Today's "Faith To Faith" devotional by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland is a great reminder for those who are questioned concerning what the Bible teaches about prosperity! Remember as you study this that the true definition of prosperity is: Being WHERE God wants you to be, doing WHAT God wants you to do. It also involves being in control of your life in every area so that when God says GO or DO, you CAN! AMEN! Here is today's teaching:
Priorities of Prosperity
No man can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24
God isn’t against your having
money. He’s against money having you. He’s against your making it your priority
and putting your trust in it instead of in Him.
Why? Because He knows money makes
a lousy god. Its power is limited. It will only buy so much. It will only go so
far.
If you need healing from an
incurable disease, money won’t help you at all. If your family is falling
apart, money won’t mend it. But if you’ll seek God first, His prosperity will
reach into every area of your life.
God is so generous that He
desires you to have the best on this earth, just as you desire the best for
your children. His plan is for you to have all of your needs met
according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Get in on that plan by
keeping your priorities straight. Seek Him first and His righteousness.
Make pleasing God your No. 1
priority. Set your eyes on Him above all else and all these things will be
added to you.
AMEN! We have it on the very best authority that God wants us blessed! John 10:10 and 3 John 2:
10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]. AMP
2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
There we have it! God desires for us to prosper, and He has given us the HOW of it! "even as your soul prospers"! "Prosper" your soul (mind, emotions and will) by renewing your mind DAILY with the Word of God! You will begin to think and speak and act like GOD! THEN you will have HIS results! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Desert Song":
Shalom in Him!
