Whenever I mentioned the word prosperity, what is the first thing comes to your mind?

Some of you probably thought of prosperity preachers, right?

Some of you probably thought of prosperity gospel, right?

That's how we think about it when we think prosperity.

The problem with this modern interpretation

of biblical prosperity is that it turns off a lot of people and for good reason. And yet the word

prosper or prosperity is a beautiful biblical word. It is a biblical concept. Now, today I'm going to challenge

you to rethink this whole concept of prosperity. I want you to think afresh, because money and

prosperity are not evil in themselves.

Money and prosperity are very important to God.

And the reason I say money is important to God, it is mentioned in the Bible

2,085 times.

In Psalm 37, verse 25, and Philippians 419, God promise to meet and bless his faithful children.

God committed himself to do that.

And if you study biblical history, you're going to discover that there are certain periods of time in which God blessed

his people, and he blessed him abundantly, made them exceedingly prosperous, always for a reason,

always for a reason. And here are some examples. God prospered Abraham, exceedingly prospered him as a sign and a confirmation of the covenant with Abraham.

Then God blessed and prospered his son, Isaac, as a proof that this covenant is continuing on for the next generation. Today we're going to see

in Genesis chapter 30 how Jacob exceedingly prospered. Verse 43. It made it very clear.

Chapter 30, verse 43, Genesis. In this way, the man, Jacob, grew exceedingly prosperous.

Here are several principles about prosperity God's way. I want to share with you three biblical

principles about prosperity, God's way. Here they are. First of all, let not prosperity be your all-consuming focus.

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