"[...] The man of God has taught us about the threefold cord of prosperity. And this cord is not based on anything monetary nor material…"
This statement is not surprising because the value of a thing does not depend on the thing itself but on the quantity and quality of joy it brings into one's life. If someone spends his life, accumulating wealth in a bank account or acquiring for himself material assets, he is the poorest man on earth because he never enjoys these external resources. Prosperity is therefore about what we ENJOY and not about material things. And if prosperity is all about what we enjoy then the resources that are meant to be enjoyed are IN US; WITHIN our spirit man.
Until what we have is converted and put into the plan of God, we will live our whole lives without ever BEING joyful or finding our true fulfilment. This is because any monetary value that is not attached to the joy that we have in our heart, which converts it into something permanent and coherent, has no value. Understanding God's plan and walking in it, brings a never-ending joy that makes the whole course of our life enjoyable.
Proverbs 10: 22 (AMP) says that "The blessing of the Lord brings [true] riches, And He adds no sorrow to it [for it comes as a blessing from God]." This implies that RICHES come from the blessing of the Lord, not from something we work for day and night, nor from something we try to build ourselves. The Father Himself adds nothing sorrowful to what the blessing has brought in our lives, but He sustains and backs up what the blessing has covered in our lives. In this excerpt, Dr Annie Smith reminds us that once we understand that it is blessing that causes the OVERFLOW of resources in our lives, we can make the most of it in furthering the Father's plan for His creation.