John F Avanzini - What Jesus taught about manifesting abundance

What Jesus Taught About Manifesting Abundance

"... wisdom , but not the kind that comes from here on earth..."

1 Corinthians 2:6, TLB

by

John Avanzini

I respectfully dedicate this book to Kenneth and Gloria Copeland.

Contents

Foreword

What Jesus Taught About Manifesting Abundance comes to us at a very exciting time in the plan of God. Do you know what time it is? It is over and above all we can ask or think time!

On Christmas Day 1994, Kenneth Copeland prophesied, "And we're going to see the move of God like we've never seen it before. It's going to be in a way that you've never dreamed of it before. Because, you mark my word, 1995 is the beginning of 'beyond what we are able to ask or think.' 1995 is that beginning. It has come."

It is over and above time in the financial realm. The Church has reached the time of superabundance. Those who will enter are those who are willing to believe the Word of God concerning biblical prosperity. Isaiah 1:19 says if we are willing and obedient, we will eat the good of the land.

The rich young ruler in Mark 10:17-30 was not willing and obedient. He trusted in his money to the extent that he could not obey God's call to him. After he went away sad and depressed, Jesus said, "How hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God's way of doing and being right."

The disciples were astonished and asked, "How can anyone be saved?"

Jesus answered, "With men it is impossible, but not with God! Truly I tell you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this timehouses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life."

In the 1970s, the Lord revealed something to me from these verses that I still firmly believe. "... He shall receive an hundredfold now in this time" (Mark 10:30). I believe the hundredfold return of what we've given for the gospel is coming to those of us who believe, between now and the time we leave this earth. I dare to believe that! I am expecting the full hundredfold return to come to me before I leavenow in this t im e.

I believe now is the appointed time for the wealth of the sinner to come into the hands of the just (Proverbs 13:22). God didn't put the wealth of the earth here for the devil and his children. God created this earth for His family. It belongs to us!

What Jesus Taught About Manifesting Abundance thrills and excites me. This book has stirred my faith afresh to know this is the day, this is the hour. We are the people to experience this mighty blessing of God in these last days.

I want you to be in on it. As with all things we receive from God, it will come as you believe and act on His Word. Give this book your attention, and take your position in faith. Let Jesus manifest His abundance in your life.

Yours in Jesus, Gloria Cop eland

Too Good to Be True

... they were all amazed at the mighty power of God....

Luke 9:43

Imagine getting back thirty dollars for giving a dollar, six thousand dollars for giving a hundred, a hundred thousand dollars or more for giving a thousand. This rate of return sounds impossible to most folks. Does it sound impossible to you? Well, it didn't seem the least bit impossible to Jesus. In fact, He actually taught these outrageous rates of increase.

I want to begin our time together in this book by making a special promise to you. If you will read this material with an open mind and faithfully put its principles to work, you will be able to manifest these same increases in your own finances.

Powerful Revelation

The information I will be sharing with you is a powerful revelation. Please note I am not using the word revelation loosely. I use it in its strongest sense. What you are about to read is a body of truth I received directly from our Lord. Now mind you, it's not a new truth, it's neglected truth.

It is also a breakthrough truth! I say it is for two reasons. First, I say it is because of the person who speaks it. He is Jesus Christ Himself. Secondly, I say it is because of the tremendous detail He goes into when teaching it.

Two Key Verses

The great truth I am speaking of comes from the fourth chapter of Mark. This chapter contains two key verses that should have immediately put us on notice as to their extreme importance. Even though these verses have been crying out to the Church for two thousand years, no one seems to have paid any attention to them.

After all these years of study, I can't recall a single teaching about them. Let me be quick to take my part of the blame. In thirty years of ministry, I never placed any special emphasis on them either, that is, until now.

When you fully realize the magnitude of these verses, you cannot help but wonder why you haven't heard more about them.

The Doctrine of Jesus

We find the first of these wondrous sayings in verse 2.

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine.

Mark 4:2

Think of what you just read. Verse 2 says Jesus is about to reveal His doctrine to us!

I am convinced the main reason we have gone this long without emphasizing the significance of this statement is that it deals with doctrine. So much division has taken place over doctrine that most Christians subconsciously tend to avoid it.

The Importance of Doctrine

Please hear me carefully. I am not minimizing the importance of Bible doctrines. It is impossible to study the Word of God without realizing they exist. The problem is that men have clouded the simple truth of God's Word by coming up with so many opposing doctrines.

Catholics have developed doctrines, and Baptists have done the same. Methodists have them, as well as Lutherans. The denominations all have their own distinctive doctrines, each one being different from the others.

What Doctrine Is

Let's take a moment and define what a doctrine is. Simply stated, it is what an individual or group of individuals understand about the Scripture. To know what Presbyterians understand about God's Word, you must study Presbyterian doctrine. To know what Episcopalians believe, you must study Episcopalian doctrine, and so forth throughout the denominations.

What Jesus Understood

With this definition of doctrine, let me once again draw your attention to verse 2.

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine.

Mark 4:2

This portion of Scripture is of tremendous importance because it alerts us that Jesus will be telling us about His doctrine. If I know anything about Bible study, I know its primary purpose is to promote understanding of what Jesus (God) is teaching. We want to understand the mind of Christ.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:5

Well, there it is in black and white. Mark 4:2 says Jesus is about to reveal some of the things He understands.

The Key Parable

A second verse in this chapter should also have caught our attention. It deals with parables.

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

Mark 4:13

Just think about it. Here we have the key that qualifies us to understand all parables. How is it that a verse with such tremendous promise could go virtually unnoticed for so long?

When I fully realized what these verses (2 and 13) were saying, I immediately began to study carefully the fourth chapter of Mark. I read it and reread it until I had all but memorized it. I also read everything written about it that I could find.

Broken, Disjointed Thoughts