“But you shall (earnestly) remember the Lord your God; for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth” (Deut. 8:18 AMP).
The very idea of wealth scares some Christians. They think having a lot of money is ungodly—but that’s not what the Bible says.
God doesn’t object to our having money. On the contrary, He “takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant” (Ps. 35:27 AMP). What God doesn’t want us to do is covet money. He doesn’t want money to have us! He doesn’t want us to love money and make it our god.
So He gave us a safeguard. He gave us in His Word a foundational instruction about prosperity that enables us to be wealthy and godly at the same time: “Seek for (aim at and strive after) first of all His [God’s] kingdom, and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right], and then all these things taken together will be given you besides” (Matt. 6:33 AMP).
That is the foundation of biblical prosperity. It’s based on God’s way of doing and being right. It comes to those who operate in this earth according to His system of life, instead of the world’s system.
The world’s system has money for its god. It loves and seeks after money. But the kingdom of heaven has the Father for its God. And in His economy, you can’t prosper supernaturally unless you give Him and His ways first place in your life.
Granted, there are times when godly people begin to prosper and then get off track. Those people pass the poverty test, but fail the prosperity test. They start out seeking first God’s kingdom. But when they begin to experience the financial blessings of that kingdom, they become overly preoccupied with the things that have been added to them. Their hearts begin to grow cold toward God because they don’t continue to give Him first place in their lives.
God doesn’t want that to happen to His people. That’s why He told the Israelites not to forget Him when they entered the Promised Land and started living in goodly houses and enjoying material abundance: “But you shall (earnestly) remember the Lord your God; for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth.”
So don’t just release your faith to pass the poverty test. Pass the prosperity test as well!
Speak the Word: I earnestly remember the Lord my God, for it is He Who gives me power to get wealth. (Deut. 8:18 AMP)
For Further Study: Deut. 8:11-18
Daily Scripture Reading: Ezek. 38-39; Ps. 112
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For the last 50 years Kenneth and Gloria Copeland have been passionately teaching Christians all over the world how to apply the principles of faith found in God's WORD to their lives.
They have seven ministry offices around the world: United States, Canada, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Ukraine and Latin America. Their God-given directive is to preach and teach the uncompromised WORD of God on every available voice, which is being accomplished through a variety of channels, including our Believer's Voice of Victory TV and radio broadcasts, podcast and magazine; Believers' Conventions, Victory Campaigns and Living Victory meetings; published books, website, and social media channels, to name a few.
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