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Originally Posted by missourimary
I have heard quite a bit about prosperity from my brothers and sisters in the last years. They are "blessed" with a new house (and huge mortgage), they are "blessed" with new cars (and car payments and insurance hikes when the old cars ran fine), they are "blessed" with more clothes than they count, all bought on credit, for which they need more closet space and a larger house.
They have tried to encourage me in my little house with a little yard and my used clothes and old car that "God will supply all our needs..." I have begun answering, that, yes, He does. But what I need and what I want are two very different things. (I don't want their debt, though!)
Really, what do we need? Physically, food, shelter, and clothes. Do we have those? We have much more than we realize.
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Good point.
I heard someone tell the story of how God "gave" them their house. Funny word to use, though, considering that they had to pay for this gift, themselves. Actually still are, with the mortgage. And this gift cost them a big pile of money in repairs a few years later, when the foundation settled and cracked.