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that
the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all
these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee…" (verses 1-2).
God has always blessed an obedient
people. Isaiah 1:19 says, "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land." God can do something with a person who has a willing
heart. In fact Psalms 25:12-13 in The Living Bible promises that when you fear the
Lord, "God will teach [you] how to choose the best. [You] shall live
within God's circle of blessing…."
One of the first things God taught
us was to stay out of debt—and we obeyed Him! That was a tall order to us in
those days. We started where we were and that meant believing God to pay the
overdue bills. But increase came as we were willing and obedient to walk in the
truth of the Word.
And increase can come to you also.
God desires for you to live within His circle of blessing. It is His will for
you to increase. [Continue at true properity (3)]
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