It is amazing but
disturbing the trend and desperate dimension that prosperity has taken in this
dispensation. The ratio of holiness to prosperity if such exist should be 1:99
in percentage. There is an evolution that is prosperity-driven, and ours is a
generation that is prosperity centred. Faith and prosperity preachers have
evolved in unbridled propensity and they discharge with uninhibited aura.
Theirs is a faith that operates at rocket speed and produces one-touch click
response. If it doesn’t work for you, then you are “stigmatised” of either
having little or no faith or needing deliverance which most times would be
premised by you sowing a financial seed into their lives first before (according
to them) God will hear you. They never talk about sin; it is not their calling
they tell you. They neither lead men to Christ nor warn them about Hell, and do
not prepare anyone not even themselves for rapture. They talk faith,
deliverance, prosperity, breakthrough, miracles, etc. Indeed, the first
(salvation) has become the last on their list that is even if it still exists
on that list. Welcome to my generation! A generation that is causing so much
tears rather than joy in Heaven.
The preachers are the
most flamboyant, flashy suits, flashy cars, even flashy messages and even more,
flashy signs and wonders. They have literally made merchandise of the gospel,
serving their own (greedy and lustful) purpose and never the purpose of God.
Many of them are not even known in Heaven so they cannot be representing God,
while some actually started well but deviated along the way...but like Jesus
said, “In the beginning it was not so” (Matthew 19:8).
Before they pray for
you, you must first sow a financial seed. They have coined names for many ways
to unknowingly exploit their ignorant and unfortunate preys (“Christians”) and
collect money from them under spiritual disguise and forceful pretence. It
won’t be amazing if you find stuff like “sowing into the future ‘seeds’...Preservation
from enemies ‘seeds’...Connecting to destiny ‘seeds’...Opening Heaven ‘seeds’...New
month divine access ‘seed’...etc”. And unfortunately, these are presented to
the congregation and followers not as optional but as mandatory elements for
long life and prosperity. These are the types of ministers that seemingly place
a cause on your blessing until you ‘bless their lives with a financial seed’.
They send their bank accounts to church members like they are having
fundraising...but that’s actually how they have turned it; the gospel is now a
fundraising merchandise. There are no more messages about holiness, rapture, and
spiritual fellowship with God.
Many of them use
diabolical means to lure unsuspecting miracle seekers. They tell you things
about you some of which come out correct, and where and when they are wrong,
they force you to accept what they have said. This one I learnt is called the
power of “Do (believe) as I say”, and even when he tells you that you are
single while you know you are married, you are manipulated to accept you are
single. They go as far as telling you the amount of money in your pocket, your date
of birth, etc. But when you hear their testimonies; of fornication, adultery,
occultism, etc, you will not only fear for your life, but for theirs and the
kind of judgment ahead of them in Hell if they do not repent.
Am I saying that there
are no genuine demonstrations of the power of God? There are and we can testify
about that. Am I saying it is wrong to preach prosperity, faith, do deliverance
and flow in the manifestations of signs and wonders? NO. I believe in faith,
for without faith it is not possible to please God. It is faith that connects
to blessings and produces results. I believe in prosperity because “it is the
blessings of God that maketh rich” and all things are ours. If prosperity were
wrong, then God would not have blessed Abraham, Solomon, etc. If Solomon were
to be living in our time, he perhaps would have more than one private jet and
it would certainly be made of gold. In his time, gold/silver became like
ordinary things. And certainly, other brethren would have attacked him for buying
golden jets just the way Oyakhilome, Adeboye, and Oyedepo and co have come
under fire for allege possession of private jets. I believe in signs and
wonders for “God has ordained us for signs and wonders” and “these signs shall
follow them that believe...” What then is the problem? That is exactly what the
Lord has instructed me to teach.
TO
BE CONTINUED
(Should
you desire a complete copy of this teaching, you can send me a mail request via
info@treasuredhouse.org, or drwilliams4j@yahoo.com)
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