But the path of the just is as the shinning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day. –  Proverbs 4:18 Read:  Haggai 1:1-11; Romans 12:1-3 Several years ago, the Lord spoke to me from the Book of Haggai 1 and asked me a very important question. I want to ask you that same question today: ‘How do you intend…

But now….He is the mediator of a better covenant…established upon better promises… –  Hebrews 8: 6 Read:  Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8: 6-13 In previous devotions, we have studied the covenant that God made with people like Abraham and David. Many of the accompanying promises of those covenants are the ones we still stand on today. However, do you know that as glorious…

What is man…For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor – Psalms 8:4-5 Read:  Genesis 2:1-17; Psalm 8: 3-9 Jesus came to establish a new covenant between us and the father. God’s original plan had been to create a beautiful world and bequeath it to man.  God really did take time…

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. –  1 Corinthians 15:47 Read:  Genesis 2:15-17; Genesis 3:1-19 Haven’t you always wondered why in the midst of the wealth given to Adam, God placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with specific instructions, “Don’t eat.” People have often argued that God already…

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.  –  Romans 8:17 Read:  John 1:1-14; Romans 8: 14-20 Praise God the story did not end with Adam’s sin and consequent pain, struggle and poverty.  The truth is God never stopped desiring sons and heirs…

And You made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign over the earth. –  Revelations 5:10 Read:  Revelations 5: 1-12; Hebrews 2:9-18 Yesterday, we established the fact that we have a right to everything Jesus has a right to.  Jesus, our big brother and redeemer, went to the cross to establish an unarguable victory.  According to Revelation 5:12,…

My word, which comes from my mouth, is like the rain and snow. It will not come back to me without results. It will accomplish whatever I want and achieve whatever I send it to do. – Isaiah 55:11 Read:  Romans 12:2; Isaiah 55:6-13 When the Bible says, “do not conform to the standards of this world,” it suggests to us that…

The earth is the LORD’S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.  – Psalms 24:1 Read:  Psalms 104:24; Colossians 1: 16-17 To be able to fully appreciate what kind of wealth we are talking about, we must understand how wealthy God is. God owns everything. You may need to repeat that to yourself a few times to let…

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory. –  I Samuel 2:8 Read:  II Corinthians 8:9; I Samuel 2:8 An in-depth study of the word of God identifies certain levels in the wealth spectrum:  (1) The abjectly poor. This…

So God created man in his own image….and God blessed them, and God said unto them: be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it… –  Genesis 1:27-28 Read:  Galatians 6:7; Genesis 8: 22 In the wealth spectrum, we also have (1) those who have sufficient but with very little to spare (2) the rich e.g. those with savings and…