Victory! (2012) by Gerry James

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Prosperity Is Promotion, Wealth, and Health

    Psalm 75: 6-7

    6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

    7 But God is the Judge:  He puts down one, and sets up another.

Believe it or not, even evil leaders are promoted by God.   So if you find yourself or someone grumbling and murmuring against bosses and employers, opportunities (?) look into yourself and see if you have done your duty to pray for a godly government. (1 Tim 2:1-4)

You're at the end of an epic, millenia-years-long war between two kingdoms— kingdom of God and kingdom of Satan.   God's kingdom won, and it's been enforced.  Some "soldiers" haven't gotten it that they lost, some "leaders" aren't ready to relinquish their principalities.

This was a war that had and has no neutral ground— either you are with God, or you are under the manipulation and at the mercy of Satan. (Matt 4:8; Matt 12:30; Ephesians 2:1-2; 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 6:12)  He's a cruel war-lord, without mercy - Christ said he is only interested in the human race in order to kill them, steal from them, destroy them.

Therefore, we have a duty to gain promotion. The more godly people receive promotion in every field, the more the kingdom of God will  expand. We are coworkers of God. (Mark 16:20)

Examples of Biblical promotion:

    When a prisoner, Joseph, interpreted a prophetic dream for Pharaoh...Pharaoh made him a Prime Minister on the spot. (Genesis 41)

    God made Moses His prophet and chose him to lead Israel out of Egypt, although Moses was already 80 years old and slow, stuttered and objected to a public role.  (Exodus 4:10-12)

    God blessed a pagan widow, Ruth, and she married a rich Israeli man and became one of the ancestors of Jesus Christ. ( Ruth 4:13-22)