God’s prosperity plan is good, pleasing, perfect and eternal. Yesterday, we talked about the goodness of God’s plan where we declared that it’s all good! We know this to be true because all things work together for our good because we love Him and He made us with purpose (Romans 8:28). Today, I want to speak to the pleasure that’s found in God’s plan. For many we have developed mistaken perception of who God is and the energy that surrounds Him. We’ve developed this image of Him being a cold-hearted dictator that’s ready to strike down every human at the first sight of sin when this is absolutely not true as we know His response to sin was love shown through the sacrificial giving of His son as payment for our sins. But to speak further to the heart of the Father and the energy that saturates His presence, the word that best describes this is pleasure.

It’s pleasurable to be in the presence of God, there’s literally no better place to be! In the 16th Psalm, David describes how he has complete trust in the perfect will of God and in verse 11 he describes what we find in the presence of God. “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” Before we get to the presence of God, I want you to know that as you submit to the perfect will of God, He will make your path clear to you for life, He gives us clear vision, direction and strategy when we submit to his good, pleasing and perfect plan. But there in His presence, we find something wonderful, it’s called joy! There’s joy in the presence of God! And there’s joy in following His plan! When we follow the plan of God we experience joy like none other! It’s exhilarating to follow His plan and reap His reward! So don’t allow anyone or anything distract you from His plan! It doesn’t compare! There’s no comparison to the plan of God and the joy that comes from it.

Now that’s not it, there’s something else that’s always right there with Him. David said there’s pleasure at the right hand of God. One thing about it, God’s right hand has to go with Him, everywhere He goes. So that means where ever God is, there’s pleasure there as well. So understand that the will of God will bring pleasure to your life. For some reason we think that when we submit to the will of God that it’s going to bring sorrow, it’s going to bring frustration, that we’re going to lose out on something ¬– we have the fear of missing out. It’s not about the fear of missing out but it’s about the glory of what’s coming in my life.

You see when we submit to the will of God, you experience pleasure like nothing else in this world. There’s no alcohol that compares to the pleasures of God! There’s not a weed that can be smoked or a blunt that can be lit that compares to the pleasure that’s found in God. There’s no sex that can be had – I know I’m getting deep today but there’s nothing that compares to the pleasures of God! There’s not a thing that can be injected into my veins, there’s not a pill that can be taken, there’s not a woman that can lay in my bed that can compare to the pleasure of God! That’s why we submit to, enjoy and embrace the perfect will of God because there’s a pleasure like none other!


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God is Good, all the time and all the time God is Good. If you’ve spent time in the environment of the church, you’re probably familiar with this famous call and response. The pastor would stand before the pulpit before the congregation and declare aloud that “God is good!” and the church would respond, “All the time!” Then he’d follow right back with “And all the time..” and the church declare right back to him, “God is good.” This is easily one of the most famous sayings of the modern church. Whether you go to church or not, you’ve probably heard it before. While it may seem to just be a famous colloquialism, this saying is in fact an undeniable truth. God is good. That’s a fact. Good is His nature. If you look throughout the creation story you’ll see that God’s so good that everything he created was good also. The reason why is because a product is a reflection of it’s maker and the creation is a reflection of it’s creator. You my friend were made in the image of God. The fact that He made you confirms purpose and that purpose is good. Therefore when it comes to God’s prosperity plan, what I want you to know is that it’s all good. Everything about God’s plan for your best life is 100% good. Equipped with this truth, we are going to silence the lies of your fear of failure or inadequacy because you were made for good and you were made for success. Victory is built into your destiny! Apostle Paul describe the goodness of God’s Prosperity plan in his letter to those at Rome, let’s read what he said:

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28

Here’s what you need to know: Because God is good, his plans for you are good, that means no matter what happens to you, it’s all good. Everything is working in your favor and that means even what was presented to you as failure, it’s still good! Because God is good, all the time and all the time, God is good!

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There is nothing better than God’s Prosperity Plan, nothing better than His perfect will. God’s plan is amazing in every way! For someone you may not feel so sure of this. Perhaps you’ve been distracted by the temporal pleasures of this world and they do all they can to make themselves seem of great value. The truth is the world, while very religious in nature, operates in hazardous ignorance. It works so hard to look attractive but in the end it proves ineffective, it proves to be unfruitful. The reason why is because by nature, the plans of man are plans for death. But the plans of God are plans for life. God’s plan is a life-giving plan that provides fruitfulness beyond measure.

I assure you today that there’s nothing better! Nothing better than God’s Prosperity Plan! Don’t be distracted, to be fooled, stick to God’s plan for your life. Receive it, Embrace it and apply it and I promise, you will experience a harvest beyond your ability to imagine! Apostle Paul said it this way: “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us!” You see, God has greater for you and that’s why Paul says “Now unto Him” ¬– that’s a deferral that says we are going to align with the perfect will of God, God’s Prosperity Plan. You are going to experience something greater than you’ve ever imagined!


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Today as we close out this week of devotion and prayer, I want to give you three words of encouragement: Don’t give up! Say those words aloud to yourself, “Don’t give up!” For someone as you’ve said those words, your circumstances were speaking to you at the same time. That financial burden, the diagnosis from the doctor, your child’s behavior, that challenge at work, or the grief in your heart from losing someone dear to you. I’m not unaware that life gets hard. I don’t live in a fairytale secluded from society. The world is full of trouble and challenges everywhere we go. But I want you to be encouraged that there’s someone else who’s not unaware of your circumstances and that’s God. He was not surprised by your adversity and nor is He feared by it. God loves you and has purpose for you. And just like the Apostle Paul, I’m confident that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6). God will finish what He started in you. But there’s one thing you must do: Don’t give up! There’s a harvest on the other side of this. Harvest in your family, your marriage, your health, your finances, your job, your business, your ministry, your destiny. Do not abandon your harvest by giving up. You’ve come too far. The reward is too great. Stay fresh, do good, trust God’s timing. Because you will reap if you don’t give up!

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You will reap! This is not a statement of hope, nor is it a suggestion, but it is a fact. You will reap! Paul says it this way in Galatians 6:7, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” This is a universal law proven in every way that whatever is sown is what shall be reaped. So without question, I want you to know that you will reap! A harvest is in your future! Your efforts have not been wasted but invested and you are going to see benefit!

Now before your excitement overtakes you, I want you to understand the weight of this truth: “A man reaps what he sows.” This means that the quality of your reaping is dependent on the quality of not only what you’ve sown but how you've nurtured that which you have sown. In other words, your harvest is coming and soon it will reveal the truth about how you’ve managed since the time of sowing. How you’ve managed your assignment, your attitude, your demeanor, your relationships, your focus, your energy – all of this will be revealed at the time of harvest.

The mothers in the church would sing a song on Sunday mornings that embodies this truth so heavily, it says “Put your time in, pay day’s coming after while!” It seems so simple, but those mothers were declaring the universal law that “A man reaps what he sows.” I believe that this is why Apostle Paul was so strong in his encouragement to not become weary in doing good because Paul understood that the harvest will follow. You will reap! This is not a statement of hope, nor is it a suggestion, but it is a fact. For someone this is a truth that inspires celebration. For another this a sobering truth that exposes the how I’ve managed this moment. Let it be a truth that grounds you, encourages you, corrects you and invigorates you as you grow in patience through the process.

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In the process of growing crops farmers understand the significance of time. While they cannot control time, they respect the power of time. So instead of working against it, they work with it knowing that if they honor it, there will be a harvest on the other side. We have talented individuals in our congregation, such as Mother Williams who does a fantastic job with her personal garden she grows in her back yard. As for me, I’ve never really attempted to grow anything because I recognize that I have an issue with how much time it takes to grow something before it’s ready to be enjoyed. In other words, I don’t quite have the patience for how long it takes to enjoy the fruit of your labor. I may want to enjoy the fruit today, but the fruit isn’t ready to be picked. A perfect example of this are strawberries. Here in Hillsborough County there are farms that have harvested millions of strawberries that will reach supermarkets as far as Brooklyn, NY. But just about two months ago, if we looked at the same strawberry patches, instead of seeing the beautiful red juicy strawberries, we would see some little green ones and maybe a few that are just beginning to turn red. Back to me, because of my impatience and greed, I want strawberries today, but the ultimate truth is that timing is not proper, the harvest is not ready.

In our focus text, Apostle Paul says, "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:9). I want to encourage you today to patiently wait for the proper timing. I know that this can prove to be difficult, especially when you cannot always clearly see your progress. But I believe that harvest on the other side of the soil of your consistent effort and the proper timing will be greater than you can imagine. So today, like the farmers I encourage you to not become frustrated with time, but to honor it and you will experience your harvest at the proper time.

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In this specific portion of his letter (Galatians 6), Paul emphasizes on the value of doing good. As a thryving citizen of the Kingdom of God, your life is a representation of God’s character and heaven’s culture. This means as a believer, all that you do is connected to who God is. God is good. Everything about Him is good. That which He produces is good. The psalmist declares that we should give God our thanks because He is good (Psalm 136:1). Jesus describes Him as a good Father with whom none can be compared. God is good. It’s who He is. Here’s what’s amazing though, because you are a believer, the Spirit of the same good God resides on the inside of you. Therefore there’s goodness inside of you and you carry good DNA. Because of this truth, I want to encourage you to do good.

Paul said, “Let us not become weary in doing good” (Galatians 6:9). In the Greek the word used for good means honorable. As you go throughout this day, week, season, year, approach every assignment in an honorable way. In other words do good. Put forth your best effort. God is good, He resides in you and you represent Him, therefore do good. Remember, there’s a harvest on the other side. Be patient in the process and you’ll see the progress.

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In his letter to the churches in Galatia, Paul pens these words of encouragement: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:9 NIV). As a person looking from the outside looking in, Paul recognizes the progress of these growing believers and he’s also aware of what stands between them and the harvest of their labor and it’s a lack of patience that’s been revealed through weariness. When something becomes weary or worn, it has become exhausted. A weary believer is a believer that has lost his/her strength, vigor or freshness. My encouragement and prayer for you today is that you would stay fresh. You’ve come further than you can see and there’s a harvest waiting on you as long as you commit to staying fresh and full of strength.

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I want you to know that you are a steward of your thoughts. The word stewardship denotes responsibility and the absence of ownership. You may ask, Pastor, what are you saying? I can’t manage my own thoughts? My answer to you is that I’m saying the exact opposite. As a steward of your thoughts you have a responsibility to manage your thoughts, but it’s important to know that you, along with everything else in this world, belongs to the Father. So that includes your thoughts. This truth was outlined by David in the first verse of the 24th Psalm where he declared “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” So again I lift up this truth: you are a steward of your thoughts.

As you are moving forward with a renewed mind, you are responsible for how you think. God will help you, but He will not control you. This means we must make decisions on a daily basis that have the power to positively or negatively impact our lives. Another way to put it is that God has an expectation that we actively apply wisdom in every area of our lives.

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