8 Biblical Keys to Prosperity and Kingdom Blessings

You've Already Won the Lottery

Let me tell you about a conversation that changed my perspective forever.

When we landed in Paris, I asked the hotel clerk where the gym was. After showing me around, he pulled me aside and said something that stopped me in my tracks: "I won the lottery."

Naturally, I asked why he was still working. His answer? "The lottery in Paris is an opportunity to go to America. That's winning the lottery."

Wow. Here's this man dreaming of what so many of us already have, and some of us sit here not realizing you already hit the lottery. You already have the opportunity, but you may not be maximizing what you already have.

This is the reality for so many believers. We have access to the Kingdom, but we're living without the benefits. As Hosea 4:6 reminds us, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

What Does It Really Mean to Prosper?

The word "prosper" in Greek means to help along the road. It means to succeed in reaching your destination. It means the ongoing state of success—nothing missing and nothing lacking.

Here's what most people get wrong: You could have wealth and no health, and you're not prosperous. We have this misnomer connecting money with prosperity, but it's not just about money. You are prosperous when everything in your life has nothing missing and nothing lacking.

Today, I'm giving you eight keys—simple but powerful principles that will transform your understanding of Kingdom prosperity.

Key #1: Seek Him First

Matthew 6:33 tells us: "But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and all these things will be given to you as well."

Now let me touch something lightly and then walk away from it. Who's saying this statement? This is in the red—that's your clue. Did Jesus say "Seek Jesus" or did Jesus say "Seek the Kingdom"?

The Bible says Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. It also calls Him the door. Why are you stopping at the door and not entering the Kingdom? He is the door to the Kingdom. Have you been to the master bedroom yet? Because so many of us are stuck at the door.

Jesus said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom." If you study Jesus, He always talked about "in my Father's house."

Here's the principle: If you can make what's important to God important to you, God will make what's important to you important to Him.

2 Chronicles 26:5 confirms this: "He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought (inquired of, longed for) the Lord, God caused him to prosper."

Who caused him to prosper? God did. So it must be the will of God for you to prosper, because God wouldn't cause you to have something He didn't want you to have.

The opposite is found in Jeremiah 10:21: "For the shepherds [of the people] have become like brutes, irrational and stupid; they have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him... therefore they have not prospered."

If you've lived long enough and your way is not working, you have to be—I didn't call you that, they said that—you have to change something. If you're going to keep doing the same thing over and over again and not change, something's got to be wrong.

Key #2: Magnify Him

Psalm 35:27 says: "Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication and want what is right for me; let them say continually, 'Let the Lord be magnified, who delights and takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.'"

God will elevate a man or woman who keeps their mouth in alignment with His will. If you keep praising God, God will keep promoting you.

I recently met the number one teen speaker in America. Her husband told me everyone asks his wife for her secret to success. When people press her, she finally reveals: Before every speaking engagement, she sits in her car and prays for one hour.

They don't want to hear that.

But here's the truth: Our warfare is not carnal; it's spiritual. She's already defeated the enemy in her car, so by the time she gets on stage, the battle is won.

There are some things you're fighting that you don't have to fight. The battle is not yours; the battle is the Lord's. Oh, magnify the Lord with me!

Key #3: Understand It's Part of His Plan

You have to get rid of your poverty thinking. You got to rework your mind.

Jeremiah 29:11 declares: "For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."

God is no respecter of persons; He's a respecter of principles. If you follow the principles, it will work for anybody.

Listen, if you want to change your body, there are principles you can use. You may not like how it feels—you may have to get up earlier than you want to, push back from the table, do some squats, run—but there is a way. It's principles.

God will prosper you to the level of the call on your life. Prosperity is not about having more, but your ability to do more, to help more, to bless more.

Key #4: Recognize It's According to His Purpose

Matthew 25:14-15 says: "For it is just like a man who was about to take a journey. He called his servants together and entrusted them with his possessions. To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability."

Whose possessions? His possessions. To each according to whose ability? His ability.

If you do not have it, it may not be that it was called for you. So don't allow yourself to get in a pity party, envious of something someone else has, because there's a cost to it, and often times we don't want to pay the cost.

People ask me all the time about the cost of ministry. I could go back on the road speaking right now and do real well, and I wouldn't deal with half the challenges. I was a very good speaker—still am—and they pay you good. I could drive what I want, live where I want, and they would call me successful.

In church, they call you a thief. Same person.

But if you put me in another atmosphere with a crowd of people, the same thing happens. Because whatever room you put me in, my gift is going to work. But God said, "Do church."

With the blessing comes persecution. So I'm going to take my one gift, work my one gift, and not worry about everyone else. You'll see someone who can sing, dance, play—"Man, they're so gifted!"—and you have your one gift. Work your gift, baby. Focus on you.

Key #5: Develop Your Soul

3 John 1:2 says: "Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health physically, just as I know your soul prospers spiritually."

You will prosper to the development of your soul.

When I was in college, I didn't play high school football, so I was behind the curve. I was a walk-on my second year at Florida A&M. They didn't even give me pads at first—I was what they call a scrub.

After a couple days of getting blasted, I said, "Okay, Jomo, you're going to have to do something different." I had to work harder, do more, get up earlier. As I grew, I could carry more weight. I went from 228 to 240 to 250 pounds, but I could carry more.

How did I get to carry more weight? I had to do more.

So if you're asking God for more, don't expect not to change, because you can't carry the weight you're trying to carry unless you build yourself up to that level.

Key #6: Live a Life of Obedience

Deuteronomy 29:9 says: "So keep the words of this covenant and obey them, so that you may prosper and be successful in everything you do."

Keeping the word is how you prosper.

Key #7: Be a Servant

Job 36:11 tells us: "If they hear and serve Him, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness and joy."

There's a gentleman named 50 Cent who's on tour right now. He has a guy with him named Tony Yayo who grew up with him on the streets. When 50 Cent's life changed, he told Tony, "We're not doing drugs anymore. Anyone who does drugs or sells drugs has to get away from me, because I'm in a new spot."

An interviewer asked Tony if 50 changed his life. He said, "No man, I did that." Then he thought about it and said, "Man, I'm lying. Life is better with 50."

Because he's part of his crew. Everywhere 50 goes, he goes. Every private plane, he's on.

When you're with the right person, when they go up, you go up. Make sure you're serving the right person. If your life is not getting better with the people you're serving, you may need to evaluate who you're following.

Key #8: Renew Your Mind Through Meditation

Joshua 1:8 says: "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall read [and meditate on] it day and night, so that you may be careful to do [everything] in accordance with all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will be successful."

Notice: God's not going to do it. Don't get mad at others who are following the book and getting the results when you are the one who is responsible for prospering your life based on obedience to Him.

Psalm 1:2-3 paints this beautiful picture: "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he [habitually] meditates day and night. And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season; its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers."

Notice the proximity—the tree was close to the water. Make sure wherever you're planted, the water's flowing. The water is the Word.

Your Passport to the Kingdom

You cannot say the Bible doesn't talk about prosperity. You cannot say it's not God's will for you to prosper. It's all throughout the book. But there are certain things you have to do to get yourself a passport to prosperity.

On my last trip, we had to bring our passports. To enter the United Kingdom, they said, "Sir, passport please." Because you cannot enter the Kingdom without your passport.

So many people want Kingdom benefits, but you have not fulfilled your paperwork. You don't have access to the Kingdom.

In the United Kingdom, healthcare is free. Education is free. Because you're in the Kingdom.

Don't you understand? In the Kingdom of God, when you get your passport papers right, there's access to things you never thought you had.

Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you."

Believer, Jesus shed His blood and sponsored you. I'm an immigrant. My mother worked in the basement of a lady named Jan Hunt—wonderful Caucasian lady. We were the basement help. I would go to school with the kids who lived on the third floor, but I lived in the basement with my mama.

But after years of my mother serving this lady, Jan said, "I'm going to sponsor you." She sponsored my mother, and my mother became a citizen.

Here's the reality: All of us are immigrants from the Kingdom of God, and Jesus says, "I came down to sponsor you. I came down to give you a passport. I came down to give you access, because you couldn't get to this Kingdom any other way."

That's why John 14:6 says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."

Jesus gave you a passport. Now if you don't want to take the trip, that's on you. But Jesus shed His blood to make sure you had access to the best life. John 10:10 says, "I came to give you life, and I came to give you life more abundantly."

It's Time to Step Into Your Prosperity

Believer, it is the will of God for you to prosper. It's hard to prosper, though, when you don't listen.

Anybody has some children who don't listen? Sometimes it's hard to bless them. You want to help them, but it's hard to bless a person who won't listen. God's book hasn't changed yet. All you got to do is listen.

God gave Adam simple instructions: You can have every tree except one. I made you the finest woman ever. Be fruitful and multiply. Tend to the garden. That's your whole job. All the fruits are available to you—just don't do this one thing.

What do we do? We touch the stove mama told us not to touch. We keep repeating negative cycles.

You all have a family member who's stuck on stupid—just stuck, doing the same things, thinking something's going to change. The book ain't changed. Follow instructions.

Here's what I want you to do:

Take these eight keys and go over them every morning. It will start to renew your mind to the will of God for your life:

1. Seek Him first - Make God's priorities your priorities
2. Magnify Him - Keep your mouth in alignment with His will
3. Understand it's part of His plan - God's plan includes your prosperity
4. Recognize it's according to His purpose - Work your gift, not someone else's
5. Develop your soul - Build capacity for what you're asking for
6. Live in obedience - Keep His word to prosper
7. Be a servant - Serve the right people in the right way
8. Renew your mind daily - Meditate on His Word day and night

Start saying: "God wants me to prosper. I'm going to have more than enough. I'm going to have nothing missing and nothing lacking. I'm going to believe the best for my situation."

Stop allowing anxiety to creep in because something doesn't look right. It may not look right, but it's going to be right. Change your mentality. It's going to be all right. I know what they said, but I know who I serve. And if God be for me, who can be against me?

That's a prosperous mind. You always believe it's going to work out for you.

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