#WordForTodayDevotional
Thursday JULY 27, 2023
KINGDOM PROSPERITY IS SORROW-FREE
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.Proverbs 10:22 (KJV)
One distinguishing feature of the blessing of the Lord is that it is sorrow-free, hassle-free and strain-free. We have established already that the blessing is not being full of money. When we talk about the blessing and prosperity, the mind of people run to having a fat bank account. That is definitely part of it but the blessing is bigger and larger than have a fat bank balance. Inside the blessing is riches. Our opening text says that the blessing makes rich. That means that when you are blessed, you are on your way to riches, to be made rich. You don’t get rich to be blessed, but you get blessed to get rich. The truth is that it is not only the blessing that procures riches. The devil also gives riches when you adhere to his method. So, if riches is solely your aim, you can as well subscribe to the devil to procure one. However, when the devil gives you anything, it comes with a lot of pain, sorrow, mourning and eventually at the cost of your own soul. Mark 8:36 asked such a question as to clarify the consequences of subscribing to the devil, it is always at the expense of your own soul: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? When it is not Yahweh, then it cannot be good because every good gift comes down from above from the father of lights with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17).
