PROPHETIC PROSPERITY

“Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe HIS PROPHETS, and you shall PROSPER” – 2 Chronicles 20:20b

PROPHETIC PROSPERITY is scriptural. Jehoshaphat reminded God’s people when they were faced with a seemingly impossible opposition: “Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS, and you shall PROSPER” (2Chr.20:20b). Walking and living in prosperity demands that we believe in it. Despite the growing stigmatisation, the message of prosperity is incontrovertibly Bible-based. What is important is that we avoid the excesses, exaggerations, misinterpretations, and misapplications by “spiritual merchants” disguised as Christian ministers.

Authentic, biblical, and real prosperity is beyond money; money is only a tool to get your needs met; and where money isn’t enough to get them, you can obtain them through faith. The Bible says, “…All things are yours” (1Cor.3:21). The believer’s purchasing power isn’t money, it’s your faith. You’re prosperous, irrespective of the value of the world’s currencies! If you’re a child of God, believe in prosperity and don’t be apologetic about it. Make a choice and decision to not be poor. Follow through with your decision by being a Doer of God’s Word concerning Prosperity. In Christ, you’ve been made rich (2Cor.8:9). So, you have no business talking lack and poverty. In addition to fulfilling the scriptural conditions and instructions for prosperity, your responsibility is to consistently confess abundance and prophesy prosperity (Jos.1:8).

Ezekiel found himself in a hopeless situation; a valley full of dry bones, and the Lord asked him, “Can these bones live?” His response was, “Lord, you alone can tell”! Then, God instructed: “Prophesy to these bones”; He needed Ezekiel’s cooperation. Interestingly, the first thing God said would happen to the bones following Ezekiel’s prophecy was that He would cause breath to enter into them. Ezekiel prophesied as he was commanded, but what God said would happen didn’t: “So I prophesied as I was commanded: and…when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them” (vv.7-8). There was no breath! He brought this to God’s attention and God said: “…Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy…” (v.9).

Now, Ezekiel was to prophesy to the wind, not the bones, and “…breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army” (v.10). This is profound and instructive. Sometimes, a word of prophecy comes to us, and we’re waiting for it to be fulfilled, and it doesn’t; so we think the prophecy was false. But we never asked the Lord what next to do as Ezekiel did. Let’s learn to ask the Holy Spirit the next step to take or the specific words to speak now. He’s our Instructor, to lead and guide us into all truth (Jh. 16:13). He will show us what to do, and tell us what to say. Ezekiel’s obedience to divine instructions produced a dramatic transformation of dry bones into an exceedingly great army (v.10).

To prophesy means to speak words of divine revelation and potency: words that possess and produce life. We can turn hopeless situations around and effect positive changes on earth through the creative power of God’s Word in our mouth. By the Power of the Prophetic, situations of dryness, poverty, and penury in and around our lives can be transformed into blossoming Gardens of Prosperity. The Lord revealed to Jeremiah how to control the destinies of nations by the Power of the Prophetic: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant” (Jer.1:9b-10).

Our Heavenly Father has set us over the nations and the kingdoms, to proclaim His goodness and declare His faithfulness to the ends of the earth, that His righteousness may be established. Prosperity is a vital Instrument in this End-time Move of God: “My cities shall again spread out through prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion, And will again choose Jerusalem” (Zech.1:17b). Believe the Lord, you’ll be established; believe His PROPHETIC Word, you’ll PROSPER!