God desires for your soul to prosper and for your faith in the Lord Jesus to really grow. Sometimes our spiritual walk can become dry and we can experience leanness of soul. In this short word you will hear what the scriptures say about prosperity and giving Christ the first place.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
Psalms 106:13-15 “13 They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:14 And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.15 Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.”
Genesis 39:1-3 “And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.2 And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.”
Genesis 39:22-23 “22 And the chief of the tower-house committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the tower-house; and whatever they had to do there he did.23 The chief of the tower-house looked not to anything under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and what he did, Jehovah made it prosper.”
Psalm 1:3 “3 And he [is] as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.”
1 John 3:2-6 “1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.2 Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.
3 For I rejoiced exceedingly when [the] brethren came and bore testimony to thy [holding fast the] truth, even as *thou* walkest in truth.4 I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully [in] whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers,6 (who have witnessed of thy love before [the] assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well;“