LIFE OF EXPECTANCY

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus . . . But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
(PHILIPPIANS 4:6, 7 & 19)

Something I will never understand about people, more specifically Christians, is the way they live their lives. Some how Christians have deceived themselves into believing that they should only be content with what they have and never expect more. Yes, it’s true that Paul told us to be content with what we have, but he himself tells us many times to expect God to give us more. As a matter of fact, from Genesis to Revelations, there is no message enforced more than God’s not only ability but desire to give us more in our lives. God’s willingness to bless us is preached more times in the Bible than salvation. The Bible talks more about prospering our lives than against sinning. And yet, Christians all across the world will tell you that it is wrong for us to believe God wants us to want things. They will tell you it’s a “sin” to want things. They say “money is evil”; even though the Bible says the “LOVE of money is evil”, NOT money itself. If money is so evil than I’d love to relieve you of such evilness. I’d like all who think evil is wrong and that you don’t need money to please endorse their next paycheck over to me, because I’ll gladly take it. What makes matters worse is you have preachers preaching against what they call “prosperity preachers”. They tell you that God doesn’t want you having new cars, new clothes and houses. They tell you that we must be humble with what we have. I agree we must be humble, but there’s a huge difference between being humble and just plain stupid. Would you serve a God whose “will” was for a mother of three to barely feed her children? Would you serve a God whose “will” was for a family of five to live in a one bedroom apartment? Would you serve a God whose “will” was for us to never be wealthy or have nice new things? If you would then I’m sorry but you’re an idiot. Many Christians tell you that we’re “just sinners saved by grace, living according to God’s will”. Oh really? II Corinthians 8:9 and 9:8 both say that God’s grace is for us to have all our needs, and last I checked we all need money to buy the things we need; does that sound like the “barely getting by, poor, just enjoy what you have” type of Christians Satan has deceived us into being? When he told us to pray, he told us to believe on earth as it will be in heaven, did he not? Well, we won’t lack in heaven will we? We won’t need in heaven will we? We’ll have all the desires of our hearts in heaven won’t we? So, then why does it seem so far fetched for us to believe it now? Galatians 3 tells us we are heirs to the same blessings Abraham had, and if you read the Bible, Abraham had so much he couldn’t even see the end of his own land. How many times does teaches say in his teachings that whatsoever we ask for we will have? How many verses must we read that say God wants us to have everything we need, want and desire? How many scriptures talk about, God wants to give us peace? Well, let me tell you something, when you’re up in the middle of the night wondering how you’re going to buy groceries, or pay the bills or your kids tuition, or buy Christmas gifts or the thousands of other things that keep you up in the middle of the night, you are not at peace and if you’re not at peace then you’re not living according to God’s will. When will we understand not only who we are but who God says we are and the lives he wants us to live here and now on earth?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
(MATTHEW 6:25-34)