October 22, 2014
If there is a set of people who just want to go to
bed poor and wake up wealthy without doing anything, it is this generation. Irrespective
of our background, religious affiliation, gender, age, color or marital status,
we all want to overnight drive a Range Rover, build a duplex, travel the world
and have millions in our account. Is it a bad thing to desire all the good
things of life? Absolutely not. As a matter of truth, the scripture says God
delights in your prosperity (Psa 35:27), which is why He is the only One that
can give you power to make wealth (Deut 8:18).
But you need to clearly understand that desire alone
cannot get you what you want, because if wishes were horses, beggars would
ride. Also, you need to know that being a believer or a born again Christian isn’t
an automatic ticket to the land of wealth. If it was, all believers on planet
earth would be walking billionaires. We have forgotten that God is not a
magician who does abracadabra, but a Father who has a process in place for
everything. We desire these good things but we refuse to work.
In Psalm 1:1-3 Bible says that the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor
sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but delights in the law of the LORD; meditates
therein day and night, shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither;
and WHATSOEVER HE DOETH SHALL PROSPER.” Prov 28:19 says, “He that tilleth his
land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons (fantasies,
wishes and mere desires) shall have poverty enough.”
I agree the word of God says the poor will never
cease in the land (Deut 15:11), but must that be you? Whatsoever your hand
finds to do, sir/ma, do it very well.
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