Laws of Abundance - # 1

Laws of Abundance - # 1
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

III John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Being prosperity minded is the number one law in the laws of abundance. Prosperity in all areas of your life is directly proportional to the prosperity of your mind. This verse says you prosper as your soul prospers.

Financial abundance is God's will for each and every child of His. Psalms 35.27 says, The Lord delights in the prosperity of His servants. John 15.7 says, My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit. II Corinthians  8.9 says, For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor so that we through His poverty might become rich. How do you become prosperity minded? By meditating on the word of God concerning prosperity. Through these verses develop an image of prosperity and build a prosperity stronghold in your mind. It's difficult to receive prosperity and enjoy it if you are not prosperity minded. Prosperity in all areas at all times in not man's idea. It is God's will for all of His children. Some fight it, some disagree with it and some even rebuke it. But those who receive it will enjoy it. Eradicate poverty, lack and scarcity from your thinking and let the word frame your thinking, let the word change the way you think and see things. You are a child of the Most High God and no child of God should ever be poor and needy. Never.

Friend, this world needs the church to be prosperous because only the body of Christ can replenish the world. God wants you to live and walk in abundance. Become prosperity minded. Become increase minded so you can receive the blessings of God and become a distributor of Gods wealth to this dying world. Expand the kingdom! Enjoy your life! Help the poor! Jesus is coming back!

"I live in supernatural prosperity every day of my life. I have a prosperous soul and I am prospering in everything I do. No lack. No scarcity. No shortage. Always overflow. Always abundance. Always more than enough. Hallelujah”

This is life!

This is life!
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

Ecclesiastes 12:13
Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

What is life? How would you define and describe it? Some would say family. Some would say having lots of money. Others would say having peace. What would you say?

King Solomon, the wisest and the richest king that ever lived said, 'Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.' This is life. It's the foundation of life. Nothing else matters! What a powerful and wonderful verse! To fear God simply means to respect the Lord and to give Him honour. It doesn't mean to be afraid of Him like you would be scared and afraid of a snake, it's means to reverence Him, to hold Him in high esteem. To fear the Lord means to love what He loves and to hate what He hates. To fear the Lord means to obey Him, to do whatever He says. Obedience is a result of the fear of the Lord. When it's all said and done, you stand before your Creator and you give Him an account of your life to Him. Every human will stand before the judgement seat of God.

Friend, the only thing that matters in life is to fear God and to keep His commandments. Let this become the motto of our lives. Life becomes beautiful when we know what life actually is. Life is a struggle when the purpose and objective of life is not known. When life is not understood, we run after worthless things only to realise that all of it was just a waste. Be wise and take the advice of King Solomon : Fear God and keep His commands for this is your life. Nothing else matters!

Faith & Words

Faith & Words
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

Luke 17:6
So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Everything is possible for him who believes. Nothing is impossible for faith. When you got born again, the faith of God was deposited in your spirit. The God kind of faith that's in you moves mountains and overcomes the world.

It's one thing to have faith, it's another thing to use it. Child of God, use your faith! Faith will move any and every mountain and will overcome the world. Faith will get you what you want. Faith will take where you want to go. Faith will bring you out of any pit that's holding you. Faith is released by words. Faith is put to work by words. Unless you speak, faith won't be released. Unless you speak, faith won't work. Unless you speak, faith won't act. Speak God's word. Find out what God has said about your situation or any area that concerns you. Once you find those Scriptures, meditate on them and start speaking them. The spirit of faith believes in the heart and speaks with the mouth. Speak the word till you are convinced and once you are convinced, keep speaking it. Never stop speaking. Keep speaking the word. Keep talking. What you can't do, faith can do. What your family can't do, faith can do. Release your faith. Speak God's word.

Friend, your faith is released and put to work when you speak the word of God. Jesus spoke to the fig tree, His faith was released and the fig tree withered from the roots. Faith gives God access. When God shows up, everything changes. Speak God's word, Release God's faith and Give God access. Never give up! Everything is possible. Just believe and SPEAK!

Your garden!

Your garden!
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

Genesis 2:15
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

Your garden is your calling. Your garden is the place you are supposed to be. Your garden is the work you are supposed to do.

God has prepared your garden even before you were ever born. Your birth is proof that your garden is ready. Your birth is proof that your place and your work is ready. You were not born to make a garden. You were born to discover your garden and get in it. God is the one who plants the garden. So only God can reveal to you where and what your garden is. As you give yourself to the word of God and to prayer, you will discover your garden. As you learn to walk with God and fellowship with Him, He will reveal to you the garden - your place and your work. The garden is the place to be. It's the place of supernatural protection, provision and satisfaction. The garden is the place you were designed to be. God knows your garden and accordingly He has designed you. No other work and no other place will satisfy. Do you know where and what your garden is? Your garden is hidden in the word and as your dwell on the word, the Holy Spirit will direct you and lead you into your garden.

Friend, you have a specific place and a specific work. The priority of our lives is to discover it through the word and prayer. Once you discover it, get in your garden and fulfill your calling with excellence. Refuse to be distracted. Choose to be focused. Keep your eyes on Jesus and finish your race with joy. Nothing else matters!

Christ the Healer!

Christ the Healer!
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

Exodus 15:26
and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord  who heals you.”

Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our Healer is one of the names of our Lord. He's our Healer and Healing is in His name. Jesus is Jehovah Rapha! Elshaddai, Elohim, Jehovah Jireh and all the other names of God in the Old Testament is represented in one name, Jesus!

Jesus never made any person sick in His earthly ministry. In fact where ever He went He healed people because that's His name, He is Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our Healer. He desires to see you in good health, enjoying life to the fullest. Satan is the author of sickness and disease. Sickness is a curse and it comes from the devil himself. A child of God must never tolerate sickness. Jesus paid a huge price to redeem you from sickness and disease. On the cross, Jesus took every sickness and disease on himself and suffered it for you. He didn't leave out any sickness and disease. He took it all. He bore all of it and when He rose again on the third day He defeated every sickness, every disease and declared them powerless over those that are in Christ. He did all of these things so that we could walk in divine health. The sickness that's in your body has been defeated by Jesus. It has no legal right to be in your body. Rise up, use your authority in the name of Jesus and force the illegal resident to vacate your body. Colossians 1.27 says, ...Christ in you, the hope of glory. Christ the Healer lives in you. Think about this, Jehovah Rapha lives in you! The Healer himself lives in you! You are so powerful in Christ. The one who is in you is greater than the all the sicknesses and diseases of this world.

Friend, be conscious that Jesus is your Healer and that He lives in you. The Holy Spirit lives in you. Take some time and meditate on, Christ the Healer lives in me. As you believe and say this with thanksgiving, your faith will connect to the anointing that's in you and you will be completely healed. Faith is the connection! Be conscious of the price Jesus has paid for your health and healing. No more sickness! No more disease! Christ the Healer lives in me and I am healthy, healed and whole in the name of Jesus!

Faith & Works

Faith & Works
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

James 2:17
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Genuine faith always produces works. Genuine faith gives birth to corresponding actions. Faith that doesn't produce actions is a dead faith.

Genuine faith causes a change in your speech and in your actions.  Mark 5 talks about a lady who was suffering from the issue of blood for twelve years and had spent all that she had on doctors but instead of getting better, she grew worse. Think about this lady for a moment. Think about her speech, her actions and her life in the midst of this terrible sickness. One day, she heard about Jesus as the Healer. Romans 10.17 says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. As soon as she heard about Jesus, her thoughts, words and actions began to change because she believed what she heard. She kept saying to herself, If I touch Him, I will be healed. Not only did she say that, she got up and went after Jesus, touched the hem of His garment and was made completely whole. Glory to God. Genuine faith always produces actions. Dead faith doesn't move. It's passive. No change. No response. Just dead! Dead faith gets nothing from God. If her faith was dead, she would not have changed her words and actions after hearing about Jesus. Faith that produces corresponding actions is a perfect faith. Faith that does not produce corresponding actions is a dead faith. What is your faith producing?

Friend, when Abraham's faith was strong, it produced corresponding actions - He started giving glory to God. Weak faith cannot produce corresponding actions. Feed your faith with the word of God. The word of God is faith food. Take Scriptures that concern you and keep listening, meditating and speaking them so that your faith becomes stronger than ever. Build your faith by praying much in other tongues. You will see your faith grow strong and producing works, producing corresponding actions that will make your faith perfect and you will never fail to receive from the Lord. Go on with Jesus!

Faith & Grace

Faith & Grace
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

Romans 5:2
through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Grace means unmerited favour. It's unearned and undeserved favour. God's goodness and blessings towards us is simply because of His great grace.

Because of our sins, we deserved damnation and hell, but God in His great grace sent Jesus to die for us and thereby provided salvation for the entire human race. Everything that God does, has done and will ever do is solely based on His grace, His unconditional love for us. No one can boast of his own works and worthiness in the presence of God. You see, it's not because of your works it because of His grace. God doesn't bless you because you are good, He blesses you because He's good and because of the works of Jesus. Grace has made salvation, healing, deliverance, prosperity, protection, peace and every spiritual blessing available for you. The finished works of Jesus Christ has paid for all of the blessings of God. Faith is the only way you can access and enjoy the grace of God and the blessings provided by His grace. Faith is the only bridge to grace. Faith is the only key that will unlock the grace of God. Ephesians 2.8,9 says, 'For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it  is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' Romans 4.16 says,  'Therefore it is of faith, so that it might be through grace..'. Because it's based on Gods grace, anyone who believes receives. This makes religious people mad because they depend so much on their works. The tax collectors and the prostitutes received grace from Jesus but the Pharisees and the religious people couldn't. Think about that! Jesus, full of grace and truth walking among the people and the crowd was thronging Him but only the lady with the issue of blood for twelve years got her healing. Why? Because she was the only one who touched him by faith. Faith is the only access to grace. She was healed instantly and was made whole. Healing was for everyone but she was the only who took it by faith. She heard the word. She said the word. She acted on the word. She refused to give up. She got her healing. She smiles! Jesus said to her, Daughter, your faith made you whole.

Friend, there is no other way you can enjoy the grace of God. It's by faith and faith alone. Without the grace of God, life is a struggle. His grace is sufficient for us. Believe the word of God. Speak the word of God. Never ever give up come hell or high water. Go on with Jesus. Your faith in the word of God will release God's grace in your life and your life will never be the same. Only believe and you will see the glory of God. This is your time.