Prosperity

Whenever the word prosperity is mentioned, there is always an array of opinions, both in Christian and secular circles. I wonder why? 

From a biblical point, prosperity is actually God’s idea. Look at the following scripture:

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

– Deuteronomy 8:18[ KJV]

I really would like to say that the question we should ask is why does God want us to prosper?

It is right there in Deuteronomy 8:18. God is a God of covenants, he loves to keep his promises. This compromise was given to Abraham and repeated to Isaac and Jacob. These are our Patriarch of faith and our trust and faith in Jesus Christ qualify us to be partakers of the same so here are a few scriptures to help you remember His promises that fall in line.

Prosperity Affirmation 

1. I decree and declare that my soul is prospering and I am prospering in health, physically, socially, economically and financially. 
2. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope-[Jeremiah 29:11] Therefore I decree I am prospering in everything I do because God’s plans for me are perfect.
3. God, I know you delight yourself in me, and you desire for me to prosper. You call me into your presence where there is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore. Father, I delight myself in you, my LORD and my God – [Psalm 16]
4. Father, you thought of me and knit me together in my mother’s womb, you hand picked my mother and my father and you drew a perfect plan for my life, to give me a future and an expected end.
5. Thank you. I have a good job that pays me well regularly and I am able to sustain myself and others that I am in charge of. I declare the Almighty God says in his word that He is the one that teaches me to profit, therefore lack and deficit are alien to me.
6. Thank you, I have clothes that I can exchange every day and good shoes on my feet when I step out so I don’t walk on dirt or dash my toes against obstacles.
7. Thank you that I have a good shelter for my house where I can go when I am done working!
8. Thank you for having appropriate means of transport.
9. Thank you that I can tithe and pay my bills.
10. Thank you that my path is shining brighter every day.
11. I am born of God: the blessings of Abraham are mine through the blood of Jesus I am adopted into God’s family.
12. Thank God Jesus came for me to have abundant life in its fullness: nothing missing, nothing broken. [John 10:10]
13. I am an heir of salvation and all things that God created are mine, and I am set to inherit the earth.

Additional scripture:

• This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. – Joshua 1:8

• And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. – 2 Corinthians 9:8

• The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.- Proverbs 10:22

• Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. – Psalm 112:1-3

• For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. – Psalm 84:11

• The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. – Proverbs 22:4