17/09/2020
YOU WILL NEVER BECOME RICH UNTIL YOU HATE POVERTY.
Some people will always say all the things of life are vanity to justify their poverty. What of the phone you are using? You should stop using it if it is vanity.
When Solomon said all is vanity, he was saying that having everything without serving God is vanity. God has given us all things that make for or pertain to life and godliness.
You see, everything that is for life and godliness has been given to us. You must enjoy all these things in godliness. They are meant for life and given to you to use in godliness. You have to know God and enjoy your life.
Solomon himself was so rich but at the end of his life, he discovered that if you acquire everything and you neglect God, everything is vanity, which is true. You will leave all at the end. And when you do, where will you end?
If you have these things and make God your backbone, then you are in the right direction. Poverty is very bad. Never rejoice for poverty.
I rejoice with people when they have good things of life. It is here we will spend it, not in heaven. God created all these things for our enjoyment.
How many people will you be able to help in poverty? None! Poverty is not a yardstick for heaven. That you are poor does not mean God will make you to enter heaven.
Being rich is not equally a yardstick for heaven. That you are rich does not mean you are qualified for heaven.
The qualification for heaven is your faith in Jesus. Then you can choose to be rich by following the principles of riches or you can choose to be poor. It is your choice.
God wants you to prosper but if you choose to be poor, that is your own lot. I would rather serve God and choose to be rich than serving God and choose to be poor.
Even those who don't know God work hard and follow the principles of wealth to be rich.
It is not that all are into shady business. Many are doing legitimate works to become rich and they will be able to do many things in the society.
Whether you are a Christian or not, the law of prosperity will work for you if you follow it.
The Bible says as long as the earth remains, seed time and harvest shall not cease. So the law works for both believers and unbelievers.
Say no to poverty in your life! Poverty is not from God. God does not want you poor. He has no gain in that.
Some people will be shouting I can't buy this, I can't buy that, all is vanity. It is because they are poor. Let money enter their hands, you will see that they will do more than that.
You can never know the true loyalty of a man until power gets to him. Some will maintain their true color. Money won't change them. But for many, they will change and start behaving as if they are Gods.
My brothers and sisters, I reject poverty. Poverty will limit you. You can't do anything in poverty. You can't marry in poverty. You can't take care of your family in poverty.
In fact, without money, your voice can't be heard. The Bible says money answers all things. All the physical things you will need in this life require money to achieve or acquire.
The rich man didn't go to hell because he was rich. He went to hell because he was rich without knowing God. He was rich without love. God is love.
He was a man who didn't care about others. He didn't love his neighbor as himself. Love is the greatest of all the commandments. When you walk in love, you are walking in God.
How can you claim to love God that you can't see when you hate your neighbor you can see? The rich man lacked love. It was lack of love that sent him to hell. He didn't go to hell for being rich.
The poor man (Lazarus) didn't go to Abraham's blossom because he was poor. No! He went to paradise because in his poverty, he was able to acknowledge and serve God. He served God in his poverty. That is the case.
If the rich man had love his neighbor as himself, he wouldn't have gone to hell. Lack of love sent him to hell. God has commanded them to love their neighbors as themselves. This the rich man failed to do.
In this life, anyone without the love of the Father will go to hell. Only in Jesus can you have the love of the Father in you. Thank God that the love of God has been shed abroad in our own hearts as Christians. We have love in us.
What we need to do is to walk in that love. It is even our nature and desire to love. Satan may want to make you selfish but you know it is not your nature. You say no to that selfish spirit.
So my brothers and sisters, you can serve God in riches. God is not using poverty to teach you anything. God won't teach you with the devil's tools. God won't use evil things to teach you. You have to know the nature of your God.
I have to stop here. I believe you must have been blessed. I have many things to teach on this but I will do that in another article. Say no to poverty! God bless you.
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_Apostle David Akinlade