Secrets to Wealth God's Way

By W. G. Seavey

There are four states of existence in the mind (I call them mind-sets) of everyone on this planet relative to poverty and wealth.

They are (1) not enough, (2) barely enough, (3) just enough, (4) more than enough. We will all live in one or more of these states during our lifetime. Which one you live in is your choice? You can live in poverty or wealth. Poverty and wealth are relative terms and mean different things to different people. What do they mean to you? I've written this book especially for you to discover where you want to live the rest of your life. It's all up to you and the way you think about poverty and wealth. It's time to rise up to your full potential. It's time to be all and have all that God intended for you. It's time to get out of your boxed in mentality and rise to greater heights. This book is for you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781098026196

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Secrets to Wealth God's Way

W. G. Seavey

Copyright © 2020 by W. G. Seavey

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Table of Contents

As a Man Thinks

The Ditch Mentality or You Cannot Get Rich in a Ditch

Standing on Your Past

Try Turning the Page

Success Has No Address

I Can’t Even Think That High

The Spirit of Increase

Principles, Not Miracles

Making Room for Success

A Pocket Full of Change, a Suitcase Full of Credit Cards, and No Future

Throw It Down

Keep Going Even Though You Can See No Fruit on the Trees

A Place Called There

Are You Hard of Hearing?

And God Blessed Them, Saying, Take Charge!

Stop Going around in Circles

Pursue, Persist, and Prosper

Lower Your Nets for a Good Catch—Do It Now!

Between Amen and There It Is

You are the way you are because of the way you think, and nothing is going to change in your life until you change the way you think about it.

You cannot find success on a merry-go-round,

and to some, that is all life is…a merry-go-round; where she stops nobody knows.

If you don’t know where you are going,

any place will do.

Chapter 1

As a Man Thinks

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in good health.

—3 John 2

April 1976 was a hallmark year for me. I remember it so well as if it had just happened even though it has been over thirty years since that time, thirty-four years to be exact as of the writing of this book.

My daughter Karen had invited me to a local Houston area church. I happily accepted her invitation, visiting not once but three times in succession, unaware that a miracle was in the making.

It was my third visit: Sunday morning, just minutes before noon, and the meeting was ending. Just before closing, the pastor gave an invitation for people to come to the altar for prayer and to receive Jesus as Lord. I took it as a personal invitation, literally running forward to the altar area, accepting and making Jesus Lord. It was there, kneeling at the foot of the Cross, that I became a believer in Christ, surrendering my life to Him (See 2 Corinthians 5:17, GNB). "Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. In the CEV translation of your Bible, it says it this way: Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new."

From that day forward, life took on new meaning. I immediately became part of that congregation, making new friends quickly, joining in with others in all the activities available, and living life to the full.

Yes, 1976 was a very good year—that is, until I heard some not-so-good news several months later that God did not do this and God did not do that and the list was endless of what God did and did not do. Healing had passed away with the disciples and wealth? Forget that. No Christian in his right mind would ever consider rising above a mediocrity lifestyle and being wealthy. God forbid! And what would people think? I thought, Bummer! God didn’t heal anymore? What’s that all about? And God doesn’t want me to rise above the poverty mind-set that I had at the time? And yet the Bible says that Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly and that God took great delight in the prosperity of His children. Enter stage right, total confusion.

I had been in my pastor’s office along with several members of our small congregation just prior to our Sunday meeting in the sanctuary, discussing various topics about what God used to do but ceased doing for various reasons. Actually, arguing might be a better term. We were stating our cases vehemently (with minimal authority, I might add), insisting on our right to be heard over the volume of several voices since each of us was right. We were simply voicing our opinion with no scriptural references for back up. Healing, prosperity, success in any measure were several of the topics on the table that we had been discussing. Did God want us to prosper? Did He still heal? Was success of any kind even in His vocabulary? And if He did or did not do these things, what proof was there?

Healing had become a major topic of discussion. The majority of the group had already concluded that God did not heal anymore and sited several cases in which He had obviously not healed those who had been afflicted with sickness and disease. However, I, being the inquisitive one, had a question, which I directed to the pastor. "If God has stopped healing people, as the group has insisted He has, why did He stop?" Silence filled the room; all eyes turning toward our leader.

I remember the pastor leaning back in his chair, thumbs hooked in his belt, answering my question with the wisdom and authority of one in charge, saying, Bill, God doesn’t heal anymore because man would take pride in it, claiming the glory for himself, giving none to God. That was the sum total and theology of it, and nothing was going to sway him otherwise. Unknowingly, he was really saying he didn’t have the answer but used hearsay (what others had said concerning health with no proof) as evidence to support his reply to my question. He was simply covering his ignorance, making it appear as truth. After all, he was the pastor. My thinking at that time was, Okay, since he is the pastor, he must be right. I was to walk in that false and absurd assumption of no more healing for many years until I discovered the truth of the matter.

I mentioned two major areas under discussion in this small group, which were healing and wealth. The latter dismissed quickly because of its irrelevance, not to be part of a Christian’s life. God forbid that we should have any measure of wealth or financial success. If the pastor, out of ignorance, was giving information contrary to the Word of God about healing, what were his thoughts about wealth? Thinking back and having observed his lifestyle for over a year, I concluded he thought the same way about wealth as he had about healing.

I’ve mentioned these two topics, healing and wealth, because they are interrelated. You cannot be wealthy until you have a healthy mind-set about both. A poverty mind-set is not healthy. I talked about healing first because it is the healing of the mind we need to see clearly that God wants us to be wealthy; otherwise, Deuteronomy 8:18 should not be in our Bibles. You cannot have one without the other: healing without wealth and vice versa. There must be a healing of our minds and the way we think regarding wealth as well as healing of the physical body.

Here is scriptural support for health, healing, and wealth:

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in good health. (3 John 2)

For it is God who gives us the power to get wealth. (Deut. 8:18)

And it is God through Jesus Christ who has healed us of every sickness and disease. (Isa. 53:4–5 and 1 Pet. 2:24)

Know this: doubt and lack of faith is a disease—a dis-ease of the mind.

Because of truth not known, I remained broke, had a poverty mind-set, and was sick most of the time. Hosts of other things camped around me, keeping me bound up for several years, unable to move freely in the truth. Please understand that my pastor had not lied to me. He was simply passing on to his church what others had told him, thinking it to be the truth. In fact, it was nothing more than hearsay. He was ignorant of what the Bible had to say about healing and wealth. Ignorance is not bliss and the devil is a liar (See John 10:10). Ironically, during those yearling years as a Christian, I heard more about what was not mine than what was mine.

Truth revealed exposes a lie for what it is: a lie. Did you know a well-laid lie can appear to be truth but is not? You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). Simply having knowledge about a thing doesn’t make it true. It’s just information. When you know the truth, it will set you above everything else—even a lie with good intentions. That, by the way, is what we call a little white lie. No evil intended, I just don’t want to hurt people’s feelings by telling them the truth of the matter. I want to soften things up, as it were, so I will tell a half-truth, which isn’t truth at all. A half-truth is a whole lie.

I began searching for truth. That, by the way, is called pursuing God. I didn’t realize it at the time, because as a young Christian, I had not picked up on church jargon. My search became my own personal treasure hunt. First, I had to uncover what was not truth. That was the hard part and was to take several years. Along the way God began revealing little pockets of treasures: uncovering lies, revealing truth. Continuing in my quest for truth, I finally hit the mother lode! Healing is mine and so is wealth. And what a difference that has made in my life!

Here is what my search uncovered: poverty, sickness, and disease did not belong to me; and it doesn’t belong to you either. Health and wealth do! (Again, read Isaiah 53:4–5 and 1 Peter 3:24.)

In this book, my prayer for you is that you will discover what is yours and what is not. Wealth is yours! Poverty is not yours. If poverty is yours, then God missed it when He said, "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 (this is the key to it all) which He swore to your fathers as it is this day" (See Deuteronomy 8:18, NKJV).

Hey, how about some more poverty and lack? I have more than I can handle and I want to get rid of it.

No, thank you. I have more than enough already.

Here is a major key: you cannot be wealthy God’s way while having a poverty mind-set (although I know of a few people who seem to have some measure of wealth and success but also have a poverty mind-set).

Rising Above It All

To rise above something (wealth versus lack and poverty), we must first find out the truth about it. Truth makes a person free. It sets him on a higher plateau from those who do not know the truth. We should not live stressed-out lives all the time because there isn’t enough money to go around when the bills come due. But it goes even deeper than that, and in this book, we’ll discover the depth of what God has for you and me. We’ll uncover some lies and reveal truth.

Notice the word power in Deuteronomy 8:18. It means force (in a good sense), ability (in a figurative sense), along with able, might, power (full), or full of power—God’s power, strength, and substance. The word wealth means power, resources, and/or riches. Why would we live in poverty when God has given us the power to be wealthy?

Here is what Scripture says regarding wealth and abundance. Notice that it all started in the beginning.

Be fruitful and multiply. (Gen. 1:28)

And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. (Deut. 7:13)

You shall be blessed. (Deut. 7:14)

You shall not lack anything in it… (Deut. 8:9)

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you… (Deut. 28:2)

But they that seek the Lord shall not want (lack) for any good thing. (Ps. 34:10)

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… (Hos. 4:6)

That you may walk honestly toward them that are without and that you may have lack of nothing (no-thing). (1 Thess. 4:12)

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. (James 1:5)

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health, even as thy soul prospereth. (3 John 1:2)

Notice that God wanted man to be fruitful and multiply as far back as Genesis chapter 1. Adam and Eve, not Steve, had lived in luxury: a garden in paradise. Then man sinned. An eviction notice was served (Gen. 3:24), notifying the inhabitants that they could no longer live in paradise. They left (expelled and kicked out), never allowed to return. That is, until Jesus appears in the New Testament, rescuing man from his fallen place.

In Genesis chapter 3, man had become the cursed, not the blessed. Because of this, the devil (known then as the serpent) then had the upper hand, wreaking havoc in everyone’s life. But God had other plans, the ultimate of which was to get back, take back what the devil had stolen in the garden. Why? So that we might once again be able to enjoy God’s creation, not under a curse but under blessing as the blessed of God. Remember this: the devil owns nothing. He only has temporary possession of what he has stolen from us (See John 10:10) until we, the church, demand he return what was stolen (See Exodus 22:7 and Proverbs 6:31).

In Genesis 12:1–3 we find the following: God calls Abram out of his father’s house and to a land, which God would show him. "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Blessed Shall You Be

What does the word blessing mean? By implication, it means prosperity. Prosperity means more than enough to meet the need. The word shall is a mandatory clause. It means it is going to happen, come hell or high water. God said it, and that settles it. He says what He means and means what He says.

God’s desire is to bless man and to implement it. He sends the only One through which the plan can become possible. His name is Jesus, and He is God’s only Son. God sacrifices it all (Read John 3:16) so that man might be redeemed.

We fast forward in time to where Jesus, at age thirty-three, is beaten, crucified on an Old Rugged Cross, dies (remember that He gave His life—no one took it), is taken down from the Cross, and is buried; but on the third day, He is raised from the dead and is now sitting on the right hand (the place of honor) of the Father. Jesus took (bore) all our sin, sickness, and disease upon himself (Read Isaiah 53:4–5 and 1 Peter 3:24). In other words,