PROSPERITY

Grace-Based Prosperity
Many times, we, as Christians, struggle to manifest prosperity according to the world’s standards. However, prosperity according to God’s Word extends beyond any prosperity we can ever find in the world. Prosperity from God makes us whole in every area of life. It is a prosperity that goes beyond a dollar amount. True prosperity is Christ-centered, and it comes from a complete dependence upon Jesus Christ.

“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers” (3 John 1:2, AMP). 
Society’s definition of prosperity is limited to finances; however, God’s definition of prosperity means wholeness.
To prosper spiritually you must be a born-again Christian.
To prosper physically means you are healed and healthy in your body.
We prosper as our soul prospers (3 John 1:2-4, AMP). 
To prosper within the soul begins with the process of transforming your mind with God’s Word.
The soul of man consists of the mind, will (decision making), and emotions.
The enemy attacks our thinking. Wrong thinking prevents our prosperity

“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days” (James 5:1-3).
The wicked rich have reaped treasure and stored it up. God will use it in the last days.
“Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth” (James 5:4).
The righteous cry out by confessing the Word of God in faith concerning their wealth that is being tied up by the wicked.

“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).
There are two ways we live: We either depend on God’s unmerited favor or we depend solely on our own ability to accomplish things. 
Human strength is limited at its best. We can only go so far within our own abilities.
Every good and perfect gift comes from above.
Many times, we get confused, believing that we are accomplishing things without the grace of God.
Grace can be described as God adding His super to our natural, causing the supernatural to occur in our lives.
However, often, we give ourselves the credit for His blessings.

“Dead works” describe a dependence upon human ability (Hebrews 9:13-14).   
Christ-centered prosperity is prosperity with Jesus Christ at the center of it. It is a dependence on Him and not self.
True prosperity is all about trusting and focusing on Jesus.
Therefore, our relationship with Him must go beyond church services or Christian events.
Paul wrote about his work with and for Jesus and the grace upon his life. He gave God all the credit. 
“But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10).

Scripture References
    3 John 1:2-4, AMP
    James 5:1-4
    John 1:17
    Hebrews 9:13-14
    1 Corinthians 15:1