LAYING FOUNDATION FOR PROSPERITY

life-changingLAYING FOUNDATION FOR PROSPERITY

To every building no matter how significant it is, there is a foundation for it. The foundation is the beginning of it. The quality of the concrete, the pillar erected for it and the shape or structural design determines the strength of the building. This illustration is relevantly applicable to a person aspiring to prosper in life. To anything that we are going to become tomorrow, there is a foundation for it which serves as the beginning. In this New Year it is coming to us as an opportunity to make a solid foundation if we must prosper. Whatever foundation we lay at the beginning it is going to affect our aspired prosperity down this year 2007. The Bible says, “If the foundation is destroyed what can the righteous do”. The question now is how do we lay a good foundation? As a believer, it is important for us to know that all our hope is built on that solid rock which is Jesus Christ. This is the true foundation that can ensure our unimaginable prosperity.

Now there is every need for us to lunch into this year with full preparedness. We can see this from the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. He went into full force fasting and prayer for forty days and nights before He began His most successful mission on earth. Our own may not be in form of fasting and prayer but we should allow our hope to be built only on the word of God which is His perfect will. By doing this we are lunching profitable into the New Year towards our prosperity.

Look at what Psalm 1:1-3 said, verse 1 and 2 of it talks about walking, standing and sitting which are the most common three things we do in life. The verses restrict us not to walk, stand, and sit in the congregation of sinners. In verse 3 we were told what we should do. That we should dwell only on the word of God in order to be blessed. The prosperity and riches we need in this year are hidden in the word of God. The only way to prosper more than last year is to move closer to God’s will and to put our total trust in Him.

In addition to this, there is a need for us to WORK if we must prosper in this year. The bible says faith without work is dead. That God is going to help us does not mean we should not work. Look at what happened to Moses in Exo 17:9-13. It was a story about how Israelite escaped defeat and destruction through Moses who suffered painfully in order to ensure their total victory. Now before this time God told Moses that they are going to win the battle. He only instructed him to raise his rod up. As long as he raise up the Israelite prevails and as soon as the rod is down the Amelek prevails (verse 11) The message here is despite the promise of God on us, we till need to work our ways towards the prosperity He has ensured us. If we read that verse 12 very well we shall discover that Moses prevail because he worked, because he endured the pains of raising the rod up till the end of the battle. Your own rod is in your hand today, raise it up and never let it down till your prosperity in this New Year will be ascertained.