Reading Time: 7 minutesGod’s promises to prosper, and references to those promises, are so common throughout the Hebrew scriptures that deciding how many to list here is the biggest problem. Here’s some from the books of Leviticus, Deuterononmy, Joshua, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Psalms. There are two things you should notice from these scriptures, the recurring promises of prosperity and the link between keeping the covenant and receiving the promised prosperity.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt wasn’t there. I couldn’t find the place in the Bible where God promised Abraham that He would give Abraham power to become rich. I was stumped.Then, while studying the idea of Biblical blessing and cursing, I came across this from the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
Reading Time: 10 minutesSo after 15 years of studying the issue I was convinced that the Bible teaches that God wants us to prosper. Now, I’m so convinced of it that opinions to the contrary seem really silly. Silly, except I used to think the same things. Let me show you what I discovered the Bible says about prosperity.
Let me start with this scripture, because it will eventually lead us to connect with the Christian scriptures in the New Testament.
Reading Time: 12 minutes2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
This is my favorite prosperity scripture. Jesus became poor so that you through his poverty might be rich. What could be plainer than that? What could be gooder news to the poor than that? And yet most Christians, and some quite vehemently, deny its plain meaning.
Reading Time: 22 minutes2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. This is my favorite prosperity scripture. -It’s in the New Testament, so you can’t argue, as many like to do about the