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| God's Plan for Prosperity |
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Whatever He Says; Then You Will Prosper |
| Genesis
12:1-3 |
| 1 Now the Lord
had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, from,your family and from your father's
house, to a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those whocurse you; and in you all the families of the earth shall beblessed." |
In this passage God promises to make Abraham great; and God did bless Abraham in many ways, including material blessing. See 13:1, 2, where we see how Abraham was made very rich. See also 24:35, where Abraham's servant reports that "the Lord has blessed my master greatly," and then enumerates the material blessings that God had given to Abraham. The dynamic of this historic fact becomes pertinent to believer today. In Galatians 3:13, 14, God promises to give all believers the blessings of Abraham, telling us that Jesus became a curse for us so that we might receive "the blessings of Abraham." This begins of course, with our being born again, or becoming new creatures in Christ Jesus. But "the blessings of Abraham" involve other things as well. The Lord wants us to prosper - spiritually, emotionally and physically, and materially. The blessings are ours by His promise, and we need make no apology for the fact that the prosperity is included. |
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