We know that we continually talk about prosperity and how it is God’s will for his children to prosper. We have shown you many passages that reveal it is God’s will for us to prosper. We know that many look around the Christian circles and only see those who preach about prosperity prospering while others appear to struggle to make ends meet, while waiting on their own prosperity. Because we see the apparent injustices of those in religious leadership positions wearing the expensive designer clothes, riding in the expensive luxury cars, and living in the big expensive houses with servants and the like, many have decided that prosperity can only be of the devil and so they do not want any part of the so-called prosperity message. What they do not realize is that they are actually hurting themselves.
First of all, not everything in this world that we live in is as it appears to be. This is just a fact of life. Since the beginning of man, we have been deceived, manipulated into doing things that have gone against the truths that are found in the word of God. The really sad part is that the same deceit and manipulation still goes on today by the very one that has continually deceived the world. The devil’s craftiness and deceitful nature was first depicted during the fall of mankind (Genesis 3:1-13). If he was able to alter what God had said in the mind of Eve (II Corinthians 11:3), what makes you think he cannot do the same today?
Many are aware of the devil and his minion’s infiltration into the Church, but has any thought been given to other areas that he may have influenced. It should not be out of the question to consider the devil’s role in the translation of the very Bible that we use. And no we have not lost our minds nor are we speaking against what some consider to be the very word of God. We know that Satan himself can masquerade around as “an angel of light” (II Corinthians 11:14). We also know that his ministers can be transformed into “ministers of righteousness” (II Corinthians 11:15). And we know that his only purpose, since the beginning, has been to deceive mankind (Revelation 12:9). We all have been taught that the devil knows the Bible, so not to consider this possibility may prove to be detrimental.
Scripture upon scripture has revealed that God wants his children to prosper and he enjoys helping us to prosper. Misinterpretations have caused many to reject the prosperity message, seeing it in a negative light. Since “no man can serve two masters, because he will either love the one and hate the other or he will keep or hold on to one and have not respect for the other” (Matthew 6:24), prosperity has been taken off the table. According to scripture, it is “the love of money” that is “the root or cause of all evil” (I Timothy 6:10), so by taking money out of the equation, then we get rid of the evil that is cause by this “evil money.” You see, if you do not have this “evil,” then you can love the Lord God with all of your heart, soul, strength, or mind. Problem solved, right? Not exactly. Money in and of itself is not evil. In this economical system, money is just a tool necessary for you to live. It is the “love of money” that is the problem not the money itself.
God wants his children to prosper and he enjoys helping us to prosper. And as we have continually stated, there is a specific reason for the prosperity. God gives us the power or the ability to get wealth to fulfill his promise, that agreement he made with our ancestors (Deuteronomy 8:18). But in order to prosper the right way, we have to understand that there is a godly path to prosperity, a way that adds no sorrow. Of course, if there be a right way to prosper, then surely there be a wrong way to prosper. You just need to make sure that you find the right path to prosperity. We will give you a clue, it involves having “the blessings of the Lord” for “the blessing of the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it” (Proverbs 10:22 NLT).
Again, we pray that today’s message will abundantly bless you and that you will be the better for having read it. If blessed by this message, please share so that others may be blessed as well. Amen.
Enjoy your blessings - KW
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