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Biblical
Prosperity in Perspective 29
Enlarging Your
Prosperity Vision, Part One
by Pastor John Hamel
We have certainly covered a lot of ground
concerning God’s will for your personal prosperity in these enlightening
web studies. We have come to our final two lessons in the study of
this fascinating and unnecessarily controversial subject.
This would be a good place to review what
we have studied to date. I will list for you here just the titles of
each lesson: Basic Elements of Biblical Prosperity 1 & 2. A Supernatural Transfer of Wealth.
Understanding Why Money Comes 1 & 2. Starting the Prosperity Process 1 & 2. Developing the Capacity to Prosper
1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. This Isn’t Just About You, Honey! God Destines No One to Poverty. The
Ministry of Angels & Prosperity. The
Importance of Maintaining a Good Report 1 & 2. Divine Connections and Prosperity 1 & 2.
Tithing Under the Old
Covenant. Tithing Under the New
Covenant. Why I Obediently,
Cheerfully & Expectantly Pay Tithes. Offerings, the Supernatural
Power of Percentages 1 & 2. Unleashing Expectation for Prosperity. The 3 Tenses of Faith for Biblical
Prosperity. The Believer’s Heavenly Bank Account.
Withdrawing from the Believer’s Heavenly
Bank Account.
In our final two lessons we will look at
the importance of Enlarging Your Prosperity Vision.
I trust the Holy
Spirit is presently using all of this revelation to enlarge your personal
vision for Biblical prosperity.
Praying for Biblical prosperity and
releasing faith for Biblical prosperity are not a matter of trying to talk
God into something He doesn’t want to do.
Praying and believing God
for Biblical prosperity is simply a matter of coming into agreement with what God has already provided. It is simply a matter
of giving God access to your life and allowing Him to prosper you.
We
have seen beyond all doubt that God wants to prosper all of His children
and we have seen why. God wants to prosper His children to equip them
to seek and save the lost, to destroy the works of Satan in the Earth and
to give them personal abundance that will draw other people to Him.
Almighty God, our Father, desires for His
children to increase their vision for Biblical prosperity. Biblical
prosperity simply is not going to happen on the outside until God’s
children get a big vision of it on the inside.
This is what I have
attempted to help you to do in this series. I have endeavored to increase
your vision for Biblical prosperity on the inside. I have endeavored
to help you to get your eyes off of yourself and your own needs. I
have endeavored to get your eyes on God and on His needs.
Almighty
God needs to love and to be loved. He eagerly yearns to increase His
family. He eagerly yearns to surround Himself with multiple billions
of moral free agents who came to Him as a conscious act of their own free
human wills.
Therefore, building His Family must be our primary focus
for obtaining Biblical prosperity.
This is why God sent Jesus
into the Earth. This is why Jesus sends His Disciples out into the
world as Fishers of Men and as Ambassadors for Him. (Matthew 4:19; Mark 16:15-20; 2Corinthians 5:20) God wants a family. Families
are an expensive proposition.
However, God’s finances are
unlimited. The only problem He has is when His children limit their
unlimited Father to the small channel of human reason. When God’s
children limit Him through religion, doubt, unbelief, fear, pride and
ignorance, they block the spout where the wealth comes out.
When the
wealth spout ceases to flow, the lost have no place to go. There is
no way for them to know of the One Who loves them so. This is why it
is so important for God’s family to enlarge their prosperity vision.
Isaiah's
Vision of Coming Revival & the Wealth to Finance It
Isaiah had a great big vision of the world
revival that I believe is just before us. As a matter of fact, I
believe we are even now in the beginning stages of what Isaiah saw in his
spirit. We will look at Isaiah’s vision verse by verse in chapter 60
of the Book named for him.
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and
the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen
upon thee.” (Verses 1-2)
Isaiah said that there was coming a time
when gross darkness shall cover the Earth. I believe this is the time
we live in. The world’s cup of sin is full and slopping over.
Isaiah saw the Glory of the Lord coming upon the people of the world during the time of the fullness of their sin.
The word that Isaiah used for “Glory” is
actually “Goodness.” Isaiah saw the goodness of God come into the
Earth during this time of sin and darkness. Supernaturally provided
wealth used to turn men from darkness to light is a manifestation of God’s
goodness.
We will see in a moment that Isaiah did indeed see
tremendous wealth becoming available to God’s family in the Last Days for
the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,
and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine
eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come
to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at
thy side.” (Verses 3-4)
In Isaiah’s vision of the Last Days, he saw
Gentiles coming to the Light of Jesus by the millions, possibly the
billions. (A “Gentile” is anyone who is not a Hebrew. The majority of Hebrews
will come later.) I, too, saw this in a vision the Lord gave
me.
You may read of my vision by clicking on “Great
Spiritual Awakening Come to America & the World.” I saw what I believe Isaiah saw,
millions, potentially billions, of people being saved through the preaching
of Jesus Christ across this Nation and on a world scale. They came
from every direction. They came from great distances to hear of the forgiveness and the love of Jesus Christ.
“Then thou shalt
see, and flow together, and thine heart shall
fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted
unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.” (Verse 5)
This verse contains striking revelation of
what we have been studying throughout this series. Isaiah saw into
our day, when our understanding of God’s will to finance the preaching of
the Gospel on a massive scale would be enlarged. The word he used for
“enlarged” actually means, “to have one’s understanding broadened.”
Has your understanding been broadened in this series concerning God’s will to
prosper you so you can finance revival on a worldwide scale? Even as
my wife and I have gone over these lessons in order to share them with you,
our vision for Biblical prosperity has once again been supernaturally
enlarged.
The Bible says faith comes by
hearing and by observing. (Proverbs 4:20-22; Romans 10:17) The more I
preach and teach on Biblical prosperity, the more our vision for Biblical
prosperity is enlarged.
Isaiah also said “…the abundance of the sea
shall be converted unto thee.”
In the Bible, masses or great multitudes of
people are often referred to as a “sea.” We have all heard the
expression, “A sea of people.” This is where that expression comes
from. Isaiah saw so many people being converted to Christ in these
Last Days in which we live that it seemed to him to be a great sea.
I, too, saw this in my vision of this Last Day revival. I saw so many
people being saved, it was as if an ocean of people was covering the entire
Northeast quadrant of the United States, spilling over, spreading south and
west and moving on to the Nations of the world. It was as if the
floodgates were opened and a sea of human souls was pouring into God’s
Kingdom.
When Isaiah said “…the abundance of the sea
shall be converted…” he used an interesting word for “converted.”
That word actually means, “to be turned over.” Isaiah saw people
being released from the kingdom of darkness and “turned over” to the Kingdom of Light. (Colossians
1:12,13) When God’s Glory and God’s goodness moves in the midst of
His creation, Satan has no choice but to let them go or to “turn them over”
to their rightful Owner.
I, too, saw what Isaiah saw, in my
vision. It was as if Satan simply could not
hold them any longer and he turned them all over to Jesus by the
multiple millions.
Finally, Isaiah said, “…the forces of the
Gentiles shall come unto thee.”
What Isaiah said here fascinates me.
It has to do with what we have been studying in this series. The word
for “forces” is actually “wealth.” This is a reference to the massive
wealth that is presently in the world. Isaiah saw the lost people of
the world coming to Jesus in waves, bringing all of their wealth with them.
Even as they are coming now, they are willingly receiving the revelation of
the power of tithes and offerings that you have received in this series of
web studies. This massive wealth will continue to increase and be
used to reach even more individuals for Christ. This tremendous
harvest of wealth will bring in an even greater harvest of souls.
Even as the Lord said to me in my February 2004 vision, “From the reaping
will come the reapers.” Millions will be
saved and will themselves become Ambassadors for Christ and Fishers of
Men. Glory! It is happening.
The wicked who are
turning to Christ and becoming righteous are
bringing their wealth with them. This is just one reason why the
Bible says the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. (Proverbs
13:22)
However, this will not happen fully until
God’s family begins to enlarge their prosperity vision. This is why
the Holy Spirit moved on me to prepare this series. I am just one of
many whom He has assigned to help His family to enlarge their prosperity
vision. It is time to get your eyes off of “me” and get your eyes on
the “sea.” It is time to focus on the sea of souls that is beginning
to pour into the Kingdom and the financing it is going to take to convert
and receive them.
Any professional fisherman will tell you, “Once you
go to the effort of catching them, it’s time to regroup and clean
them.” It is going to take billions of dollars, if not trillions of
dollars, to catch them and to clean them. It is going to take massive
financing to convert them according to the Covenant and to teach them about
the Covenant.
The wealth of the wicked is not the only
way God is going to finance this present Last Day harvest of souls.
God has also begun the process of taking wealth away from some Christian
people who are presently misusing it. He gave it to them for the
evangelization of the world and many of them have been using it to live a
high-dollar lifestyle that is focused on “me” and not on the “sea.”
Sure, they put up a good façade to keep the money coming in, but they no
longer care about seeking and saving the lost. They no longer care
about destroying the works of Satan in the Earth. All they care about
is living the “good life” and lavishly spending God’s evangelization
financing on “me.” Like the Prodigal, they are thinking covetous and
not Covenant.
However, Almighty God sees right through it all and it
is all about to change. It even is changing now. God is taking
His money back, supernaturally, and giving it to those who will use it for
the evangelization and deliverance of the world.
This is perfectly
illustrated and foretold in the Parable of the Talents found in Matthew
25:14-30.
In part two of
this lesson, we will see the importance of praying for God to enlarge our
prosperity vision.
Be blessed … John and Barbara Hamel
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