Beyond Prosperity, Part 2

Greetings, read the new listeners and welcome this program of the RG Harding ministries. I'm sure not that 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 I want to hear what important to know when God and obey God always is now the important God always works for both and always works on both then he pointed in that little woman's heart to go there. We know that he did why he said that he can win a woman to commander don't know we didn't get the privilege of getting did you have a dream.

Did you have a vision Angel, did you hear a voice did you just get this impression or spirit.

We are a woman. We don't even God put in her heart, and there she was. When moving your life.

This is what happens door closes, you can start getting afraid. You can start can show you can start making things happen yourself, my God, what are we going to do want to go here here all these places are not the you're not looking for the door that he has open you close the door to my closet open the one you and I walk him how hard when you when you can trust you that you do not pray one thing with your map and get up and do another thing so when somebody's working on my comes to you if you're a single male or single woman in this church told me your mind like you're my husband said no marriage date.

One not tell the other immediately.

People sometimes somebody that your wife and the person for another five years. But God revealed that white one is not marrying his interest in them. Nice wonderful person but they're not that, but it will deal with the person that person they are true.

God wants two people to do something, whether it's ministry if he says he's calling somebody to work for him in a certain ministry. Placer maybe work full time, quit their job, work for the Lord, not the other up and quit your job if you haven't heard from. Sometimes you have to take a step of faith in your fear footer. They hope all the Lord, make sure what I do visit you shaking the baby legs when you heard but okay to do it afraid when you heard from God afraid because you make a big huge mistake that you will have to pay for for a long long time. God always works on both ends. So we put it alive heart. Elijah immediately he rose up, and when he got there she was right where she was supposed to be and so we know what happened. He said, would you get me a drink of water and she said sure she didn't question it. She didn't think she started her on her way to getting some water and by the way why you're going bring me a little cake and of course we know the story, and this is the part everybody loves to preach one and she says is the Lord thy God liveth.

No she said by God.Elijah I believe you, but I know your God knows I do not have enough to make you a cake. I can barely make one for me and my son I'm out here soon as I get these two sticks I'm going to have fixed him a cake and make me cake and that's it will sit down and die. What did he say this is the part I want you to see this is the fourth thing that the Lord showed me in verse 13 Elijah said under her.

Elijah said under her not.

This is not big because when you're in a place where you're not dilemma or whether you're in trouble you're in a test. Whatever's going on the enemy. You must conquer its fear and never show up best as long as you are in fear. You can innately and holding off indefinitely. You must conquer fear, first thing. The trouble is I don't care what is standing at your door again before that one can go because you don't.com delivers you and he gets ready to happen the next time something happens you'll go right back into fear 34 because Damon just put it in a nutshell he says is 34 verse four Lord Annie Hartney me that's the first thing Don did verse six port man cry and the Lord in trouble. Fear the trouble first.

You will come back with something always intimidate you, and along with backup and fear, fear, and you and you are in Christ is still looking you in the face, you're not will you, so we find out that she had to conquer fear and then we see in verse 15 and she whacked and cording to the saying Elijah, here's the next thing the Lord showed me she acted on the word of God.

You see when I live just below we have the written word today. Peter said we have a more sure word of prophecy right here. This is the word of God, we act on. But when I just remember it was speaking as a representative of the living God of Israel before God I got the words right from the lips of God.

So when he spoke to her when she got her and said those words to her verbatim what I just word because she would be in big trouble because you would not have been able to bring the miracle about what he said was from the mouth of God and the word of God she could trust it and what did he say he said God, the barrel shall not waste in the cruise that will shall not fail Lord and so she did on the word of God and she did what he said. She didn't stand there and say I already told you Rev. Elijah that I don't enough meal. I don't know will you expect me to my son's now because of the mother will feed her child first. She may not be herself. She might get my food, but she will always be her child. Would she be willing to say I'll give it to you because she acted on the word of God. And when you promise from God in your spirit that no one answer to what you and your God's promises in Christ Jesus, and you got that God speaks clearly just exactly what we well maybe we will talk that way you will never know until she acted on the word of God. She told the promise of God, and she acted on it and we knew we know that there was something that quickened in her spirit. We know there was something that quickened her spirit because what we read way back in verse nine for I have commanded a widow woman there dainty again.

We don't know the details.

We don't know how he commanded her, but somehow in her spirit when she just poured just like that.

New she knew it was the voice of God when you know and use God if you talk you out of it.

Will talk you out of it. Will talk you out of it. Read my God so foolish I can't do this when you think God's will and quit. Baby it's and this is exactly what she did. Something in her spirit caused her to obey. First of all, she was on her way. When she got ready fear if she hadn't dealt with the fear first. See a lot you didn't say what he said.

Fear not the first thing he recognized he saw something about her demeanor. You can see the spirit of fear on a person who can look on the person and see when they're in fear. I mean it's just on it's in their eyes.

It's in their basis in their countenance. Maybe minister to someone to pray for someone and you saw the fear on them and you thought your in your mind you're thinking if we don't get rid of this fear can pray to storm down but they're just a fall right back into this thing. I may never been in a place like that and you know, fear, and it's a terrible thing in the motion because when not wanting to. And when God called Jesus why did you said I was afraid. And so the uses fear and I know I experienced a time in my life when fear had a grip on me.

I need a grip on me and it was so great on me that my sister all shall come to the house to see me and she looked at me she said Sharon if you do not deal with that spirit of fear, I'm telling you anywhere. Jesus said that was going to take your mind you to deal with and I needed to be reviewed because now it was just all. She just looked at me and saw she says you cannot deal with that and she brought something up… You realize it was in my memory bank Jesus. I'll never forget the time Sharon way back when sister Elizabeth preached in the church. Many women woman evangelist ways to have sister Elizabeth. She was a powerful preacher little woman with a big voice and I mean she preached powerfully.

She was having a service.

I mean the power of God was moving and she had a prayer line after she prayed she had a prayer line and never come up. She was praying for Marston with the singers behind the mic we were singing and this woman came up and she was pointing when she got up to the front. She began to manifest and she had long, they were real or acrylic, but she had long red nail. I mean, they look like daggers and she was like this out like all. And when they when she asked the people that working for the whole was she was Dragon sister Elizabeth and she says I hate you and and she was threatened, but all she was said and she was doing like this. Fear jungle sister Elizabeth and she started backing up like that, she started back up in the meantime they're trying to hold her Jeep buck and trying to get loose. The more the stronger she got sister Linda was stand there she was in a dilemma trying to what to do possess woman with powerful little Cheryl says share with you even thinking she says you ran off that stage, you you you the name of Jesus. And I don't know what the devil came out or not but the woman stopped manifesting right down and then take her off and she woke up she never been here before. To my knowledge has never been here since Cheryl said I'll never forget that you did you just do that now I'm really so after she went to bed now was laying there on my bed meditating and I was thinking I didn't do that I really wasn't in my mind, I began to see it happening. You know I was like going through it again like a picture a movie and I saw it happen. I saw the one up there. Also, the look on her face and saw the fingernails were she was trying to claw one down off the run up to her and her head and said in the name of Jesus and the right of my stomach and off my chest. It's like seeing myself do that. I delivered myself in the name of Jesus and nothing lifted off and using the Lord allowed Cheryl to bring up that you are thing that happened way back. Why she had to be the holy and I went through it in the same happened to me and so in order for you to get deliverance from anything you've got to deal with the fear and shock yourself. I are you sure because when you become. Fear is there. He's competing with fear and fear in your mind is raging and you got to read you when you do it will go, but most the time we don't just get stronger and then we get we get down but I know I told that story. But anyway that's not that's not in this chapter, but the point is, because she had the fear she was able to rise up and obeying the word of God and how much more when we had the written word of God and of course what was the result for 3 1/2 years. They ate every day every breakfast she went there and there was there was flour or barley or whatever was in the pantry. There was oil in the pantry every morning, every evening, she ate her son eight Elijah hate says all her house so you know where probably got around Annie Bastian, Joe Lulu and Bill needs me to think it was more than just her son by saying all her house so travel all the fun inherit money or whatever work travel show up at your door and that's what happened. That was okay.

There was another blessing for three years. They were blessed and we hear this message preached in this chapter preached. This is the end of the sermon and then of course we know we are told, come on.

And it's true. If you give you will receive. If you obey God and the word of God and you preach the gospel, you will be blessed.

That's all true, that is a valid message but most the time. This is where it ends. But God said no.

I want you to read the whole chapter and that's what we did. So what happened after that. We don't know how much time it was but it came to pass at a certain point of time somewhere later on her son died, her child became sick even with the lie he was still there so torn with her.

That means I'm living with her. Her son, now don't you think if Rev. Elijah was living in your house eat at your table.

If your son not think you will praying getting healed, don't you think that I'm sure like to thought that I had to think Elijah had to pray for him. For God healing. But the child didn't get here only got worse. He got so bad she came, she said excuse me Rev. Elijah great prophet of the living God of Israel is financial blessing prays a lot like his dad John the child out of her bosom place where he slept the child down the bed woman son now. 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, relative God doesn't do that. He's a God of life. But sometimes God does not intervene in the natural course of things to go on get sick with an illness and it's a terminal illness.

God is not intervene. The natural course they will die. Doesn't mean God killed.

There is a difference between culmination and then we say that again.

There's a different between omission you commit the act and per mission. You allow it.

God allows this world to do all the crazy things they do people go around people in Michigan God is 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 the stuff that what happened to us wait on the bad things that that guy being that there are times that we know about the guy was one got to get hit by a car got this document from that and we can now but not more because the Angels of the Lord are in campground about is just intervene not intervene and sometimes we understand why you I amen I hope you're seeing some of the new facets of the story of the widow of zero cents. 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 SKU 116 that's SKU 116 mail to Archie Hardy ministries PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 go online@archiehardy.org once again the offers.

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