GOD’S LAW ON PROSPERITY
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Poverty is a product of sin and curses. Christ through His death has delivered us from curses that followed sin. Even before going to the cross, His message was directed to the poor; Lk. 4:18. Finally, He took our place of poverty and transferred His riches to those who will believe on Him.
What is prosperity?
Prosperity means being successful in all you are doing.
It means to be successful and become rich.
It also means to grow and develop in a healthy way.
In summary, prosperity is a condition of having enough money and everything that is needed for a good life. It is the will of God for those who are His children especially those who are serving Hi to have money and everything that will make them enjoy good life.
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God also wants us to prosper in our physical bodies by having good health always. He is not against our prosperity at all. In fact, if there are people who suppose to be rich and prosper, it is God’s people because riches come from God.
Some Christians do not prosper because they did not know that for them to prosper in a godly way; they must follow God’s first law of prosperity which is His word.
Those who walked with Him in the olden days discovered this truth that was why before they prayed or asked anything from God, they made sure it was in line with His word. We cannot experience material and physical prosperity that comes from God except our soul prospers.
God’s prosperity begins in the spirit and manifest in our physical body and material wealth. If your soul is not prosperous through the word of God, you will hardly experience genuine physical and material prosperity.
God promised to bless ISRAEL if they were obedient. No such promises were ever made to the church. On the contrary, it says in Ephesians that our blessings are spiritual in nature.
(Ephesians 1:3-14 NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. {4} For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love {5} he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-- {6} to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. {7} In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace {8} that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. {9} And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, {10} to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. {11} In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, {12} in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. {13} And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, {14} who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory.