KEYS TO LIVE A VICTORIOUS LIFE

by Prakash Singh

Prakash is a prophetic revivalist and associate itinerant of Extreme Prophetic. In this timely message, she examines the power and limitations brought about by our words, thoughts, affiliations, giving, and favor. Her gentle and uplifting approach to these five key aspects of spiritual growth will lead you to a deeper relationship with our Lord. You will discover how God wants you to prosper physically, financially, emotionally, and spiritually as a testimony to His great power and love. Expect signs and wonders, in the form of healings and breakthroughs, as you worship God and implement these valuable principles into your walk with Christ.

“So Jesus answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life’” (Mk. 10:29, 30).

I firmly believe that God wants us to prosper in all things and be in good health, just as our soul prospers, exactly as 3 John Chapter 1 states: “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers” (v. 2). His desire is to possess you, empower you and prosper you. In fact, everything He does for you and in your life is for your good. As you trust and follow Him, you will see God’s faithfulness to you as He blesses your life with good things—“For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly” (Ps. 84:11).

So, today, I will share three keys, and two more will follow next week, that will help you unlock some doors in your life. I’ve also included some exciting testimonies of God’s faithfulness in the lives of a few of my friends. They believed God and then took the principles He imparted to them to heart, and as they put those principles to work, they became prosperous.

1. Watch What You Say

You will eat the fruit of your mouth.

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap”Galations 6:7.

Then the LORD said to me, ‘You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word’”Jeremiah 1:12.

God is He who raises the dead, brings into existence and removes from existence, controls all creation, and is the Creator of all things in heaven, earth and below the earth. God spoke all things into existence with His word. Because man is created in His image, we, too have the ability to speak things into existence. That’s why we must sow good seeds by speaking good words. To be blessed in our own lives, we must sow words of blessings over our nation, our children, our neighbors, our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ—“You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you; so light will shine on your ways” (Job 22:28).

We must believe and profess words of life over all things because God is always listening, and He desires to bless, enrich and empower His children according to the words they speak. So it is important to decree the blessing over yourself, over your circumstances, over your finances and over your family according to the word of God. You will see it come to pass in your life. If you decree “blessing” several times a day, it will become a habit and the results will be tremendous.

So, in order to experience God’s full blessing, we need to have a deep hunger and desire to see change come to pass in our lives. As well, we need to be fully prepared to focus on that change. I have heard it said, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.”

“Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you’” Numbers 14:28.

Negative Conversation: Speaking words of negativity limits what God can do

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue...” Proverbs 18:21a.

“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” Ephesians 4:29

When we speak negative words, we are agreeing with the enemy whom the Bible says is the father of lies.

For example, if a gardener doesn’t pull the weeds in a flower bed, the flowers won’t flourish and remain beautiful. Their life will be choked out! Just the same, there are things in our own lives that we must remove in order to for us to grow. To guarantee maturity and a winning life, you must eliminate all of the weeds of negativity from your life.

When we speak God’s word, His power is present to perform His word in our lives. A great man of God in Korea made mention of how he carries a tape recorder in his pocket every day so that he can record his conversations. Every night he listens to it to see how many positive and negative words come out of his mouth during each conversation. He uses this technique so that he can minimize negative words and conversely, increase positive speech each day.

2. God Consciousness

In his book, Practicing His Presence, Brother Lawrence wrote about a question that challenged him: “Could a man keep his mind focused and centered on the Lord at all times?” In his quest for a truthful answer, his life actually modeled the answer! He lived a successful life and got to a place of a sacrificially surrendered lifestyle.

Like Brother Lawrence, we are all called to work from the resting place of God, a state without any striving. This is done by setting our eyes on the Lord—the Author and Perfecter of our faith, ruling and reigning from that place of rest—where we are seated with Christ in heavenly places.

So keep God in your thoughts at all times. By continuously centering your thoughts on God and scriptural truth, wrong thinking will be crowded out, you’ll be empowered during temptation, and you’ll develop wisdom for important decisions.

Equally, you need to meditate on God’s word; this is the daily bread for your life that will cause you to thrive. In the book of Luke, Jesus overcame the enemy who tempted Him in the wilderness by knowing the word of God. Likewise, it is important to know who you are in Christ and who He is in you.

For those who may struggle in this area, I suggest finding a meeting place, an upper room in your house where you can encounter God daily. Since Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” I would suggest a good start would be with three chapters a day in your Bible. After all, knowledge and faith go hand in hand.

There are times I have felt that I do not have enough faith. This is when I turn to my Bible and begin to read out loud. As I am calling out His promises, I suddenly feel strengthened and ready to preach the gospel to bring hope to the hopeless. Faith is released when you know what the word says about you.

Romans 8:26, 27 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

So, a way of being conscious of God is to pray in tongues, the heavenly language of God, as often as we can. We can do this while driving, typing an e-mail, doing dishes or even walking. Why should we choose to pray this way? Because this is when the Holy Spirit prays the right kind of prayer through us with groaning and words that we, of ourselves, cannot utter.

Praise and Worship

Daily lifting Jesus higher in our lives is another way we can be God-conscious. We achieve this by praising and worshiping Him as our Creator and Source, and being thankful to our Maker, who is in control of all things. He likes to hear our praise and worship, and it blesses His heart no matter how it sounds!

By pulling the heavenly realm down through worship, two great benefits come to pass—we’re rejuvenated and the atmosphere around us changes. Even medical doctors witness the difference between those sick patients who praise and worship, and those who don’t.

Praise and worship shifts things in the spirit realm. It acts like a key that unlocks some of the doors in our lives. Just look at what happened to Paul and Silas when they were imprisoned. As hopelessness permeated the atmosphere around them, they began to sing praises to God and to pull the glory down from heaven. As a result, by divine intervention, they were released from their chains, and this supernatural feat caused the jailer and his household to be saved (Acts 16).

No wonder it is wise to have praise and worship music flowing throughout our homes all the time! This keeps the atmosphere clean and sends evil away. I believe as the praises go up, so does God’s delight in us; and then His blessings come down in return. You can never out-give God!

3. Godly Friendships

“He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed”Proverbs 13:20.

This world is noted for its self-sufficiency, yet thousands of people are suffering because they don’t have the right mentors in their lives. I have heard a saying, “You show me your friends and I’ll tell you your future.”

Use wisdom and be selective in choosing your friendships—those whom you associate with—as well as the voices that “feed” you. Friends will add or take away from your life. Why? Because wrong relationships will confuse both your mind and your spirit. When building relationships, ask yourself: “Will this friendship bring me closer to Jesus? Or will it soil the beauty of what God has begun?” Stay away from anything that will bring you down. Do not entangle yourself nor continue to stay in relationships that are stagnant or pulling you downhill.

When no one is around, good books make good mentors. I read books by men and women such as Smith Wigglesworth, Kathryn Khulman, George Mueller, Mahesh Chavda, and Kingsley Fletcher, to name just a few. I also take time to watch documentaries and healing/preaching DVD’s of Judy Jacobs and other precious saints. I spend time watching and learning how others got to the place where they are now, so I can press on to reach that higher place as well. Also, of course, I reach for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Friend. We can confidently ask Him our questions and expect an answer because Jesus promised us that the Spirit of truth will be in us and with us (Jn. 14:17). He has not left us as orphans.

4. Giving

Giving is a characteristic of God

“For God so loved . . . that He gave . . . ” John 3:16.

God promises to respond to our giving.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you” Luke 6:38.

“‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,’ Says the LORD of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,’ Says the LORD of hosts”Malachi 3:10, 11.

God always reacts to faith. Jesus marveled at faith. It impresses all of heaven!

Sow with great expectation

God treasures the giver. He sees His own nature in you and honors it with the promise of prosperity.

At a conference in our local town of Abbotsford, BC, my husband sowed a seed in expectation, wrapping his faith around the seed when an altar call was made for supernatural debt and mortgage cancellation. Within a few days we found out that our $11,000 worth of government debt had been canceled, which could have only happened by the hand of God! God is attracted to us when we sow in expectation because there is power in expectation.

Now is the time for believers to do what they have never done in order to get what they never had.

Sow bountifully to receive bountifully.

Growing up, I remember my father knew that it was vital to plant different seeds in the different seasons. Like a wise farmer, we really need to know the seasons we are in according to God’s calendar—“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” Ecclesiastes. 3:1.

When you release what is in your hand, God will release back what is in His hand. Seeds need to be planted in the right season to reap the blessing of God in the proper season.

In July 2007, I had the privilege of ministering in India where I saw the people respond in unusual ways by sowing uncommon seeds, in faith, for their needs to be met. For example, some gave out of their poverty and some sowed lands. But we saw everyone give, and within a few days we heard many testimonies of debt cancellation. One testimony involved a large sum of money that was given to a housewife from her husband’s employer. Such financial miracles are not common in India as debts are always passed to the children’s children, but when they responded with their seed, God responded in very special ways.

Another type of sowing and reaping is the gift of hospitality; sowing into peoples lives by taking care of men and women of God.

In April 2007, we were in Toronto, Ontario, staying with some friends of ours. The pastor and his wife provided accommodation for us for several days, giving us their best room with all the necessities, feeding and taking care of us.

One day while we rested, we were strongly reminded of 2 Kings 4:8–17 in which Elisha had stayed with a Shunammite woman and her husband many times. The woman had taken time to cook for and serve Elisha and Gehazi, his servant. One day she said to her husband that she wanted to make a room for this man of God and furnish it so that each time he was in the area he would have a place to rest. Because of their hospitality, Elisha felt it was important to bless them in return and in talking with the servant, Elisha found out that she was barren. Then he said, “About this time next year you shall embrace a son” (v. 16). And she did!

Then, after being impressed by the Shunammite woman’s story, and upon the leading of the Holy Spirit, as we were leaving we asked the couple if there were any pressing needs in their lives. They told us that since they were still childless after seventeen years of marriage, they were praying for a child. Believing that God would grant them that request, we prayed with them. Just recently, we found out that a baby was finally conceived. Glory to Jesus! This couple had made room for us in their home, they honored the servants of God by giving of their time and material possessions, and in return God honored them with the gift of their baby, the desire of their hearts.

5. Favor

One day of favor is worth a lifetime of labor

Here are four truths about what favor is. One, favor is the divine way, not the substitute. Two, favor is an attitude of goodness towards you, not an exchange or payment for something you have done. Three, favor is the secret hidden and unspoken dream of every human living today and can turn tragedy into triumph within moments. Four, you cannot work hard enough or long enough to get everything you deserve and to be debt-free.

Actually, the sum total of these four truths has affected me to the point that I believe we are in a season for pressing in for financial blessing and financial breakthrough. As well, I believe that we are in a season of great soul harvest and therefore, God wants to prosper us, fill us, and make us debt free so we can do kingdom work.

So, let’s discover how to be in the right position for receiving God’s favor as I share what happened to some friends of ours.

The Lord had given them the idea to see us because they were battling some injustices that had affected their lives and they felt they needed to talk everything through with us. However, they did not have our address; and after the wife’s best efforts to contact us failed, they lost all hope in ever reaching us. So they made a final decision to go to a small town and live a quiet life.

However, several years later, divinely, God allowed us to make a connection. They shared their story—how they were robbed of all their belongings and how they lost their home as well as all they had earned—and how anger, bitterness and revenge had consumed their hearts.

So we spent many hours counseling them together and then later, my husband, Mahendra, began to visit the husband regularly to encourage him. He spoke to him about forgiveness, how to walk in humility, and how to walk in the opposite spirit to what he had been walking in.

Consequently, they both started to attend church with us and to decree God’s words of blessing from Deuteronomy 6:10, 11 and Isaiah 61. The Lord responded by giving this brother many assuring dreams of prosperity and many angelic encounters. Then, influenced by God’s supernatural intervention, the couple began to sow seeds of favor into a ministry and to expect blessings. Daily they meditated upon God’s Word and prayed.

One day the owner of their townhouse complex (who is not a believer), came to our friend and said, “I have been observing your life of honesty and faithfulness and have decided to sell one of the townhouse complexes to you at a reduced price.” This brother told the owner that he did not have a deposit to put down. But the owner said he would take care of it, fully furnishing the home for him as a show-home and he promised to rent it from him for one year, giving him a full one-year’s rent in advance. In one day, God’s favor turned his life around for good! Now they are making a great noise in our city for Jesus!

Our Lord said that He has come to give us a life of fullness! When God’s favor comes into your life, a “nobody” becomes a somebody. An example of this is found in the story of Esther. The King chose her to be his queen—a nobody became a somebody in a single day. (Esther 2:16).

I believe that God is not a “respecter of persons” and what He has done for these precious ones He can do for you. When we remember the words spoken in Romans 8:31–37, especially verse 37, “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us,” it will spiritually nourish our bones and keep us spiritually fit. And just like an athlete who prepares himself for a race, we, too, need to prepare ourselves for the spiritual race... “to run the race that is set before us.”

So my encouragement for you is this:

Expect from Him who is able to do more than you could think or imagine according to His great power.

As you meditate upon these keys, here is my prayer for you:

“Lord, I thank you for your goodness and faithfulness and the great blessings that follow us because of our obedience to your word. Thank you for these testimonies. I pray that those reading this message will be greatly encouraged to apply these five keys in their lives and that they will experience great blessings as a result. Lord, may they prosper in all that they do, physically, financially and spiritually. Touch them by the power of your word and make them a blessing for others. In Jesus’ name. AMEN."


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Prakash is a prophetic revivalist who moves in miracles, signs and wonders and operates in a breaker anointing bringing people into their destinies. Her heart is to see hell emptied and Heaven filled with souls.

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