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38 The Gospel to the Poor
So she took that promise, “Wealth and riches shall be in his
house,” and laid claim to it by faith. Then she added to it the
promise in Proverbs 24:3-4 which says, “Through skillful and
godly wisdom is a house [a life, a home, a family] built, and by
understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation].
And by knowledge shall the chambers [of its every area]
be filled with all precious and pleasant riches” (The Amplified
Bible). Our home, over the years, has been thoroughly furnished
by that scripture and it’s still working in our lives today.
You see, according to the Word of God we not only have
hope through Jesus in the kingdom to come, but also we
have hope in the here and now. So many believers don’t understand
that. They continue to make some kind of artificial
separation, putting material things on one side and spiritual
things on the other.
Tragically, that attitude has cost us countless souls! One
of the main reasons we’ve never won the world to Jesus is
that we’ve never shown them how God could help them deal
with the material monster that’s eating them alive right now.
Instead, we’ve acted like God was so far above material things
that He wouldn’t have anything to do with them. The ironic
thing is, He created those very material things for His family
in the first place!
Certainly God wants to save people from hell and get them
into heaven, but He also wants to save them from the hell the
devil has created right here on this Earth. In fact, the word soteria
(translated “salvation” in English) literally means deliverance
from temporary evils.
God wants people to have that deliverance—now! That’s
why He’s instructed me to take this message to the poorest people
in the world.
There have been some who’ve tried to discourage me from