Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth
roughly. Proverbs 18:23
Read: Proverbs 18:11-12, 23
Not all wealth is good. God is interested in your prosperity
but only through the right channels. If the channel is right and God is in it,
then that wealth is blessed, if not, it is cursed. As a child of God, your
concern must not just be being wealthy, but to follow Heaven-approved channels.
Proverbs 28:6 says:
Better is the poor
that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though
he be rich.
If it appears you are temporarily impoverished because you
will not join others to get rich quick through unscriptural ways and means, that
poverty is honourable. There are many nice and easy going people who took to
wickedness in their quest to get rich. Some do not mind stealing and using
other people’s children for money making rituals, forgetting that they have
laid a foundation for their children, even unborn generations to become victims
of the same act. God says it is good to be poor and live than through
wickedness become rich.
In addition to being holy, you must also be humble. Proverbs
16:19 says:
Better it is to be of
an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
It is preferable to be holy and humble than to be rich and
share in the loot of the proud because God resists the proud but gives grace to
the humble (1 Peter 5:5). When you are humble and wealth comes, not only will
you be able to create opportunities to retain such wealth, but you will also
retain favour with God and man. On the other hand, the rich sinner is made
proud by the abundance of things he has and he ignores the cries of the poor.
Wealth has brought out nothing but meanness in some rich people. Although one
major reason for getting wealth is to remember and assist the poor, yet for
many, wealth has turned them against the ones they should protect. For some
people being rich is not worthwhile to them unless someone else is poor. If your wealth is making you full of yourself
and your head swollen, you are on your way to destruction. Have you become so
unfriendly, distant or even unreachable to the poor around you? You are losing
track of the righteous path God placed you on. Proverbs 29:7 says you should be
at the vanguard of crusading for the welfare of the poor. Are you?
PRAYER POINT:
Father, the more You prosper me, the humbler I want to
become.
Bible in on year: 2 Samuel 9-12
Hi Adebowale, May the good lord bless and uphold you in all your ways. Amen.
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