Kingdom Financial Principles. Part 5: The Power of Kingdom Transfer. Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (KJV)

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1 Kingdom Financial Principles Part 5: The Power of Kingdom Transfer I. Introduction. A. Part 4 highlights. B. The most expeditious path to Kingdom prosperity. 1. Change the way you think. Matthew 4:17... Repent ( = change the way you think): for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (KJV) Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (KJV) 2. Make finding out about the Kingdom of God your number one desire. Matthew 6:33 The thing you should want most is God's kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these other things you need will be given to you. (NCV) Shift the balance point in your thinking away from the earth cursed system of working harder, longer, faster... and toward the principles of the Kingdom of God. 3. Line your soul up with the word of God. 3 John 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. Remember, any thought you hold in opposition to God s Word and the Kingdom of God is a thought that is keeping you poor. II. The Church s Mandate. A. The mandate of the Church is to prepare you to change the earth, not leave the earth. 1

2 John 17:15, 18 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one... As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. B. How is one expected to change the earth? By the power of the Kingdom of God being formed in you and released through you to the inhabitants in the earth. 1. Kingdom formation. John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see ( = be aware of) the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter ( = come into) into the kingdom of God. (KJV) Luke 17:20-21 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you. 2. Kingdom release. Mark 16:15 And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel (i.e., of the Kingdom) to every creature. Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (KJV) Matthew 10:6-8 But go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And as ye go (first) preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Second), Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, 2 cast out devils...

3 C. Kingdom dominion. John 20:21-23 He spoke to them again and said, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you. Then he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to forgive them, they are unforgiven. (NLT) III. Kingdom Laws. A. Law = a rule of conduct or procedure, prescribed, established and enforced by the supreme power of the state, that governs ( = commands and controls) the affairs of men. B. The Laws of the Kingdom of God release great power. Examples: Jesus turned water into wine. He walked on the water. He cursed the fig tree. He spoke to the wind and the waves in the midst of a storm and they became calm. He was raised from the dead. He entered a room where all the doors were shut without going through a door. He multiplied the loaves and fishes, healed the sick, raised the dead, etc. C. A few laws of the Kingdom. 1. Seed time and harvest. Genesis 8:22-9:1 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 3

4 2. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:2-4 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh Faith. Romans 3:27-28 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. (ESV) Mark 9:23 Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. 4. Your words. Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. (KJV) Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. (KJV) John 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 5. Your thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 For just as he hath thought in his own mind so he is... (Rotherham) Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not heeded My words nor My law, but rejected it. 6. Trust. Psalm 91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. (KJV) Psalm 125:1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. (KJV) 4

5 Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (KJV) Rely on Me alone. Ask no other help. Pay all out in the Spirit of trust that more will come to meet your supply. Empty your vessels quickly to ensure a Divine Supply. So much retained by you, so much the less will be gained from Me. It is a Law of Divine Supply. To hold back, to retain, implies a fear of the future, a want of trust in Me. (God Calling) IV. How to Operate Effectively in the Kingdom. A. Repent and believe the Gospel. Mark 1:14-15 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. B. Become as a child. Matthew 18: Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, (= to turn around or reverse) and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (KJV) To be childlike is to be Christ-like. (John Paul Jackson) C. Trust God alone. Mark 10:23-24 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, Children, how hard it is for those who trust ( = have confidence in) in riches to enter the kingdom of God! John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 5

6 D. Avoid division. Mark 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. (KJV) 1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. E. Move forward without looking backward. Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. (KJV) Remember Lot s wife. James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. (KJV) F. Preach the kingdom of God first! Miracles follow the teaching and preaching of the kingdom of God! Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and (first) preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and (second) healing every sickness and every disease among the people. (KJV) V. The Power of Kingdom Transfer. A. Our heavenly Father is the Author of the powerful process of Kingdom Transfer. On the basis of the shed blood of Jesus, He has already transferred to us: His righteousness for our unrighteousness, His healing for our sickness, His riches for our poverty. 6

7 B. The foundation of Kingdom Transfer is believing, trusting and obeying God. 1. Believing God. Matthew 21:22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. 2. Trusting God. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Trust wholly. Trust completely. Empty your vessel. I will fill it. I ask you to understand Divine Supply. It is a most difficult lesson for My children to learn. So dependent have they become on material supply they fail to understand. You must live as I tell you. Depend on Me. (God Calling) 3. Obeying God. 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel answered, What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice. It is better to listen to God than to offer the fat of sheep. (NCV) C. The promise. Mark 10:29-30 So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life. D. God unveiled the power of Kingdom Transfer through Abraham. Genesis 22:16-18 By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice. 7

8 E. Basic requirements for Kingdom transfer. 1. Be thankful for what you already have. 2. Bring it to Jesus. 3. Do what He tells you to do with it. 4. Look to Him alone for the increase. F. Examples. 1. The miracle of the loaves and the fishes. Why was so little food able to feed so many people? The short answer is that it was brought to Jesus. The moment the five loaves and two fish were brought to Jesus, they shifted kingdom from the world s system to God s Kingdom system. And in that instant, they became candidates for and recipients of God s supernatural law of Divine Supply. Matthew 14:15-20 When it was evening, his followers came to him and said, No one lives in this place, and it is already late. Send the people away so they can go to the towns and buy food for themselves. But Jesus answered, They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat. They said to him, But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish. Jesus said, Bring the bread and the fish to me. Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking to heaven, he thanked God for the food. Jesus divided the bread and gave it to his followers, who gave it to the people. All the people ate and were satisfied... (NCV) 2. The boat that shifted kingdoms, and found fish where there were no fish. Luke 5:1-7 So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, 8

9 Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to Him, Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. Broken nets and sinking boats, all because they loaned their boat to Jesus and obeyed Him. 3. Reward for faithful service rendered. 2 Kings 4:1-7 One day the widow of one of Elisha's fellow prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the LORD. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves. What can I do to help you? Elisha asked. Tell me, what do you have in the house? Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil, she replied. And Elisha said, Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting the jars aside as they are filled. So she did as she was told. Her sons brought many jars to her, and she filled one after another. Soon every container was full to the brim! Bring me another jar, she said to one of her sons. There aren't any more! he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing. When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and there will be enough money left over to support you and your sons. (NLT) 4. Kingdom Transfer works even when you are not one of God s chosen. Genesis 39:3-6 Potiphar saw that the LORD was with Joseph and that the LORD made Joseph successful in everything he did. So Potiphar was very happy with Joseph and allowed him to be his personal servant. He put Joseph in charge of the house, trusting him with everything he owned. When Joseph was put in charge of the house and everything Potiphar owned, the LORD blessed the people in Potiphar's house because of Joseph. And the LORD blessed everything that belonged to Potiphar, both in the house and in the field. So Potiphar left Joseph in charge of everything he owned... (NCV) G. You must bring and invest something from your own resources. James 2:20-22, But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the 9

10 altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. VI. A Few Specifics Concerning Your Finances. A. Giving: the message that it sends. Giving is a powerful action to bring more money into your life, because when you are giving you are saying, I have plenty.... If you are thinking, I don t have enough money to give, bingo! Now you know why you don t have enough money! When you think you don t have enough to give, start giving. As you demonstrate faith in giving, the law of attraction must give you more to give. (The Secret) Proverbs 11:24-25 There is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty. The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself. B. How much do I have to give? How far do I have to take this? Do exactly what God tells you to do. No more and no less. There is a big difference between giving and sacrificing. Giving from a heart that is overflowing feels so good. Sacrificing does not feel good. Don t confuse the two they are diametrically opposed. One emits a signal of lack and the other emits a signal of more than enough. One feels good and one does not feel good. Sacrifice will eventually lead to resentment. Giving from a full heart is one of the most joyous things you can do, and the law of attraction will grab hold of that signal and flood even more into your life. (The Secret) The Bible instructs us to give the sacrifice of praise, not money. Hebrews 13:15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. You can t out give God, but you can out give yourself. C. Debt. Most people have a goal of getting out of debt. That will keep you in debt forever. Whatever you re thinking about, you will attract. You say, But it s get out of debt. I don t care if it s get out or get in, if you re thinking debt, you re attracting debt. Set up an automatic debt repayment program and then start to focus on prosperity. (Bob Proctor) 10

11 D. Bills. When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on those bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you. You have to find a way of feeling good, so you can bring your good to you. (The Secret) E. I can t afford it. If the words I can t afford it have passed your lips, your power to change that is now. Change it with, I can afford that! I can buy that! Say it over and over. Become like a parrot. For the next thirty days, make it your intention that you are going to look at everything you like and say to yourself, I can afford that. I can buy that. As you see your dream car drive past, say, I can afford that. As you see clothes you love, as you think about a great vacation, say, I can afford that. As you do this you will begin to shift your self and you will begin to feel better about money. You will begin to convince yourself that you can afford those things, and as you do, the pictures of your life will change. (The Secret) The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it. (Charles Fillmore) F. Are your habitual thought patterns blocking money from coming to you? The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts. Every negative thought, feeling, or emotion is blocking your good from coming to you, and that includes money... If you do not have enough, it is because you are stopping the flow of money coming to you, and you are doing that with your thoughts. You must tip the balance of your thoughts from lack of money to more than enough money. Think more thoughts of abundance than of lack, and you have tipped the balance. When you need money, it is a powerful feeling within you, and so of course through the law of attraction you will continue to attract needing money. (The Secret) 11

12 G. Wealth is a mindset. When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mindset. It s all about how you think. (David Schirmer) If you have had thoughts of, I have to work really hard and struggle to have money, let them go immediately. By thinking those thoughts you emitted that frequency, and they became the pictures of your life experience... replace those thoughts with, Money comes easily and frequently. (The Secret) The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) H. Focus on wealth. To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it... Focus on not enough money, and you will create untold more circumstances of not having enough money. You must focus on the abundance of money to bring that to you. You have to emit a new signal with your thoughts, and those thoughts should be that you currently have more than enough. You really do need to call your imagination into play and make believe you already have the money you want... Visualize checks in the mail. (The Secret) VII. Close. You are the heir to the kingdom. Prosperity is your birthright, and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life than you can possibly imagine. You deserve every good thing you want, and the Universe will give you every good thing you want, but you have to summon it into your life. Now you know The Secret. You have the key. The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life. (The Secret) Copyright 2007 by Bill Fries. All rights reserved. 12