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EXCERPT OF OUR RURAL OUTREACH.

Our team had the privilege of engaging with Kamakeday Village to share the Gospel. Our vision aimed at nurturing the faith of the community members and winning souls. We conducted sessions on topics such as the new birth, the roles of men and women in fostering a resilient local church, and the practice of evangelism.

Additionally, we offered prayers for the ill and fostered communal fellowship. We look forward to reaching out to many villages with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Prosperity gospel is a perversion of Biblical divine provision.

And this is why in the tug of war of debates, it always devolves to strawmen and slander.
Prosperity preachers lie that people are advocating poverty. Their opponents sometimes get carried away and unwittingly say things that make it seem true.

This is the summary of the polemics against prosperity gospel.

1. God provides for everyone but doesn't make everyone rich.
2. God can demand service of you that necessitates poverty but in poverty He will provide.
3. Riches does not make you more valuable to God or His church. A man's life is not in the abundance of his possessions.
4. Therefore, money only makes things easier. It is not the solution to existential issues of the church. It is useful but it's absence will not be the end of the church.

Here are the reasons why we must insist on staying within the Biblical boundaries of divine provision.

1. Promising that everyone can be rich will create false hopes that God didnt promise. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. Many people have gone into anti-theism or apathy simple because they were needlessly disappointed by Pastors making selling false hopes. They make God a liar. Few will worship a God that lies.
But God never promised to make everyone rich. He never even promised an easy life in this world. He promised comfort and His presence.

2. If we insist that serving God always leads to riches, we will miss when God sends us to places where we will not be rich. This means we will not serve God. We will fight against God's plan for us when we can't see the money in it. This is fire, hell. This is how perdition comes.

3. If we say that people who are rich are more useful, we are making the value of humans to be extrinsic and based on their utility. This tweet will not be enough to show how this leads to dehumanising poor people.
There's a way we say "I will never be poor. I will always abound" that makes it seem like poor people are not human beings. Riches becomes a surrogate for piety and grace.

4. If we insists that money is an existential necessity for the gospel to spread or the church to be defended we are putting our faith in money. Money now has the power. We are liars when we say we believe in the power of God or the ministry of angels to defend the church. We are ignoring the model of Jesus and the early church and creating a new Christianity.
Jesus refused to takeover Rome when asked by his disciples. Today we are preaching it.

5. Insisting on all the above launders the spirit of greed. When we unequally yoke money and God as goals in life, people start using God as a means to an end. The reason is simple. There are no two masters.
Because we live in a broken world, there are many times we will be faced with choosing between God and money. The problem is that Satan never makes the options so glaring. It's always coded.
If you have been taught that the will of God is for you to be rich, you will keep choosing the riches option and turning your back on God.
This is how people end in hell being eager to be rich. (1Tim6:6-10)

But if you read this tweet and understand that God's will for you is to DO HIS WILL NO MATTER WHAT.

When Satan comes, you will keep choosing God.

God will provide. GOD WILL PROVIDE. He will make available what we need to fulfil His plan for us.

So focus on doing God's will. Some will be rich while doing it. Some will be middle class. Some will be poor BUT NONE WILL BE DESTITUTE. God will provide.

This is just what Jesus was saying when he said...

Luke 12:30-31
For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But SEEK HIS KINGDOM, and these things will be given to you as well.

READ LUKE 12 TODAY without bias. Pray sincerely before reading.
Dr. Feruke