SEEDS OF PROSPERITY

No matter our financial circumstances, we want to improve them. This, too, is good if it is not carried to an extreme. I am satisfied that the Father of us all does not wish His children to walk in poverty. He wants them to have comforts and some of the good things of the earth. In the Old Testament, He speaks of "a land flowing with milk and honey," of the fatlings of the flock, and of other things which indicate that He would have His children properly fed and clothed and sheltered, enjoying the comforts that come of the earth, but not to excess.I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind. But it is the labor and the thrift of people that make a nation strong. It is work and thrift that make the family independent."

President Gordon B. Hinckley

It is when greed takes over, when we covet that which others have, that our affliction begins. And it can be a very sore and painful affliction.

Listen and Connect –

Worship and Pray

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

Worship God:32:9 More Than Once

Each WeekPray For:34 Heading: Pray for Spiritual and Temporal Blessings

34:24 Cry Over CropsThat we may prosper in them

32:23 Imparteth his word by angels to women and children

Personal Responsibility

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

2. Personal Responsibility

32:13 Repent -

Inspired change32:20 Work – Will bring the

blessings32:27 Experiment on the word34:53 Do not procrastinate

Inspiration Model

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

2. Personal Responsibility

3. Inspiration Model

- Desire to believe- Hope- Faith- Knowledge

Answers not all at once

D&C 52:14 - A pattern in all things

- Perfect Knowledge

32:36 - Ye cannot know of a surety at firstD&C 111:11 - order blessings as fast as you are able

The Atonement of Christ

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

2. Personal Responsibility

3. Inspiration Model4. Atonement fills our

gaps . . . after all we can do

II Nephi 25:23

Pray for and serve others

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

2. Personal Responsibility

3. Inspiration Model4. Atonement fills our

gaps5. Pray for and serve

others Pray for the welfare

of those around you

Alma 34:27If ye are not charitable

ye are as drossAlma 34:29

Be Gratefulfor what is

already yours

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

2. Personal Responsibility

3. Inspiration Model4. Atonement fills our

gaps5. Pray for and serve

others6. Be Grateful . . . that ye live

in thanksgiving daily

Alma 34:38

The Complete Plan

1. Listen and Connect – Worship and Pray

2. Personal Responsibility

3. Inspiration Model4. Atonement fills our

gaps5. Pray for and serve

others6. Be Grateful7. The Complete Plan

- Needs- Wants

They did minister unto them according to their wants – Alma 35:9- ToolsThey did give unto them lands for their inheritance Alma 35:9

Luke 19Multiply Resources

Zaccaeus … a man that is a sinner … “I give half of my goods to the poor” … Taken anything by false accusation – I return

four fold … Jesus to Zaccaeus – this day is salvation

come to this house Nobleman and ten servants who he gave

ten pounds … The first gained ten pounds – Well done thou

good and faithful servant – have thou authority over ten cities

… The second gained five pounds – Be thou also five cities

… Another laid his pound in a napkin for “I feared” – who gavest thou my money into the bank

D&C 104:78-80Pay Your Debts

It is my will that you shall pay all your debts

THE CHALLENGE … your diligence … humility … prayer of faith

THE PROMISE … will soften the hearts of those to whom

you are in debt … shall send means unto you for your

deliverance … will give you the victory

THIS ONCE

- Obtain this blessing by:

- I:

- I will deliver you out of bondage

Helaman 12:2-3 … when he doth prosper his

people In the increase

Of their fields Their flocks and their herds In gold, and in silver In all manner of precious things of

every kind and art Sparing their lives Delivering them from their

enemies Softening the hearts of their

enemies Doing all things for the welfare

and happiness of his people

Stage 1

… then is the time They do harden their hearts Do forget the Lord their God Trample under their feet the Holy

One Yea, and this because of their

ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity

… except the Lord doth Chasten his people with many

afflictions Doth visit them with death and

with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence

… They will not remember him

Stage 2

Stage 3

Helaman 12:2-3

D&C 70:7

… inasmuch as they receive more than their NECESSITIES and their WANTS

… it shall be given into my storehouse

Brigham Young – “I had never seen so many cows you could not milk, horses you could not ride and land upon which you could never plant”

To the Storehouse

- We Give Our

EXCESS

Diligence – Haste - Discipline Proverbs 10:4

The hand of the diligent maketh rich D&C 64:33

Be not weary in well doing Laying a foundation of a great work Out of small things proceedeth that

which is great Proverbs 28:22

He who hasteth to be rich: Hath an evil eye Considereth not that poverty shall come

upon him

Diligence – Haste - Discipline

D&C 111:11THE CHALLENGE Be wise as serpents And yet without sinTHE PROMISE I’ll ORDER the blessings in your

behalf AS FAST as

- Gain and utilize knowledge- Be obedient

ye ARE ABLE to receive them

The ‘Others’ in Prosperity

Jacob 2:17 Think of your brethren like unto

yourselves That they man be rich like unto you

D&C 78:6 If ye are not equal in earthly things Ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly

things Alma 34:27

Cry unto the Lord . . . For the welfare of others

D&C 82:19 You are to be equal . . . Every man according to his wants and

needs . . . Inasmuch as his needs are just Every man seeking the interest of his

neighbor