The Bible assures us that God isn\u2019t poor. \u2018\u201cThe silver is mine and the gold is mine,\u201d declares the Lord Almighty.\u2019<\/i> (Haggai 2:8 NIV) \u2018Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm 50:10 KJV) <\/p>\n
Now ask yourself: if you were a billionaire, would you be happy seeing your children running around ragged and hungry? No? Well, neither is God! Paul writes, \u2018For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.\u2019<\/i> (2 Corinthians 8:9 NIV) <\/p>\n
Maybe you\u2019ve read this Scripture and thought Paul was talking about being spiritually<\/i> rich but not financially<\/i> rich. Let\u2019s read the verse in that context and see if it makes sense: \u2018He who was spiritually rich, for our sakes became spiritually poor, that through his spiritual poverty, we might become spiritually rich.\u2019 That\u2019s not<\/i> what it says! Question: when was Jesus ever spiritually poor? No, the verse says what it means and means what it says: \u2018That you\u2026 might become rich.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
But let\u2019s be careful. The word \u2018rich\u2019<\/i> means different things to different people. In some countries you\u2019re considered rich if you have a roof over your head, three meals a day, and a bicycle to ride to work. In fact, right now would be a good time to discuss the much abused and widely misunderstood Bible word \u2018prosperity\u2019.<\/i> Prosperity simply means \u2018having enough to do the will of God for your life.\u2019<\/i> Does God have a will for your life? Yes. Does He want you to have enough money to fulfil His will for your life? Yes. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s God\u2019s plan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bible assures us that God isn\u2019t poor. \u2018\u201cThe silver is mine and the gold is mine,\u201d declares the Lord Almighty.\u2019 (Haggai 2:8 NIV) \u2018Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.\u2019 (Psalm 50:10 KJV) Now ask yourself: if you were a billionaire, would you be happy seeing your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}