Isaiah 55:6 says: Seek the Lord while he may be found, call on him while he is near.
There are many scriptures that tell us to seek the Lord in different ways, but since this is a book about God’s riches in our lives, we will study the ones that refer to riches.
The word says that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. (Colossians 2:3) In order to find God’s wealth that He has for us we will need to seek His wisdom. Wisdom has riches and riches in his hand.
God is not far from us. When we whisper, he listens. He greatly desires that we find his way that leads to his abundant treasures. We must seek it in faith. The scripture above tells us that he can be found. We need to expect to find wisdom from him regarding wealth and riches. The book of Santiago says that we ask God for wisdom and he will give it to us, but we must ask with faith. God will not answer if we ask in doubt and unbelief. Unbelief undoes all that God has done for us.
The following scriptures, Psalms 34:10-16, give insight on how to find God’s way that leads to your goods and riches.
The young lions have scarcity, and they are hungry: but those who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.
11 Come, children, hear me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 What man is he who desires life and loves many days to see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry.
16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
We, as young lions, must be taught to forage for our food. Until the young lion learns to hunt, he goes hungry. The same is true with us. We must learn the fear of the Lord that he will make sure that we do not lack anything good.
Romans 8:17 says, “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we also may be glorified together.” There is a time of suffering and resistance for the riches of God to manifest in our lives. Santiago says that patience will take us to a place where nothing will be missing.
We are told to do six things in the scripture above to find the path that leads to God’s riches and riches.
guard your tongue from evil
Keep your lips from speaking deceit
way out of evil
Do it well
seek peace
seek peace
When we live our lives according to these six things, we are sure that God’s eyes are upon us and his ears are open to our prayers and he delivers us from ALL our troubles. When we ask for wisdom, He gives it to us. When we ask Him how to get out of debt, He shows us. When we ask him for seed to sow, he gives it.
We also see from this scripture that those who do not live their lives in accordance with these six things will be cut off from the remembrance of the earth.
Proverbs 9:10 tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of the path, so to speak. When we get these six things right in our life, then we can begin to walk the path that leads to God’s abundant riches and riches. These six things will make us look good every day of our long life on earth.
Proverbs 6:16-23 tells us things that will keep our feet off the path of prosperity and also things that will keep our feet on the path of prosperity.
16 Six things the LORD hates, and seven are an abomination to him:
17 The haughty look, the lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,
18 The heart that devises evil thoughts, the feet that are quick to run to evil,
19 The false witness who speaks lies, And the one who sows discord between brothers.
20 Keep, my son, the commandment of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;
21 Bind them continually over your heart, and bind them around your neck.
22 When you go, she will guide you; when you sleep, she will keep you; and when you wake up, she will talk to you.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and way of life the rebukes of the instruction.
There is nothing God won’t show you about how to find His treasures. Notice Proverbs 28:5: “Bad men do not understand judgment, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.”
Notice Romans 8:32, “He who spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him give us all things?”
Isaiah 51:1 tells us where to dig to find God’s treasures, Hear me, you who follow justice, you who seek the Lord: Look at the rock from which you were hewn, and the pit of the pit from which you were dug. Christ is the rock from which we were cut.
As we allow the Holy Spirit to form Christ in us, his riches and possessions will be manifested. It is customary when one goes to another’s house to bring him a gift. When Christ came into us, he brought his riches with him. As we find wisdom from him, we will find riches and possessions from him.
Ephesians 3:20 says that God is able to do all things much more abundantly than we can ask or think, according to the power that works in us. He is waiting for our lives to align with his wisdom so that his riches can manifest to us and through us.
The next passage of Scripture, Ecclesiastes 9:14-16, tells us why it is so important that the Body of Christ enter into our wealth.
14 There was a small city, and few men within it; and a great king came against her, and besieged her, and built great defenses against her;
15 And there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Then I said: Wisdom is better than strength; but the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.
Verse 16 is the answer. The poor have no voice. They may be filled with the wisdom of God in other areas of life, but people will not listen to their words if they lack the wisdom of riches and riches. A poor man’s wisdom is not complete until he comes to the wisdom to obtain and manage riches.
A rich man who does not know how to handle riches will be poor in a matter of time. But a rich man who understands God’s wisdom regarding wealth will enjoy wealth all his life. Please note the two scriptures below regarding this.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Also to every man to whom God has given riches and riches, and has given him power to eat of them, and to take their share, and to rejoice in his work; this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 6:2 To the man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires, but God does not give him power to eat of it, but the stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is a malignant disease.
Both men’s riches were a gift from God, but one had the wisdom to handle riches and the other did not. The man with wisdom withheld his riches and the man who had no wisdom lost his riches to the stranger. A man without wisdom to manage wealth is like an evil disease, nothing good can come of it.