ABUNDANT FINANCES: Insect Assets

When I was a kid growing up in Ohio, I once experienced the 7-year locusts. It is similar to experiencing the apocalypse or rise of the birds. Locusts darken the sun, swarming in such vast numbers you’re driven in side for hours. Then as quickly as they came in, they die and you literally have drifts of locus piled up several inches high all over top your home, lawn, streets, and side-walks. 

It turns out, this image of a vast swarm of locust is how Bible describes the abundance God has in store for your life. 

The Hebrew word for "enlarge" is a word about multiplying physical assets. We find it first in God's command to His creation, "be fruitful and multiply". It is also translated "increase", "gather much", "heap up", "give more" and "be many". But in one special use it is the name for a kind of locust. 

Jabez asks God to explode his growth 1 Chron. 4:10. He says, "God, make my assets multiply like locust. Let them overrun their accounts. Let them burst their borders. Make them grow so much that they can't be contained. Let them go wild." That's quite a request. But Jabez knew that the basis of his request was his willingness to acknowledge both parts of the word "bless" – the gift and the act of bowing down. Jabez said, "God, I acknowledge that all favor comes from you. You are the only source of my prosperity. And I know that my prosperity means that I submit to you. I bow my knee in worship. So, God, make your blessing big. Give me all you've got for me."

There are obligations in blessings. Jabez did not waver in asking because He knew God. Do you know God well enough to boldly ask Him to make your influence like locust?

CCC is about serving God, by saving lives, to reach an abundant harvest. The biggest practices in history teach at and are a part of the Christ-Centered-Chiropractic movement. It’s no accident; it’s the swarm of success that can only be found by the combination of great practice systems and the supernatural swarm from God.

With God, all things are possible,

Dr. Ben Lerner