Understanding Financial Prosperity - Chapter 13

Chapter 13
Financial Integrity

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34

You still remember Job's story? A man that feared God and eschewed evil; a perfect man.
And this man was lifted by God, until he became the greatest man in all the east. What
was his qualification? He stood strong on the foundation of God:

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom... Proverbs 9:10

What is wisdom? "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them" (Matt.
7:24).

Now, if the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, then the fear of God is the foundation
that makes your acting on the Word of God to produce.Job's testimony shows us that you
don't have to be crooked to get to the topmost top.

Nothing corrupts more than money in today's world. People scheming to play out one
another. When the Bible said, "Fight the good fight of faith", it's talking about money. You
must fight financial corruption or you die in it!

The Bible says, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life" (1 Tim. 6:12). That
means money is wrestling against eternal life in your life.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 1
Timothy 6:6-7

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And verse 10-12 says:

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have
erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith,
love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

In other words, "I'm telling you, it's a fight! It's a battle!"

Financial corruption is a deadly attack from hell. Jesus once said to a man, "This is money,
this is heaven, choose one", and the man said, "I take money!" Or how else would you
explain that account in Mark 10:17-25?

Jesus told him, "Sell all you have and give to the poor and you will have eternal life". But
he said, "No, I don't want eternal life, I want 'eternal' money!" He signed for suicide
because of money.

Say with me, "Lord, keep me financially sane. Baptize me into your kind of integrity. Let
not money corrupt my destiny. Lord, help me to retain this eternal life all the days of my
life!"

There was a man called Jacob. This man sent his sons to Egypt to go and buy food.
Joseph, finding out that they were his brothers, put back their money in their bags. The
Bible tells us that Jacob sent back that money (Gen. 43:12).

Integrity guarantees plenty! All our covenant fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were
people of integrity. Who then do you look like, playing pranks on account of money?

There's nothing in money to warrant anybody dying and laying his life on the line for.
Many people need to be delivered from the bondage of financial corruption. Such people,
when they see money, their bodies begin to vibrate. Their nerves are no longer at rest.

You hide money from your wife, you hide money from your husband, for what?

Listen to me: you don't love money to get it; you love God to be blessed! Lovers of money

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get lost, but lovers of God get increasingly blessed! Tomorrow is fantastic. All you need to
do is live right today. If you live right today, you secure a future for yourself, and for
generations coming after you.

Don't sell off your destiny, no! It's too dangerous to your soul. If you remember Judas and
Gehazi, you won't do that! To buy something in your office and tender a forged receipt,
you're already under the chains of financial corruption! Why must you tie your destiny
down? You don't have to!

It takes financial integrity to enjoy financial plenty.

Practical Righteousness

And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and
purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness.

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of
old, and as in former years. Malachi 3:3-4

Why? Look at verse 6:

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Before He spoke about giving, He first of all talked about the refining of the saints. That's
talking about our need for righteousness before our seed can be pleasant and acceptable to
Him.

Practical righteousness is a principal requirement in the school of prosperity. Your "Yea"

Until your offering is acceptable to God, it holds no benefits for you. Do you know that
Jesus came and put a stamp on that? He said if you bring your offering to the altar, and
you remember that there's a problem between you and your brother back at home, don't
drop the offering. First go back home and sort things out, and then come drop your
offering; otherwise it's a waste (Matt. 5:23-24).

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My prayer is that you will practically deal with the things that won't let your offerings be
pleasant unto the Lord.

The Lord was speaking to me from 2 Chronicles 15. The Bible says there was no law and
no teaching priest. Everyone was doing what was right in his sight, so there was great
devastation upon all the inhabitants of the land.

When you're without law, you'll get into trouble. Nature is governed by laws. To be
lawless is to be lifeless. When the first man Adam was put in the garden, there was a law
to guard his destiny. When he broke that law, his destiny was destroyed (Gen. 3). Life
without law is deadly and chaotic, it is colourless. Let's enjoy the laws of God.

Things don't just work anyhow. There is divine order in our relationship with God. When
that order is embraced, your life becomes colourful. Christianity is not lawless living.
Somebody may say, "We're no longer under the law." No, we're not! But we're free from
one law, to get under the other:

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
death. Romans 8:1-2

One law sets you free from another. Nature abhors vacuum. To be lawless is to be lifeless.
Watch every schemer, he keeps losing weight, while the righteous keeps flourishing.

What God has for you, no smartness of yours can get it for you. So, yield your life to Him,
for you never get stranded with righteousness. "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the
darkness..." (Psalm 112:4) There's no embarrassment for the righteous in the kingdom.
There's always a way of escape. There's always a future for the righteous. When you
respond to His righteousness, God responds to you by filling your treasures (Prov. 8:18-
21).

Who will inherit substance? The people who follow the way of righteousness and the
paths of judgement. Who will God fill up his treasures? The man who is filled with the
righteousness of God.

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Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6

Now, in the name of Jesus, I command everything that is set on your way to corrupt your
destiny to drop off you right now. Be free from that chain of bondage, in the name of
Jesus. I would like you to consciously plead the blood of Jesus, for your total freedom and
deliverance from every form of financial corruption.

The God that lifted Joseph in the land of captivity, on the ticket of integrity, will lift you
too! The God that lifted Daniel in the land of bondage on the grounds of purity, will lift
you! The God that lifted Job in the midst of sin, on the grounds of integrity and purity, will
lift you!

Integrity shall preserve you! Righteousness shall exalt you! Purity shall deliver plenty into
your hands, in the precious name of Jesus!

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