{"id":1686,"date":"2012-12-31T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2012-12-31T01:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T06:26:41","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-12-31-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/31\/pearls-of-wisdom-12-31-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 12-31-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

MY FATHER\u2019S PLEASURE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk some more today about what pleases the Father.\u00a0 When we look into the Word of God, there are some very definite scriptures on what pleases the Lord.\u00a0 We will explore two of them today.<\/p>\n

In Luke 12:22-32<\/strong> Jesus was teaching on being free from anxiety, worries and concerns.\u00a0 He gave the reason that we do not have to be anxious about anything—-God takes total care of us.\u00a0 Prior to verse 32 He said that we do not have to take any thought for our life, what we shall eat, or for our body, what we shall put on.\u00a0 Jesus assured us that God feeds the birds; He causes the lilies to grow; He clothes the grass, so why are we to worry about His taking care of us.\u00a0 We cannot even add one inch to our stature by worrying about it.<\/p>\n

Then Jesus makes a very definite statement:\u00a0 Seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you.\u00a0 Do not have any fear or doubt or seek after what you shall eat or what you shall drink.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 It is the Father\u2019s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.<\/p>\n

What did Jesus mean by this statement?\u00a0 God takes pleasure in giving to you His kingdom, all that He has.\u00a0 A kingdom belongs to a king.\u00a0 Everything in that kingdom is his.\u00a0 Therefore, Jesus said:\u00a0 It gives God pleasure to give you all that is in His kingdom.\u00a0 To find out what is in His kingdom all we have to do is read this book called the Bible which He has given to us.<\/p>\n

The other scripture I want to note here is Psalm 35:27<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause:\u00a0 yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.<\/p>\n

In Strong\u2019s Concordance, the word prosperity in this verse is shalom, which means safe, well, happy, health, welfare, prosperity, peace, whole, rest, favor.\u00a0 It comes from the word shalam which means safe in mind, body or estate, completed, full, peace perfect, restore, make restitution, recompense, make prosperous, make good.\u00a0 We can see from these words that they are a description of God, of His kingdom.\u00a0 It is everything He is and has.\u00a0 Altogether, these words mean to make complete, to restore.\u00a0 Sounds to me like a restoration of everything we as mankind lost in the Garden of Eden.\u00a0 Jesus brought back to us with His blood everything we had lost in that Garden.\u00a0 Hallelujah!<\/p>\n

As we said yesterday, God has great pleasure in your faith because of what it brings to you of the joys of His kingdom.\u00a0 He also has pleasure in your prosperity.\u00a0 Prosperity is what faith brings.\u00a0 Prosperity is not all about money.\u00a0 It includes money, but it is so much more.\u00a0 Prosperity is being successful in every area of your life, going to the highest level of excellence in each area—-in your spirit, in your soul (which includes your mind, will and emotions), in your body, in your finances and in your relationships.<\/p>\n

God takes pleasure in seeing you excel and succeed.\u00a0 It gives Him great pleasure to give you the kingdom.\u00a0 I am believing with you for a beautiful, excelling, successful year receiving the Father\u2019s Kingdom, to give Him great pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MY FATHER\u2019S PLEASURE Let\u2019s talk some more today about what pleases the Father.\u00a0 When we look into the Word of God, there are some very definite scriptures on what pleases the Lord.\u00a0 We will explore two of them today. In Luke 12:22-32 Jesus was teaching on being free from anxiety, worries and concerns.\u00a0 He gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}