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The definition of true prosperity
True prosperity is the ability to use the power
of God to meet the needs of Mankind in every
realm of life, spirit, soul, body, financially, socially.
True prosperity is when you make it your need
to get salvation into the hands of people and
when you make it your purpose to feed the
gospel to the unsaved.
True prosperity is the ability to look a man in
the eye in his moment of impossibility and
take his needs on as your own.
True prosperity is walking with God to be able
and equipped to do for others whatever He
needs done, whenever He needs it done and
with whatever He needs it done.
True prosperity is not for keeping your bills
paid and your body well just so you can lie
around and watch TV in comfort. God is not
prospering us to get us out of debt so we can
get into bigger debt. He is not prospering us
so we can buy and buy and buy. He is
prospering us so we can give and give and
give.
The heart of prosperity is our motivation for
accumulation for distribution.
A Rabbi shared. . .God’s Word commands us
to make money because we are His stewards
on earth with the responsibility to distribute
His wealth.
We are distributors of God’s wealth.
Genesis 12:2 (AMP): “I will make of you a
great nation, and I will bless you [with abun-
dant increase of favors] and make your name
famous and distinguished, and you will be a
blessing [dispensing good to others].”
It is one of the greatest things to be in the
position to give to others. To bring relief to
their lives.
To be a distributor is the heart of prosperity.
Philippians 2:4: “Look not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the things
of others.”
AMP: “…Be concerned for not [merely][your]
own interests, but also each for the interests
of others.
Galatians 6:10: “Let us practice generosity to
all while the opportunity is ours, and above all,
to those who are one family with us in the
household of faith.”
We are to put others needs above our own.
We need to know when to sow and to know
when to reap. By considering others needs
God will meet our needs.
1 Corinthians 10:24: “Let no man seek his
own, but every man another’s wealth.”
Let no man set his own advantage as his
objective, but let each seek the good of others.
To seek the good of others. “A man’s life con-
sists not in the abundance of the things he
possesses, but in the abundance of the things
he sows.” This is the heart of prosperity.
Giving Is at the Very Heart of Prosperity!
2 Corinthians 9:11 (NIV): “[As a result of your
giving] you will be enriched in every way so
that you can be generous on every occasion,
and through us your generosity will result in
thanksgiving to God.”
AMP: “Thus you will be enriched in all things
and in every way, so that you can be generous,
and [your generosity as it is] administered by
us will bring forth thanksgiving to God.”
God’s Word commands us to make money
because we are God’s stewards on earth with
the responsibility to distribute His wealth.
So the end result of prosperity is that we are
able to sow, able to be made generous.
Proverbs 11:24 “There is he that scatters and
yet increases.
He that waters will be watered himself.
It’s the plan of God!
Amen!
