Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
When it came to the topic of prosperity, the church people of my day were off in the ditch on one side of the road. They had been taught that poverty produced piety and that God didn't want His people to have anything.
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I always heard preachers say, "I don't want any of this world's goods," because they thought there was something wrong with this world's goods. But Psalm chapter 50 proves why it's not wrong to have this world's goods.
"For every beast of the forest IS MINE, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. . . . If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for THE WORLD IS MINE, and the fulness thereof" [that means that everything that's in the world is God's].
—Psalm 50:10,12
Mark those verses in your Bible. Meditate on those verses and confess them. The Lord showed me these verses because He had to get my thinking straightened out. I thought it was wrong to have anything. I thought a person ought to go through life with the seat of his britches worn out, the top of his hat worn out, and the soles of his shoes worn out, living on Barely-Get-Along Street way down at the end of the block right next to Grumble Alley!
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That's the kind of thinking many people in the church world have today. But they're not thinking in line with God's Word. Sadly, too many Christians (preachers included) remind me of young birds just hatched, sitting in the nest, eyes shut and mouth wide open, waiting for momma to come and feed them. They will swallow whatever is poked into their mouths.
Many people in the Church have been religiously brainwashed instead of New Testament-taught. Without knowing what the Bible says, and having limited spiritual discernment, they are tossed by every wind of doctrine.
So in time, even erroneous teachings become traditions not easily changed. They are passed down from one generation to another, and the new generation accepts the error without question because that's "what we've always believed."
