Some preachers teach that nothing will come to you unless you plant a seed for it and whatever type of seed you plant is the type of plant that will grow. They believe that people are stressed and not blessed because they plant weed seeds that grow up and choke the good plants out. They also believe that nothing, including millions of dollars, will come to you unless you plan for it to happen and plant a natural seed for it. In essence, they believe that no good thing comes by mistake. It must be obtained by hard work directly related to obtaining the material good.
Other preachers believe that work profits you little. Therefore, you must faith-demand the material things that you want in order to receive them. These are two extremes: prosperity by faith demand versus works based prosperity. The truth is in the middle including these scenarios:
• God provides your need because He loves you
• His principles, that require work to employ, provide a level of comfort above your need
• He provides some of your desires without you having to work to earn them
• He blesses a small percentage of people to inherit riches.
• He blesses others with wealth through ideas and inventions they never thought would lead to riches or the level of riches they ultimately obtained
• Others had a vision that what they were pursuing would make them rich
• Many rich people over the centuries have worked very hard and that hard work has been a great part of the reason they are rich
Stories of patriarch and matriarch’s lives in the bible as well as many testimonials throughout the history of man and contemporary today confirm all of these scenarios and probably a few others and each have been ways through which great wealth came into people’s lives.
Vision, declaration, giving, and faith are very important and should be a part of everyone’s life plan. You will certainly do better speaking into existence those things that be not as though they were. And, you will often do worse when you fail to have a vision, fail to make positive declarations, refuse to be a giver, and fail to take action by faith (work) to achieve the aim of the vision and declarations.
It is even more important for you to know that it does not profit a person to gain the world (riches, power, position, fame or even opposite things that one might desire) but lose his or her soul. Therefore, you should look to the Lord (who is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent) to set the vision for your life according to His will for you in the marketplace and ministry service He designed you for and gave you innate ability to effectively use and enhance.
Be on guard against prosperity extremes and poverty acceptance (that lead to idolatry and foolishness), rather look to the Father, accept Jesus Christ, and be led by the Holy Spirit to pursue His plan for your life so that you will prosper on earth and throughout eternity.
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Genesis 25:5, 1Samuel 16:6-13, Matthew 6:26, 2Thessalonians 3:10-14
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