The Secret To More! - Part 1: "The Trouble With Things"

"The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it." ~ Proverbs 10:22

Make no mistake and don't get it twisted, it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich... "It is He that gives the power to get wealth" (Deu. 8:18). God has a perspective where things - the wealth of this world - is concerned. And so do we. Unfortunately, our perspective tends to run counter and contrary to the perspective of God where things matter. And because we operate out of agreement with our covenant relationship with God on matters of things, we tend to have trouble with things where trouble was never intended in the first place.

Brokenness is the place where our primary needs collide with our lack. We have three primary needs that are common to all mankind regardless of color, culture, ethnicity or nationality. I call them the Three C's of Primal Need:

1. Connection - the primary need for relationship, fellowship and acceptance.
2. Currency - the primary need for worth, value, significance and esteem.
3. Competence - the primary need to be great at something, for worthiness, excellence and virtue.

It is from the prism of our brokenness from which our perspective of things are seen, perceived and thought. It is from a cracked and fractured lens with which we view wealth. But when we allow Christ to fully come in to preeminently reign and rule over us - and our things - wholeness is made out of our brokenness. Our lens is restored and our perspective once broken is healed by the blood of Jesus. From the view of a new prism, a restored looking glass, we can see clearly what is available to us right now in the riches of His glory. Here is where we can truly begin... to begin in the fullness of Christ, having nothing missing, nothing broken, nothing lacking. Now, let us begin again...