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  • Broke to Blessed – Who is your source?
    Who is your source? In the second episode of the series Broke to Blessed, I share with you a simple idea that changed my finances forever. I talk about how I left my job at ... Read More The post Broke to Blessed – Who is your source? appeared first on Hari Rao.
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  • Broke to Blessed – A New Way to Biblical Prosperity
    Welcome to the first portion of our new series I'd like to call Broke to Blessed. It's come to my attention that there's been a lot of conversations about money, finances, prosperity in the church circles in recent times so I've decided to jump in and join the conversation. The post Broke to Blessed – A New Way to Biblical Prosperity appeared first on Hari Rao.
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  • What They Don't Teach About Money

    One of the symptoms of Grace in a person’s life is growth, scripture is full of examples of it. Both in the Old and the New Testaments, you will see people who carried the grace of God always prospered irrespective of external circumstances. Please note, I’m not saying that they were prevented from adverse environments, I’m saying in spite of adverse environments a Child of God is meant to thrive and grow in all circumstances.

    We must settle it in our hearts and minds that God wants us to grow, prosper and increase. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably misinformed or doesn’t want you to grow. Does that mean everyone should own private jets? No, but everyone must grow and increase according to the measure of grace given to them.

    In the third episode of the series Broke to blessed, in this episode, I teach on Biblical Stewardship of finances. Before we start let’s take a quick recap of the first 2 episodes.

    • Episode 1: We defined Biblical Prosperity: You are blessed when you manifest all the resources that Christ has made available for you to live well, prosper and finish your God-given assignment.
    • Episode 2: I answered the question of who is the source of the blessing and made the distinction between source and supplier
      • WHAT IS BIBLICAL STEWARDSHIP?

      It is the administration of Grace to effectively manage all God-given resources with the intention of growth and multiplication.

      Did you know that Jesus Christ, our Lord, spoke a fair bit about money(directly or indirectly) he often used parables about money to drive home a bigger point? In one of the parables in Mathew 25:14 onwards, we read about the master who called his servants and distributed his wealth unequally. To one servant he gave 5 talents, to another 2 and the third servant got 1 talent. Contrary to what you may have heard, the biblical word Talent is not referring to your ability to sing or play the guitar. A talent was worth about 15 to 20 years of wages for a laborer. 


      Now that is a lot of money. So, the guy who got one talent was not handicapped in any measure. Let me get back to my main point if you study this parable well, the two servants were appreciated and rewarded for managing the wealth well and multiplying it and one servant who buried the talent and gave it back to the master was rebuked and was penalized.

      If God and the kingdom of heaven operate on these principles we must make every effort to understand them and apply them.

      5 LESSONS FROM THE PARABLE
      1. A measure of Grace is given to all of us, within that measure of grace there are resources, gifts, and anointings.
      2. God expects us to use the resources wisely, with the intention of growing them and multiplying them.
      3. He rewards effective stewardship, He rewards multiplication with more multiplication.
      4. Christ doesn’t reward poor stewardship; God doesn’t reward poor principles and unwise, unbiblical behaviors.
      5. He equates stewardship to faithfulness and goodness.
      6. God equates poor stewardship to wickedness, worthlessness, and laziness.
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      7. Who Is Your Source?

        In the second episode of the series Broke to Blessed, I share with you a simple idea that changed my finances forever. I talk about how I left my job at Microsoft to embark on a journey of faith and adventure.

        When I left my job to do this full-time I still had a loan and I had so many bills to pay, and I had no clue how I was going to do any of it. One day God spoke to me and said something, that will remain with me for life.

        I don’t take care of you because you work for me, but because you are mine That one line shifted my whole life, I began to see God has my source and my father not just my boss or master. I encourage you to listen to this week’s episode and share it with someone.

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      8. A Fresh Look at Biblical Prosperity

        Let me start by defining my goals for this series: 


        1- To teach Biblical truths on money, prosperity, and blessings. 2- To share how you can prosper in your life in a holistic way. 3- To make this series as practical and pragmatic as possible. 

        My hope is that as you journey along through this series you would be able to take back more than just head knowledge and information but actually take back practical steps to grow in your finances. 

        In this first segment, I’d like to lay the foundation by sharing a few thoughts with you. There’s an exaggerated, imbalanced, divisive emphasis on this topic of poverty and prosperity. 

        When you listen to thought leaders in the Christian world today and many of them seem to have an exaggerated focus and imbalanced way of teaching and sadly the worst is that these teachings can be divisive in nature and can potentially cause damage in the body of Christ. Rather, my heart through this series is I’d like to show a more excellent way to personal finances that exist in the Bible which I believe is balanced and rewarding. I’d like to call this idea/concept: The Stewardship of Finances. 

        What Does it really mean to be blessed vs. broke? 

        If we don’t define these ideas we’ll have a very subjective understanding of these topics. Depending on who you’re asking the question to the answer will vary depending on where that person is in terms of life experience and circumstance. We must come to a place where we understand and define what Biblical prosperity looks like. 

        What does it mean to be poor? If you’re in a place in life where you don’t have enough money to fulfill every assignment God has given for you then there’s a definite lack of resources. You’re in a place of lack if you can’t fulfill your God-given assignment because of insufficient resources and if you can’t take care of the family God has entrusted you with. God’s ideal best also aren’t living from paycheck to paycheck. 

        What does it mean to be blessed?

        To be blessed by God is a far greater and superior thing than to simply be rich financially. To be blessed by God means a lot more than just having a healthy bank balance. You’ll see throughout Scripture that there have been people that weren’t necessarily very rich according to societal standards and yet were considered blessed by God because they had the favor of God on their lives. 

        The blessing of God isn’t just about having money, the fullness of the blessing is His favor on the life of a man/woman. It’s about the measure of God’s presence that carries favor in the life of that person. 

        If you only measure based on materialism and money you’ll miss the point. Of course, the blessing of God does also include financial prosperity but is not limited to it because His blessings are far greater and bigger than that. There are spiritual blessings that God can release that add weight and depth to your life that causes things to work in your favor. 

        Let’s consider the life of Joseph in the Bible, the Word of God tells us that the Lord was with him, but a lot of times, especially in the first part of his life, you probably wouldn’t consider his situation blessed. He was imprisoned and sold as a slave and yet through all those seasons the Bible still says the Lord’s presence was with him. Because of God’s favor on his life, irrespective of the situations he was put in, he always found a way to come up in life. He always found a way to prosper, to grow, to go higher in life and that is the proof of the blessing of God.

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      9. Entering a prophetic season – Word for March and April
        For the last couple of weeks, I have been sensing and hearing from the Lord that we’re in a prophetic season, and the Lord has been stirring my heart to pursue Him like never before. Hopefully, this word will meet you where you are and be an encouragement to you. 
        The months of March and April are prophetic months for the global Church of Jesus Christ. Whatever we do in this season is going to be amplified to a great extent to the rest of the year and has the potential to carry you for many years to come. As you set your heart to seek the Kingdom of Jesus in this season, He will magnify and amplify His will and purposes over your life. 
        God is going to use 2018 to set and establish what He’s about to do on planet earth for the next 30-40 years. 
        In these months there seems to be an open heaven over the Church as I’ve observed many of the global prophetic leaders have set this time to seek the face of God through prayer and fasting. 
        God is going to use 2018 to set and establish what He’s about to do on planet earth for the next 30-40 years. Click To Tweet
        Keys to tap into what God is doing: 
        1- Be aware of the season you’re in
        2- Set your mind and be intentional about setting time apart to seek the Lord 
        We must consecrate ourselves unto the Lord, We can’t expect to run through the same motions as last year or previous seasons and expect tremendous change. 
        3- Elevate your prayer life
        In order to have God’s perspective and a heightened sensitivity towards times and seasons, we must elevate the way we perceive and assess situations. 
        4- Cut-away from every distraction
        God must be found as the first priority in your life. Be aware of the schemes of the enemy to distract your heart and mind. Be vigilant in locating every wicked device intended to capture your attention. Be brutal with any distraction that can potentially steal your attention away from Jesus.
        Be brutal with any distraction that can potentially steal your attention away from Jesus.Click To Tweet
        “For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.” (2 Peter 2:19) 
        In this season walk away from anything that has an unhealthy hold on your heart. For some it might be social media, for some others it may be an ungodly relationship. 
        At this point in time it’s vital to get right with God. Give your heart entirely to Him, and in turn He will impart a supernatural anointing over your life. 
        5- Hide in God 
        Those who hide in God in this season will stand on great platforms of influence in the next season. 
        If you set your heart and mind to act intentionally upon these principles I believe the Lord will impart something powerful over your life. This is a season of open heavens which means many of God’s people are going to have glory encounters with God.  There’s a portal of open heavens over the church right now where angels are going to ascend and descend. 
        Conclusion
        God is calling His bride to enter into a place of intimacy; a place of great friendship with God so that they might be empowered to defeat every demonic force around them and experience the Angelic Host that God has released for them. Will you answer the call of the Bridegroom in this season?
        Leave a comment and let us know what God has been speaking to you in this season.
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      10. Two keys to activate the prophetic in your life
        In this episode I share two vital keys to grow in the prophetic. The office of a prophet and the prophetic mantle is built on the foundations of prayer and intercession. Both in the Old ... Read More The post Two keys to activate the prophetic in your life appeared first on Hari Rao.
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      12. Growing in the prophetic – Why is the prophetic important?
        Growing in the prophetic On our very first podcast, I’d like to kick-start a series on the prophetic, I want to teach on how to grow in the prophetic realm and be an effective steward ... Read More The post Growing in the prophetic – Why is the prophetic important? appeared first on Hari Rao.
        15 min

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