Topic: Elegant Lilies
Text: Isaiah 1:15-20

There is nothing to dread in prosperity. Divine wealth does not hurt. There is no sorrow or trouble attached to it. No matter what is your level of prosperity at this time, you can go higher. If you remain poor you will have yourself to blame James 1:2 tells us: “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”

This is why many are poor, Instead of asking for your own wealth, instead of asking God to give you your own benefits, you look at those riding big cars and feel they are not going to Heaven. Who are you to determine that? Rather than ask to be dressed like the lilies of the field, that are there today and thrown into the oven tomorrow, some will prefer to wear rags. Many people do not ask because they are not willing.

In Isaiah 1:19-20, the Bible says: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” Many thin the land referred to is in Heaven. There is no land over there. The land is here on earth.

Again let us examine Numbers 20:5: “And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us unto this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.” God gave the children of Israel an opportunity to have a land flowing with milk and honey. He asked them to go and take it. They said, “No, we are not going” God then said, “Well, if you do not want a land flowing with milk and honey, then you must be satisfied with a barren land.” So God have them a land where they neither farmed nor found water to drink. In summary, if you refuse wealth, do not blame God if you are poor.

The choice is yours. God is good. His friends are rich. He has good thoughts towards you. He wants you to prosper. He said it clearly in His Words that poverty is a curse it is destruction. He wants you to choose one of the two. If you are willing and obedient, you will make it. You will arrive and eat the good of the land. If you refuse, then do not complain.

Memory Verse: Isaiah 1:19-20 - “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”