Today I want to share again from Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations".
GOD IS BEHIND YOUR INCREASE
1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither he who plants is anything,
nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
Sometimes, we think that the increase or success which we
enjoy is the result of our own efforts or hard work. Now, I am not advocating
laziness, but the truth is that God is the one behind our increase.
We see this truth when we read the story of Ruth, a young
widow from Moab, who worked as a gleaner in a barley field from morning till
evening. Now, we could attribute the entire ephah—a substantial 10-day
supply—of barley she collected at the end of the day to her hard work. After
all, she did work all day in the field.
But when we read about how Boaz, the owner of the field, had
secretly told his reapers to “let grain from the bundles fall purposely for
her; leave it that she may glean” (Ruth 2:16), we know that it was because of
Boaz’s intervention that Ruth ended up with so much.
I believe that Jesus, our heavenly Boaz, does the same thing
for us today. He causes people to favor us and “drop” blessings on us because
He loves us. Then, He causes us to “pick up” these blessings. Often, it happens
so seemingly naturally we forget that it is the Lord who has blessed us with
the increases.
A church member who runs a florist business shared that
once, God caused someone who needed a lot of flowers to “drop” a huge order
with her. She also shared that she was hardly making any money even though she
had been working hard for many years. But when she became a Christian after
coming to our church, she began to confess every day that God’s favor was on
her. Within a few weeks, that big order worth S$14,000 came in. Only God could
have given her such a supernatural increase.
My friend, your hard work is not behind your increase. The
Bible tells us that it is “God who gives the increase.” He is the one who is
behind your increase and He delights in blessing you because He loves you!
AMEN! Our proclamation at The Spoken Word Church has always been: ANYTHING good in your life, give GOD the glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship! Anything bad in your life, DON'T BLAME GOD! He is ALWAYS in the increase, the abundance, the favor, the anointing, the deliverance! The ENEMY is the one who TRIES with all his might to bring death and destruciton into our lives. The GOOD NEWS? WE HAVE AUTHORITY! Refuse him access to your thought life and you WILL walk out with the VICTORY! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Look To The Son":Shalom in Him!
