SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY OF FINANCIAL PROGRESS

Pst. Olumide: Things are tough out there, not only in finance, but even in marriages, Christian life, and so much more. You’ve not made it does not mean you are smart or intelligent but because there is economic crisis.Job security is dead and to win you have to really sit up. 

SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY OF FINANCIAL PROGRESS

We are spirits and we live in a soul and we have a body. These 3 things apply to success. There is a spirit that causes people to prosper. The spirit aspect is called the Blessing. The word of God lets you what the problems are and how to solve them. While we are yet sinners Christ died for us. The blessing of God can be in a man but if his soul is broken, he cannot love. You can be prosperous. There is a soul of prosperity. The rich has character, attitudes, and mentality. Divine blessing is empowerment from God. You can be spiritually blessed but if you don’t have the soul you will never manifest it. All poverty is a spiritual problem; it is the power of the devil to destroy humanity. Poverty is a spiritual curse that was brought by sin. There is a mandate on you to be prosperous. You don’t choose to be poor or not. It is the blessing of the lord that makes rich. Poverty is not a mystery.  

Proverbs 10:22 says; The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.(KJV)

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RICH:

Faithfulness. The best brands in the world are the faithful brands. Prosperous people are faithful people, they keep their word. To be prosperous in your career, you must to be faithful. If you don’t build the character of faithfulness, you will struggle for a long time. You must develop character if you must prosper. The poor talk about problems while the rich think about solutions. The rich has a warrior mentality and they think like warriors. 

The Value You Bring To The Market: What are you selling? What values are you bringing to the market? It is about the value and the system you have created. 

Psalm 133:1-3 says: Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity! [It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: FOR THERE THE LORD COMMANDED THE BLESSING, [even] life for evermore.(KJV)

It is not everywhere that the blessing of the Lord can reach. There are places in the heart for the blessing of the Lord. You cannot be a gossiper and expect God to bless you. 

Psalm 133:3 says: As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.(KJV)

You must be under the canopy of the blessing. You have to walk in love. The place of FAITH is where God has commanded the blessing. 

The place of OBEDIENCE is another place God has commanded the blessing. You cannot be disobedient and receive the blessings of God.

You don’t prosper because you worked hard but because you did the will of God. If you are walking in obedience you cannot lack. Seek God to find what God has purposed for you. The place of PURPOSE is another place where God has commanded the blessing. God has also commanded the blessing in the place of LOVE. You must walk in love, learn to love. 

4 things that the blessing does for you

1. Divine Guidance.

2. Divine Coincidences

3. Divine Favour.

4. Divine Ideas.

SEVEN KINDS OF POSITIVE MINDSET YOU MUST CULTIVATE.

1^st.  Possibility Mentality: There is nothing that cannot be accomplished. The fact that it has not been done before does not mean it is impossible. Eliminate every mentality of impossibility from your head. You should not allow defeat enter your mind, refuse defeat mentality and never allow circumstances surrounding you to knock you down. 

Jeremiah 32:27 says: "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?(NIV)

Matthew 17:20 says: So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.(NKJV)

What do you see for yourself? What do you regard as impossible in your life? 

2^nd. Capability Mentality: Possibility mentality alone cannot take care of everything because God can do all things, you need to also believe that it is possible for God to do it and He will do it for you. I can do all things mindset should be part of you. You need to know what God can do and believe He will do for you. 

Philippians 4:13 says: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.(NKJV)

You need to understand what God can do through you. If you can change your mindset, there is nothing God cannot do for you. Is one thing to deliver the people from Egypt and is another thing to deliver Egypt from the people. You could be delivered from your Egypt but the Egypt mindset could still be in you. It is not just that God can do everything but He can do all things for you. You have to personalize this. 

3^rd. Creative Mentality: If you must be successful, you must think of how to do new things, you must learn outside the box. God has invested a lot of things in you which you must not seat on.

Proverbs 12:27 says; The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man's precious possession.(NKJV)

One way to know a lazy man is that he does not process raw materials into finished product. He gets opinion but he doesn’t work on it. A person who is genuinely committed to what you are doing must be committed with his time, money and opinion. If you work in an organization, you must bring something to the table, you must contribute something. You don’t have to think you are working for salary alone; you receive salary for the values you are adding. 

4^th. Opportunity Mentality: When a person has opportunity mentality, what others are seeing as problems will be an opportunity to him. There are different ways to view life. What others call a problem to you should be a project. 

1 Samuel 17:24 says: And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid.(NKJV)

This is David’s mindset. If you must succeed in life, you must surround yourself with the things that inspire you and not the things that expire you. 

1 Samuel 17:22-25 says: And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid. So the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father's house exemption from taxes in Israel."(NKJV)

What others were running from David see it as an opportunity.  The children of Israel had the mentality of fear towards Goliath because he was huge and strong. David saw him as an opportunity too big to be missed; he saw big opportunity in the man. For a champion every problem is a project and an opportunity. What doesn’t kill you will make you better. 

5^th. Responsibility Mentality: Irresponsibility blocks initiatives. Nobody does what everybody expects somebody to do. 

6^th. Availability Mentality: There is abundance in the land, there is abundance everywhere and it is coming your way. You must open your mouth and make declaration. It doesn’t matter how many people are living in the line of poverty in Nigeria, there is abundance. Having abundance mentality will help to change your life. 

Ecclesiastes 5:9 says: Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.(NKJV)

When you are praying make demand for your own part. For every vision and purpose there is provision to support it. 

Psalm 50:10-15 says: For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine. "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."(NKJV)

Our God is the God of abundance. God designed things in the way that everything replenishes. Some people have programmed themselves for poverty. You should come out of the believe that you were made to be poor. 

7^th. Divinity Mentality: Always have it in your mind that God is inside you. You are the temple of the Living God. When you are conscious of divinity, there are certain ideas that you will not accept. Have God-inside you mentality, the bible said greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Divine protection is very understandable when you realize that God is living inside you. When you realize that you are God’s property, you will have the believe that God protects His vessel.