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You Have a Divine Right to Ask, "LORD, What's in It for Me?"<br />
Jesus was quick to answer Peter in the most<br />
positive way: "There is no man...not you Peter ...not any<br />
of you my followers...there is not a person who has left<br />
house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or<br />
wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the<br />
gospel's...but he shall receive—HE SHALL GET—a 100-<br />
fold now in this time—IN THE NOW OF THIS LIFE—<br />
houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and<br />
children, and lands (REAL ESTATE), with persecution<br />
—(SOME WILL BE JEALOUS OF YOU PROSPERING!)<br />
and in the world to come eternal life" (Mark 10:29,30).<br />
What Jesus is doing here is putting everything in<br />
proper order. He is explaining that as we keep God's<br />
commands and put Him FIRST in our lives, trusting<br />
only in God as the SOURCE OF OUR TOTAL SUPPLY,<br />
His eternal law of prosperity will work exactly as it has<br />
from the beginning.<br />
Just as God blessed Abraham with prosperity by<br />
his keeping God's commands and doing it by faith, just<br />
as there was something in it for Abraham far more than<br />
he gave up, so Jesus is telling us there's something in it<br />
for us. He says, "Nobody who turns from trusting<br />
material things or loved ones as a god or a source loses.<br />
You get something in return."<br />
Jesus says, "If you risk everything to trust in Me and<br />
make Me your Source, then in giving like this I will<br />
cause greater things and more things to come back to<br />
you now... in this life... but there will be 100-fold<br />
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