IT WILL BE WELL WITH YOU.

1 Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to Him. 2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours… and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 128:1-2 [NIV/ESV]

3 Thoughts On Flourishing.

1. Dream It  - Believe For Fruit Again.

1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream [again].

Psalm 126:1 [KJV]

28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:28 [NKJV]

7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:7 [NIV]

22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”  

Genesis 8:22 [NIV]

1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days…4 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

Ecclesiastes 11:1, 4 [ESV/NLT]

11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:11 [NIV]

21 The seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Proverbs 11:21 [KJV]

6 Whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

2 Corinthians 9:6 [NIV]

13 Serve one another humbly in love.

Galatians 5:13 [NIV]

1 We were like those who dream…5 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.

Psalm 126:1, 5 [NIV]

11 The seed is the word of God.

Luke 8:11 [NIV]

10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin…

Zechariah 4:10 [NLT]

5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Genesis 15:5 [NIV]

2. Do It - Put Your Hands To It.

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 

Genesis 2:15 [NIV]

17 To Adam He said, “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground.

Genesis 3:17–19 [NIV]

16 To the woman He said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Genesis 3:16 [NIV]

28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Ephesians 4:28 [ESV]

11 So Christ Himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip His people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Ephesians 4:11-13 [NIV]

36 When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” 

Matthew 9:36-38 [NIV]

23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord…

Colossians 3:23 [NIV]

3 Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.

Daniel 6:3 [NKJV]

4 Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 10:4 [NIV]

29 Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings...

Proverbs 22:29 [NIV]

13The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 22:13 [NKJV]

3. Declare It - Speak Well Before It Is Well.

2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours…and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 128:2 [NIV/ESV]

2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

3 John 2 [ESV]

10 [The Shunammite woman said,] “Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there.” 11 And it happened one day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there. 12 Then he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” 13 And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘What can I do for you?” 14 And Gehazi answered, “Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old.” 15 So he said, “Call her.” 16 Then he said, “About this time next year you shall embrace a son.” 17 But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her. 18 And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers. 19 And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 He sat on her knees till noon, and then died. 21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out. 22 Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send me that I may run to the man of God and come back.” 23 And she said, “It is well.”  32 When Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed. 33 [Elisha] went in therefore, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the Lord….35 He returned and walked back and forth in the house; and the child opened his eyes. 36 And he called Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite woman.” And when she came in, he said, “Pick up your son.”

2 Kings 4:10–36 [NIV]

28 You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you.

Job 22:28 [NIV]

16 The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. 17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

James 5:16-17 [NIV]

6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

John 5:6-8 [NKJV]