Biblical Prosperity: My Weekly Milk, #13

By Gery Malanda

Whenever we talk about prosperity people are already hardening their hearts; because they think that God is after their money. Unfortunately some preachers who have been labelled "prosperity preachers" have carried that prosperity message beyond its proper boundaries. There is a true and balanced prosperity preaching that lines up with the written word of God, and not the greed of some so called "ministers of god".

We will see in this teaching what God said about prosperity of His people, and we will learn how to avoid being manipulated by people. I want to let everybody know up front, that a person, who does not give his tithe or offering, will not go to hell. Let no one put fear into your hearts that not giving to God will send a person to hell. It is not in the bible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hopfan
• Release date: Feb 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201570132

Gery Malanda

Brother Gery Malanda: Is an extraordinary bond servant and apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, with a strong, Prophetic and Evangelistic gifting, born in the Republic of Congo, expounds in his Bible Studies on his youth and Christian upbringing, as a personal testimony and example! He has a very close relationship with Jesus and has furthered his Knowledge of the Bible at The New Covenant Church Bible College in Manchester, United Kingdom, and graduated in 2010. Having personally had an encounter with our Lord, he has the vision of evangelising and discipling the 50 European Nations, starting with Glasgow, Scotland. To this end, The Lord set him the seven year task of writing this significant series of bible studies called My weekly milk! These are written in English, his third language, having spent many years in France, but have retained his personal style and character! They emphasise how Jesus is using ordinary people, who want to move forward in ministry, with power, healing and miracles. Now with a regular slot on TBN, he is presenting a program called "Voice of Healing", a spirit led preaching and teaching, accompanied by prayer and live word of knowledge.

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1. Is God after my money? 

God created everything in this world. He created the sun, the moon, the stars, the light, the darkness, the day and the night, the heavens and the earth, the fowls of the air, the animals on the earth, the cattle, the herbs, the trees, and the fish in the sea (Genesis 1). God saw that all He created was good. After creating the entire world, God created mankind, the crown of His creation and He said it was very good. Before we got here, God made the provision for everything we will ever need. He gave it to us first, before asking us to offer Him something out of the abundance He gave us.

When the people of God were complaining about their giving, God reminded them, that He was not after their money, but He wanted to bless them. God said: I will neither take a bull from your house, nor goats out of your folds. For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills, I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are Mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and all its fullness (Psalm 50:9-12). The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein (Psalm 24:1). The heavens are the Lord’s, the earth also is His, as for the world and the fullness thereof He has founded them (Psalm 89:11). The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine, says the Lord (Haggai 2:8).

In essence God is telling the world He is self-sufficient; He does not need anything. But it is for our own good that He asks us to give. When God says: you have robbed Me with your tithes and offerings (Malachi 3:8). What God is truly saying is, that we have not given Him an opportunity to bless us. One may ask himself the question, what would happen to me, if I give nothing to God? How will He treat me?

2. What happens to me when I have nothing to give to God?

Our God is a good God, who causes the sun to rise on the good and evil, He causes the rain to fall on the just and on the unjust, He is the Most High God (Matthew 5:45). God has a welfare package for His children. If He feeds the unbelievers, how much more will He feed His own children? If He feeds the fowls of the air, how much more will he feed His own children? Therefore I, Jesus, say unto you. Take no thought for your life or do not worry about your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what shall you put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better or of more value than they (Matthew 6:25-26)?

Our fathers, when they were in the wilderness; they could not sow anything, yet God gave them manna every day. They ate until they were full. Never did they have to sleep with an empty stomach. They were on the welfare package of God. Jesus said, that we should be praying this prayer to our Father in heaven: give us day by day our daily bread (Luke 11:3). God promised not to allow the soul of the righteous to famish (Proverbs 10:3). David told us his experience, when he was running away from Saul, and had to even pretend madness before king Abimelech, so that his life would be spared. David, even in those difficult circumstances, hiding in caves, and in the wilderness, discovered that there is no lack, or want, to those who fear the Lord; the young lions lack and suffer hunger; but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing (Psalm 34:9-10).

David could also boldly say in His old age, he had experienced God both in the caves and the wilderness, while running away from Saul, and in the palace as king over Israel. David could draw this conclusion based on his experience in life, saying: I was young and now I am old; I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread (Psalm 37:25). David knew that the Lord was his shepherd; therefore, he shall not want (Psalm 23:1). Brothers and sisters, we must rest on the revelation of the welfare package of God, God will feed us and our family everyday, even if we are in the wilderness phase of our life physically. Satan is persecuting us and shaking our finances. We must know that our God will provide for us. Spiritually we are always in green pastures since we are in Christ Jesus, soon our physical experience will line up with where we are spiritually (John 10).

The prodigal son knew that in his Father’s house, hired servants have bread enough and to spare, so why should he, as a son perish with hunger (Luke 15:17). Jesus then tells us: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened (Matthew 7:7-8). Your Father who is in heaven will give you good things, not a serpent if you asked for a fish, not a stone if you ask for bread, not a scorpion if you ask for an egg. Expect good things and perfect things from your Father in heaven; for every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights (James 1:17).

Therefore, brethren when we are going through difficult periods in our lives, we have no income at all; let us never feel condemned, let us ask our God, and He will give us day by day our daily bread. Even if a believer thinks God is after his money, therefore refuses to give anything back to God, when God has blessed him financially; God still gives that unfaithful believer the welfare package of the kingdom. Even when we are faithless or do not believe that He is not after our money, God remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself (2Timothy 2:13). He said He will not allow our soul to famish; He will be faithful to His word; for He watches over His word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12).

3. It is God’s will for us to prosper

God’s will is prosperity. He wants His children to live in prosperity in all things including spiritual, material, physical and intellectual prosperity. The prosperity God wants to see in our lives applies to the whole picture of human endeavour: Family life (provision for our children, spouses and relations), jobs, businesses, human relationships and all necessities of life. God, according to His divine power, has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him, who has called us to glory and virtue (2Peter 1:2).

Financial prosperity is included; for God says in 3John verse 2: Beloved, I pray or I wish above all things that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers- Amplified version. And also in Psalm 35:27: Let them shout for joy and be glad who favour my righteous cause; And let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. God is pleased when you and I prosper; yet God does not want us to prosper at the expense of our spiritual life!

4. Why does God want me to prosper?

Solomon said wisdom is a defence and money is a defence (Ecclesiastes 7:12). Solomon also said money answers all things (Ecclesiastes 10:19). As Christians we are not to be slaves of money, but we must have dominion over money. Money and the love of money or greed should not become a god in our life. For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness (1Timothy 6:10-11). No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon [the god of greed] (Matthew 6:24). Solomon through the wisdom given to him by God, sheds some light, as to why God wants His people to have wealth and prosperity.

Ecclesiastes 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

Ecclesiastes 9:14 There was a little city and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks or snares against it:

Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless, the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of wise men, spoken quietly, should be heard rather than the shout of the ruler of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.

Born again Christians are supposed to be full of wisdom, for Christ Jesus has been made wisdom unto us (1 Corinthians 1:30). If any believer lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him (James 1:5). Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him (Colossians 3:16-17).

God is saying through Solomon, I know we are wise, but this is how the world will treat us if we are physically poor and needy. People in times of crises, will seek the counsel of God or the wisdom of God through believers. Unsaved people may have many devices or plans or thoughts in their hearts, about how to get out of that trouble; nevertheless, the counsel of God in us will stand, it will be the wisdom God gives us through the revelation of His word, that will help everybody to come out of trouble (Proverbs 19:21). 

We see that in the days of Joseph who, through his God given wisdom, delivered Egypt and the world from the famine.

Solomon noticed something, that as soon as the unsaved people or carnal believers get out of their trouble, they forget about that poor and needy wise man. They even despise him because he is physically poor and needy. The only time they listen to his word, is when they are in trouble. If believers do not get the understanding that God wants them to prosper and be wealthy, they will always be despised in the society and they will suffer great harm from their haters. Solomon says: The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it (Proverbs 10:22). And Paul says: you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might be rich (2Corinthians 8:9).

In the days of Esther in the kingdom of Persia and Media, the enemies of the Jew, Haman, a rich man, decided to annihilate all the Jews. History tells us, that king Ahasuerus or Xerxes had suffered a great loss of soldiers in the Battle of Thermopylea when he fought king Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans. Xerxes came back to his home city, having lost a lot of money and soldiers in that unfruitful conquest. The kingdom was in financial down turn. Haman seized the opportunity to plot the annihilation of all the Jews. Xerxes, the king, had nothing against the Jews per se./; his only concern was the financial state of his kingdom.

Xerxes was concerned that if all the Jews were killed, he would no longer be receiving the tributes or tax money from the Jews. So Haman told Xerxes not to worry about the tax; he would pay the tax money or the tribute the Jews were supposed to pay into the king’s treasury (Esther 3:9). Mordecai the Jew, the uncle of Esther, though he was in some position of power, for he used to sit at the gate; he did not have the money Haman had.

Today it is the same thing that is happening in our society, what Haman was doing is simply called lobbying. Today in our society there are many groups of people, or other faith groups which are lobbying against born again believers. The government passes decrees that restrict the freedom of believers; decrees that removes God in the schools, in the hospital, in the work place, authorises homosexual marriage, homosexuals to adopt children. The government issues decrees which put those new faiths or groups of thoughts into the schools, hospitals and wherever God was evicted. It is simply because those people are lobbying like Haman did. The government is trying to please them, because they contribute a lot to the finances of the country: they control the media, the financial institutions, the show business, the cinema industry, etc.

The Jews learned the lesson of the days of Esther and understood the wisdom God gave Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes. The Jews are wealthy people, and their money lobbies on their behalf wherever they are in the world. We serve the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Many times, we suffer because we do not have someone inside to lobby for us. But thank God, God had an Esther in the palace of king Xerxes. Brothers and sisters, you have come into the kingdom for such a time as this (Esther 4:14). You are there to overthrow the plots of the Haman of your generation, who wants to destroy other born again believers; you are