prosperity on Financial Struggles

Preaching Angles Having celebrated Christ’s reign on Christ the King Sunday in November and having sung (most likely) to the “King of kings” (forever and ever!) in the Hallelujah Chorus at some poi...

Context Psalm 72 is one of two psalms (along with 127) that is attributed to Solomon, and it fits within a slightly larger group of psalms traditionally considered “royal psalms,” perhaps used as cor...

For a hundred that can bear adversity there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.

Material success is no measure of spiritual health. Nor is apparent affluence any criterion of real godliness. And it is well for us that the Shepherd of our souls sees through this exterior and takes...

People are usually better in adversity, than prosperity. A prosperous condition is not always so safe. True, it is more pleasing to the flesh - but it is not always best. In a prosperous state, there ...

It is prosperity that we cannot endure.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.

A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

Ultimately it is economic prosperity which makes possible for billions of dollars to be devoted to the less fortunate.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

Russell Conwell, founder of Temple University and half the namesake of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, was an American minister who began his ministry in 1880. While he wrote and preached countle...

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

We are rich only through what we give: and poor only through what we refuse and keep.

Almighty and most merciful Father, giver of every good and perfect gift, we give you thanks for blessing us so richly with your good Word and the holy Sacraments, and supplying so abundantly all our d...

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

The soul is a spiritual thing, riches are of an earthly extract, and how can these fill a spiritual substance? How man does thirst after the world, but, alas, it falls short of his expectation. It can...

For what good would their prosperity do them if it did not provide them with the opportunity for good works?

Pastor: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation: “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you...

There's no need to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Riches may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

Leader: Happy are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. People: For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. Leader: She is more preci...

Pastor: Oh God, you have been so gracious to us. You have given us so many wonderful gifts—they outnumber the stars in the sky! You have kept your promises to us, and you have been faithful! All: But ...

Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.

Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues to...

Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him.

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. And [w]hatever you do, work at it with all your h...