Proverbs 10:4 KJV — He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Maketh. It’s a process and a promise.
If you’ll apply yourself with diligence, you will be made rich.
Wages vs Inheritance
Hebrews 11:8 KJV — By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Toiling leads to a wage based on your effort.
Resting leads to an inheritance based on God’s effort.
Which system do you want to operate in?
The smartest thing you can do is give up your wage in order to receive all of God as an inheritance.
Of course there’s a lion in the way
Proverbs 26:13 KJV — The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Of course there’s a lion in the way.
He’s out there trying to scare you away from what God has already given you. That lion is out to steal, kill and destroy what’s yours.
Go kill that lion and get your stuff.
Word before works
Proverbs 8:22 KJV — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
In the beginning was the Word (Wisdom), before any of the works of creation that followed.
Word before works.
That’s the order.
The weakness of considering
Romans 4:19 KJV — And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
Considering your flesh, in the process of receiving the promises of God, weakens your faith.
Fix your eyes on the promise and the promise giver.
Believe the Word of God
Luke 16:31 KJV — And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Moses and the prophets was the Bible at the time.
They were and are the Word of God.
Abraham who believed God is a witness that persuasion comes through believing the Word of God.
If you doubt the seed, you’ll doubt the fruit of that seed.
The Word carries within it the conviction and persuasion you need to be bold in your posture of receiving the promise.
The difference between faith and folly…
Hebrews 11:8 KJV — By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
…is what you have heard from the Lord.
When you hear something from the Lord, that Word comes with the faith needed to act on that Word.
This hearing isn’t to do with sound and what you receive with your physical ears.
It’s to do with what you hear in your Spirit.
That Word, that calling out is the root for everything else.
Take time to nurture that Word, cultivate it, water it with thanksgiving and praise, and allow it to be the conduit for everything you need.
That tiny Word is what makes the difference between you being a father of many nations, or just a childless old man wandering about in the desert.
Treasure what you’ve heard. It’s the power of God unto salvation.
Access denied
Proverbs 4:23 KJV — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
If it’s not verified by the Word or by the Spirit, reject it. Access denied
Your heart is too precious to allow just anybody to access it.
Total reliance
Proverbs 3:5 KJV — Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Total reliance upon spiritual timing.
Trust.
Total reliance, not partial.
The Lord vs Your own understanding.
The tree of life vs the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Your understanding is there as an opportunity for you to choose the Lord instead.
God’s ordering your steps
Matthew 2:9 KJV — When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
God’s ordering your steps. Don’t worry. He knows how to get you to where you need to go.