The Tribune

By Pastor Matthew Allen

Let the lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant (Psalms 35:27b).

The word prosperity in Hebrew is: Shalowm, Shaw-lome’; or Shalom, Shaw-lome’; which has several meanings, such as: (1) safe, (2) well, (3) happy, (4) friendly, (5) welfare, (6) good health, (7) peace, (8) favour, (9) rest, (10) salute, welfare.

Satan, the enemy, knows quite well that God hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. Satan has methodically worked his perverted, twisted plan into the church as he has gotten religious leaders to primarily focus on the financial aspect of prosperity, thereby giving birth to what I call, the twisted prosperity gospel.

“It is the will of God (Yahweh) to prosper his people, financially and in all areas of their lives”.

Too many churches today are misappropriating the word of God for their own selfish, financial gain.

While many in the world are of the view that all church leaders are corrupt, wicked, money hawks, I can boldly say that’s not the case, as there are many true men of God that are living upright before God and man”.

There are some church leaders, who will rather stand firmly upon the word of God and not compromise for financial gain or otherwise. They struggle like the regular citizens to make ends-meet and are determine to wait on the lord for their change, rather than to preach the twisted prosperity gospel.

Satan would not have you be a part of any church congregation that is preaching the uncompromising, unadulterated word of God, on the premise that all church leaders are corrupt and wicked; but certainly that is not true.

It is time for the body of Christ (Yahshua Messiah) to have a working knowledge of the fact that God (Yahweh) wants them to prosper both spiritually and naturally. There’s no earthly King or any sound thinking person of great financial substance that would relish in the fact that his children are living in poverty or living a substandard lifestyle.

Matthew 7: 11 states: “ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”

Prosperity and the kingdom of God go hand-in-hand; it’s just that in most cases due to erroneous religious teachings many believers can only perceive the word prosperity through the eyes of finances. This ignorant perception of prosperity is causing many within the church to live a stressful life, as they fall for all kinds of financial schemes, (so-called investments) gimmicks and pyramids. Whereas Yahshua states in John.10:10b. “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

This word abundantly in the Greek is: Perissos, Per-is-sos’, which means: (1) or superior in quality, (2) excessive, (3) preeminence, (4) an advantage.

As believers, we ought to always seek to give God pleasure and we do that by living a prosperous life. Being mindful that prosperity does not only include finances, but rather it’s a life of nothing missing, nothing lacking and nothing broken.

What is not being accurately taught to today’s congregation is that the key to Godly prosperity is of total obedience to the word of God; not partial obedience.

Your prosperity lies in your obedience to the following: Josh.1: 8. “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

As an uncompromising disciple of Yahshua Messiah, you will go through a wilderness period; sometimes your wilderness experience maybe an extensive one, even to the point where you might be rejected by folks of whom you’d least expect. Some of the most painful rejections to experience are those of being rejected by close family members and those from the household faith.

Yet, these are the very same types of rejections that brings forth a greater level of God’s glory; His manifested presence in and upon the life of a believer; whereby the believer’s testimony would be as that of the Psalmist in the following.

Psalms 118: 22. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

: 23. This is the lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

: 24. This is the day which the lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

: 25. Save now, I beseech thee, O lord: O lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

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