Subject: Prosperity and Deut. 28? |
Bible Note: Remember I wrote that she quoted the scripture "a faithful man shall abound in blessing". That's the one I meant. I base my belief on scripture and with the experience that came when I applied the scripture to my everyday life. I don't car if I ever get a million dollars. But I do care if I move up in God. Yes, for my current situation I was happy having a roof over my head, but that doesn't mean that I can't want to do better. If we are just happy being saved, no one will ever go out and get other people saved. In the King James it says "let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee". Paul was saying not to try and take what others have. The word covet means to lust for what someone else has until you will do anything to get it (paraphrase). If you love money too much, you'll steal to get it. If you admire your friends wife to much, you'll commit adultry with her. Well that's not the situation I'm in. I don't live like a saint of God. I moved there before I got saved so it was fitting for who I was. Now it is not fitting for who I am so God is changing it. I don't have a 2001 car, but I have one. I would love to have a 2001 car but that's not what I need right now. IT's a 93 with alot of problems but it gets me to work, church, and home everyday. I didn't have a car when I first got saved and carrying a 2 month old baby around in the snow was not going to get it. I went to school on the city bus for a year, then God provided what we needed after I proved faithful enough to have it. I have lived in the same place for 3 years and God is finally saying they can handle something more now. If I didn't want to move, I would not accept his blessing. If your church only had 20 people who would really praise the Lord with everything they had and 100 others who barely stood up would you be content that you had 120 members? I wouldn't. There are somethings as you said that are being used the wrong way. BY the way God showed me about Jeremiah, It was great finding out what was going on. Just as when you find out that we are not supposed to be poor. IF the world can be rich and we walk around with rags and straw hats on, what does that say about God? A sinner would never want to leave his possesions to serve a God that lets his people Go around in rags. I get tired of fighting the smoke from a joint just to make it into my front door, or the gangs of drunken people out on my front porch. I've witnessed to those people and they didn't listen. But bless God when he moved those people out of the way, one of the girls who used to be with them started coming to church with us. We have to let the blessing of God show through us. He said we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. My house is going to be a testimony unto God, that mans laws don't stop God. I get tired of borrowing money from some bank to get things I need. If God desires to give us things we need and things we desire why is it wrong for us to recieve them. The blessings of the Old Testament are for us just like the curses if we do wrong. Seed-time and harvest is a blessing. If you sow in time you will receive a harvest. If you need a new anointing in your church and your members don't seem to want to move up, sow praises unto God and either your people will praise with you or leave. If they leave, you didn't need them in the first place. I have to go now. IT's nice to have a calm discussion without being attacked. In Christ |