The righteous will flourish like the palm tree: he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord. They will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age; they will be plump and flourishing. To show that the lord is upright, he is my rock and there is no injustice in him”
He did not say that the just will be comfortable, he did not say that the just will be rich, he did not say that the just will be rich, he says that the just will flourish like the palm tree. Psalm 92:13-15
That is the level that God wants for you, his child, he says that the righteous will flourish, if you belong to the Lord’s side, if you are a child of God, if you are coming out righteous, the level of prosperity that God wants for you is to flourish .
Now what do I mean by that?
For example, when you get to the level where you are prospering, you work only for interest, you do not work to survive from day to day, hallelujah.
Oh! You fly to London today, you’re back next week, you’re just going to the office, yeah, what’s going on here? You have people working for you, you can even tell them, you said look all I want to do again is sign checks. (Hallelujah) – You only check the books on Tuesday and on Wednesday you disappear back to New York. (Hallelujah)
When you get to that level where you flourish, you don’t check bank balances again, before you spend money (Amen), you don’t rack your brains again, you don’t start calculating, and you start listing what you want to buy before you buy. You come to a store, a lot of people go to the sales section, you go to the real thing (praise the Lord), you just choose what you want and pay for it, you will get there in Jesus name.
That is what Almighty God wants for you as his child. If the daughter of Yaradua (president of Nigeria) comes now, isn’t there a kind of expectation that we expect from her? Yaradua’s daughter, for example, we don’t expect her to wear rags. The president’s daughter.
You are the sons and daughters of the owner of the entire world. Gold, silver, oil, minerals, hidden riches, all belong to your Father, and you will flourish in the name of Jesus. Now a sure way, a very sure way by which you can get to the level where you start to flourish is true investments.
Now, what do I mean by investments? I’m no financial guru, but by the grace of God I’ve been in the corporate business practice of law for almost 27 years, so you should know what I’m talking about; and I will be very, very practical, I will try to avoid theories.
In Nigeria today there are three main types of investments, you have investments in shares and shares, you have investments in property and you have investments in currencies (forex trading)
They look at the currency, when the dollar goes down or the pound sterling goes down they buy. And when it goes up, they sell just to make more money, that’s what they want, but that’s a bit technical, I won’t go into that too much. Let’s limit ourselves to property investments and investments in stocks and shares. When you get to the level where you flourish through investing, you no longer work for money. It is money that will be working for you. For example, if in 1980 I built a house and until now I continue to collect rent, be it annual or triennial. Until 2007, it is the money that I have invested that still works for me. When you get to the level where you prosper through investing, you no longer work for money. In the name that is above any other name, money will work for you. I say good money will work for you.
Ah, before I go any further, pastor, all these things you’re doing, we’re not in the bank hall, we’re not in a seminary either, is this biblical? Yes, highly biblical, I remind you of the story in Matthew chapter 25:14-30, for a matter of time let me tell you what happened, it was Jesus himself who gave the parable, he said that “the kingdom of God is like a man who He goes to a distant country, to one of his servants he gave five talents of money, to another he gave two talents of money, to another he gave one talent of money, the one who received five invested them, and returned another five, the one who received two reinvested it and got another two. The one who did not invest was cursed. He was cursed, he said: “cast out the useless servant, on that day there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” , that will not be your portion in Jesus name.
So the reversals are biblical, because God has specifically sent someone to me this day.
The first point you want to know is that getting to the particular point where you thrive has nothing to do with a particular trade. It doesn’t have to be, it’s because he’s in oil and gas, ah, it’s because he’s selling cars, no matter what kind of business you’re doing, no matter what kind of business you’re doing, all you need is God’s blessing. You may be selling ordinary water, if God’s blessing is on that business, you will prosper. So, it doesn’t have to do with any kind of trade or business in particular, you can prosper in any kind of business that Almighty God wants you to do.
You need to get to the level where you start to flourish, especially through investing. You must entrust all your ways to the Lord daily, in a regular and structured way; life of prayer must be daily because yesterday’s anointing is not enough for today.
The Bible says in Lamentations 3:22-23, that it is the mercy of the Lord that we are not consumed, because his compassion never fails, they are new every morning, great is his faithfulness.
So your prayer life should be daily, not when things are going well you start to pray and praise God, when things are not going well they don’t see you again. It must be daily, it must be structured, for example, you have to choose a specific meeting place, where you meet the Lord daily, if it is your bedroom, let it be your bedroom, if it is your kitchen, let it be your kitchen, if it is your living room, make it your living room, don’t make living room today, bedroom tomorrow, when the angels come, let them meet you in a specific place and let that place, as some people say, become an altar.
Choose a specific meeting time