Soul Prosperity

Isaiah 2:2 (NLT) — 2 In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.

3 John 2 (NKJV) — 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Exaltation - meaning

To be lifted up

Promoted

Celebrated

distinguished

set apart

marked difference and marked for difference

Upgrade

Advancement

Promotion

To shine

Exaltation

The exaltation of God

The exaltation of God’s people

Soul prosperity

Sound mind

good decision making

emotional intelligence

Physical prosperity

God wants you well

God wants you financially well

The exaltation of God’s Church

The exaltation of the Nation

The exaltation of the individual

family

Sureway Malta

Soul prosperity

3 John 2 (NKJV) — 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

3 John 4 (NKJV) — 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

3 John 11 (NKJV) — 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

To whom is John speaking when the Spirit of God prompts him to say “Beloved”?

Are you one of the beloved?

If you are, can you, as an individual, have prosperity?

Before you begin the study of prosperity you need to become totally established in the fact that prosperity is the will of God.

Prosperity is for you; however, there are conditions that you have to meet.

If you are a Christian, you are one of the beloved.

And if you are not one of the beloved, Jesus made it easy for you to become one.

Just do what Paul tells you to do in Romans 10:9 and you will become one of the beloved.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

John is talking to the beloved, and he is saying, “Beloved, I desire above all things ....”

ALL THINGS: not some things; not many things, but all things. “I desire—I pray above all things. Evidently, this has priority with God. And if it has priority with Him it has priority with me.

The propsperity that God desires for us to have is a complete prosperity in every area of our lives

PROSPER (euodoo in Greek): to succeed, to flourish, to grow, to achieve, to thrive

ALL THINGS: relationships, marriage, parenthood, finances, career, physical and health, joy, peace, security, mindset, attitudes, character….

Spirit, Soul, body

Soul - Mind, will and emotions

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers. 3 John 1:2

You can’t have physical or financial prosperity until your soul prospers.

Our soul is our mind, will and emotions.

The human will is our capacity for choice and action, which we can exercise for good or evil. The will is the human capacity to choose and to act responsibly. As such, it enables humans to respond to God’s word in obedience or disobedience. For the Christian faith, the will of man is a necessary presupposition for the doctrine of sin and of man’s responsibility for sin. It is only because humans have a will, because they are the author of their own actions, that they can be held responsible and can in fact sin. While the human will is exercised in all sorts of mundane choices, it comes to the fore in Scripture as the capacity to act for or against God.

EMOTION — God has created human persons with emotions, feelings, and affections, which are important for their lives and their relationships with God.Emotions are an essential part of human life that, though broken by sin, are redeemed and restored by Christ. We suffer negative emotions, and even in positive emotions, we are to some degree subject to our circumstances. In this way, emotions reveal the dependency on God or otherwise

MIND — The part of a person that thinks and reasons., this also includes understanding, thought, mind, reason.

It all comes from our thought life.

Proverbs 23:7 says, “as a man thinks, so is he.”

For us to prosper more in our physical and financial life, we also have to prosper in our soul

The Bible also tells us that for us, born again believers, things work from the inside out.

It is not the outside, what we can see, that prospers first, instead, we must first prosper on the inside in our thoughts.

2 Corinthians 4:18 (NKJV) — 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) — 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

So how do we do that?

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2

First, we must continually renew our minds to the word of God.

We must choose to set out minds on the things of God and not everything we see or hear going on around us.

It is only when we keep our mind stayed on God and His word that our mind is at peace. (Isaiah 26:3)

Philippians gives us further instructions for our thought life…

Philippians 4:6-7

Philippians 4:8-9

If our mind is not daily renewed, we will not be able to prosper in our mind. And if we don’t prosper on the inside, we may never see the prosperity we desire to see on the outside.

The Kingdom of God is within us and once that part of us prospers, everything else, will be added to us.

God’s way is not hard. But it does take discipline. And it begins in our mind, our thoughts.

Today, I encourage you, feed your soul. Help it to prosper. As you do, you will be sowing perpetual prosperity into every area of your life.

Meditate on this: Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24