We are launching this episode on Thanksgiving evening.

So happy Thanksgiving.

But you may be hearing this the day after Thanksgiving on Friday in either case.

We need to talk about giving gratitude to God for His abundant mercy to us and our lives

and for His abundant promises to us.

And the next question on the docket comes from Michael in Massachusetts.

Dear Pastor John, you speak a lot against the prosperity gospel, which I appreciate.

However, there are texts such as Psalm 3527, which state that the Lord has,

quote, pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.

End quote, that's from the KJV.

When I try to encourage other believers, I will sometimes use verses like this one to show them

that God has their best interest at heart, also like Romans 832 as well.

Yet at times I think they are hesitant to believe a verse like this because of our response

to the heresy of the prosperity gospel.

How can we properly and faithfully to the truth of the gospel?

Comfort other believers using prosperity texts.

Like this one in Psalm 35 without then falling off the other side of the boat in light

of a verse like Luke 1215.

Would you say Pastor John to Michael?

Well, I'm going to get exactly at his question in Psalm 3527 in a minute.

But let me start by saying in all my criticism of the so-called prosperity gospel,

I don't wish for or pray for poverty on anyone.

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