READ : 2 Corinthians 8:9
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” – 3 John 2
Sometimes the Bible says one thing and Church leaders say the opposite. For example, the Bible says that Jesus became poor that we might be made rich. This is not my own idea. We are reading from the B-I-B-L-E.
The Bible says that God wishes above all things that His children prosper and be in health (3 John 2). Many people who prosper are made to feel as though they are doing something wrong. In many societies, people think that because someone is successful and wealthy, he must be up to some kind of evil.
The fact that you are a pastor or an ordinary Christian does not mean that you have to be poor. Poverty is not from God. Poverty is one of the curses in Deuteronomy 28. To be rich is better than to be poor. The Bible says that the Lord is a sun and a shield, and no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Begin to approve of success from within your heart. Do not hate successful people. You can never become something that you hate. You can never be blessed with something that you fight against. If you hate something, you cannot have it!
Do not let the devil deceive you. The Bible calls Satan “that old serpent…which deceiveth the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). If Satan can deceive the whole wide world, he must be very good at deception. Do not let success be taken out of your hand.