We are all familiar with the words prosperity, prosper, and prosperous? What do these words mean to you?
To me, the word prosper means the extent to which you are experiencing happiness, health, wealth, and abundance in your life.
Prosperity allows you to experience financial abundance, a balanced personal life, expanded knowledge, happiness, and a deeper spiritual walk. (Catherine Ponder)
Prosperous living creates a fulfilled and abundant life for you.
Do you think you can live an abundant life?
Let me go ahead and answer that question for you. Yes, you can. We all can. This is the life that God intended for us to live. It is clearly shown in the Bible when Jesus said, “I came so you may have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). Jesus did not say that he came so that you may be broke, unhappy, or lacking. He said, “I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
If you are living anything far from an abundant life, know that you are not living the life that God has intended for you.
When you look throughout the Bible and study its great leaders—Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Elijah, Elisha, David, Solomon, and the virtuous woman in Proverbs—you see that they were all prosperous. They knew they had access to the abundance of God. They understood that no good thing would be withheld from them. They tapped into the POWER. The power of God that is more than sufficient to meet any need.
My dear friends, I am here to tell you that God is still the same. He has not changed. You can tap into that same power and you also have the same access to God’s unlimited abundance.
All the riches in the world are yours; they only await your acceptance (Raymond Barker).
Let’s get down to the dirty truth about poverty
Poverty is a spiritual blindness that causes man not to see the unlimited abundance of God. Poverty causes addictions, unhappiness, depression, and it drives intelligent men and women to live a life of abuse, crime, and unhappiness. Poverty drives people to do things they would never imagine themselves to do. (Catherine Ponder)
God is good—only good exists in him—and we are created in the image of God. Our purpose is to glorify God. Think about it for just a second: what use would a broke, poor, lacking person be to God? How would that glorify him? From this, then, you know that poverty is a state of mind because God is good and all that is of the Father is good.
This means that YOU choose whether or not you will live an abundant life or not. It’s called free will. God clearly shows an example of free will in Deuteronomy 28:1 when he states, “If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all my commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.” Furthermore, Deuteronomy 28:15 states, “If you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees he is giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”
The choice to have or have not is yours
How do you make that choice? By obeying the commandments of God. By knowing and thinking the truth. The truth is that prosperity is your divine heritage. As a child of God, you have rights. You are and have always been prosperous, and you have access to ALL the abundance of your infinite source, God. The lies that you have fed yourself about prosperity, such as (1) prosperity is only available to a “select” few, (2) you need to have a certain degree, or (3) you need to have X amount of dollars in your bank account in order to be prosperous are ALL lies. Prosperity is a state of mind. It is not determined by your race, education level, or net worth. It is determined by your thoughts.
You cannot live a fulfilled life unless you are prosperous. If you are living anything less than that, you are living abnormally. God created YOU and when he was done, he said it was very good. This tells me that when he created you, he equipped you, and God has made his abundance available for you.
So if you are living abnormally, know that you can live a normal life. All it takes is a decision. Decide right now at this moment that you choose to be prosperous, that you choose happiness, you choose peace, you choose abundance, and you allow all these things to become a part of your everyday experience.
Your first step is making a decision to have what is rightfully yours right now, TODAY.
Remember…
Life is an act of faith. Struggle is optional (Iyanla Vanzant).
Peace and Love,
Grace Engel
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