Are you tired of not having enough money? I'm sure you are. Everyone is! But beware self-help books that teach you to misuse the power of God to become rich. (For all power is the power of God, used either for good or for ill.) Misuse of the power of God within us for selfish ends is the heart of black magic.
Say rather, "God, let thy will be done in my life." Indeed, if you are poor, you may be poor by God's will. Perhaps you have something to learn from your poverty. If so, becoming rich prematurely will only set you back in soul-growth. The choice is always before us: would you rather be rich in materiality, or rich in spirit? One sort of wealth is sure to decay, to devalue with inflation, or to be stolen from its owner; the other cannot be taken from you, and will endure for eternity. Therefore let any prosperity you receive be a result of following God's path, not your own. Remember, as long as you faithfully follow the Spirit of Light, you will never be without the things you need. I can attest to that from personal experience. As for the things you want? Learn to want what God wants for you. That alone is wealth.
"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." - Luke 16:12-14
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." - Mark 10:24-26
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:25-33
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