God Gives You Ability To Get Rich

DEUTERONOMY 8:18 ICB

8 But remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the
power to become rich. He keeps the agreement he promised to
your ancestors. So it is today.

I don't want to sound critical, but I have heard so many preach
using this verse that God wants to prosper His people for one
sole purpose: so that we can give the money to God so He can
afford to proclaim the Gospel to all the world. But I just
don't buy it.

I do believe that God desires for His people to be givers.
Being selfish is the worst thing you can do. And it is true
that usually the biggest enjoyment you can get from something
is to give it away to someone thrilled with it.

But surely God is not waiting around to go ahead with His
operation till we get enough money to finance Him. And surely
God is not worse than a normal earthly parent. What earthly
parent would give their children some toys on Christmas, then
tell them that the ONLY reason they were given those gifts is
so they could give them away to the neighbor kids?

I already said that God does not desire selfishness. If you are
not a giver, you are not in God's will for you. But God does
not give you things just to require you to give them all to
someone else.

Deuteronomy 8:18 is simple: it is saying that God is the One
making you rich , and He is doing it because He had said that
He would -- not because we deserve it!

I especially like:

1 TIMOTHY 6:17 NKJ

17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be
haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living
God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

God is not the kind of being who will make you just barely
scrape by -- He gives RICHLY all things to ENJOY. God gives to
us because He enjoys it and because He keeps His word!

SAY THIS: I trust in the living God, Who gives me richly all
things to enjoy. He gives me the power to prosper because He
said He would.