Look back and look forward

2018- is going to be a year of great success and provisions…..
But that is the time to be very careful! God’s is preparing us for blessings with His words of warning to be careful!!  

It is good to remember all the ways God provided for us supernaturally when He led us through the wilderness that we would cheerfully serve him and trust Him. The Lord also, directs us to look forward to Canaan the Promised Land where there is great success and provisions!! But that is the time to be careful! Mosses warned the Israelite's against the temptation of being prosperous when we possess large estates, or engaged in profitable business there will be a temptation to pride!! Always remember your benefactor!!
The believing poor have an advantage to see your supplies coming supernaturally  from God in an answer to prayer!!
Clearly God wants us to have our needs met and have our hearts desire! But after our needs are met, what can be done with the surplus of His blessings? God desires that we use our abundance to bless others.. Wealth is more than money. We need the wisdom to receive God’s covenant of prosperity without it controlling us!

Deuteronomy 8 (NKJV)  Remember the Lord Your God
1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
11 “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, 12 lest--when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— 17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

Teaching by, Rachelle Benthin Hope and A Future Ministries

The Lord spoke to me He was calling all prodigals home...To pray they would make the decision to take the steps necessary to get back to the Father's house!!
 "We will look at some ways to  practically return home to the Father's House"

Luke 15:11-32 (NLT) Parable of the Lost Son
The prodigal son made the decision to leave his father’s house and ended up in the pigs pen after wild living….. Our decisions are very important…Even if we have made the wrong choice or decision and end up in the pigs pen…All’s we have to do is make a decision to go back and then we have to get up and actually start walking back to the fathers house… This can be very humbling to go back and say I messed up…. He came to his senses after running out of money and ended up in the pigs pen…Sometimes it has to get pretty bad before we come to the end of our selves.. We have to hit bottom before we cry out for help!! No one can make that decision for us…because God gives us free will…He doesn’t push himself on us.. He wants us to choose him…. Once we are in the pigs pen it’s hard to get out…old patterns and lifestyles  That’s where miracles happen….Some need a miracle…"We need to pray for a miracle"

How to Return HOME
H - Honesty- Be honest about having a problem with addictions, porn, relationships…Admit you have a problem we cant get out of the pigs pen….
O - Openness- Be open about your struggle. Bring it to the light, those things we keep in secret will keep us in bondage!! Tell someone you have a problem….
M - Mentor- Find someone who will walk you step by step out of the pigs pen!! You can’t do it alone…we need someone to help pull us out….
E - Exit- Make the decision to get out of the pigs pen and return home….Be as drastic as you can be. Be radical about it!! If you are in a situation EXIT……Do it today-Don’t wait.. Throw away old phone numbers, cut the relationship off, don’t go to old hang outs and old friends ect….Do whatever it takes to get free and God will deliver you…


Joel 3:14 (NLT) Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision. There the day of the Lord will soon arrive. Many are in the valley of decision…Teetering on the fence...

(Deuteronomy 30:11-20) God gives a Choice of Life or Death!
19 “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! 20 You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

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Teaching by, Rachelle Benthin - Hope and a Future Ministries