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Ananias kept part of the money for him with his wife’s full knowledge and brought the rest and put it at the apostle’s feet.  Peter asked Ananias how did Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?   \n\nBecause of lying to the Holy Spirit and possession of Dishonest money, Ananias and his wife died.    \n\nJudas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.  At the end, he bought some land and hung himself on a tree on the land he purchased with 30 pieces of silver. Dishonest money will do more harm to you than good.    \n\nDishonest money has a devastating effect on a believer’s life.  I have learned that God does not bless dishonest gains. \n\nSuch is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it (Proverbs 1:19). \n\n\"Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is crooked though he be rich\" (Proverbs 28:6)\n\nAn inheritance quickly gained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end (Proverbs 20:21). \n\n\n2.\tSecond Life Principal: Little by Little produces discipline and contentment\n\nWhen you work hard for something and save for it, you appreciate it.  You have a sense of pride and gratification for accomplishing something that took a while to obtain.   \n\nToday, you see the youth are impatient because we provide everything for them.  They have an expectation of instant delivery.  \n\nThere was a time; we used to save up just to purchase a 25¢ comic book.  We cherished the moment when the cashier handed us the comic book and read it multiple times.  Today, that same 25¢ comic book is worth over $100 dollars. \n\nNow a days, when a new game console or game come out, children asked their parents to pre-order it and place it on their credit card.    There’s no discipline in showing our children how to save. The concept of little by little has been erased from this generation.  \n\nIf you ask an elder of a church who can testify how they appreciate the times when their parents made them work for what they wanted.   Working long hours in the cotton field just to spend a days pay to purchase a loaf of bread.   Little by little produced discipline and contentment.   You will appreciate things just a little more when you take the correct path.  \n\nDon’t get caught up in the thrill of having NOW!  “Have it right now” mentality.   A cellular company recently advertises their new slogan JUMP. 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Are their any survivors in the house? \n\nWe have been spared when we did foolish things.  And surely, God has provided for us by putting money in our pockets, food on our tables and clothes on our backs.   Too often, we find ourselves slipped into a slump when the storms of life come our way.  \n\nSome believers find themselves in a predicament and get amnesia. They forget how the Lord brought them out of the previous storm and need a remaindered He is the same God yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). \n\n(It’s amazing how so called friends forget how you bent over backwards to help them out but when it time to help you, they get lost of memory / amnesia for form a brain paralysis.  God has way to make us remember. \n\nAfter the death of Moses, the Lord to Joshua to get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give the Israelites. \n\nThe Lord told Joshua, I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses (Joshua 1:1-3).   We have to understand that God want’s to bless us. He wants to fulfill his promises in us.  \n\nGod’s was to grant us the desires of our heart. But we have to remember how those who pave the way for us, who spoke the word of God and consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.  \n\nDo you remember how big momma who raise ten kids, feed them and still have enough to take care others?  \n\nDo you remember how our forefathers and foremothers fought their way through some terrible times and yet, they were able to persevere and live a full life? \n\nDo you remember how the old church would have prayer meetings and the entire church would be filled with God’s presence?  Now we have prayer conference calls, Prayer posting and other means to connect with others to pray. \n\nBut if imitate the former faith fighters, we would flourish as a follower of Jesus.   Every now and then, we need to have a homecoming or a reunion with past successes to be reminded that God can do it again.  \n\nWe have to have confidence in God and ask him to do a repeat performance.    How do you prepare for a comeback blessing? \n\n1. Be strong in the Lord.  \n\tThree times, the Lord to Joshua to be strong and courageous\n\n3.\tObey the Lord’s commandment (Joshua 1:2)\n\n\n4.\tMediate, chew on God’s Word (Joshua 1:8)\n\nThe Lord told Joshua, go through the camp and tell the people “Get your supplies ready. In three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own (Joshua 1:11).  \n\nIn three days, get ready because God is about to do a repeat performance.    God is going to cause some upstream activity in your life to cease so that he can do a repeat performance.    \n\nWhile Joshua and the Israelites where crossing the Jordan, the water was rising but when the priests stepped in the water carrying the ark, the water upstream stopped flowing.    \n\nGod knows how to cutoff the trouble in the life. He knows how to stop the intake of problems flowing in and allow you to stand on firm ground.  \n\nIn my life, I have experience being debt free, standing on ground zero.  I am asking God to perform a repeat blessing in life and stop the bills from flowing in.  \n\n\nWhen the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord had Joshua place twelve stones at the place they have crossed the Jordan.   He stones were served as a memorial so that generations knew about God repeat performance.   \n\nWhenever, you hit a major milestone in your life or overcame a major moment or accomplishment, buy something or do something so you can remember how the Lord brought you out.  \n\nTreat yourself to a memorial gift in honor of the Lord. \n\nOn the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.\n\n Joshua told the children of God “In the future, when your descendants ask their fathers, What do these stones mean? Tell them “Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.  \n\nWhat reminders do you have of God repeat performance?   The Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over.   The Lord your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.   \n\nHe did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God (Joshua 4:22-24). \n\nWhen you are faced with adversity and don’t know how things are going to turn out; ask God to do a repeat performance. \n\nGod wants to stop some things in your life that you have found yourself in a situation again.  But thanks be to God, He is a God of second chance. \n\nTye Tribbett wrote a song titled “If He did it before, He will do it again. He is the same God right now, He same God back then.    Greater is he.   I know I will rise up because He is the same God right now, He same God back then. \n\nBe encourage, this is not the first storm you been through.  You have been through worst and you have not came the far to loose.  \n\nIf he brought you out before, he’ll bring you out again. If he healed you before, He will heal you again.  The problem might change. The situation might change. But He is the same God. \n\nI got power. I know I can overcome.",
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You have to prepare for your blessing even when there isn’t the slightest sign of in in sight.   \n\nPerfect faith in God’s spoken word is the seed that will spring up in future.  Isaiah 55:11 tells us that God’s word will not return unto him void or empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. \n\nSpeak the word in every situation and watch how your life will change.  When we operate in perfect faith, the things of God come easy.  A cheap way to access your blessing, simply believe.  \n\nJesus said “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, “go, throw yourself into the sea”, and it will be done.   If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” Matthew 21:21-22. \n\nFind a faith partner and touch and agree.  “If two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven” Matthew 18:19.   \n\nIt might seem to be impossible from man standards, but from a spiritual standpoint, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).  In the truth scripture today, we discover three kings find themselves in need.  The three kings made an alliance to fight against one common enemy King of Moab.   The three kings agreed to forge a bond and set off to fight against Moab.   Who do you have fighting the enemy with?  Are you alone or do you have someone to that will strengthen your faith and your walk in the Lord? \n\nMoab respected Ahab, the father of Joram.  But when Ahab died, Moab no longer abided to the commitment and arrangements made to Ahab.    Just because your parent or grandparents fought battles and overcame does not mean, the enemy will bow down to you.   You have to develop your own faith so the enemy knows that you come from the same stock. \n\n“Don’t Mess with Me!”\n\nSome of us have caught breaks in life because of the family we belong to.  We have to carry own the legacy of faith so that generational wealth is established and continues.  \n\nThe king of Israel, king of Judah and the king of Edom pursued their plan with perfect faith.   They traveled through the desert of Edom with only a seven-day supply of water.    \n\nWe can all relate to lack of or running out.  Your get paid on Friday and by next Friday, you praying that God will allow you to make to the next pay period.  \n\nThe Kings were in a desperate situation. They have rain out of water in the desert.  It has been reported that the Arizona and California desert area reported temperatures as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.   If you run out of water while traveling in such high heat, you will surely die.  \n\nIt’s amazing; these are kings who have access to the smartest men in the kingdom, but they we running out.   I am quite sure they have MapQuest their trip and brought along enough water journey.  It seems that God will allow our faith to be tested to perfect it.  \n\nGod is always trying to perfect our faith.  Hebrews 12:1-2\n\nWhen you faith is tested, you have to ask, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jehoshaphat, king of Judah asked “Is there no prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of the Lord through him?”    \n\nPerfected faith will seek after the Word of God.   Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God (2 Kings 3:11). \n\nPerfected faith will worship the Lord in the midst of the wilderness (2 kings 3:15).  \n\nPerfected faith will be obedient to the voice of God even if it sounds crazy. \n\nPerfected faith will move just on believing what God said.  This is where many of us fall off the train track.  Once it is time to apply the Word of God to our lives, we fall short.  We will hear the Word, Worship God and Want move on What God said. \n\nJesus said “whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me, He who loves e will be loved by my Father and I too will love him and show myself to him” Matthew 14:21. \n\nElisha instructed the three kings to make the valley full of ditches.  Now, if you have doubt and have heard this from Elisha, who probably thought you were digging your own grave.   But Faith speaks, dig ditches.  Act even if you don’t see it.  \n\n“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.” \n\n\nWhen you allow perfect faith to speak on your behalf, it’s an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord to accomplish the very thing that seems impossible to achieve.  \n\n\nVerse 20: The next morning, about the time for the offering the sacrifice, there it was – water flowing from the direction of Edom! And the land was filled with water.  \n\nAllow you faith to produce prosperity. Get rich schemes, hard work, taking advantage of others misfortune and playing the lottery are not faith moves to produce prosperity.  Start walking, speaking and telling your spirit, I am prosperous!",
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Immediately, I stopped him and said, “Man, I love you… No Need to Fake the Funk with me.  I am glad you are alive and well.  Talk to you later, Oh by the way, the bread is on sale and I have a coupon for it.  Every bit counts. Peace!” \n\nDo you recall the famous duo Milli Vanilli?  \n![download (1).jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTgLnrSY67zrKZbYkZ3ZBz1njatE6LwdRNx9FJGRUqnFG/download%20(1).jpeg)\n\n \n\nWe live in times when people are impersonating the life style of the rich and famous instead of being whom they really are.     Also, I see many people stealing the identity of others and pattern their life after a famous person. Thus we have the up rise of   reality TV shows that have a cast made of pretenders.  \n\n“Identity theft is a form of stealing someone’s identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person’s identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person’s name” (Source: Wikipedia). \n\nFalse identity or Fake identity has become a known problem in social media and dating website.  It’s easy for a person to pretend to be someone behind a computer than in real life.  Often times, many people are lured into traps because what seems to be real in the cyber worlds is actually fraud.   Much like the cyber world, within the church, we have someone pretending to be Believers and Followers of Christ but they are actually churchgoers.   If you follow a person home after church and discover their lifestyle is surprising different then the person you saw at church; this is a case of Believer’s False Identity.   This person has stolen the identity of Chris and portrays and pretends to to be someone else. \n\n\tIn order to live abundantly, we have to be real with Christ.  The Bible tells us in Proverbs 5:21 “For a man’s way are in full view of the Lord and he examines all his paths. “   There’s account in the Bible when Paul opposes Peter for acting one way when he was with the Apostles and acting a different way when he was with the Gentiles. \n\n“When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was ked astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?” Galatians 2:11-14 \n\nUnfortunately, we have Chameleon Christians that change to their behavior and actions instead of changing the environment by bringing the presence of God. \n\nIt is sad to say but we are living in a time when perception is more powerful and important than the truth.  What we see on the outside determines your financial status and importance instead of the moral and spiritual values.  Often times we were our beliefs on our shirt but not in our hearts.  \n\nThe proverbial writer suggests that it is better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.  Jesus said “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5).  There’s a significant lesson to learn by living a simple and humble life before the Lord. \n\n“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody” (1 Thessalonians 4:11). \n\nAbundant living is not living the life of rich and famous.  \n\nAbundant living is not having all the prestige and being very popular.  \n\nAbundant living is not accumulating mass materials to showcase to the world.   \n\nAbundant living is solely being dependent upon the Lord, trusting he will provide all your needs and give you the desires of your heart while being real and living a simple life. \n\nAbundant living is having Salvation!\n\nAbundant living is pleasing God!",
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Immediately, I stopped him and said, “Man, I love you… No Need to Fake the Funk with me.  I am glad you are alive and well.  Talk to you later, Oh by the way, the bread is on sale and I have a coupon for it.  Every bit counts. Peace!” \n\nDo you recall the famous duo Milli Vanilli?  \n![download (1).jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTgLnrSY67zrKZbYkZ3ZBz1njatE6LwdRNx9FJGRUqnFG/download%20(1).jpeg)\n\n \n\nWe live in times when people are impersonating the life style of the rich and famous instead of being whom they really are.     Also, I see many people stealing the identity of others and pattern their life after a famous person. 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Often times we may encounter extremeness obstacles in life such as a physical handicap, poverty, discrimination, spiritual attacks and sense of inferiority while trying to achieve an abundant life.   Nevertheless, the benefits outweigh the cost of perseverance and pursuit. The Bible reminds us “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” 2 Corinthians 4:17.  \n\nAt the age of seven years old, Abraham Lincoln and his sister walked 9 miles to and from school through the woods.  When he was older, he would walk twenty miles just to borrow a book.  It cost Abraham Lincoln time and long walks but later in life he became 16th president of the United States.  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He would spend an hour and a half practicing with the junior varsity team and two hours with varsity team.    \n\nThe testimonies of those who were willing to pay the cost had three command traits for abundant living:  Courage, Conviction and Commitment. \n\nIn today’s scripture, King David displayed courage, conviction and commitment to the Lord by addressing a sin issue.  The Lord instructed David to take census of Israel and Judah.  In turned, David delegates his task to Joab the commander of the army to enroll the fighting men, so that he may know how many there are.  When the results came back and David hears how Israel has grown, the pride of sin set in his heart. \n\nAs a result of David’s sin, 70,000 men died because of one man’s sinful action.  This troubled David and he immediately went to the prophet Gad who instructed with divine correction for David to repented and build an altar. \n\nIt takes courage to admit when you are wrong.  David was convicted of his sin but he displayed commitment to God by presenting a sacrificial burnt offering.  \n\nAraunahi offered to give David the Threshing floor for the altar but David insisted on paying for it.  We have to be willing to pay the cost to please God.  We can’t be cheap to the one who woke us up this morning.  We can’t be cheap to the one who spared their life for us. We can’t be cheap to the God who mercies are everlasting.   Do not be a cheap Christian.  \n\nIf you have a religion that cost you nothing than you have a religion that’s worth nothing. \nDavid understood that it was going to cost him something to show God that this worship is for real.  So, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and fifty shekels of silver for then.  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