All the words God spoke to Joshua would have been useless
if he had disobeyed and not meditated in the Word day and night.
Only by meditation in the Word will you be able to see how to do
what is written there. Proverbs 23:7 tells us that as a man thinks
in his heart, so is he. Learn to take the Word of God and meditate
in it. Then when the world says, “There’s no way out,” you can
just smile and say, “Oh yes, there is a way. His Name is Jesus.”

God said, “If you will meditate in My Word, you will prosper
and have good success.” In other words, you will deal wisely in
all the affairs of life. If you do this, prosperity will be no problem.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what situation you are in,
if you can deal wisely in all the affairs of life, you will triumph.
Paul and Silas proved this when they were in jail. They praised
God at midnight, and evidently they dealt wisely in that affair
because the prison doors popped open!

A good businessman knows that making money is not his
biggest problem. Anyone can make money if he knows how to
deal wisely. He can take 50 cents and turn it into a fortune if he
knows exactly what to do with it. If you knew exactly how to
deal wisely with the money in your purse or billfold—if you
knew what to do, where to go, whom to talk with, and what to
say—success would be inevitable.

The truly successful man is one who knows the Lord, has
learned to believe God, and can share it with others. This man
is valuable to God, to himself, to the people around him, and
he is dangerous to Satan.

Remember, it is God who gives the power to get wealth in
order that His covenant may be established. God and His Word
are one. When you are in the presence of the Word of God, you are
in the presence of God Himself. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
There is no way that you can have God manifest in your life
without His Word. Now there are special manifestations of God’s
grace, but the Christian is not supposed to live on these. We are
to live a constant manifestation of God’s presence from His
Word. You keep His Word, and He will manifest Himself to you.
Nothing thrills me more than to know that if I wake up in the
middle of the night with some problem, all I have to do is reach
for my Bible. This is the manifestation of the power of God. It
will work every time for anybody who will use it! When you
realize that this manifestation of God is available all the time and
begin to walk in the light of it, you will become prosperous.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Abraham…Moses…David…Solomon…why did God bless
these men? Why have so few men found the blessings of God
in finance? We need to renew our minds to God’s reason for
financial blessings. In the book of Deuteronomy, we see the
predominant rule to remember in living a prosperous life: “And
thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath
gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God:
for it is he that giveth thee the power to get wealth, that he may
establish his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is this
day” (Deuteronomy 8:17-18).

The predominant rule: God gives the power to get wealth.

Why? To establish His covenant.

Let’s read further from Deuteronomy 9:5-6: “Not for thy
righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to
possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord
thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform
the word which the Lord swore unto thy fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth
thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for
thou art a stiff-necked people.” In other words, Moses was saying,
“God didn’t drive those people from their land because of
your righteousness. He did it because He promised to do it. He
had made an agreement with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Now
the people did everything they possibly could to keep Him
from it. They broke the covenant in every way, but God instituted
the priesthood to offer sacrifices for their sins. They had
no righteousness to rely on, so God gave them a way out. He
went to great lengths to establish the covenant even among
unrighteous people!

Deuteronomy 29:9 says, “Keep therefore the words of this
covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.”
According to this, we should be prosperous in everything we
do, but we must keep the words of the covenant.

God gave instructions along these same lines to Joshua
during the most critical situation in his life. Moses was dead
and Joshua was to take over leadership of Israel in his place,
a very difficult job to do. Moses…the man who talked with
God face to face…the man who produced water from a rock
in the middle of the desert. Moses walked in prosperity!
When he needed water, God gave him the ability to get it.
The power of God brought the water, and it was priceless!
This is real prosperity!

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland