I'm not a Biblical scholar, but anyone teaching that if you are poor, then you are not living up to God's plan for your life is suspect to me. So is teaching that pursuing wealth because God told you to, encouraging people to give money to ministries in exchange for a promise to deliver intercessory prayer to "deliver" people from poverty and/or debt, or seeking favor from God solely in the form of material goods. Remember, God tells us plainly that there are false teachers out there, and in my mind, anyone flossin' on the backs of their struggling congregants is definitely a suspect.
I do not believe that poverty is a sign of salvation and/or level of commitment to God. However, it is EXTREMELY hard to put God first and make the pursuit of wealth second. Our world isn't designed like that. Money is an easier master to serve than our God, unfortunately.
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