Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
2015 by Greg Mohr
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I want to give a great big thank you to Bill and Becky Caldwell who paid for the editing, formatting, and the first printing of this book. What a blessing you both are. Your reward is great! Thanks also to Jill Tomlinson who helped with editing my manuscript. I would not have been able to complete this project without youat least not before the next millennium. I would also like to thank Catalyst Media for their great work on the cover design and formatting.
Thanks to the members of the River Church family in Decatur, Texas, who allowed me to put these principles into practice in a local church setting for many years. Thanks also to the students at Calvary Cathedral Bible College in Ft. Worth, Texas and at Charis Bible College in Woodland Park, Colorado who encouraged me to write this book after hearing me teach these things in both of these great Bible Colleges.
I appreciate my pastor, Bob Nichols, for his leadership in my life and for modeling the principles I share in this book. Thanks Pastor Bob for believing in me, encouraging me, and trusting me to share the Word in your Bible College and with the wonderful church family at Calvary Cathedral International in Ft. Worth, Texas. Thanks also to Andrew Wommack, the founder of Charis Bible College and Gary Luecke, the director of Charis, for your trust in allowing me to teach the Word and fulfill the role of Dean of Education and one of the staff instructors at Charis Bible College. My role here has sharpened my teaching and writing skills and enhanced my ability to write this book.
Last, but not least, I want to thank my precious wife and best friend, Janice, for her continued encouragement and support to fulfill the things God has placed in my heart. This book was one of those things the Lord placed in my heart many years ago. I appreciate your love for me and for always believing in me and in the things God has called us to do together. I dedicate this book to you, sweetheart.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
A HOLY SPIRIT PARADIGM SHIFT
One summer morning a number of years ago, I was spending the first hour of my day reading the Bible in my devotion time. In the process of my reading that morning, I came across a verse I had read more than a hundred times since becoming a Christian. That verse was III John 2, which says,
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Though I had read this verse countless times before, I had never seen it like the Holy Spirit revealed it to me that particular day. It was an amazing new insight to me. I knew if I had read it correctly, it was revelation that could change my life and the lives of others forever. It was as if bells and whistles and a light show were all going off in my spirit! I sat in awe as I read it over again.
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosperI realized this scripture included financial prosperity. And be in healthI could also clearly see that physical health was included.
Then the Spirit had me focus on something I had never noticed any of the times I had read it before. It was the last phrase of the verse: Even as thy soul prospereth. All of a sudden I saw it. The phrase even as means according to or only as much as. In that moment, I realized my financial prosperity and physical health are linked directly to the prosperity of my soul!
I probably should not have been so surprised that morning. After all, it had only been seven months earlier, at the beginning of the year, when I had sensed the Lord impressing me to read through the Word with a new Bible. It was to be a Bible that did not contain any of my personal notes. He wanted me to read His Word from Genesis to Revelation like I had never read it with the promise He would reveal things to me I had not seen before. On that warm summer morning, He indeed fulfilled that promise to me from one of the last chapters in the Bible.
My mind raced as I read it over again. Could this really be true? And if it was true, why hadnt I heard others teach it before? Initially I was angry as I realized that in over twenty years of my Christian life, I had never heard anyone teach this. It seemed to me that every minister should be teaching something as important and life changing as this!
The Lord calmed me and impressed upon me there was no need to be upset because He was teaching me this principle right then, directly through His Word and by His Spirit. Then I wondered, If this principle is so important, why didnt the apostle John write ten more chapters in the book of III John to instruct us on the principles of developing a prosperous soul? Again the Lord quickly answered my question by letting me know He had already placed instruction throughout His book, the Bible, regarding how to have a prosperous soul. It was up to me to search and study His Word to discover, know, and apply these principles.
As I meditated on what the Lord had just shown me, I realized it was imperative for me to understand what constitutes a prosperous soul and yield to those principles in my life. If this verse was true it meant when I searched His Word, discovered, and implemented the keys to having a prosperous soul in my life, my sick days and broke days would be over!
I began to focus my attention on matters of the soul. I searched His Word for other scriptures that pertained to the truth I had discovered. One of the first things I discovered involved the relationship and difference between my spirit and my soul.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion(Genesis 1:26)
You and I are created in the image of God. When you were born again you received His image in your born-again spirit. Your spirit man is pure, holy, and in right relationship with God. In your spirit you are whole, well, and filled with the faith and love of God. Your spirit is sealed and perfect. Hopefully you are getting the picture of what the Lord showed me: Problems do not arise from your perfect, born-again spirit. They arise from the well of your soul.
While His image is found in your perfect and sealed spirit man, His likeness is found in the realm of your soul where your mind, will, and emotions reside. When your soul conforms to the likeness of your spirit, then you will walk in greater dominion and experience greater victory in life. However, if you observe the body of Christ, you will quickly realize most are not walking in dominion or victory in life even though it is Gods will for them. Gods will for us as believers created in His image is to yield our souls to His likeness in our spirits and walk in dominion over sickness, disease, poverty and lack.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. (Proverbs 22:5)
