7 Bible Antidotes To The Lie That's Kept You From Wealth

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Welcome to the Success by the Book Podcast, the place where Christians who want to experience the extravagant goodness of God in all areas of their lives come from mentorship. I am your host, Dr. Inn, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades. Let's dive in. As a body of believers, we have been lied to. We have been told we can be humble, but then humble also means not wealthy. We have been taught to be holy, but holy also means not wealthy. We've been taught to be spirit-led. And if we're spirit-led and we love the Lord and all of that, then we'll also be not wealthy. And those, this lie that if I go deeper in God, I am called to just help people and not have enough or have just enough, and all of that is a lie from the pit of hell. And today we are going to look at the word of God and we're going to see what exactly the word of God says. And we're going to believe the word of God and we're going to doubt everybody else. Okay. So I was at a conference recently. And funny enough, this has happened to me many times before. I was at a conference and I was hosting at an event I was hosting. So I was hosting the Private Practice Summit 2026, amazing event. Physicians flew in from all over the country. And we're talking about how to help them win in private practice because when they win in private practice, they can take care of their patients. Okay. So it's a win-win for everybody. But anyway, so in the course of the event, somebody stopped me and the person said, Hey, uh, you know, I have a question. I'm like, okay, shoot. And she said, like, I'm here, and I'm paraphrasing, like, I'm here, but there's this conflict because I, you know, like I know that as a Christian, the Bible says that it's easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle than it is, you know, but it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make it into the kingdom of heaven. And so, you know, she's like, so I'm she was so she I could see her struggling to reconcile her wanting to build a private practice that is profitable. I even talked about making seven figures the floor and all this stuff, like going after that and being a good Christian. Okay. So, so when she said that, I said, okay, I said, I got you. Just send me, send me a private message so I remember this and I will answer that for you. Okay. And I figured, hey, this is a question that this is a question that's always there. I've actually done a video along these lines before, but I was like, perfect time to come back to this. Okay. We're going to look in the word of God, okay? And we're going to read scriptures and we're going to listen to God say for himself what he thinks about money. And if we see what he says, we adopt it. If we see what he says is not, then we don't go that way. Okay. So we're going to take what is the word of God and everything that doesn't line up with it, we're going to throw it away, even if we've always believed it. Okay? Now, why is this very important? This is very important because um Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23 says this. It says, Guard your heart with all diligence, for it determines the course of your life. And when the Bible talks about heart in that context, it's not talking about your blood pump, it's talking about your mind. So let's put it this way: guard your mind with all diligence, for it determines the course of your life, which means, and Satan knows this, I want to show you how this works. If you believe deception, that deception will guard your life. It will determine the outcome of your life. If you believe things that are not true, if you let them in your mind and they become your dominant thinking and your thought pattern and your way of life, what you've adopted as you know, your way of operating, it will show up in your life. So if you believe, like as a good Christian, you're supposed to be humble and humble, being translated to broke, then you will be broke. It doesn't matter how much you sow, it doesn't matter how much you pray, it doesn't matter how much you confess, because if you're confessing, but really what you believe is that you should be broke, your life will line up with your mind. It will line up with your mind. And so what that means is deception is powerful. Because if you believe things that are anti-the word of God that are not true, they will show up in your life, even though you're a Christian, even though you go you go to church every every week, even though you read your Bible and all of those things. Do you see that? So if that is the case, then you now understand why Satan is so big on deception. Like, look at what he did to Jesus, okay? Jesus was being tempted, and so he tempted the first time, tempted Jesus the first time, Jesus said, It is written. And that's how he countered the temptation. He tempted, tempted Jesus the second time, Jesus said, It is written. He tempted Jesus the third time, but this is the way he started the temptation. It is written. And he took the word of God and twisted it just a little bit. What is that? Not an outright lie, deception. So what I did is I put together seven biblical truths, right? There, some of them are stories, some of them are instructions that are from the word of God that cancel out this lie once and for all. I initially thought I was gonna show you that it's not a lie and then show you how the frameworks God gave us for creating wealth. And I was like, we just need to split it because we need to deal with this once and for all. After today, you should be able to confidently defend your conviction. You need to have enough to have your own conviction, not based on what I told you, not based on what anybody else told you, but based on what God told you in his word. This is the thing that is the final authority, his word is the final authority. So if I tell you anything that's not in the word of God, throw it away. But if it's in the word of God, then now we have to work on believing what the word says. Okay, so seven things. We'll start with number one, okay? Now, the first one I'm gonna I'm gonna and I'm gonna read is scripture after scripture after scripture. Okay, there's a full-on Bible study today because I don't want you to take my word for it. The first one is gonna be the original wealth story, okay? The original wealth story. So let me let me read from Genesis chapter two. Okay, Genesis chapter two. Um, I'm gonna read this from the New King James Version, and I am going to read from verse eight. Now, pay attention to this. Verse eight says, The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden. Who planted the garden? God did. Okay, and there he put the man who whom he had formed. So God planted a garden, then took Adam and put him in the garden. The question now is how many days of prayer and fasting did Adam do for the garden? Like, Lord, I need provision, you know, so I'm gonna need food, I'm gonna need all these things. Lord, provide for me. Uh-uh. God made the garden first, then he put man in it. God made his provision first, and then he put man in it, which means God's intention was no lack. So this whole thing of, you know, I'm things are not well with me, and I'm broke and all of this stuff, and is bringing glory to God. Look, look at his original intent. The first time he made man, he planted the garden first, then he put the man in the garden. He took care of the provision first. Adam didn't ask for it. Adam didn't ask. Okay, verse 9. It says, And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. Who handled food? God did. Do we see that Adam asked for it? No. Then it went on to say, the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge, of the knowledge of good and evil. Verse 10. Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. The name of the first is Pishon. It is the one that skirts the whole land of Havilah where there is gold. Hello. Did Adam ask for gold? Did God even know? Did Adam even know what gold was? Like, what was Adam even gonna do with the gold? But the person who made the arrangement for the gold was God. So if he put it there, he put it for the man. So he's gonna be mad now that you have some gold? He made it for man, right? Okay, did Adam ask for it? No. So God had planted the garden, God had planted the garden to bring all kinds of you know trees that are good for food. God made gold in the land for one man. Okay. Verse 12, and the gold of that land is good. It's not even like regular, like this is top-notch stuff. Delian and Onyx stone are there also. So he had these precious metals. What is Adam doing with the Onyx stone? The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Hidekel, it is the one that goes towards the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. So he has this whole big expanse of land, aka real estate, that he makes for man, puts him in this garden, puts gold, puts the onyx stole, puts all of these things. How many of them did Adam pray for? None. God's plan for your life was never lack. God's plan for your life was never lack. It has always been provision and it's always in abundance because Adam didn't need all that. So when Satan tries to sell you this ideology that God wants you to be broke and it brings glory to him in heaven, you'll get your reward. You have to understand deeply that this is a lie, that this is deception. You must understand it. This is the first man, this was God's plan. Okay, so the original wealth story is Adam. And Adam didn't ask for it, he was it was provided for him. This was God's agenda. That's number one. So we've looked at the original wealth story. Second thing we're gonna look at is the first mention of rich. Like when was the first time this word rich was looked in, was used in the Bible? I'll read it to you. I'm gonna read um two different chapters. So, first of all, I'll give you the context. Genesis chapter 12. And you're here and you may have heard these scriptures, but understand this: we are after conviction. After today, you should never be subject to the deception, whether it's overt or it's subtle, that God wants you broke, or just have enough, or that wealth is a bad word. We're Christians, we shouldn't go after wealth. Just hang on, okay? Okay. So God comes to Abraham in verse in chapter 12, Genesis chapter 12, from verse 1. It says, Now the Lord has said to Abraham, get out of your country from your family, from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. Then he says to him, verse 2, I will make you a great nation. I'm like, this is the listen to the way God talks. He said, Listen, he said, My guy, listen, I am going to make you into a great nation. He says, I will bless you and make your name great. Now, if we hear things like this, we'll be like, Oh, God forbid, I don't want all that. I just want to be quiet and go to heaven. But read the Bible, listen to listen to the way your father talks, because we're made in his image and after his likeness, his monkey, see monkey do. Okay, I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who curse, who bless you, I will curse those who curse you, who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. Pay attention to this. In our time, when if I say, Oh, this person is blessed, we turn it into this um spiritual thing that you cannot touch. Now, the blessing is is first spiritual before anything else, but it is also physical. So when we hear, oh, this is a blessed man, if you're talking about a Christian, you say this is a blessed man, we are not expecting wealth to be part of it. We're expecting it to be like they're holy, they love people, they're kind, they're kind to people, they you know, they do some philanthropy and they have their bills paid and they're heaven-bound. That's the way that's our interpretation. So let's go over one chapter, just one chapter, and see what happened to this man, Abram, that was blessed by God. Okay, okay. The next chapter, Genesis chapter 3 13, from verse 1. Then Abraham went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and lots with him to the south. Verse 2. Abram was very rich. The Bible didn't say he was rich. The Bible said this blessed man of God was very rich. And he was very rich in livestock, stream number one, in silver, stream number two, in gold, stream number three. Abraham was blessed by God, and the re one of the results of that is that he became very rich, and he became like he became not just rich, but very rich, and not just very rich, but he had multiple streams of income. If you hear a Christian say, I'm working on multiple screen streams of income, the chances are it'll be like, what are they? They're just they're just greedy. They just no. Apparently, the blessed man became very rich. You can be very rich, you can be humble and very rich, you can be holy and very rich, you can be a deep follower of God and be very rich, you can be deep into ministry and be very rich. Abraham was rich. The first mention of rich in the Bible was used to reference a blessed person, a person blessed by God. So, can you follow? In fact, you know, the Bible talking about it said that you know, like Abraham was like his friend, and God's friend was very rich. You can be God's friend and be very rich. You can be. Okay, all right, let's keep going. So we've looked at the original wealth story, we've looked at the first mention of rich. I'm giving you these things because you will use it to build your conviction and never, ever, ever let this deception stop you. Number three, let's look at God actively prospering someone. Like, so was it a fluke? Maybe Abraham, you know, he followed God, but he also did some fraud on the side or what? Like, what are we thinking? Well, let's look at let's look at God getting the credit for what he did. Okay, now, Genesis chapter 26. Love, love, love, love this chapter. Okay. Now I'm gonna start from verse one so we have the context. Actually, I'm gonna read a lot of it, but this is a Bible study. You can handle it. Okay, verse one. There was a famine in the land. Okay, now in our day, we don't quite use the word famine, but in the U.S. we would use a word like recession. Okay, so there was a famine in the land, there was a recession, it was a time where nothing was working, it was a time where things that were flourishing before stopped flourishing, and it was bad for everybody. Okay, okay, there's a famine in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac went to Abimelech, king of Philistines in Gerah. Okay, so here's a covenant man, Isaac, in the midst of a famine. Verse two, then the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt, live in the land of which I should I shall tell you. And when we start talking about the actual, like how do you create wealth? We'll talk about the the frameworks that God has given us, okay? But that won't be for today. Then verse three, dwell in this land. God told him there's a there's a famine. He said, Don't do what everybody's doing. They're running to the land of Philistines and all this stuff. He said, You stay here, you stay where I'll show you. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. So there's a recession. God says, Stay here, I will be with you, I will bless you. Okay, now that bless you in our time will mean what it means is the famine won't kill me. Like, you know, sometimes we'll be hungry, but at least we'll be alive. And I'm not saying we won't go through trials and challenges. That's what I'm referring to. I'm referring to this ideology that I'm supposed to be a Christian and humble and broke. Okay, okay. So God told him all this stuff from verse one to verse three. Now, let's now look at what happened. So, verse 12. It says, Then Isaac sowed in that land. Remember, God said, Dwell in this land. So he sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him. Now let's look at the consequence of the blessing. Because again, we misinterpret the blessing to mean only holy and spiritual things you can't touch. It affects every realm. We can be blessed in our spirit, in our mind, on the outside. Like, okay, so he said, and the Lord blessed him. Verse 13, the man began to prosper. Why? God blessed him. The man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous. Now we had looked at his father, very rich in chapter 13, and we've come to the son who was blessed by God just the way his father was blessed by God, and now he's very prosperous. So he began to prosper, he continued prospering until he became very prosperous. Why? Because God, this God, the holy God, blessed him. We're only at number three. Now, this is the fun part. I talk about this every time I read this scripture, but it's so fun. Okay, so let me read 13 again. So we just flew into it. It says the man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous, for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him. So, first of all, we go back to that multiple streams of income that he had, because he had livestock, right? He had livestock, and he then he had the plants that he was growing, all that stuff. So he has multiple streams of income, but he was so wealthy in a foreign land that the owners of the land were envious of him. Okay, let me keep reading. Now, um, let me go to verse 16. It says, And Abimelech, who is Abimelech, the king of the Philistines. Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we. Hold on. He he prospered so much that not only did the people take notice of his wealth, the king took note of his wealth. And the king then said, Um, go away from us, for you're mightier than we, not mightier than me, the king, not mightier than your neighbor, not mightier than that person, but you're mightier than we. That's how wealthy he was. So, where do we get the ideology that we should be broke? We've looked at I at Abraham, we don't see it. We've looked at Isaac, we don't see it. We've looked at Adam, we don't see it. Scriptures interpret scriptures. You look for patterns, we're finding a pattern. Okay. Number four. So number four is wealth as a reward for devotion. So I'm devoted to my God. That's why I'm I'm broke. That's why I'm only trusting God for just just what I need for me and my family. Okay, let's look at a devoted man. Okay, you ready for it? Let's look, look, let's look at somebody who was devoted to God. Let's see what happened. If God was like, now take a you know, take a vow of poverty. Let's see what happened. Second chronicle, 2nd Chronicles chapter 1. Okay, pay attention to this and don't read it religiously, just see what the Bible said. Okay, okay. So, first uh 2nd Chronicles chapter 1, I'm going to read. This is a beautiful chapter to read, but I'm going to start from verse 6. It says, and Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings. This is Saul who loved God. He a thousand burnt offerings. Okay. Now this was so pleasing to God that something happened. In the next verse, it says, On that night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask, what shall I give you? So God gave Solomon a blank check. He gave him a blank check after he demonstrated his devotion to God by giving a thousand burnt offerings. So God was like, Whoa, okay, Solomon, blank check. What should I give you? I want to show you something. So verse 8, and Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David, my father, and have made me king in his place. Now, O Lord God, let your promise to David, my father, be established. For you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. So it's like you you you promised my father that he will have a son that will succeed him as king. And so they've made me king. Now keep your word to your servant, right? Okay. Now he now makes the ask, verse 10. He says, Now give me wisdom. Notice what he asked for. I mean, you might want to be honest and say, if God gave you a blank check, what you'd ask God for. Okay. But this guy is so devoted to his God that he said, with this blank check, what I want is now give me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before these people, that I may govern these people. Okay. He asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern the people, to do the assignments God gave him, which is to be king over Israel. Give me the wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before these people, for who can judge, who can judge this great people of you? Who can lead them? Who can govern them? This is what he asked for, and he was done. This was his request. Now, I want you to understand this. This is a demonstration of devotion. First demonstration, 101,000 burnt offerings. Second demonstration is when he had a blank check. He could have asked for many things, but he said, Lord, you gave me an assignment. Give me the wisdom and knowledge to do this assignment and do it well. So let's see God, this holy God that we worship, let's see his response to devotion. Okay, let's see his response. Verse 11. Then God said to Solomon, Solomon, that's all he asked for, wisdom and knowledge to do his assignment. Then God said to Solomon, because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked for long life. Nothing is wrong with any of these things. Nothing is wrong with any of these things. There's nothing wrong with the riches or the wealth or the honor or the life of his enemies or his long life. But he didn't ask for those things. Why? Because of his devotion. He was more interested in completing the assignment God gave him than going after these five things. Okay. So you didn't ask for these things, but you have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may judge my people over whom I have made you king. Like you asked for wisdom and knowledge so you can do the assignment I gave you. He said, Solo, because you did this. Let's now see God's response. God said, Wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. So let me just stop here and say this really quick. When you go all out to complete God's assignment, God goes all out to give you everything you need for it and all the other things that people think you'll miss out on. Just know that. Okay. So the wisdom and knowledge are granted you, and I will give you. Solomon did not ask for what I'm about to read. I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings, and when I'm not giving you riches and wealth according to business people or people who have jobs or whatever. No, he said, such that none of the kings, none of the kings who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like. Like I'm gonna make you so wealthy that there'll be no king after you, there'll be no king before you who can say they're wealthier than you. Please, who is the person giving this giving these riches and wealth and all of this stuff? It's God. Solomon didn't ask for it. So, where did we get the ideology that devotion to God means I should be broke? Where do we get it from? It's not in the Bible, it's not in the Bible. And the funny thing is, his father did the same thing. David did the same thing. David got up one day. He said, I'm living in this palace, I'm living in this nice place, and the and the Ark of Covenant, which represented God's presence, if you will. God, the Ark of Covenant is in a tent. I will build God a house. He wasn't even, he didn't even get to the point of planning, building, uh, you know, like doing the architectural design. None of that. He just intended to build God a house. God was like, ah, that they've been carrying me in this tent from place to place. I've never complained, I've never asked for anything. You now want to build me a house. David had not done anything. David just had the intention. God said, Ah, because you wanted to do this, I will build you a house. I will build you a dynasty of kings. And that's why Jesus had to become, had to show up as a son of David. So God could keep his promise of him always having a king on the throne. God told me, Your lineage, your your lineage will never end. Your dynasty of kings, it will never end. So do you guys do you guys see? Do you see what I'm showing you here? Solomon didn't ask for wealth. The person who came up with that idea is the holy God. He came up with that idea. So when you have this thing of, oh, you know, now I'm I'm going into the I'm going to the ministry, so I should be broke, or now I'm gonna start chasing God's purpose for my life, so I should be broke. No, it's not, it's not in the Bible, it's not in the Bible. Okay, that's number four. So we've looked at the original wealth story, the first mention of rich, God actively prospering someone, wealth as a reward for devotion. We've looked at four. We still have three to go. Okay, now let me make sure I'm sharing these three, and number seven is the most fun. Number five. Number five, and you know, and some may think, oh, like, so this wealth thing is only if you run a certain kind of business, and there are different ways this happened, but it's only if let me show this blessing. Let me show you something. So let's go back to Genesis. So we're gonna look at prosperity. Number five is prosperity within employment. You're here, you have a job, you're got to have your mind blown. Okay, prosperity within employment because this works, this works, it just works, period. Okay, Genesis chapter 39. Genesis chapter 39 is very interesting because this is the story of Joseph, and Joseph is a slave. We're not talking like he had a job, like he'd work a job and go home. He was a slave, he was owned, he was owned. Okay, and God was with him, and so God was with him, and strange things started to happen. Genesis chapter 39. Now that'll start from verse 1. Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. So remember, he was with his people, he was taken to Egypt, and and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him. So he was a slave, he was bought, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. Now look at verse 2. Look at verse 2. It says, The Lord was with Joseph. Who was with him? The Lord. So we're about to look at what happens when the Lord is with somebody, and the Lord was with me, and I was humble and broke. God punish the devil. What? Okay, look at this. The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man. Who describes a slave as successful? Like, what in the world is going on here? Who describes a slave as a successful man? Now, in the natural, is this possible? No, but this man was walking with the Lord. If you're with the Lord, this is like the Lord is successful, you're made in his image and his likeness, and if he's doing stuff for you, it's kind of, you know. But this is the thing: the Bible says the expectation of the righteous will not be cut off. So if Satan can deceive us, that God doesn't do stuff like this, we don't release our faith for it. And if we don't release our faith for it, we can't see it. We can't see it. But from today, we are delivered from deception. Okay. So the Lord was a Joseph, a slave, and he was a successful man as a slave. So when people are like, I hate my job, I said, listen, you can you can go get another job, or you can get promoted in this job. Like, like make a decision here. But either way, you have opportunity for advancement no matter where you are. You just need to decide that I'm gonna walk with the Lord, I'm gonna do things his way, I'm gonna learn his precepts, I'm gonna change my expectation. He was a slave in a foreign country, and he was successful. And now I'm not trying to say if there's a job, you should transition from don't transition, but while you're there, oh my goodness, the Lord is your unfair advantage. Anyway, so the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man, and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. Verse 3, and his master saw, his master is not a covenant person, his master saw that the Lord was with him. How did the master see that the Lord was with him? Who has seen the Lord? Did he see the Lord standing beside him? No, no, he said that his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. How did Potiphar know that the Lord was with Joseph? Because everything that Joseph did prospered. That's how he knew. That's how he knew he had a level of success that Potiphar was like, his God must be with him. So, you this when you hear me say this, your success is an evangelistic tool. When we refuse to succeed, we're we're not being as much of a light as we can be, because people see that when we have sign and wonder level success, sign and wonder level success, and you look at it, it makes people think it has to be God. So your life preaches. Your life preaches. Okay, okay. So, so Joseph, verse 4. So if Joseph found favor in his sight and served him, then the then he made him overseer of his house. He became the second in command. He became the second in command. Okay, so he became the second in command, and all that Potiphar had, he put under his authority. So it was from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of the Lord was on all that he did in the house and in the field. I want you to see that. This is a slave. So if a slave can figure out how to rise to the top and prosper and do all of this stuff, if a slave can do that, an employed person can do that. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. All right. Oh, Lord help me. Now, I don't know if I I'm gonna give this to you as homework, okay? Because he did it in Potiphar's house. In fact, I'm gonna read it. This is success by the book. We're here to read the book. Okay. Now, then you know, Potiphar's wife liked Joseph, tried to sleep with Joseph. Joseph took off, she lied about him, said that he tried to rape her. So Potiphar takes him and puts him in prison and puts him in the prison where the king's prisoners are kept. So I like to think that about as of that as maximum security prison. Okay? Now, verse 20. So you see the way this blessing works. Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in the prison. So now he's not a slave, now he's a prisoner. He's a he's a slave that's a prisoner. Verse 21. But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and he gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand. See, now he's rising to the top again. Committed to his to his hand, all the prisoners, so all the prisoners were now under him. Whatever they did there, it was his doing. Joseph was now in charge of the prison. And verse 23: the keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority, because the Lord was with him, and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper. So he was successful as a slave, he was successful as an imprisoned slave, and from that prison he went and became the second in command in the ruling superpower of the world at that time. So when they say just lie down, roll over, play dead, and be broke, where did that come from? Okay. Now, the reason why I'm taking the time to read all of these scriptures is because if we now go back to what Jesus was talking about, that it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Clearly, he's not making a statement that contradicts all of these. So this is your homework. You go back and read that whole chapter. Because there was a rich man who came and said that he obeys everything, everything, you know, that what should he do? And Jesus was like, Go give away everything you have. Because he was saying he obeys the Ten Commandments. And Jesus looked at him. He's like, You don't even obey the first one. Because your God is your wealth, it's not, it's not God. And so when he said, Give away your wealth to the person who God is number one, they will obey God and give away the wealth. But he didn't give it away, he went away and didn't obey what Jesus said, and he was very sad. Why? Because he had a lot of possessions. The possessions had his heart, not God. And so then Jesus made that statement. He said, Oh, that you know, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And then the Bible says after that, this is so important because I'm gonna do a whole other video on this. When he was done with that, he said, He said, you know, it's easier. And then he said that his but his disciples were greatly astonished and bewildered. That's the way they amplified put it. Like, then who can be saved if the rich people can go? I'm thinking they were bothered because they're rich too, right? Because otherwise, why would they care? But anyway, but then Jesus then makes a statement. He says, With man it is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. So on your own you can't, but with God you can. So Jesus was not trying to say that rich people won't go to heaven because it's inconsistent with the scriptures. That's why I'm giving you seven, because God is not a man that he should lie, and he doesn't change. He doesn't change. God is not going to be all for, you know, I want my people abundantly provided for when that when I'm with them, when the blessing comes upon them, I show them how to prosper and all that. And all of a sudden he said, Oh, but if you're rich, you can't come to heaven. To start with, God is rich. Okay, you can see somebody and they say, Oh, you know, we have a real estate portfolio, I have a billion under assets. It's all God's land. God is the number one owner of real estate in the universe. He's not broke. He's not. Do you guys see what I'm saying? Like, you have to get to the point where you're like, God, that makes no sense. I was just being deceived for nothing. That makes no sense. Okay, so I've given you five. Let's go to number six. Number six, prosperity by the word. So if I ooh, if I'm this person, I'm committed, I'm reading my Bible and all of this stuff, you know, because I'm so devoted to my God, I'll be nice and humble and broke, please. Okay. Let's go to Joshua chapter one. Okay. Joshua chapter one is a very interesting, very interesting chapter. Moses, Moses was the, I mean, he was one of the greatest prophets that ever lived. I mean, he divided a Red Sea. He was performing creative miracles in Egypt. He will throw up this, he will turn into flies. He would turn, he will, he will stretch his world that way. And then frogs come out everywhere. He touches the Nile River, it turns into blood, all kinds of things. He spoke, and it was dark in Egypt. The Bible says it was so dark you could feel the darkness. It was so dark in Egypt, and there was light where the Israelites were in Egypt, in Goshen. Do you guys see this? Like Moses did all kinds of things, and he took the children of Israel out of Egypt to the wilderness to the border of the promised land. And these are people who had been in bondage for 430 years. 430. Hmm. Now Moses dies. And then Joseph and Joshua is supposed to take over from him. These are some big shoes to fill. And God is like, Oh, I got you. Let me give you the secret. Okay? All right. Let me give you the secret. Joshua chapter one. I'm gonna read, first of all, you know, God tells him from verse 2, Moses, my servant, is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I'm giving to them, the children of Israel. Like I'm let's go in and let's go take territory. Let's go. Like I want you to understand, there's wealth like dollars and gold and stuff. There's wealth like you're going to take over a nation. God was going to give them a nation, Canaan, right? Okay, so this is wealth. So it's not a different conversation. And so this is the leader who was going to take a country, he was going to take the Israelites into wealth. Verse 8. He says, and before this, he says, Be strong, be courageous. Every place where the sole of your foot shall tread, I have given it to you, and all of that stuff. Wonderful. Then he comes to verse 8. He says, This book of the law, they had the first five books of the Bible. We have 66 books. Okay. If five books make people wealthy, what will happen with 66 books? He said, This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night. So I'm so devoted to my God that I'm speaking the word, I'm meditating on the word, I'm meditating on the word day and night. Okay. He says, You shall meditate on it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. So I'm speaking it, I'm meditating in it, I'm obeying it, I'm living by God's principles. I'm godly. Okay, so what is the consequence of this godliness? Okay, what is the consequence? It now says, For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Okay, prosperous and success in what? In taking a nation, in taking a whole land of Canaan, in bringing a whole nation into prosperity, you will succeed in it how? This book of the law will not depart out of your mouth, but you will meditate in it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. You do that, you will make your way prosperous, you will have good success. So reading the Bible, my friend, doesn't make you broke, it makes you wealthy, it makes you successful. Living by God's principle doesn't make you broke, it makes you successful, it makes you prosperous, it makes you rich. I didn't make this up, I'm reading scriptures. There's not a single point I brought up that is not based on the scriptures. Okay, now let me show you that same thing in another place. Psalm one, verse, well, maybe I just read the whole thing. Okay, Psalm one from verse one. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. He loves to meditate. In our day, we'll call the person a fanatic. Well, they're always reading their Bible every time, all the Bible. But we've been taught this thing. The more you the deeper you go in God, the more irrelevant you become in the earth. It is a lie. It's a lie. Okay, so but his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law, he meditates day and night. Someone that's meditating day and night, all of this stuff. This is what the Bible says of that person. What are we looking at? Prosperity by the word. Okay. He shall be like a tree. He's not a tree, it's like a tree planted by the rivers of water. What is the characteristic of this kind of tree? It says that brings forth fruit in its season. It brings forth fruit in its season. So that means your life is constantly producing. It says, whose weave, whose leaf also shall not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper. Who are we talking about? The person who meditates in the word day and night. Day and night. So this is the deal. The deeper I go in God, the higher I go in life. If Satan succeeds in deceiving you, so you think that the deeper I go in God, the more useless I am on earth, your expectation will come to pass. God forbid. So I invite you to think a different way. The person who meditates day and night, what is what happens to that? Everything he lays his hand to do prospers. That's why the Bible says in Isaiah chapter 60, it says, Arise, shine, for your light has come. The glory of the Lord is risen upon you. Hang on. We don't have glory. God has glory. For us to access his glory, we have to spend time with him, in him, in his word, in prayer, all of these things, in worship, all of that. But when that glory comes on us, what is the consequence? The Bible says in verse 3, Isaiah chapter 6 in verse 3, that Gentiles will come to your light, and that kings will come to the brightness of your rising. You're not just, you know, rising, your rising is so bright that it attracts kings. The Bible says in Revelation 5:10 that we are kings and priests and we will reign in the earth. Do you have things for you in heaven? Yes, but God is not waiting for you to like we're not escaping from here to heaven. We're called to have dominion here and then go to heaven. Okay. Number seven. Final one. And this one, I'm just gonna read a bunch of verses. Okay, this is God's breakdown of the blessing. So we said, oh, the blessing, the blessing, the blessing. Let's see where God took time to talk about said blessing. So Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter 28. Okay. Why am I taking the time to read all of these things after today? You don't believe any of that trash anymore. And don't assume it's so deeply embedded in Christendom that it's there. You have to work it out. Don't assume, oh, I don't believe any of that. No, no, no. It comes up in different ways. So you have to be you have to be playing full assault. Okay, full offense. Okay. So God started talking about people obeying him, and this is what will happen if you obey God. Okay, let's take a look. Chapter 28 from verse 1. Now it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments, which I command you today. So this is somebody who is following God, is devoted to God, and all of this stuff. What will happen to such a person? God takes time, He takes 14 verses to say this. He says, and verse 2, well, let me, which I command, that the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Verse 2, and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, blessed shall you be in the country. Some translations say filled. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, so your children, the produce of your ground, that's your business, the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle, the offspring of your flock. So in livestock, all your livestock are blessed, like your business is blessed. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. This is kind of like your place of work, right? Blessed shall you be when you come in, blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord will cause the enemies who arise against you to be defeated before your face. They shall come against you one way, they shall flee before you seven ways. Listen to this. The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses. Now we don't use storehouses now, but we use bank accounts, we use investments, we use real estate portfolios. He said, The Lord will command his blessing on you in the storehouses and in all you set your hand, and he will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Let me jump to verse 11. And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods. This God that we're thinking is the one that wants us broke. Look at what he's saying. Nobody asked him to say this. Nobody asked him. The Lord will open, um, and the Lord will grant you plenty of goods in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you his good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. I want you to look at that. This is God saying, I will bless you if you obey me. This is what it will look like. Okay, let me give you one more. I know you can handle one more. Proverbs chapter four. This is so, so, so important. We must you must share this with the believers in your world because we must rid ourselves of this deception. Okay, Proverbs chapter eight, and it talks about wisdom. Okay, and so wisdom is like, oh, you need wisdom, you need wisdom. If you get wisdom, God's wisdom, what happens? What happens? Okay. Um, Proverbs chapter eight, I'll read from verse 17. It says, I love those who love me. This is wisdom talking. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. Riches and honor are with me, which means when you collect wisdom, you automatically have collected riches and honor because riches and honor are with wisdom. They're not separate, like they're they're like it's like a combo, right? It's a combo, you can't separate them. Like you, you is it's buy one, get two free. When you buy the wisdom, you get riches and honor as the free parts of your combo. Riches and honor with me, enduring riches and righteousness. I want you to see enduring riches and righteousness. Can they coexist? Yes, uh, yes, they can coexist. Wisdom and righteousness and riches and honor, can they all coexist? Yes. Anybody who tells you that is lying to you. We we the final authority for us is the word of God. So let me start from the beginning because it's so good. Verse 17. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. Riches and honor are with me, enduring riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold. See, so when people see this, they say, Yes, wisdom is better than gold. It didn't say wisdom or gold, it said wisdom is better than gold, which means if you have to choose, choose wisdom first and put gold second. It didn't say wisdom or riches. Hello, it didn't say that. Okay, my fruit is better than gold, yes, fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver. So wisdom is better, but it's not, it's doesn't, it's not and is this is an and not an or. It's looking for the order of priority. Dieting is eating right is better than exercising. Okay, but if you want to live to be 90, what are you going to do? You're going to eat right and exercise. If you don't add the exercise, you're sure you're short circuiting your plan to live to 90. Do you guys see that? So it's not or, it's priority. Okay. Um, verse 20 I traverse the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of justice, that I may cause those who love me, like the people who love wisdom, look now, that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth. You love wisdom, like God's wisdom, you will inherit wealth that I may fill their treasuries. I'm not making it up. I've read a gazillion scriptures for you. It's all over the word of God. And I didn't just pick scriptures at random, I showed you patterns. Patterns with Adam, pattern with Abraham, pattern with Isaac, pattern with with um um Joseph, pattern with Joshua. These are patterns. Your God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He did not wake up in 2026 and then decide that he wants his people broke. When a Christian is broke, who benefits from that? The only person who the only place that benefits from that is the kingdom of darkness. We live in an economic world. We live in an economic world. Anyway, okay. So from today, anytime you see that deception show up, it may be a conversation somebody's having, or you may be thinking about something, you're like, Oh, I'm not the kind of person who can be promoted to this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. A slave was promoted. Oh, my business can't redo. Uh-uh. The Lord commands his blessing on my storehouses. Oh, I'm not, you know, there's a day I was like, Lord, I'm not really into all this real estate stuff, blah, blah, blah. He said, Listen, real estate is the family business. I own all the land. So I suggest you get with the program. I own all the land. So when these things, oh, I can't because I can't cross this level because I can't have this kind of thing because you have to examine it against the word of God. Guard your heart. It is a military, military term, it's a security term. Like, don't just let silly things come into your mind. Guard it. So when thoughts are coming, examine them. Is this thought in line with the word of God? Or is it in line with what you know, like what Facebook is saying, or is it in line with what Christians who don't read their Bible are saying? God wrote 66 books. If you don't know what He said, read the book. Okay. So today is my last day from today. I will never, ever, ever accept deception as truth. Eve accepted deception. She lost the entire garden. You accept deception, you lose stuff. That's why God said, guard, guard your heart with all diligence. Okay. So this is the way I want you to think from today. I am blessed. And you understand what blessed means now. It's not actually bless you. No. I am blessed. The blessing means an empowerment to prosper. I have an empowerment by God to prosper. I have an empowerment by God to prosper. I am blessed. I am empowered to prosper. I can be holy and wealthy. I can be humble and rich. I can be devoted and prosperous. These things can coexist. Coexist. Coexist. Coexist. You might say, Oh, but Dr. Una, you don't understand my circumstances. God has never been stopped by circumstances. During the pandemic, I started adjusting my goals. God says, What are you doing? I said, Lord, I don't know what's going on in heaven, but we got a pandemic down here. He said, Is my word only true in the absence of a pandemic? I was like, No, sir. He's like, you keep your goals right where they are and you ask me how to pull them off. That was one before that, that was that year ended up being our most prosperous year in the entire history, our entire history as entrepreneurs. So hear me when I say this. You are blessed, you are empowered to prosper, you can be holy and wealthy, you can be humble and rich, you can be devoted to your God, living for an audience of one, going deeper in Him and prosperous. God didn't call you to have one or the other, He called you to have Him as God in your life, and the money follows. It's number two, is not number one. It's not number one. So God is God and you have wealth. Wealth is not your God. Okay. In our next video, I am going to come back and I'm going to show you God's framework for wealth creation. Okay. So if you want to see that after this is done, I want you to go to the actual comment um comment section and I want you to request for that video. That's how I know you guys really want it. Okay. Take this. If you need to watch it multiple times to brainwash yourself with the right stuff, do it over and over again. Share with people in your world, your friends, your family members, the people you go to church with, the believers in your life, your kids, if you have kids, oh my goodness, your siblings. And let us debunk this myth. Take our authority, be the people that God blessed us to be. 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