Renew Your Mind – How To Prosper In God
Discover Dr. Bill Winston’s biblical and practical approach to supernatural prosperity, emphasizing that God’s will is for every believer to live in abundance and health. This guide, rooted in God’s Word, reveals the essential steps to activate your divine inheritance, leveraging faith-filled confession and the Kingdom system of sowing and reaping to achieve miraculous financial increase and breakthrough.
1. God’s Will for Prosperity: The Mandate for Abundance
Dr. Bill Winston teaches that prosperity is not merely a possibility but God’s will for the believer. This comprehensive prosperity includes spiritual, physical, and financial well-being, as summarized in 3 John 2: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prosper“.
The Source of Wealth and Potential
A fundamental shift in perspective is required: you are rich because you are blessed, not blessed because you are rich. The believer’s potential is immense and comes directly from God.
- Invisible Potential: Believers have potential that cannot be seen right now because it is inside. God’s purpose is to reveal this potential, often by stretching you on purpose.
- The Blessing of Creativity: God’s blessing provides creative production and gives you the ideas of what to do.
- Unearned Increase: Increase does not come solely through working; it is produced by confessing.
2. The Kingdom System vs. the World System
There are two opposing economic structures: the world system (Babylon) and God’s system.
The Enemy’s Control (Babylon)
The enemy operates a system called Babylon, designed to control everything you do and prevent the Gospel from getting out. This control includes managing your money and dictating your financial circumstances.
God’s Way: Sowing and Reaping
God’s system for prosperity is sowing and reaping. Sowing seed gets money out from [the enemy’s] control.
- Divine Deposit: As you sow seed, God makes a deposit in your bank that is multiplied according to His law: 30, 60, and 100 fold.
- Partnership: Partnering with ministries to take the Gospel to the nations is a part of this system. When you partner, whatever the ministry receives, you get the same thing, including eternal rewards. Dr. Winston’s ability to acquire facilities and his house came from sowing seed into a partner.
3. The Activation Key: Confession and the Power of Your Lips
The mechanism for drawing prosperity from God’s system is confession, or declaring God’s Word over your circumstances.
The Increase of Your Lips
Proverbs 18:20 states that a man shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
- Taking Charge: Every morning, the believer should confess where they are financially and take charge of their own life; they do not leave it up to the world.
- The Power of Spirit: If a thing is in the Word of God, your spirit can believe it, even if your mind is still searching. The spirit is what produces it. Your spirit can produce the resources for you to be a millionaire by Christmas Eve.
4. Accessing Prosperity through Favor and Giving
In addition to sowing and reaping, God provides prosperity through favor and giving to the poor.
Supernatural Favor
Once the blessing is on your life, favor comes with it. Favor means God is leaning in your direction.
- Benefits of Favor: Favor produces supernatural increase, promotions, restoration, honor, increased assets, great victories, recognition, prominence, and preferential treatment.
- Battles Won: Favor can bring about battles won which you do not have to fight. The example of Esther finding favor with the King demonstrates this powerful mechanism.
Giving to the Poor
Giving to the poor is another way prosperity comes.
- Divine Restoration: When you give to the poor, God will look after you, sustain you, and restore you when you get sick. This is illustrated by the story of Rockefeller starting the March of Dimes and subsequently improving in health.