Come find God’s destiny for your life!

Come find God’s destiny for your life! God has ordained you to prosper!

Preachers will assist you to the next level in finding the divine appointment God has for your life. They teach their airplanes and fancy church buildings are a creation of their faith in God and encourage you to dream big because God is big. Emphasizing God’s power and His unlimited resources, they invite you to their churches to build a better life using God’s “specific plan” for you. One congregation was told God would raise up a millionaire among them so the pastor could fulfill the vision God had given him.

Feeding on people’s lack of contentment and a desire for materialist wealth, these pastors preach what they have accomplished circumstantially and then package and sell the outcome as “God’s favor” on their lives. They teach blessings are God’s favor, but when blessings are absent in your life, a convenient Devil is pulled out of their hat.

Poverty will always be a part of our socioeconomic system. The Bible never speaks against having money, only the love of it. In the book of James there are two kinds of Christians contrasted; one of humble circumstances and the one that is rich.

“Let the brother of humble circumstances glory in his high position [in Christ] but let the rich man glory in his humiliation, [in Christ] because like the flowering grass he will pass away.” (James 1:9, 10)

After the stoning of Stephen (Acts 6-7) a heavy persecution came on the new church and some Christians found themselves poor and destitute. James is not condemning wealth but is warning the rich and poor Christian alike, not to judge themselves or others based on economic standings. James says in this same chapter to count it all joy whenever “any” trial comes your way. Notice James never tells the poor brother to dream big and believe God for more money. Nowhere in the Bible is it taught the accumulation of wealth by simply believing God for it. The Apostle Paul warns us of people who:

“……shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty…..headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2Tim. 3:2, 4).

Pastors promoting wealth as God’s guarantee, degrades the Christian brother of humble circumstances and glories in those who have achieved the “promise” of wealth. If you have not acquired God’s destiny of wealth, the rich brothers are dangled like a carrot along with the future announcement of bigger blessings to come to keep you believing. These churches no longer teach about a returning God but what you have coming in His name.

We as Christians are not to look at life with a fatalistic attitude but we are not to expect a utopia either. Our Bible explicitly says this is not the world God intended us to live in and we are to wait patiently for His return when He will restore all things. Teaching people to trust in Christ for God’s mercy, not the thickness of their wallet is the gospel message. Christ Himself is the blessing.