KINGDOM PRINCIPLES THAT ALWAYS WORK - Part 2

THANKSGIVING

Maintain a healthy attitude and spirit of thanksgiving and gratitude. Gratitude and thanksgiving always make room for more. If you can appreciate what you have right now, where you are at right now, then you are well on your way to bigger and greater things.

GOOD STEWARDSHIP

Jesus says if you be faithful in a few things, you will be made to ruler over many things. Read about the parable of the Ten Talents in Matthew 25:14-29. If God can trust you to manage ten dollars well, He can trust you to manage a hundred dollars. If He can trust you to manage a hundred dollars well, He can trust you to manage a thousand dollars. If He can trust you to manage a thousand dollars, He can trust you to manage ten thousand dollars. I think you get the picture. On the other hand, if He can’t trust you to handle a thousand dollars, don’t think He’s going to give you thousands and millions of dollars to mess around with or blow.

TITHING

Besides love, tithing is one of the greatest principles that you can practice. If you honor God with ten percent of your substance or income, He will bless your ninety percent that you have left, favor will work in and for your life, He will open doors for you on your behalf, and there are so many other benefits that you will be a recipient because you chose to honor God first. When you tithe, you are saying to God, “Lord it is You that made it possible for me to have this source of income or revenue, it is You who gives me the life, health and breath to do my job or run my business.” And please understand, that tithing and giving is not for God but it is for you. Giving is the only vehicle that you have that will guarantee that you will receive those things that you sow for. You can pray all day long or all night for something, but if you are not a tither and you don’t give, what harvest have you made for your self to reap and receive?

PRAYER

Ahhhhhh yes, one of my favorite principles. Why? Because I learned that the beauty of prayer is not petitioning, begging or asking God for things, but it is giving to God, worship, adoration, appreciation and thanksgiving. And you know what usually happens when you love, romance and adore some one right? You are right, you get pretty much what you want and some. Now worship, thanksgiving and adoration, etc. toward the Lord should not be your motivation to get things, or else it becomes your manipulation to get God to do something for you. And that won’t work. But you love, adore and worship Him, solely because He’s God’s and He’s worthy and deserving of it. And His response will be to love you back, and He will love you back in tangible ways. And then our prayer must also include spiritual warfare in binding the enemy and powers of darkness, pleading the blood of Jesus, asking God to dispatch angels, you summonsing angels, declaring the word of God for your situation, because the enemy of your soul does not want you to have anything that is rightfully yours, and will always be trying to hinder, delay and deter your blessings. He will always in some kind of way to make you miss out or forfeit your blessings, even if he has to use you and your disobedience, or other people. YOU MUST BE FIERCE ABOUT TAKING OWNERSHIP OF WHAT IS YOURS AND TAKE IT AND POSSESS IT. Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent takes it by FORCE. So rise up in the name of Jesus and through the power of the Blood of Jesus and TAKE AND TAKE AND TAKE until you posses what is yours in your hands.

FAITH

Another among the greatest of the principles is faith.

Mark 11:22 –24 “So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. (Which is interpreted from have the faith of God.) For assuredly I say to you, whosoever says to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes those things that he says, they will be done and he will have whatsoever he says. Therefore I say unto you, whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them.”

Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”

James 1:6-8 “But let him ask in faith, without wavering, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord. Because he is double-minded and unstable in all his ways.”

OBEDIENCE

Now you don’t need five scriptures to explain or understand what obedience is. But if you read in the book of Deuteronomy 28:1-14, you find the blessings for your obedience. In verses 15-68 (That’s 54 verses of curses for disobedience, WOW.), you will find curses for your disobedience.

So to sum it all up, we need to keep and practice all of these principles, because they are contingent upon one another, in helping us achieve and acquire the things that have been set forth by God for us here on earth and in our heavenly place.

Dr. Melody Barclay