God Wants You to Flourish

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God Wants You to Flourish!

• Do You Believe This?

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John 1010 Amplified

• The thief comes only in order to steal and kill
  and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy
  life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till
  it overflows).

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3 John 2 NASU

• Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may
  prosper and be in good health, just as your soul
  prospers.

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Psalms 9212-15 NKJV

• The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, he
  shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
• Those who are planted in the house of the LORD
  shall flourish in the courts of our God.

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• They shall still bear fruit in old age
• They shall be fresh and flourishing,
• To declare that the LORD is upright
• He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness
  in Him.

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Flourish(ing)

• parach (paw-rakh') to break forth as a bud, i.e.
  bloom generally, to spread specifically, to fly
  (as extending the wings) figuratively, to
  flourish
• ra anan (rah-an-awn') to be green verdant
  by analogy, new figuratively, prosperous
• (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and
  Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew
  Dictionary.)

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Its time for Pruning when

• Your branches are shooting out in too many
  directions
• Your big old branches have only a few buds
• You arent producing new flowers or growth
• You arent bearing very much fruit

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Discipline or Pruning

• God Disciplines us when we are doing something
  that is wrong.
• God prunes us when we are doing something right.

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John the Baptists cry

• "He must increase, but I must decrease.
• John 330
• More Of Jesus Life (sap, flowers, fruit) and
  less of your own self (old twisted wood).

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Be Pruned or Burned up

• John 151-8
• " I am the true vine, and My Father is the
  vinedresser. "Every branch in Me that does not
  bear fruit, He takes away and every branch that
  bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear
  more fruit.

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• " You are already clean because of the word which
  I have spoken to you. " Abide in Me, and I in
  you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
  unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you
  unless you abide in Me.

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• "I am the vine, you are the branches he who
  abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit,
  for apart from Me you can do nothing.
• "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown
  away as a branch and dries up and they gather
  them, and cast them into the fire and they are
  burned.

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• "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you,
  ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for
  you. "My Father is glorified by this, that you
  bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

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Excel More and More!

• 1 Thessalonians 49-12 AMP
• But concerning brotherly love for all other
  Christians, you have no need to have anyone
  write you, for you yourselves have been
  personally taught by God to love one another.
• And indeed you already are extending and
  displaying your love to all the brethren
  throughout Macedonia. But we beseech and
  earnestly exhort you, brethren, that you excel
  more and more,

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• To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor
  to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own
  affairs, and to work with your hands, as we
  charged you,
• So that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be
  correct and honorable and command the respect of
  the outside world, being dependent on nobody
  self-supporting and having need of nothing.

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You must honor him first
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God Wants To Pour Out Blessing

• Malachi 38-12 AMP
• Will a man rob or defraud God? Yet you rob and
  defraud Me. But you say, In what way do we rob or
  defraud You? You have withheld your tithes and
  offerings. You are cursed with the curse, for
  you are robbing Me, even this whole nation.

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• Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your
  income) into the storehouse, that there may be
  food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says
  the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows
  of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing,
  that there shall not be room enough to receive
  it.

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• And I will rebuke the devourer insects and
  plagues for your sakes and he shall not destroy
  the fruits of your ground, neither shall your
  vine drop its fruit before the time in the field,
  says the Lord of hosts.
• And all nations shall call you happy and blessed,
  for you shall be a land of delight, says the Lord
  of hosts.

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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy

• You cannot keep the first 10 percent of your
  income. Either you give it to God, or the devil
  will take it. Resistance is futile All you can
  do is decide who you are going to give it to.

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Deuteronomy 289-14 TLB

• He will change you into a holy people dedicated
  to himself this he has promised to do if you
  will only obey him and walk in his ways.
• All the nations in the world shall see that you
  belong to the Lord, and they will stand in awe.

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• "The Lord will give you an abundance of good
  things in the land, just as he promised many
  children, many cattle, and abundant crops. He
  will open to you his wonderful treasury of rain
  in the heavens, to give you fine crops every
  season.
• He will bless everything you do and you shall
  lend to many nations, but shall not borrow from
  them..

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• If you will only listen and obey the commandments
  of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,
  he will make you the head and not the tail, and
  you shall always have the upper hand.
• But each of these blessings depends on your not
  turning aside in any way from the laws I have
  given you and you must never worship other gods

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2 Corinthians 910-14 TLB

• For God, who gives seed to the farmer to plant,
  and later on good crops to harvest and eat, will
  give you more and more seed to plant and will
  make it grow so that you can give away more and
  more fruit from your harvest.
• Yes, God will give you much so that you can give
  away much, and when we take your gifts to those
  who need them they will break out into
  thanksgiving and praise to God for your help.

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• So two good things happen as a result of your
  gifts-those in need are helped, and they overflow
  with thanks to God.
• Those you help will be glad not only because of
  your generous gifts to themselves and to others,
  but they will praise God for this proof that your
  deeds are as good as your doctrine.
• And they will pray for you with deep fervor and
  feeling because of the wonderful grace of God
  shown through you.

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God wants you to prosper
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Proverbs 817-21

• "I love those who love me And those who
  diligently seek me will find me. "Riches and
  honor are with me, Enduring wealth and
  righteousness.
• "My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold,
  And my yield better than choicest silver.
• "I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst
  of the paths of justice, To endow those who love
  me with wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.
  

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You have to love him!
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Jeremiah 2911-13 NIV

• For I know the plans I have for you," declares
  the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm
  you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then
  you will call upon me and come and pray to me,
  and I will listen to you. You will seek me and
  find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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You have to seek him!
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2 Chronicles 3120-21 NIV

• This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing
  what was good and right and faithful before the
  Lord his God. In everything that he undertook in
  the service of God's temple and in obedience to
  the law and the commands, he sought his God and
  worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

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You have to study!
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Joshua 18-9 NLT

• Study this Book of Instruction continually.
  Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure
  to obey everything written in it. Only then will
  you prosper and succeed in all you do. This is my
  commandbe strong and courageous! Do not be
  afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is
  with you wherever you go."

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You have to believe it!
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Deuteronomy 816-19

• "In the wilderness He fed you manna which your
  fathers did not know, that He might humble you
  and that He might test you, to do good for you in
  the end.
• "Otherwise, you may say in your heart, 'My power
  and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.'

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• "But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it
  is He who is giving you power to make wealth,
  that He may confirm His covenant which He swore
  to your fathers, as it is this day.

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Psalms 3526-27

• Let those be ashamed and humiliated altogether
  who rejoice at my distress Let those be clothed
  with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves
  over me. Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who
  favor my vindication
• And let them say continually, "The Lord be
  magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His
  servant."

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God is ready to give you money, homes, land
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Proverbs 1322

• A good man leaves an inheritance to his
  children's children, And the wealth of the
  sinner is stored up for the righteous.

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Proverbs 288

• He who increases his wealth by interest and usury
  Gathers it for him who is gracious to the poor.

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Ecclesiastes 225-26 NLT

• For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him?
  God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those
  who please him.
• But if a sinner becomes wealthy, God takes the
  wealth away and gives it to those who please him.