I don't believe in prosperity theology in a sense that its the will of God for you to be healthy and wealthy. Sometimes God brings poverty to humble you. Sometimes he can even make you sick to humble you. He also exalts you too sometimes. Everything is done for the Good. Wealth is also inherited through fathers. Someone like King solomon had a father who was extremely wealthy and partly why Solomon was wealthy as well. Solomon didn't ask for money though but to lead a country in the proper way with discernment. He wanted wisdom. Proverbs is a great book.
I actually believe Covid is from God. Its a pestlience. I think its a good thing that people go back to their own countries of origin. It brings people back to God. Its a good thing there's so many languages and races. That means there's time to get people saved. Under the Anti christ I tend to believe everyone is going to united with this idea of peace. ATM there's just talk of wars and chaos and earthquakes happening all over the news. There's church leaders here wanting to borders to open so they can go get people saved in other countries or so they say. What about the people where they are? I tend to think they wanna travel themselves and enjoy themselves just from what i hear they talking about like all the scenery and food in new zealand or whatever. I'm praying for the borders to remain closed. So far they are under our state govt.
I say ---Well WannabeWinner ----You don't have to believe in a prosperity theology ----but you have to know God Does Not have a Problem with His Children living in abundance -----
as a matter of Fact Jesus said this ----
John 10:10
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].
I say ---------If God had a problem with material wealth He never would have chosen either Abraham or Job or many others as His righteous people -----Abraham was very well to do and so was Job ------and after Satan took all from Job ---God restored Job with more than he had before Satan inflicted him ---
Deuteronomy 8:18
But remember the LORD your God,
for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
I say
God has no problem with His people having money -----it is how they use HIS money that God is concerned with -----God's money should be used to prosper His kingdom -----which is giving out the money to the poor and to others in need at the time it is needed ---
This is called
Sowing and Reaping in the Spiritual realm ----God's Promise is to give the person back what They give out ----
but here again there is protocol for giving out and receiving back ------like there is protocol for answered prayer ---- the protocol is laid out by God in His Word
Jesus is speaking here ------
Luke 6:38 NIV
38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down,
shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
I say -----Our part is to trust God to do as He says He will do by putting our Faith in Him into action and give -----NO ONE can Out Give God -------
WannabeWinner you said --------Sometimes God brings poverty to humble you. Sometimes he can even make you sick to humble you.
I say -----Well you can believe that if you want to but this you say is False human Doctrine -----
Poverty never comes from God to humble us ----we humble ourselves freely to God as we Love him and want to please him -----God will never use a tactic to make us humble ourselves -----
God gave us free choice to choose to be Cursed or to be Blessed -----if we choose to be cursed that is on up not God ----all poverty comes under the curses that we choose in Deuteronomy 28 --wealth and abundance comes from choosing the Blessing in our lives -----which are also in Deuteronomy 28 ---both are still in effect today -----as unbelievers remain under the Curses of the law ---The Blessing comes to the Believers who receive Christ in their hearts ------
Sickness is never imparted upon us from God ----Sickness and disease comes under the Curses which we freely choose ----
Health in our Body --mind and Spirit comes from the Blessings that we freely choose ---
We Humans need to start taking responsibility for OUR Choices ----and Stop Blaming God for what we bring upon ourselves ------
All God did was present Blessings and Curses ----we choose what we want to follow --------
Proverbs 4:20-22 CSB
The Straight Path
20 My son, pay attention to my words;
listen closely to my sayings.
21 Don’t lose sight of them;
keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them,
and health to one’s whole body.
God Provided Wealth in the Old Testament ----these are just some of God's chosen with wealth ---
Abraham
Wealth was measured in a few ways in biblical times: cattle, land and actual currency like gold and silver. Abraham had all of that in huge numbers, and once even had to split some of his land with his nephew Lot because, as Genesis 13 puts it, “their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together” (and as Biggie put it, “more money, more problems).
Isaac
Isaac inherited his father’s wealth and it continued to expand, to the point where the Philistines once politely asked him to move because he’d gotten “too powerful” (Genesis 26:16). Isaac moved, but he couldn’t seem to stop accumulating wealth. As God told him in Genesis 26:24, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
Job
This one’s a little complicated because Job is most famous for the relatively brief period of his life in which he had nothing except misery. But that instructive season was bookended by a time during which the Bible calls him “the greatest of all the men of the east.” He held an early record for richest man in the hemisphere—a record he apparently later broke, when
God gave Job back double the amount that he’d lost.
Solomon
Wisdom. Wealth. Solomon truly had it all, including a number of wives that might be charitably described as, uh, “plenty.” 2 Chronicles 9:20 describes Solomon as being so rich that silver literally lost all value. In 1 Kings 10:10, the Queen of Sheba—not exactly impoverished herself—went on a sightseeing tour of Solomon’s lands just to see if the rumors were true. His name is still associated with money today, and at least a few Crusades set out with the express purpose of finding and reclaiming his vast wealth.
Joseph
One of the Bible’s most famous rags to riches stories, Joseph was a rich kid who was sold by his brothers into slavery. Then he ended up in jail and then, well, he became the second most powerful person in the ancient world’s most powerful country, Egypt. Joseph had a head for economics and used his savvy to prepare Egypt for a drought God had warned Pharaoh about in a dream
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