Prosperity is a Journey!

Prosperity is a Journey!

Prosperity is a journey, not an event or destination. Therefore you must be willing and make the decision to go on this journey with God. I make it a habit to listen and rehearse lessons that builds a pathway that leads towards prosperity. This allows what I hear to sink in and become apart of my conscious thinking. When it becomes apart of my conscious thinking, my behavior changes. I become aware that Holy Spirit is taking me farther along this journey of Prosperity.

Matthews 6:33 is tells us to seek God’s kingdom. Many of us have been seeking God. Let’s think about this. The moment I accepted Jesus as my savior, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit took up residence on the inside of me. (John 14:23,26) If THEY came to live on the inside of me, I shouldn’t have to look for God anymore. I know where to find Him. I can always find Him on the inside of me.

Matthew 6:33 is really telling us to seek the KINGDOM of God or God’s system of operating in the earth. WOW! You mean to tell me that I know where God is? And if I know where God is, then I know where to look for His system of operating in the earth? Yes Ma’am and Yes Sir! That’s exactly what I’m saying to you.

Why have you been searching for answers to your financial dilemmas from the outside instead of the inside? One way we’ve been trying to search for answers from the outside is by trying to work 2 jobs, getting more education to position ourselves for promotions, or starting a business.

Remember the Source of creation lives on the inside of us. I just need to learn the Source’s way of doing things for me! You just need to learn the Source’s way of doing things for you!

Once you learn the Source's way of doing things for you, you'll find out what channel (job, business, education) He wants to use. Remember Prosperity is a journey. We all have to use the same principles, but we have different pathways to Prosperity!

Until All the Families of the Earth are blessed,

Leroy Thompson Jr.

Personal Responsibility

I was thinking on the words “personal responsibility”. The Holy Spirit began to run me through the word of God and show me how the history of the bible was determined by man. That leads me to this statement: “God decides what can happen and I decide if it will happen!”
Until we eliminate all excuses and placing blame for our present conditions on others or other circumstances, we will never reach our full potential life. Everything that happens to you is a result of a decision that you made.

You are the blame for where you are financially, whether you like where you are or you don’t. Nothing can change until you accept that!

All the scriptures in the bible that refer to prosperity involve individuals making a decision for themselves.
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness

God gives seed to a sower. You must DECIDE to become a sower.

3 John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
You will only prosper as much as your thoughts prosper. Who controls you thoughts? You or does someone else?

I can go on and on, but let’s make personal responsibility applicable to your everyday life. Let me tell you a story of I learned about personal responsibility. I had just bought a brand new washer and dryer to put in my house. I picked them up from the store in my truck. I forgot a piece that I needed to go with the dryer. I stopped at another large local home improvement store with the washer and dryer in the back of my truck and I parked in the front. I figured that I would just run in, purchase the piece, and run out. I felt an urge to go and drop the washer and dryer off first, but I decided to go into the store any way. So when I came out the washer and dryer were gone with my tailgate down.

Someone had stolen my appliances out the back of my truck! I was hotter than fish grease! I immediately called the police and filed a report. When I sat back in my truck disgusted, the Holy Spirit spoke these words to me, “It’s your fault”. At that moment, the whole situation flashed back over my mind and the Holy Spirit reminded me that it was my decision to leave the truck and go into the store.

Were the persons wrong for stealing? YES! Was my freedom and rights as a human violated? YES! But it was my decision to leave the truck unattended for five minutes that led to all the subsequent actions. So in the end it was my fault. Does that means that I beat myself up? No, all that means is that when I begin to take responsibility for my world, I controls what happens.

If you want to increase, it’s your responsibility. I’m not talking about working harder, or getting another college degree. I’m talking about taking responsibility for your thoughts! Taking responsibility for you feelings! Taking responsibility for your actions. I close with this statement. “ Anything in your life that you don’t like, if you think back far enough, you’ll see where you initiated the process! Control your thoughts!

Until All the Families of Earth are Blessed,

Leroy Thompson Jr.

Divine Relationships: A Higher Form of God's Substance

I didn’t know which higher form of God’s substance to begin with.  They don’t have per se a chronological order.  All I know is that LOVE is the highest form of God ‘s substance because everything works by love.  Also God is LOVE!

I started to think about what did you and I do after finding about God’s love.  The next thing we did was connecting to His love!  Then it dawned on me. I need to talk about the Divine Relationships, which is a higher form of God’s substance. Remember these higher forms can produce money (the lowest form of God’s substance) or the same thing money can buy or sometimes can’t buy!  It may be one relationship that causes you to prosper beyond your wildest dreams.

Divine relationships are connections to others setup by God and recognized by you.  You have to recognize divine connections.  They are not governed by feelings.  They are governed by faith!  A Divine relationship is a must for you to prosper.  Without it you will never reach your potential.  God told Abraham in Genesis 12:3 that He (God) was going to bless those that blessed him (Abraham).  In other words those that caused Abraham to prosper, God was going to cause them to prosper.  The only ones that could receive the blessing are those that had a relationship (connection) with Abraham.  Now you can see why Lot, Abraham’s nephew, was rich.  And you can also see why Lot lost all he had.  It had everything to do with connection. 

As I’m writing, I see that this blog will develop into two parts.  There are two types of divine relationships, vertical Divine relationships and horizontal Divine relationships.  Vertical Divine relationships consist of you being connected to someone who’s been there, done that, and got the T-shirt to prove it.  Horizontal Divine relationships consist of you being connected to someone that will help you control your environment of thoughts and actions or others who are going down the same path that you are going. 

We will focus on vertical Divine relationships in this blog and horizontal Divine relationships in the next blog.

Now let’s get back to Abraham and Lot.  When Lot stayed connected to Abraham, everything was fine.  When he started to quarrel with Abraham, everything went south.  Let’s look and the inner meaning of what really happened.  When Lot adhered to Genesis 12: 3, he was able to learn what Abraham was learning.  Abraham was able to show him what he was learning.  When Lot cut off that Divine relationship, he cut off his flow of Divine information.  Could Lot have heard directly from God and use the blessing on his own?  Yes, he could have.  But my question is “WHY DIDN’T LOT HEAR FROM GOD ON HIS OWN AND USE THE BLESSING?”  We can easily tell that Lot didn’t know how to do this because of the results that he got.  The number one reason for vertical Divine relationships is accountability.

Everything in God’s system works by the seed principle.  Everything you need to accomplish what God has planned for you is already in you.  But it’s just like a seed.  You can’t tell how many apples or the quality an apple seed will produce.   You can only tell the potential.  Until that seed is planted, cultivated and allowed to grow, you won’t know what kind of fruit it will produce.

Well the planting, cultivation, and growth of the seed comes from the accountability of the sunlight, water, and dirt.  Those three things gives the seed what it needs and protects it so that it can reach it’s potential!  WOW!!!

The seed of potential in your life needs accountability from someone who has produced what you have potential to produce.   That’s the purpose of vertical Divine relationships.  For the sake of the blog, I’m going to give you some examples of Divine relationships that you can research and study for yourself.

-       David and the men that joined themselves to him 1 Samuel 22:1-2 and 1 Chronicles 28:1-12

-       Moses and Joshua

-       Jesus and the disciples

-       Elijah and Elisha

-       Naomi and Ruth

-       Paul and Timothy

Remember every last one of these relationship cause increase!

Until next time!

Releasing the Spirit, Provoking Thought, Causing Increase,

Leroy Thompson Jr.

www.ucanbeatdebt.com

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The Higher Forms of God's Substance!

On the last blog entry, we discussed that Love is the highest form of God’s substance. We’re so busy trying to attain the lowest form or most reduced form of God’s substance, which is money, we don’t even realize that there are higher forms of God’s substance that control money.

Money doesn’t mean anything until it can be exchanged for something of value.  The money in your wallet or purse is printed on the same paper that you can get at office depot.  That’s why the government tightly guards the money plates that stamp the ink on paper bills.  Money is so important because it represents the value that can be received when exchanged.  You have the power to create value or wealth.  Or a better way to say it is you have the ability to produce or create wealth. 

My purpose for pointing out the higher forms of God’s substance is to enlighten you to realize that you create wealth.  These higher forms of God’s substance will cause you to create value in your life with out money ever leaving your hand.    Am I saying that you don’t need money?  No, but what I am saying is that you should not focus on the lowest form of God’s substance when there are higher substances that will control the flow of money!

If you are looking for old time religion, this ain’t it.  So you can stop reading!  This is about being, not becoming, BUT BEING who God called you to be, producing what God has given you power to produce, and receiving what God has planned for you to receive!

I’m not worried about inflation or the crashing of the dollar.  I’m not buying gold or silver trying to protect what I already have.  It doesn’t matter what currency becomes dominant.  If I master the higher forms of God’s substance, then whatever measures value will be attracted to me so I can exchange it for what I value!  Why? Because I am connected to the SOURCE and His higher forms of substance are working in my life.

I started off this blog meaning to give another higher form of God’s substance.  As I was writing, I got detoured into writing about the importance of the higher forms of God’s substance.  I will list the higher forms of God’s substance so you can begin to think about them and also you will realize that some of them have been working in your life already.  But when I list them, you will become conscious or aware that some of them were working in your life already.  What ever you become conscious or aware of begins to work more efficiently in your life because you are looking and expecting them to work for you!

You already know one, which is LOVE!  It is the highest form of God’s substance.  God is love.  All the other forms work because of Love.  Another is favor or grace, which is special treatment.  Mercy is a higher form.  Mercy is God not allowing the bad results should happen to me and instead allows a good result to happen in which I don’t deserve.  Sometimes you may make a bad decision with your money, and God’s mercy kicks in and doesn’t allow the results from that decision to have its full affect on you and you come out smelling like a rose!

The Anointing of God is a higher form of God’s substance.  The anointing removes burdens and destroys yokes.  The anointing allows you to accomplish thing financially that other are stopped from doing and they can’t figure out why they are stopped. You can’t buy it, you can’t manufacture it, and you can’t steal it.   You just have to catch it!

Divine health is a higher form of God substance.  The better you body works, the less money you have to spend trying to fix it!  And you can better enjoy the money you have! 

Wisdom is a higher form.  I like to keep things simple and this is how I define wisdom:  knowing what to do, when to do it, and how to do it! It also allows you to do more with what you have when it takes others more money to do the same!

Faith is a higher form of God’s substance.  Faith is you trusting God, which leads to obeying his instruction.  Your faith gives God permission to do for you what He’s wanted to do all along!

Divine Understanding is a higher form of God’s substance.  When you understand or become conscious/aware of God being, not just a Supreme Being in heaven, but a Supreme Being who is my father and living on the inside of me, you can develop the use of the other higher forms of God’s substance.

Divine Relationships are a higher form of God’s substance.  The right relationship can produce money and everything else you need.  I have many divine relationships.  My wife, who helps me, be the best I can be.  My Parents, in two ways spiritually and naturally, challenge me to reach my potential and open doors that I couldn’t and don’t have to open by myself.    I can go on and on.  I will expound on each of these in future blogs, but I have to drop this one on you about divine relationships.  Read 1 Samuel 22 1-2 and 1 Chronicles 28:1-12.  You’ll see how divine connections will cause you to prosper.

I will look at each of these higher forms of God’s substance in the coming weeks.  I want to remind you that all these higher forms control the lowest form, money!

Releasing the Spirit, Provoking Thought, Causing Increase,

Leroy Thompson Jr.

www.ucanbeatdebt.com

Love: The Highest Form of God's Substance.

If you have been following me on twitter, you might have seen the hash tag #Godssubstance. If you haven’t, you can search that hash tag on twitter and follow the posts.

My point for starting the hash tag #Godssubstance is to identify the different forms of God’s substances. I have become aware that money is a form of God’s substance. But it’s the lowest or most reduced form of God’s substance. In other words, money is the result or visible form or God’s higher form of substance.

So that this blog won’t be long, I will not go into detail about all of God’s substance. Just search the hash tag #Godssubstance to get a chance to see all the different forms of God’s substance. I’ll also expound in future blogs about the other forms.

We’re so busy looking for money that we forget that money is only a measurement of value or a medium of exchange. The value is in what money is exchanged for. If that’s the case then why should I be chasing the result of value or the lowest form of God’s substance when I can create value? Sometimes it’s not money that we need but another form of God’s substance that will give us the same value that money could be exchange for.

In this blog, I will deal with the highest form of God’s substance, which is LOVE! God is love. Love is the foundation for all other forms of God’s substance. Everything and every act that God performs towards us is based on love. Why? Because GOD is LOVE!

Jesus said that He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. That means that we should be living life to the fullest in every area. Jesus was the word of God made flesh. Based on that we can easily say that Jesus was love in the flesh. So Love came that we might have the right and ability to live life to the fullest in every area.

Let me tell you a quick testimony of how love is the highest form of God’s substance. On March 13, 2011, my wife, my son, and I were leaving Baton Rouge on I-10 headed east. We were behind an 18-wheeler and I moved over into the passing lane. I was going about 70 mph and the 18-wheeler was going about 65 mph. (The next series of events happened within 5 seconds.) As soon as I got into the passing lane, I heard a loud voice saying, “ HIT THE GAS.” Immediately I hit the gas! My wife was reading and kind of looked at me funny. (I guess she was wondering why I hit the gas so fast and so hard.) At the same time I’ll turned my head to look at my rear view mirror. In that process, I noticed a truck, on I-10 headed west, swerved into his right lane and them made a 90-degree left turn crossing the median headed towards us. I hollered, “Oh Lord” and the truck just missed us and hit the car that drove up behind the 18-wheeler. And my wife and I heard a loud boom. That was the same 18-wheeler that we were just behind! That truck was so close to hitting us that, as it passed, I felt the wind from that truck shake the tail end of my SUV!

Of course by now I’m nervous and my heart is racing. My wife asked me why I hollered and I asked her did she see that truck almost hit us. Her reply was all she saw was lights. I told her that what I heard did, and saw. She said she didn’t hear anything. We both came to the conclusion that what I heard was the voice of God. I also believed our angels pushed my truck in addition to me hitting the gas.

I turned around at the next exit to go help if I could and what I pulled upon made me become even more nervous. The car that the truck hit exploded on contact killing 5 people including a little child. (My son was sleeping on the back seat.) I immediately begin to pray for the people and their families that were involved.

As I got home, still amazed at the voice of God and profusely thanking HIM, I began to think that God loves me so much that He would shout instructions to get my attention to preserve my family’s life and send Angels to push my truck. In preserving my family’s life, we avoided all sorts of destruction. He preserved my two daughters’ futures, eliminated potential medical bills, and every other damage possible.

If God can loves me enough to give me instructions to preserve my life, then why would God withhold love that teaches me to control something unimportant and plentiful as money. What’s more important, life or money? The answer is self-explanatory! So If God can use the highest form of His substance (LOVE) to give me instructions to preserve my life and my family’s life (the most important gift God has ever given), which is infinitely more important then money, then God can use the highest form of His substance (LOVE) to give me instruction to control the lowest form of God’s substance (Isaiah 48:17)!

Until All the Families of the Earth are Blessed,

Leroy Thompson Jr.
Twitter: @leroyjrt
www.ucanbeatdebt.com

Money Is Important Yet Unimportant Part 2

Money Is Important Yet Unimportant Part 2

Money is important.  You must be comfortable with talking about money, living with money, circulating money, and receiving money.  There were 3 principles, discussed in the last blog that must sink into your thought life.  First, there is enough for everybody.  Next, you must accept responsibility for the results in your life.  And Finally, You must realize that your prosperity and increase is not taking anything from anyone else. 

As you allow these principles to sink in, then you realize that you are not in competition with anyone.  There is enough for everyone! I'm responsible for my prosperity, and as I prosper it’s not diminishing the Source!

Then something strange begins to happen!  Money begins to lose its level of importance!  It’s just like oxygen.  Most people don’t think twice about oxygen.  Is oxygen important?  Well, heck yeah it is!  But you don’t think about it because there is an abundance of oxygen.  You don’t wake up in the morning saying “I wonder if I’m going to have enough oxygen today.”  Or “ Let me shorten my breath, so my neighbor can have more oxygen.”  You simply get up in the morning and go your merry way. 

Now, on the other hand, get trapped in a vault with limited oxygen or go deep sea diving and misjudge the amount of oxygen in your tank.  Oxygen is all of a sudden very important.

When you understand that money is not the dictator but a result or follower of previous actions, you can then put your focus on your thoughts.  Your thoughts produce your feelings.  Your feelings cause you to act.  Your actions bring certain results.  You should be getting your thoughts from the SOURCE OF EVERYTHING, GOD.

On the last blog, I gave some reasons why money is important.  When you begin to look at money like you look at oxygen, you then can focus on the path that money builds.  Let’s look at those reasons again, but in a new light.

Money buys the clothes for you, but it can’t make you enjoy and digest the food!

Money buys clothes for you, but it can’t make you feel good wearing them!

Money buys or rents a house/apartment for you, but it can’t make it a home!

Money buys experiences for you, but it can’t make you enjoy and remember those experiences!

Money can buy educational opportunities for you, but it can’t make you learn a thing!

When money becomes that importantly needed thing rather the important thing that has all my focus, money will flow to you easily and frequently!

Until All the Families of the Earth are Blessed,

Leroy Thompson Jr.

www.Ucanbeatdebt.com

Money is important yet unimportant!

Money is one of the few things in this world that can be important and unimportant at the same time.  Money is important because that's what we use to value things.  So if money is what we use to value things, then you must have it to obtain things that are valuable to you.  So that's why you exchange your time and energy to obtain money.  

If you think that money isn't important, let's take a look at some facts.

Money buys food for you.

Money buys clothes for you.

Money buys or rents a dwelling for you.

Money buys experiences for you. (movies, vacation, dinner, etc.)

Money buys educational opportunities for you.

I can go on all day but you get the point.  There is nothing free in this world. I mean nothing.  There are some things you may get or experience that cost you nothing, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t cost someone something.  Charities cost something.  The people that benefit from charities may not pay anything but it sure did cost something.  There is no such thing as something for nothing!

So money is important.  Most people spend over half of their life trying to attain money.  This is why you must be comfortable talking about money, living with money, circulating money, and receiving money!

In order to be comfortable with talking about money, living with money, circulating money, and receiving money, there are three fundamental principles that you must permanently place in your belief system.

1.    There is enough for everybody!  There is no lack.  For you to say that there is not enough for everyone is for you to claim that God did an incomplete job when He created the earth.  When have you ever known God to do and incomplete job?  NEVER!  Just because you see lack doesn’t means that lack is the majority.  If you look again, you see money changing hands all the time right around you!

2.    You must accept responsibility for the results in your life!  Nobody else can take credit for your results.  No matter what happens to you, if you trace back for enough you can see where you initiated the process. 

“My marriage is horrible!”  Who said “I Do”? 

“I hate my job!” Who interviewed and accepted the position?

“My friend doesn’t respect me?  Who keeps entertaining them?

“I’m about to lose my house because of this balloon note” Who signed the mortgage?

The answer to all those questions is the same, YOU!  Now this can be bondage or liberating.  It all depends on how you take this next statement.  As soon as you blame someone else for you results, you just gave your power away to change the results to what you want.  If you are not willing to accept the blame, then you will remain in bondage and always feeling helpless.  But if accept the blame, you will be empowered to explore the steps it takes to change the results to what you want!

3.    The third and final principle will be the hardest to grasp and act upon because it involves emotions.  You must realize that your prosperity and increase is not taking anything from anyone else.  Increasing in money is a personal decision. You can’t make the decision for anyone else to prosper.  Just like no one can make the decision for you to prosper but you.  You are not all that.  I’m not all that!  So if you and I can take responsibility for our prosperity then our brothers and sisters can do the same. I am my brother’s keeper, not his provider! (This includes family)  God is the provider!  It’s my job to point my brother to The Provider.   If my brother connects with The Provider, he will not need me.  If my brother rejects The Provider, I will not accept the blame for his lack and I WILL NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT MY PROSPERITY!  I will always offer help to point him to The Provider!  Everyone has the same opportunity to connect to The Provider!   

Begin to let these three principles sink into your thought life. The next blog we will cover why money is unimportant. 

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Until all the Families of the earth are Blessed,

Leroy Thompson, Jr.

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