Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
There is a guarantee from God concerning prosperity if we will do the following ... God says everything we do will prosper if we do following ...
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Psa. 1
Prosper means ... turn out well
I've seen people read the Bible and listen to various preachers and not prosper.
Paul said of one group, "You are dull of hearing" ... Paul said these people couldn't discern good from evil and Paul went on to tell us the reason they could not tell good from evil.
11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Heb. 5
In our own church group, we had a woman who was "dull" of hearing. We did everything possible to turn her but she would slip back into her bad habits of hearing the word of God but failing to meditate on that word she heard and consequently she did not actually do that word as it applied to her own life.
She got weaker and weaker until she "fell asleep" ... always learning but never able to grow in things of God.
As of the past month, she made a strong turn around ... She began "meditating" on that which she heard from God. And then doing that which the Word instructed, applying it to her own life and making appropriate changes based on the instruction giving by the Word she heard from the Spirit of God. All of a sudden she had things to share with body of Christ. She began growing up in the Word and began being recreated in the image of God through the Word and through faith in Jesus Christ. She entered into a "sound mind" where once she had been without common sense. It was amazing how fast the turn around came.
Meditating in the word of God ... You simply take the word given to you by the Spirit of God and pray over it, asking God to show you how to apply that portion of HIS Word to your life. Often it helps to take a dictionary and look up the meaning of key words. Sometimes while doing that God will remind you of various things in your specific life and you can make changes which are appropriate based on that word you have heard from God. This puts you in the path of God and when you go that way everything changes. It might look like you will suffer loss by doing that but actually you end up getting free from things which harm you and you will prosper (have good success) if you just continue in that Word given by God. It may take a month or a week or several months. But if you continue doing that Word you will proper. And when you prosper you will look back and know that you prospered because of God.
Meditating in the word of God enables you to do the word of God.
8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. Josh. 1
We meditate in the specific word given to us by the Spirit of God. Sometimes that word will come to you as a thought ... Stop and consider it immediately, not letting it slip away. (Write it down when you can.)
Sometimes you will be reading Bible and get hung up on a verse and even if you try to read past that verse you find you can't think of what you are reading because you are thinking of that verse. There is a message from God to you in that verse. Go back and think on that verse. What is God saying to you? What do you need to do to conform your life to that verse? If needed, look up key words in dictionary and think on how these things fit your life and especially think on what you need to do to adjust your life so it conforms to the instruction given in that word.
In Deut. 30, we read that the Word is in us ...all we need to do is to do it. (If you get letter in mail and fail to open the envelop it doesn't do you any good ... so it is with the Word. You must apply it to your life.)
11For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Deut. 30