DIVINE WEALTH BY: PST. E.A ADEBOYE

We need a new paradigm shift. Gone at the days when we must to equate poverty with holiness.The general believe is that the poorer you are the more humble you are likely to be. Many, hitherto, look down on anyone who is well dressed and when they see somebody riding a limousine, they will look at the fellow and conclude that the fellow is not going to heaven. Who told you? When I bought my Toyota Crown car, all my friends were buying Volkswagen Beetle cars.Many of them said, ‘Oh! What a pity. We thought God was going to use this brother, see he has not started and he has backslide. I asked why they thought I had backslide. They said, “Look at how long your car is. You cannot be riding in this big and very beautiful car and get to heaven”. I told them that I will get there before them. “I wish above all things”, that is what God says. I am not the one who wrote the Bible.

The first thing He mentions, is that you will prosper and for to have good health to enjoy the money. It is not prosperity with sickness, but prosperity with good health! Then He said my soul, of course, will prosper. Many of us will turn around and say Jesus was poor and the Bible says, we must follow His foot steps, therefore, since He was so poor, we too must be poor. This is not in the Bible. What is in the Bible in II 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 prosperity might be rich.” I do not know if you ever read this one before. I want you to pay attention to what it says here.

In Heaven, nobody can be compared with Jesus Christ in wealth. The ground in His Father’s Kingdom is of the purest gold. However, He put aside all these wealth and came into the world as a poor man. He did this so that we can be poor and that He might now lift them out of the dust. The Bible did not say He was poor so that we can be poor! He became poor so that we can be rich. Everything Jesus Christ suffered was so that we might have the opposite. He died so that we can live. He was beaten, so that we might be healed. The Bible says, “By His stripes we were healed, (I Peter 2:24). He went to Hell that we may not go to there. He thirsted, so that we may not thirst. If you do not want the wealth that the poverty of Jesus has purchased for you, then you must refuse His health that His stripes have purchased for you. If you receive His salvation that His death bought for you, it follows that you must receive His wealth that His poverty purchased for you.

II 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 prosperity might be rich.”