 class, we started off about looking at financial stewardship. We covered some very important aspects of finances. As an introduction, we looked at several verses that point to the fact that God is not against money. He's not against people having money. He's not against people using money. We looked at several scriptures. So anything that caught your attention in last class, I just open it up for you to share. Anything that you felt was something was new, maybe you've never seen that scripture before, or something you felt was reiterated about this whole aspect of money and God's perspective about money and so on. So anything that you felt, anything that you learned in last class, maybe just one thing that you can just share. Rosalind, Anita, Jafina, Aradna, Zalitoli, Collins, Stephen was not there, Nicklison, Libby, Daryl, Abubakar, Leah, Leah Lama, anyone. You know, what you, any one thing that you felt was something new, something that you learned, anything at all? Okay, what do you think of this verse? Okay, let me just ask, what do you think of prosperity, you know? So let me ask that question. Prosperity, is it, what do you think of this word? What comes to your mind when you think of this word? Prosperity. Sufficiency. Okay, okay, sufficient. Pastor, having enough so that we can help others, that we can be a blessing for others. Okay, having enough, having enough, okay, Subashesh says abundance, having enough, sufficient. Yeah, so having the right attitude with what you have. Okay, having the right attitude towards what you have. Okay, I'll put that down, though it's not, you know, it's not directly, you know, what prosperity would mean. Prosperity would, okay, also, you know, Daryl has put down security, which means that prosperity also gives a sense of security, right? A sense of, okay, I can do this, or I can fall back on this kind of feeling, right? Okay, so, okay, so the next question, when it comes to prosperity, okay, so we know that, okay, it involves all this, or it provides, you know, this. Just to clarify, you know, it, prosperity, it's, well, it means that you have sufficient and you have more than enough, right? So there is an overflow. Okay, so have that picture in mind, because it means that the needs are taken care of, maybe if you're looking at personal needs, the personal needs are taken care of, and there's an overflow. There's more than enough, right? To share, to give, to help, and so on, right? So prosperity, we know, is not confined to or restricted to money alone, right? Finances alone. So what else, you know, if you're saying prosperity, what other areas can you think of that a person can be prosperous about? Good health? Good health, you can, you can thrive, you know, when we say, okay, prosperous, you can, though we don't use that word, but the idea that is conveyed as a person is, you know, is in good health, thriving, flourishing, right? Okay, and joy, peace, okay, peace and joy, emotionally. So emotionally, also you are flourishing, you know, every time I think of flourish and thrive, I just have this picture of a, of a field, you know, maybe it's corn or paddy or something that has grown, but it's, it's all green. And, you know, there's a gentle breeze and, you know, it's all green and thriving. It's robust, like flourishing, healthy. Right? So that's, that's a picture which comes to my mind every time. Okay, so Zalitoli says in all, in every aspect of our life, spiritually, financially, emotionally, yeah. So prosperous, prosperity, it need not be just money. So when we're talking about prosperity, it need not be just finances, it need not be material wealth, but it's all areas of our lives, you know, physical, emotional, spiritual, relational, it will relationally also, you know, it's, you're prospering in your relationship. Right? Let me just read, we will come back to, you know, these scriptures over and over again, but I just want to read from John's third episode, right? Three John and verse two says, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your sole prosperous. So that's third episode of John. So three John and verse two, only one chapter, right? So three John verse two. Beloved, I pray, so this is John's prayer for, for the church, for those he knows, you know, he's saying, I pray that you may prosper in all things. So he's saying that you may thrive, that you may flourish, that you may prosper in all things. And then he talks about physical health, right? He says, and be in health. Okay, so, and the word prosper there, just pulling that out, means, you know, succeed or be successful, right? It's a Greek word, which means succeeding and being successful. So he's saying, you know, you be successful on all things. And he talks about health. He talks about physical health, that you may be in good health, you know, he says that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your sole prosperous. So he's just covering all aspects of a person's life, a person's being, right? Just as your sole prosperous, just as your, and the word used there is suke, from which we get the word psychology. And it's something to do with your, the state of your mind, the state of your emotions, your imagination, your intellect, everything put together. So he's saying, hey, I pray that you may prosper in all things. So, so, which means that, which gives us a picture about God's heart for us, right? So John is praying this prayer for the believer, which, which from, from which we get God's, God's will or God's desire for the believer that a believer would, a child of God would prosper and be in health in all things, just as the sole prosperous. So, and we also see the connection there, that as the sole prosperous, which means that the prosperity of the soul is also, it's all interconnected. It's connected with the prosperity of all things and, and, and our health also, right? So I guess you'll learn more in emotional health and, you know, the class which deals with that, emotional well-being. So you'll deal with that, I think next semester, right? So, so anyway, so, so this covers all aspects of prosperity. We see that it's not an isolated word, it's not an isolated term referring to, you know, money, but it's covering all aspects of life. So we also, last class, we also saw, saw that we could have, when it comes to money, money, you know, is, is tainted with a lot of things. You know, it's, it's used for good purposes, it can be used for bad purposes. It can be used as a bribe to manipulate, you know, a certain decision. It can be used as, as a gift to help someone in need. So you see that, you know, it's, it's, it can, people can have a lot of greed, covetousness about money and want more of it, or people could be, you know, truly generous and sacrificial in giving away. So you see that we need to have the right perspective about money, and especially as believers and maybe, you know, current leaders or future leaders, where we don't have to feel guilty about using money. We don't have to feel guilty about receiving money. So you, we have the right perspective where money does not have a hold on us, but we have the right hold on money. Like somebody said, you know, hold on to things lightly. So when it comes to things, when it comes to, you know, people, you know what you need to hold on to, right? When it comes to things, we have a lighter grip, right? And when we have the right perspective or right attitude towards money, then wonderful things start happening, you know, because we are no more constrained or held back or even, you know, entangled by money, you know, our decisions need not be controlled by money. We will take into fact, we will take into consideration of the Lord Jesus talks about, if you want to build a house, won't you sit down and consider whether you will have enough and then do it? Yeah, we will take into consideration, right? Like the Lord rightly said, we will be considered, but our decisions are life need not be controlled by money, our life's decisions need not be controlled by money, right? Because we have someone who is a provider. Yeah, I just want to put down a definition of, you know, the word attitude, it means a settled way of thinking or feeling about something, a settled way, right? You kind of settled, you've considered and this is how you think about certain things, this is how you feel about certain things, right? This is your perspective. So it actually, you know, your attitude defines how you're going to react, how you're going to respond to things of a particular nature and it's going to also dictate how you, you know, the future course of action, your decisions. So our attitude about money really would, is very, very important, right? And to have a biblical attitude towards money, to look at money the same way God looks at it, right? It would be something very precious, would be something transformative and life-changing in our lives, okay? And our attitude towards money could be, you know, it depends on various things, right? Like, like all other things in life, the way we grew up, okay? So for example, you know, when growing up, well, I didn't have much, right? So there was no, I don't think there was any lack, but I, you know, I would have preferred to have some things new like clothes and, you know, sometimes it wasn't there, right? So and also, you know, I would have preferred to have some money in hand in order to, in order to buy some things in order to, you know, spend it on myself, but it wasn't there. So, you know, I, growing, I mean, sorry, I grew up, I growing up, I preferred to, my attitude towards it was that it's never enough, right? So having a tighter grip on it, not letting go of it, right? So we could have several attitudes, different kinds of attitudes about money that, hey, if I let go of it, then I will not have enough. If I let go of it today, then there will not be enough tomorrow, you know, so many, so many things going in our minds. So that is why we looked at attitude. Okay, so we looked at some key attitudes, some good attitudes that we might have, we could have about money, some bad attitudes, terrible attitudes that we couldn't have about money, you know, comparison, competition, greed, even, you know, our attitude of money with regard to spirituality. So we might think, okay, this person does not have enough, this person, you know, leads, does not have a bank balance, does not have anything. So he must be very spiritual, you know, we might attribute that to great spirituality or great faith, or, or, or we could do the other way, you know, we could attribute abundance to great spirituality or great faith and so on. So both are equally, equally wrong, right? So coming to certain wrong conclusions because of attitude towards money, so we looked at that. Okay, so today we're just going to look at prosperity and biblically, you know, what does it mean to be, to be prosperous and maybe look at a definition of biblical prosperity. Let me just share the notes. Those of you who join newly, you can download the notes from the Classwork section. Okay, so biblical prosperity. Okay, so what is, so like we said, prosperous, to be prosperous or to prosper is to be successful. Okay, so it is to be successful, it is a thrive, it is to flourish, and it's not just limited to money alone or finances alone. Okay, so biblical prosperity, when you look at it, now this is a definition. Okay, like it's not a perfect definition, but it's some definition which gives us some clarity. Okay, so let's look at it. Biblical prosperity is divinely enabled success growth increase through divinely appointed means for divinely appointed purposes. Okay, let me read that again. Biblical prosperity is divinely enabled success growth and increase through divinely appointed means for divinely appointed purposes. So the first part of it, divinely appointed, divinely enabled, which means that it's enabled, empowered or, you know, we have this empowerment from God. So it's, it's divine, divinely enabled. So it's divinely enabled success, we can talk about success growth, thriving, flourishing, increase, right, through divinely enabled means or methods. And it is for divinely appointed purposes. So we can look at, you know, biblical prosperity in this way that it is divinely enabled or it's a God thing. God enabled spirit enabled success, spirit enabled growth, God enabled increase through God appointed methods or God appointed ways, God appointed means and it is for God appointed purposes or objectives, right. So one of the things that we need to understand, it's when it's God enabled or divinely appointed, then it is a path of righteousness because it comes from Him who is holy. It comes from Him who is righteous. It comes from Him who is in whom there is no darkness at all, figuratively, when you look at darkness, in whom there is no sin, that He is God, He is, He is light. In Him there is no sin at all, there is no darkness. So, so His ways are ways of righteousness. So when God wants to prosper someone, when God wants to wants to enable someone to succeed, do well in life. And, you know, when He up, when He, when He says, okay, I want to take you down this path or take you down to this objective of success and growth and increase, the path towards that or the means towards that, the steps towards that are not unrighteous paths. Okay, we need to be clear on that. These are parts of righteousness. For example, you know, we look at Psalm 23. Psalm 23, the psalmist testifies and he says, He restores my soul. The Lord restores my soul. He leads me in parts of righteousness. Okay, so this is how He leads me. The shepherd who leads, who goes before, I follow. He leads me in parts of righteousness. So the path that He takes, the way that He takes, the steps that He takes, the methodology, everything is a righteous one. It is not unrighteous. So this is what divinely enabled prosperity looks like, because He takes people through means that are, again, divinely appointed or divinely enabled means which are righteous. Okay, so when it comes to God, when it comes to Him leading, it is not part of unrighteousness. Okay, so He will not ask you to rob a bank so that you can give generously and pay a tenth of that to the church and, you know, plant more churches. So His, you know, the end just does not justify the means. You know, sometimes we say, you know, the end justifies the means. So let me just put that. I just want to put that in bracket, you know, sometimes because sometimes we say, okay, the end justifies the means, which means that if I, you know, this is my objective, this is my goal. So if I need to reach that, no, that's a good goal, let's say, you know, I want to grow, I want to be successful, I want to be prosperous, etc. It's a good goal. I want to help people. It's a good goal. But that does not justify the means, just not make the means justifiable in the sense the way in which I reached that goal, goal to be successful, goal to be, you know, prosperous. Now, in order to help others, successful in order to help others, maybe successful or prosperous in order to be an influence for good in life, you know, all that. But that does not justify the means, the method, the way I reached that place. Because God leads us in parts of righteousness. Okay. Second Chronicles 16 and verse 9, for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him. And then the rebuke is there, the second part of that. So when we, we can experience this divinely enabled growth, success, increase in every area of our lives. In every area of our lives. In the next chapter, we're going to look at, you know, the reasons why we can expect, you know, by prosperity is not a bad word. And how it has come to become a bad word, you know, in circles because of greed, because of consciousness, because of the way it has been, you know, misused, even in Christian circles, like money has been misused in the abuse of it in Christian circles, sadly in the church. And therefore, you know, this whole thing of, you know, prosperity being a bad word itself. But when we look into the word, when we look at God, when we look at the nature of God, you know, we look at his heart, you know, the scripture that we saw, that he takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. Like we looked at that scripture on some, I think it was Psalm 37. Let me just read that. Yeah, Psalm 35 and verse 27. Psalm 35 and verse 27, that God takes pleasure in the prosperity of the servants. So he is delighting in the prosperity of the servants. At the same time, in the last class, I remember, we closed with that scripture, 1 Timothy chapter 6 and verse 17, which talks about how we should not trust, put our trust in uncertain riches, but in God who gives to all richly all things to enjoy 1 Timothy 6 and verse 17. So that is the balance, that is the wholesomeness of prosperity. Okay, so in this scripture, in this verse, talks about how God wants to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are loyal to him. So this whole thing of prosperity, this whole thing of riches and everything, God, more than us, I feel that God wants to, God desires, he wants to show himself strong in this area. He wants to take pleasure in the prosperity of our lives and he wants to give, but he wants to give so that we don't destroy our lives in a manner that we don't destroy our lives with it, that we don't make idols out of it. Like the children of Israel with the gold that God gave them as they were leaving Egypt. God gave them, if you read, you see that the Egyptians actually, they gave of their jewels and ornaments and everything as they were leaving, they said, take it and go. Now with those very things, they made idol, they made that golden calf in the wilderness. So the very things that they receive, because of the favor of God, they made that an idol. So now God doesn't want to destroy our lives. God doesn't want us to destroy our lives. So he will, he will work on our hearts. So that's why it says that he wants to show himself strong and whose hearts are loyal towards him, whose hearts are loyal to him. He wants to show himself strong. He wants to display, put on display what he can do in our lives, how we can enable our lives to be successful, how we can enable our lives to grow and be a success and thrive and so on in all areas. But he wants our hearts to be loyal to him because when our heart is on him, when our heart is captured with his love and we are heart is captured by him, then there will be no question of turning to the left or right or becoming distracted by the things of the world. When our heart is, when we are wholeheartedly, when we are given to the Lord and for his purposes, then we are not pulled away by any of these things. Money is just a tool for us to get the job done. God can actually make sure that thousands and thousands of currencies or money just goes through our hands so that we can be an instrument of righteousness in his hands. Okay, so let's look at a few people who, sometimes we might have an example of, sorry, before we go into the people, we just want to look at the life of Jacob and how supernaturally God enabled a divine increase in his life. Genesis 28 was 20 and 20 to 22. This is what Jacob's declaration or testimony says, if God will be with me and keep me in this way that I'm going and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on so that I come back to my Father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. Okay, and then he talks about in this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God's house and of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth to you. This is a declaration and we see this in Genesis chapter 28. So this is immediately after his encounter, he has this dream and he has his encounter, the ladder from heaven to earth and the angels descending ascending and then he calls the lame of the place Bethel and so on. So this same Jacob, we see in Genesis 30 where he is with Laban and Laban says, what will you give me? Sorry, what shall I give you? Verse 31, chapter 30 verse 31 and Jacob says, I just want this one thing, I will keep you. He's been keeping tending flocks over for Leah, for Rachel and many years have gone, now he wants to leave and then he says, okay, this is what I will do, I will tend your flocks, I will keep your flocks and whatever the ones that are born which are speckled and spotted among the goats, these I want to be my wages and among the lambs, yes, someone asked a question. Yeah, Robert, you have a question. Sorry, sir, that was accidentally. Oh, okay, no problem. Okay, so this is something that he does and then we read, I'm sure we've read that whole story of how he keeps those rods, he strips those rods of, you know, green or popular rods and almond and chestnut trees, he places that in the feeding trough of the, in the watering trough, sorry, of the flock and they come there and they see it and the ones which go and litter or they give birth, they happen to have the same kind of spots and flecks speckled and so on and brown and so on. So something supernatural happens, you know, now we don't know, you know, how this came about, we accept that it's a supernatural work and his flock increases, right, greatly. So we see that right in the Old Testament, we see that happening and it is possible and it does happen in our time as well. Right, so just to show the supernatural work of God when it comes to increase and growth. Okay, so let's look at, you know, sometimes what happens is when we think about the Bible, when we think about the Old Testament, when we think about people in the Bible, you know, we've seen some pictures maybe growing up, we've seen these, you know, some charts, when we went to our Sunday school and we, you know, and then we have, we have a picture of these people, of these people who lived in biblical times, right, we, like Abraham, Isaac, all these people, then, so we have in our own mind some conclusion, okay, the kind of lives they live, the kind of wealth they had, etc. And sometimes we might have a picture, okay, they wore rags, because they were wandering about in wilderness, they went from place to place and so we might have a different, you know, kind of a picture in our mind. So let's look at a few of these biblical characters and what Scripture really has to say about, like, what they possessed, okay, now these were people who walked with God, who encountered God, who, you know, God did things through them, etc. It's not that they're not people without flaws, yes, they had their own limitations, they had their flaws, but God worked through them, God did work through them. Now this is the kind of lives they live, okay, and what they possessed, because of who God is, what they received from his hand. Genesis 24 and verse 1 says, now Abraham was old, let me just, this is verse 1 and also verses 34 and 35. Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things, okay. Now God is not a stingy God, God is not one who holds back blessings. Whenever we look at the word blessing we might think of, you know, we might become very spiritual and think of, okay, faith and the gifts and the presence of God and God leading. Yes, that is very much a big part of blessing that we can enjoy as believers. But look at this, Abraham was, the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things, verse 34 and so he said, I am Abraham's, so he's talking about Elias already, so he says, I am Abraham's servant, this is his testimony about Abraham, he says, the Lord has blessed my master greatly and he has become great and he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants and camels and donkeys. So he's talking about literally, he's just kind of giving a financial report of the kind of wealth that Abraham enjoyed or Abraham had, right. He had servants, male, female servants, he had flocks, so literally, you know, gold and silver, herds, flocks, it's all in plural, right, and also camels and donkeys and so on. So this is what Abraham had. We look at Isaac, Genesis 26, then Isaac soared in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold and the Lord blessed him. And it was actually difficult circumstances, difficult environment, difficult weather conditions, so this is what happened, you know, it's a divinely enabled growth, divinely enabled success. The man began to prosper, verse 13, the man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous, for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants, so the Philistines envied him, the Philistines looked at him and they envied him. So, you know, this is what we read about Isaac, we read about Jacob. Similarly, that man became exceedingly prosperous, had large flocks, female and male servants and camels and donkeys. Then we read about Joseph, the Lord was with Joseph and he was a successful man. Well, he was a slave, but it says, you know, what a definition. He was sold as a slave, he's there as a slave in Potiphar's house and this is what we read about him. The Lord was with Joseph and he was a successful man, talking about, you know, prosperity when it came to work, prosperity, relationally, prosperity and favor with man. He was a successful man, he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian and his master saw that the Lord was with him and the Lord made all he did, all that Joseph did to prosper in his hand. So, Joseph found favor in his sight and served him, then he made him, that is, Potiphar made him overseer of his house and all that he had, he put under his authority. Okay, so this is something that we see, this is what Potiphar did, all that he had and when we read through, we see that he did not know anything, he did not concern himself about anything except that the food was there on a table and he ate, ate of it, everything Joseph looked into, right, and he was able to trust in, give him all that and this is what he did. In the prison, verse 23, the keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority because the Lord was with him and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper, prosper, sorry. So we see that amazing. So it's as if the Lord is wanting this, the Lord wants to, wants people to grow, to increase, to be successful in the right way, with the right attitude and not to be, not to let wealth control them or just control them in any way or let wealth be their idol or people as individuals that they should put their trust in him, but the fact is that the Lord is saying, I want to increase, I want to display, show myself strong and what I can do in someone's life, right. It's amazing to see God's perspective. So when you look at the life of Job, you know that Job went through, you know, something, some challenges, some terrible things that he is, you know, he went through, but at the end of it, we see the end that was desired by the Lord, right. The Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning and then he goes on to explain the sheep, camels, oxen and dog keys and all that he had, right. So the thing is that Lord, when our heart is loyal towards him, his desire is that he wants to show himself strong on our behalf. Okay, so many times we might think that, okay, God is holding back the blessing or God does not want me to prosper or Lord is, God is keeping me so that, you know, I don't fall. So I choose to be in this manner, but the fact is that God, you know, other than saying that, you know, it's like when we looked at the Holy Spirit class and we looked at gifts and character and it's like saying, okay, God, I want, I might fall if I start moving in the gift. So I I'd rather not do that. That's not God's desire. God's desire is that we be strong in character so that he can do more through us. Okay, so there are people who fell because of riches, because of the fact that they were, their heart was not in the right place. We read about Balak who received from Balak and we see that in numbers 22 to 24. And then we see that he, Balak gave him gifts of, interesting, it says a divine as gift was given to him by others. Balak also gave him gifts of oxen and sheep and so on. He received all that and he, Balak knew that he cannot curse the children of his, he cannot curse the people of God, but at the same time he was still interacting, he was still receiving from Balak. So we see that and 2 Peter 2, 15 to 16 talks about the fact that, let me just read that verse. They are forsaken the right way. It talks about people who, false teachers, those who fall in, those who fall down and the character of those who are covetous and so on. It says, they are forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balak, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. And then goes on to how he was rebuked. So we see such people, Gehazi. Again, we know that he went after the riches, the rewards that Nehman brought for the Prophet, like he went after and he desired it and how he, he was struck down with leprosy and so on. So Deimos, Paul writes to Timothy and says, there he is forsaken for the world. He has left me. Judas is carried again, you know, denying and also doing, making that choice of turning over the Lord to the Jewish authorities for those pieces of silver. So time and again, we see that that God wanting to bless, wanting to prosper, because it is the very nature of God Himself. We look at, you know, Obed Eidem, we read about that. I'm not going into the details, you know, you can go through these scriptures and you see that we begin to understand what God does. We begin to understand that it's the very nature of God. You know, Elisha and the jars of oil, the supernatural God wanting to provide for those needs in the widow's life. This is what we see. Let's go down to 2 Kings 4 and verse 5. It says, so she went from him, shut the door. What was the instruction? Bring those vessels and there'll be the supernatural flow of oil and do not gather just a few. He says, take all the vessels and, you know, this is what you need to do. It came to pass with the vessels were full, verse 6, that she said to her son, bring another vessel. And he said to her, there is not another vessel, so the oil ceased. But the implication is that it would have been a never-ending supply, you know, which again talks about who made this happen. We sometimes, you know, we don't think about that, you know, who is it who made this happen? It is God. It is not a manipulation of man. It is God who made this happen. And the thing is he made it happen in such a way, the way he planned it, the way he designed it was that it would go on. You know, that's his heart. That is the very nature of God, right? There is not another vessel. He said to her, there is not another vessel, so the oil ceased. So the very nature of God in displaying the supernatural is to prosper, is to bring an increase. So the catch of fish when Peter is talking to the Lord and he has tried all night, he has not caught any fish and here he is and the Lord says, you let down your net for the catch. And that catch is nearly breaks the net, nearly sinks the boat, right? That's what we see in verses 6 and 7, if you read the last two verses. So this is the nature of the Lord's miraculous work, supernatural work, that the net was breaking, it says. And it says, they filled both boats so that they began to sink. It is more than enough, it's more than enough, it's overflowing, abundant. So that's the kind of thing that we see, the heart with which God gives, right? The heart with which God gives. So we may have grown up, not experiencing that. We may have grown up not really having this picture of God, of being a generous Heavenly Father, one who wants to provide for, maybe because that picture we didn't have because of earthly fathers who are, earthly fathers are not perfect. They might be great fathers, but they're not perfect. Maybe they were deficient in some ways, whatever. But our Heavenly Father, he's so loving, so kind, so generous and just want to close with this scripture again, 1st Timothy 6 and verse 17, command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, not to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God. So this is Paul, he has experienced this living God, he has this encounter with the living God and he's giving this command, hey, don't be prideful, don't be full of pride because of riches, don't put your trust in those riches. He has encountered this living God, he's encountered this God who richly gives all things. So he's saying it's illogical to trust in riches because one day it'll be there, one day at the next day it may not be there. And also it's pointless to be proud above because of the accumulation of wealth because it is a God who richly gives all things. And it is grace which makes sure that provides for our needs. So it's pointless to be proud of accumulation of wealth, but the fact is that God gives us richly all things to enjoy. So when our heart is in the right place then we will actually truly enjoy wealth, enjoy being generous, enjoy even spending it on ourselves, enjoy using it for the extension of God's kingdom. Okay, so we'll stop here, you can just go through the notes and I would say more than anything, just spend time just meditating on what we have seen and say, okay God, I need to change, I need to change my perspective about money, I need to change my, for me personally it was a difficult thing because for me I had to hold on to it because that's how I grew up not having much. But for me it was a paradigm shift because for me to know that God is the one who richly gives, God is a provider, he's not holding back, he's generous, he will take you through. It was very liberating, very life-changing and I hope that you experience the same thing as scripture just transforms your thinking and liberates you as you understand more and more about God's generous nature and God's perspective about wealth and prosperity. Okay, so we'll stop there, we'll meet again next week, God bless you guys, bye-bye.