Beyond Prosperity, Part 3

Greetings friends and new listeners and welcome this program in the RG Hardy ministries. I'm sure not to, and I'm so glad you tuned in today because we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The message you will hear today is beyond prosperity, which the Lord gave to me after telling me to read first Kings 17 out loud. I didn't see the need to since the widow of Sarah Pfaff is the most preached about what I would Bible history and I knew her story quite well. But the Lord didn't disappoint me and I hope you will also be blessed by the amazing things I learned in beyond prosperity. So what happened we don't know how much time it was at a certain point in time somewhere later on her son died, her child became thinking even with a lie. He was still there handing out door with her. That means I'm living with her. Her son not now, don't you think if Rev. Elijah was living in your house eat at your table that appears to not think you will pray and get them healed.

Don't you think that I'm sure Elijah thought that I had to think Elijah had to pray for him. For God healing. But the child didn't get.

He only got worse. He got so bad and she came, she said excuse me Rev. Elijah great prophet of the living God of Israel, barreled through the financial blessing praise a lot, but they don't mean right now is dead. Here John the child out of her bosom. The place where he slept the child down on the bed and this woman son. First of all let's get our doctrine straight. God doesn't go around killing people and kill anybody son until anybody's mother, father, husband, wife, God doesn't do that. He is a God of life. But sometimes God does not intervene in the natural course of things to go on get sick with an illness or terminal illness. God is not intervene. The natural course they will die. Doesn't mean God killed. There's a difference between culmination and her then we say that again there is a difference between culmination you commit the act and permission you allow it. God allows this world to do all the crazy things they do people go around people and miss you guys doing all these things, God is just letting the natural course of things go, but we know that we can get a hold of God and he can intervene in our circumstances. Now say that I believe the stuff that wouldn't happen to us when the bad things that God being and they didn't. I believe there are times that we know about the guy was one God can even get hit by a car got this document from that and we can now believe there is not more because the Angels of the Lord are in campground about us about.

He just intervene, but there are times not intervene and sometimes we don't understand why but other times we do understand why later when he was this great prophet. Why did you let this child die. But what did he do this with the will of God for this young child to be decided that he was going to be persistent and not down on the child's body felt that any prophet of God is God's presence made up our menu called down from heaven.

I'm sure that when you pray God her but you know what a blessed thing happened. We cannot just lay there, just the same, just as dead as he will. So what stretched himself in time and nothing happened not child was still dead but he persisted in prayer and sometimes when God wants to do a great miracle in your life you're going to have to persevere and persist. You cannot give up on the same man you cannot give up anything cold and clammy, but he laid down the third time and he prayed again and this time when he prayed the start time.

The Bible says the boy and the salmon that child came back and he was reminded so what I want you to see and understand is if you're in a place where you do so only God can do can do don't give courage been praying so long been praying and praying something this really was just a rehearsal for Elijah, not only because he desperately wanted to see this child raised up and restored to his mother but when he was going to come time for God and the famine and end the drought had to pay the price times times before cloud came to begin the rain.

This was three times calmly same. And this was just exercising when he got to the place we had a place seven times. Later on in the book of Kings, and you see on the third time six time persistent and don't check again. Go check again. He said I don't see anything I don't see one cloud at all but on that seven time. He said I just see one the size of a man's hand. That's all I need. That's all I need.

He got up he went a happy said you better get home about the rain so this was just where he was in rehearsal to learn how to persistent prayer and sometimes God let little things come in our life adversities to teach you how to persistent prayer and wearing a school were in the school of if we fail that test to move on to bigger things. And if you look at your life God prepares you for things I don't want to scare anybody but if you live long enough and you stay single, not some big holes. If you just to get ready to come, God will sing.

There's always going to be things that you're going to face, but your faith has grown under trusting God has grown and so you're able to face them with persistent, so the six thing that I saw here was that he persisted in prayer and now were coming down to the final one, the seventh one and this is the one that blessed me the most.

Okay so let's look at verse 23 and Elijah took the child and brought them down out of the chamber into the house and delivered them onto his mother and Elijah said something. Here's the seventh day, and the woman said to Elijah. By this I know that thou art a man of God and that the time now is proof they see what she's saying. She says now you know when you came out I was starting my child was starving.

We were ready to die and you walk on the scene with all the power of God. You had that message you said I tell you the give me back and I tell you, God will bless you so much financially that you have all the bread you can eat as long as that that is going on. You will have bread.

She said when you came. I believe the word of God and I've been blessed so into your ministry and every financial blessing and my houses reap financial blessing and joy and you poured out blessings on all bills are paid is paid my electric bills paid and paid things paid the bank K believe my son could. She says that's not what proved to me that your man of God. That's not what proved to me that you are prophet of God because you came preaching charity and I did what you said and I got prospered and prove that you're a man of God to me just because I so in your ministry got a blessing, but I know that you are a man of God. Now that I didn't know what because anybody body who takes the law of sowing and reaping.

It's a universal law.

It works for everybody. It works for sinners works for devils. It works for anybody. It works for farmers. They get crops and works for people invest money in bank. They get money back in real estate rate. If you do you'll receive all that rich money real estate business and prosper works because of the universal law that God me.

So, if people get up and preach prosperity. People get up and preach if you give, you shall receive. And people doing there going to be blessed.

Scratch your head and said that that person is a false prophet and thereby produce prosperity as false prophets of the wrong idea, but I know some people that I had cringed when I seen them on television because I know that I know I know the phonies and they preach this people they had tested feels it will come on I gave it.

Now they tell all their documents up there false prophets because you can pay tithing get blessed financially… What you know you will reap what you believe you're going to reap eternal rewards. If you get double profit you might get a new car here and you might get a new house. You might get some money in the bank here, but you're not going to get eternal reward hello dude, it is so used to you got what you wanted, but if you want eternal reward.

You got us street preaching style using preach this money will range anything preach that message. People if you want to preach God preach Jesus say Jesus delivers Jesus to set you free. It's a truth anyhow I know was dad raised my right you got the goods preach on the prosperity you want, but do you have the blades when they bring somebody even possessed his side… Then free.

You're a true prophet of God because you got the goods in the Scriptures clear. First Timothy 65 it says the men destitute of the truth, supposing gain is godliness, not stop and think about it. They have to be gaining they have to be gaining they have to be prospering to think that because I'm prospering. This must be godliness.

That's why it works it works because they only reinforce the blast on the following works because they supposed again is godliness.

The fact that they are gaining the fact that they are prospering. That proves to them or let her show. I think it proves to a lot of gullible people that don't know any better, but they must be many women look must be read must be true again and working prosper, but it might mean it was one person walk around. They money, money, and I can you had some ice and a gift present a check he wrote me a check to present down the word says for their money, and I knew that that was the mantra when those ministers send us any money.

It I did. I gave it I saw it I got it waxed.

It's real, it must be the real thing.

And Paul said there destitute of the truth, they supposed to because they didn't work in this godliness and sell it works because it is a divine law you go back to Genesis whatever law it's called the law of the first mention whatever is stated in the book of Genesis. It will follow through all the way universal law. He said every seat effort sometime.

Whatever you so you're going to reap it works. That's why companies big corporations don't take their top management people.

Docent on the seminars to her motivational speakers to tell them how that they can take the money and get rich in and prosper how they know that's a big thing motivational speakers get the caboodle going speak at a seminar two hours and hundred thousand dollars.

It worked for them. I mean speak for two hours the night hundred thousand dollars fee for doing nothing for that to get there and tell people how you can get rich work for some people say it works because it is a divine law it will work, but when you want to.

Let me tell you something when your child is sick and dying they worried about how much money is on the bank when you're when something is going wrong in your home when your family is in a place where you need a miracle when someone you love is in trouble when your marriage is falling apart and it's not because the money you got plenty of money. A lot of marriages fall apart because the problem but there's a lot of people that got money and are better to still fall apart on the same men and money doesn't fix it. You don't care about money then you care about how big your houses you care about the car you're driving all you want is victory all you want is she says now I know because when I was in trouble when my child was dying when I needed a miracle that money could not buy. You hung in there. You prayed you believe you persisted in prayer and you brought the miracle and you raised my boy up you put them back in my arms and said see I told you God would fail.

See I told you God would keep his word. Your son that was worth more to her that all of the money and all of the riches he could ever given her to have her child restored me say amen so preach the prosperity you want. I'm not against prosperity. How many say amen because it takes money to preach the gospel and we need people with money. We need people to pay times.

Many people make good money to pay good ties to pay for all the things it takes to print, but I want to know do you have the power of God.

When Peter and John after the Pentecost fell before the power for the anointing going to the room to prevent from the out to the temple to pray a prayer time and when I got up to the gate beautiful.

There was a man sitting there. The Bible study was crippled, and even that way a long time sitting there begging for money. He didn't.

They didn't say now brother you need to do is so those few next time. Some I got the corn in your path and you can carry in their need to sew it to us.

And if you search us, you're going to get the you won't have to sit out here and they God will bless you in telnet ditty he said looking us in the Bible says the main look with expectation.

He expected to receive something. But Peter said silver and gold have I not I give unto you. Many say amen or let me tell you he had the goods… I needed and he took that man by the hand he said in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk and he restored that mean he did not go back to baking anymore. You could go get a bona fide job comedy say amen that he was only so so it was going to shop at work the next Monday morning. Do you have the goods that's what I want to know do you have the power of God.

We want this place to be filled with the power of God that when people come in here thinking and know that they can bring people that we don't care how bad off they are. We don't care how hopeless their situation is just bring them here.

We believe the power of God will be in this place is in this place will abide in this place to set them free. So the next time you hear that first Kings 17 chapter preach a startup about that little widow woman you know the real scoop. You know the end of the story. She says now I know that your true man of God because those were true servants of God.

They walk in the power of God and if we are the true servants of God we had those same signs following those that believe we should never be afraid to pray for the sick, the disease that bound the bridge no matter how they may see you well look beyond what you see with your eyes.

You can look at that person as a whole and get your said no you have to stand on the word of God and obey God's word and remember of God is telling you to do something obey him, and he's chosen one door, look for another door if he speaking to you about something that that has brings other people into it. God's go to work on their end to remember all these things its wise counsel as you go back and read first Kings 17 chapter out loud you can get your locker mark on their those things and it'll help you. How many say amen and listen if you need a financial blessing where preach prosperity to to you. In addition to the real message.

How many say amen I don't want people to get the idea that I'm slamming. I just want you to understand the true message because some people got what they got.

Now the balance they got not a balance with their diet and they got not a balance with her face so they're in trouble, physically, and are in trouble spiritually is one chapter fix you up. Did you imbalance in your diet did you in balance in your thinking and he said I would above that you prosper and be in hell even as your soul does prosper father I ask you to bless all your people tonight as we dismiss from the service made the word of God bless them if there's any that has weakness, sickness in their body right now, you said in your word in Psalm 107 20 I send the word and heal you and deliver you from your destruction.

There is healing in the word of God and we know that the word of God right now is touching people breaking yokes and the people a bit in fear they been dilemmas are they being under the influence of lying spirits and they been able been pulling here there and everywhere. I believe Lord the word of God is come the night to give them understanding and counsel wisdom from the Holy Ghost that you can lead them and guide them in. Prosper them, put them where you want them to put them because Lord we never know what a day may hold. We never ever know there is not one of us that can guarantee what will be doing 24 hours from now.

We never know when the phone might ring with up with some problem that's happened. We never know what we might be facing trouble when we might be called to the side of a loved one who sick or in trouble. We never got we got to be ready with God to be walking in faith.

We got to be walking in the word of God with God to be ready at all times, because we know that the word of God abides in us and were strong and we've overcome the wicked one. Keep your hand upon the people of God as each 1 Goes Their Way to their separate homes, whether they're going near or far, those that have traveled a good distance to be with us. Bless them and keep them safe. Let the angels of God in camp round about them. Give them God speed operate. In Jesus name and bring us back in your house tomorrow. Lord bring many people into our and bless the people of God, pray we ask it all in Jesus name, and that the church say amen. God bless you. Amen. I hope you're seeing some of the new facets of this story of the widow of Sarah Seth. I believe her to be the most preached about widow in human history is the centerpiece of most prosperity messages. So when the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart to read first Kings 17 out loud I thought why I know this story very well. I've heard it preached and dissected hundreds of times but I obeyed. And as I read aloud I picked up 17 powerful principles that I had never seen or heard in this story before, which take the story to a higher level of blessing that far exceeds just financial prosperity. Some of these are the part that overcoming fear played in her miracle and that sometimes before God opens the door to a miracle. He first closes the door like what occurred when the brook dried up, and Elijah had to get up and go to Sarah for if the brook had not dried up. He would never obeyed and had he hesitated he would have not arrived at the exact time when he came upon the widow but the crown jewel of this great story came much later, when the widow's son had died and Elijah persisted in prayer three times to raise him up, then the mother said. Now I know you are truly a man of God you see financial prosperity alone is not proof of God's blessing even sinners prosper because of the divine law of sowing and reaping anyone can preach prosperity and when people act on it.

They will get results because of the universal law of reciprocity. But what Elijah had money could not buy. Paul says in the last days, a symptom of many Christians is going to be.

They count gain is godliness, but only the true power of God can heal the sick, deliver from death is when Peter and John told the cripple at the gate beautiful silver and gold have I none but such as I have I give him to D in the name of Jesus of Nazareth rise up and walk today's message beyond prosperity is available on CD for a love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry request offer SK 116 that's SK 116 mail to Archie Hardy ministries PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 or go online@archiehardy.org once again the offers SK 116. Four. Beyond prosperity, a minimum love gift of $10 mailed to PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 2123 till next time. This is Sr. Sharon saying