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There are many books that talk about how to accumulate wealth, achieve success, and frame.

I liked these topics very much, but there is a problem: If there is some dis-information, untruth, and ungodly ideas within these teaching it is hard to detect.

Some riches people, personal growth guru, celebrated salesmen or business expert enjoyed great frame by offering expensive seminars that teach people how to make more money.

It’s good to teach people abundance, but there is a danger, what’s good isn’t always what’s best.

God want to give us abundance too, if the abundance doesn’t distract us from Him and cause us trouble.

Psalm 49

¹ Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
² Both low and high,
Rich and poor together.
³ My mouth shall speak wisdom,
And the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.
⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.

⁵ Why should I fear in the days of evil,
When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
⁶ Those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the multitude of their riches,
⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him—
⁸ For the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever—
⁹ That he should continue to live eternally,
And not see the Pit.

¹⁰ For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,^[a]
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.
¹² Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain;^[b]
He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³ This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of their posterity who approve their sayings.  Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are laid in the grave; (Grave means Hell, not the burial place for the corpse)
Death shall feed on them;
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
And their beauty shall be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.
¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,
For He shall receive me.  Selah

¹⁶ Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;
¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him. (Descent to hell)
¹⁸ Though while he lives he blesses himself
(For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),
¹⁹ He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see light. (Hell is always dark)
²⁰ A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
Is like the beasts that perish.

This passage reminds me of what’s even more important than wealth and success. One of the most important things is eternal life. If we are able to attain comfortable living in this life, but fail to keep our souls for heaven, and have to spend eternity in Hell, it would be tragic.

I am not against rich people and abundance. Rather, I don’t like preachers who rebuke wealth, success, and abundance without good scriptural supports. There is time when we need to give up good things for God, but there is also time when we need those things to expand the kingdom of God.

If the wicked have all the money, while we Christians suffer poverty, it’s not going to be effective for us to expand the kingdom of God on earth. The wicked will have plenty of resources to create evils and destroy good, while Christians employees have to live for paycheck to paycheck, be busy just to survive, and being bossed around by godless employers to do godless deed.

There is something wrong with this picture.

We have to ask God to dry up the financial resource of the kingdom of Satan. Otherwise many rich, but godless men will continue to reject God, but if God makes them poor and us rich, we will have money to give to the poor.

The poor is more open to receive the gospel than the rich. (Matt 19:23)

If we allow ourselves to continue to suffer lack and wants instead of exercising our faith to soar financially, or imitate Jesus, who always give food and wealth out of no where whenever his ministry need them (Matt 14:13-21; Matt 15:29-38; Matt 17:24-27), we are doing a major disservice to a needy world.

If we are to get rich, we have to get rich in the God-centered way. If the godless folks get all the riches because we fail to intercede for the world and to live up to our potentials, that’s bad.

I sensed that the Holy Spirit is telling me to pray against the kingdom of darkness, to dry up their financial resources.

1. “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, and they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah 50:38)
2. “Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant.” (Jeremiah 51:36-37)
3. “The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up. The rivers will turn foul, and the brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes will wither.” (Isaiah 19:5-6)
4. “The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Basham and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.” (Nahum 1:3-4)
5. ‘A sinners wealth is stored up for the righteous’ Proverbs 13:22
6. ‘He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor Proverbs 28:8
7. ‘To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God’ Ecclesiastes 2:26

Who belong to the kingdom of darkness? Abortion clinics; politicians that promote ungodly policies and argue against godly law; Mediums and witches; Cult and false religions; businesses that sells ungodly products or services such as pornography, violent materials such as PC games like Grand Theft Auto, Hollywood movies; casinos; night clubs…

If God keeps every ungodly person poor, and only allow His faithful to become rich, more people will receive Jesus as their Lord and savior because poor people receive gospel easier. If the proud and arrogant stay rich, they stay proud and arrogant.

Make sense?

And they will have much less financial resources to create evils that tempt and deceive the innocents into Hell. Less babies will die because less pro-choice people will have the financial resources to study medicine, godless politicians will run out of campaign money, and ungodly activists will suffer financial lack too much to remain active for evil causes and anti-Christians agenda.

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