God desires that His people be blessed in order to bless others.   Because God has promised to bless us abundantly, we should be a blessing to others.  The more you bless other people and the more you help others, the more God blesses your life.  Luke tells us, “Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back–given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity” (Luke 6:38 MSG)

Here are some bible verses (scriptures) to build our faith in God’s desire to prosper us and give us success.

Psalm 35:27 (NKJV)
Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, “Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”

Psalm 68:19 (NKJV)
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation! Selah.

Comment: Selah means “think about this” or “think on this”.

Genesis 12:2-3
NKJV – [And God said to Abraham]  ² I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. ³ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
NLT –  ² I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. ³ I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.
AMP – ² And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you [abundantly], and make your name great (exalted, distinguished); And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others];  ³ And I will bless (do good for, benefit) those who bless you, and I will curse [that is, subject to My wrath and judgment] the one who curses (despises, dishonors, has contempt for) you.  And in you all the families (nations) of the earth will be blessed.

Comment: God wants you to be willing and obedient to be a blessing to others. This means that if God wants you to give away something you own, like things or money, you need to be obedient to give it away. Likewise, if someone wants to give you something, don’t turn them away. You also need to be obedient to receive it. After all, you don’t want to block God’s blessing of them for giving it to you!

Genesis 12:5 (NLT)
He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan.

Genesis 13:2 (AMP)
Now Abram was extremely rich in livestock and in silver and in gold.

Genesis 13:5 (NLT)
Lot, who was traveling with Abram, had also become very wealthy with flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and many tents.

Genesis 15:13-14 (NCV)
¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land, taking great wealth with them.

Genesis 24:35
AMP –  The Lord has greatly blessed my master [Abraham], and he has become great (wealthy, powerful); He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.
NLT –  And the Lord has greatly blessed my master; he has become a wealthy man. The Lord has given him flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, a fortune in silver and gold, and many male and female servants and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 26:1-5 (AMP)
Now there was a famine in the land [of Canaan], besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines. ² The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I will tell you. ³ Live temporarily [as a resident] in this land and I will be with you and will bless and favor you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish and carry out the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. ⁴ I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, ⁵ because Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and [consistently] kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Genesis 26:12-14
NKJV –  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. 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.
NLT – When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him.  He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow.  He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
MSG – Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. God blessed him. The man got richer and richer by the day until he was very wealthy. He accumulated flocks and herds and many, many servants, so much so that the Philistines began to envy him.

Genesis 26:16 (TLB)
And King Abimelech asked Isaac to leave the country. “Go somewhere else,” he said, “for you have become too rich and powerful for us.”

Genesis 26:19-22 (GNT)
¹⁹ Isaac’s servants dug a well in the valley and found water. ²⁰ The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s shepherds and said, “This water belongs to us.” So Isaac named the well “Quarrel.”
²¹ Isaac’s servants dug another well, and there was a quarrel about that one also, so he named it “Enmity.” ²² He moved away from there and dug another well. There was no dispute about this one, so he named it “Freedom.” He said, “Now the Lord has given us freedom to live in the land, and we will be prosperous here.”

Genesis 30:27; 29-30 (NLT)
²⁷ “Please listen to me,” Laban replied. “I have become wealthy, for the Lord has blessed me because of you. [Laban speaking to Jacob after Jacob expressed a desire to leave with his family after working for Laban for 14 years.]  ²⁹ Jacob replied, “You know how hard I’ve worked for you, and how your flocks and herds have grown under my care. ³⁰ You had little indeed before I came, but your wealth has increased enormously. The Lord has blessed you through everything I’ve done.”

Genesis 30:43 (NLT)
NLT – As a result, Jacob became very wealthy, with large flocks of sheep and goats, female and male servants, and many camels and donkeys.
AMP – So Jacob became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks [of sheep and goats], and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31:40-42 (NLT)
[Jacob speaking to Laban after Jacob flees from Laban and Laban catches up to him.]  ⁴⁰ “I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights. ⁴¹ Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times! ⁴² In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”

Genesis 32:9-10 (NLT)
⁹ Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my grandfather Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac—O Lord, you told me, ‘Return to your own land and to your relatives.’ And you promised me, ‘I will treat you kindly.’ ¹⁰ I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps!

Genesis 33:8-11 (MSG)
⁸ Esau then asked, “And what was the meaning of all those herds that I met?”
“I was hoping that they would pave the way for my master to welcome me.”
⁹ Esau said, “Oh, brother. I have plenty of everything—keep what is yours for yourself.”
^10-11 Jacob said, “Please. If you can find it in your heart to welcome me, accept these gifts. When I saw your face, it was as the face of God smiling on me. Accept the gifts I have brought for you. God has been good to me and I have more than enough.” Jacob urged the gifts on him and Esau accepted.

Genesis 39:2-5 (NIV)
² The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. ³ When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, ⁴ Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. ⁵ From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. ⁶ So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Genesis 39:19-23 (NIV)
¹⁹ When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. ²⁰ Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.  But while Joseph was there in the prison, ²¹ the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. ²² So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. ²³ The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

Genesis 45:1-11; 17-20
¹Then Joseph could not control himself [any longer] in front of all those who attended him, and he called out, “Have everyone leave me.” So no man stood there when Joseph revealed himself to his brothers. ²Joseph wept aloud, and the Egyptians [who had just left him] heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it. ³ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers were speechless, for they were stunned and dismayed by [the fact that they were in] Joseph’s presence.
⁴And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come closer to me.” And they approached him. And he said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. ⁵Now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to save life and preserve our family. ⁶For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five more years in which there will be no plowing and harvesting. ⁷God sent me [to Egypt] ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great escape. ⁸ So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁹Hurry and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘Your son Joseph says this to you: “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰You shall live in the land of Goshen [the best pasture land of Egypt], and you shall be close to me—you and your children and your grandchildren, your flocks and your herds and all you have. ¹¹There I will provide for you and sustain you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not become impoverished, for there are still five years of famine to come.”’  ¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and return to the land of Canaan [without delay], ¹⁸ and get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat (the finest produce) of the land.’ ¹⁹ Now you [brothers of Joseph] are ordered [by Pharaoh], ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come. ²⁰ Do not be concerned with your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

Exodus 3:21-22 (AMP)
[God speaking to Moses] “²¹ And I will grant this people favor and respect in the sight of the Egyptians; therefore, it shall be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed. ²² But every woman shall [insistently] ask her neighbor and any woman who lives in her house, for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and daughters. In this way you are to plunder the Egyptians [leaving bondage with great possessions that are rightfully yours].”

Exodus 12:35-36 (NKJV)
The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

Leviticus 26:3-5; 9-12 (NLT)
³ “If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, ⁴ I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ⁵ Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.
⁹ “I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you. ¹⁰ You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!  [You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new] ¹¹ I will live among you, and I will not despise you. ¹² I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.”

Numbers 10:29-32 (GNT)
²⁹ Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab son of Jethro the Midianite, “We are about to start out for the place which the Lord said he would give us. He has promised to make Israel prosperous, so come with us, and we will share our prosperity with you.”
³⁰ Hobab answered, “No, I am going back to my native land.”
³¹ “Please don’t leave us,” Moses said. “You know where we can camp in the wilderness, and you can be our guide. ³² If you come with us, we will share with you all the blessings that the Lord gives us.”

Deuteronomy 1:11 (NIV)
May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised!

Deuteronomy 1:21 (AMP)
Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.

Deuteronomy 2:7 (NASB)
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wandering through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked anything.

Deuteronomy 5:32-33 (NLT)
So Moses told the people, “You must be careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God, following his instructions in every detail. Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy.

Deuteronomy 6:1-13 (NKJV)
¹“Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, ² that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. ³ Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’
⁴ “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! ⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
⁶ “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
¹⁰ “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, ¹¹ houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full— ¹² then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ¹³ You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.

Comment: In verse 11, it speaks of having houses full of all good things, which they did not fill. First of all, note that they have houses given to them. Second, note that they have “things” in their houses. Third, their homes are filled with these things. The Hebrew word for “fill” in this verse means “to be full, fullness, abundance, to be filled, be satisfied, to be complete, to have wholly”.

Deuteronomy 6:24 (NIV)
Before our eyes the Lord sent signs and wonders—great and terrible—on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. ²³ But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. ²⁴ The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

Deuteronomy 8:18
NKJV –  And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
NLT –  Remember the Lord your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful, in order to fulfill the covenant he confirmed to your ancestors with an oath.
AMP –  But you shall remember [with profound respect] the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore (solemnly promised) to your fathers, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 8 (NKJV)
“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. ² And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. ⁴ Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ⁵ You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
⁶ “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷ For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ¹⁰ When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, ¹² lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴ when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; ¹⁵ who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— ¹⁷ then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. ²⁰ As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 15:6 (NKJV)
For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 (AMP)
Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.  All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:8 (NLT)
The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain.  The Lord your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:11
AMP – The Lord will give you great prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
AMPC – And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 28:12 (AMP)
The Lord will open for you His good treasure house, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 29:9 (AMP)
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may deal wisely and prosper in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 30:2-3 (NLT)
² If at that time you and your children return to the Lord your God, and if you obey with all your heart and all your soul all the commands I have given you today, ³ then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes.

Deuteronomy 30:5 (NLT)
The Lord your God will return you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will possess that land again. Then he will make you even more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors!

Deuteronomy 30:8-10 (NIV)
⁸ You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. ⁹ Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, ¹⁰ if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (GWT)
¹⁵ Today I offer you life and prosperity or death and destruction. ¹⁶ This is what I’m commanding you today: Love the Lord your God, follow his directions, and obey his commands, laws, and rules. Then you will live, your population will increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you’re about to enter and take possession of.
¹⁷ But your hearts might turn away, and you might not listen. You might be tempted to bow down to other gods and worship them. ¹⁸ If you do, I tell you today that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live for a long time in the land that you’re going to take possession of when you cross the Jordan River.
¹⁹ I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live. ²⁰ Love the Lord your God, obey him, and be loyal to him.

Joshua 1:7 (AMP)
Only you be strong and very courageous, that you may do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.

Joshua 1:8 (AMP)
This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.

Joshua 22:7-8 (AMP)
⁷ Now to the one-half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them, ⁸ and he said to them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers (fellow tribesmen).”

2 Samuel 5:12 (GNT)
And so David realized that the Lord had established him as king of Israel and was making his kingdom prosperous for the sake of his people.

2 Samuel 12:7-8 (TLB)
⁷  Then Nathan said to David, “You are that rich man! The Lord God of Israel says, ‘I made you king of Israel and saved you from the power of Saul. ⁸ I gave you his palace and his wives and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you much, much more.

1 Kings 2:3 (AMP)
Keep the charge of the Lord your God, walk in His ways, keep His statutes, His commandments, His precepts, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may do wisely and prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.

1 Kings 3:5-14 (NKJV)
⁵ At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”|
⁶ And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. ⁷ Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. ⁸ And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. ⁹ Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”
¹⁰ The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ¹¹ Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. ¹³ And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. ¹⁴ So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

1 Kings 8:1-2, 54-61, 65-66 (GW)
¹ Then Solomon assembled the respected leaders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the Israelite families. They came to King Solomon in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord’s promise from the City of David (that is, Zion). ² All the people of Israel gathered around King Solomon at the Festival of Booths in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.
⁵⁴ When Solomon finished praying this prayer for mercy to the Lord, he stood in front of the Lord’s altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands stretched out toward heaven. ⁵⁵ Then he stood and in a loud voice blessed the entire assembly of Israel, ⁵⁶ “Thanks be to the Lord! He has given his people Israel rest, as he had promised. None of the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed to come true. ⁵⁷ May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us. ⁵⁸ May he bend our hearts toward him. Then we will follow him and keep his commands, laws, and rules, which he commanded our ancestors to keep. ⁵⁹ May these words which I have prayed to the Lord be near the Lord our God day and night. Then he will give me and his people Israel justice every day as it is needed. ⁶⁰ In this way all the people of the world will know that the Lord is God and there is no other God. ⁶¹ May your hearts be committed to the Lord our God. Then you will live by his laws and keep his commands as you have today.”
⁶⁵ At that time Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Booths. A large crowd had come from the territory between the border of Hamath and the River of Egypt to be near the Lord our God for seven days.  ⁶⁶ On the eighth day he dismissed the people. They blessed the king and went to their tents. They rejoiced with cheerful hearts for all the blessings the Lord had given his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Kings 10:4-10 (NKJV)
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, ⁵ the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his waiters and their apparel, his cupbearers, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. ⁶ Then she said to the king: “It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. ⁷ However I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame of which I heard. ⁸ Happy are your men and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom! ⁹ Blessed be the Lord your God, who delighted in you, setting you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord has loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”  ¹⁰ Then she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great quantity, and precious stones. There never again came such abundance of spices as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14-15 (NKJV)
¹⁴ The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ¹⁵ besides that from the traveling merchants, from the income of traders, from all the kings of Arabia, and from the governors of the country.

1 Kings 10:23-25 (AMP)
King Solomon was wiser and richer than all the kings of the earth—he surpassed them all. People came from all over the world to be with Solomon and drink in the wisdom God had given him. And everyone who came brought gifts—artifacts of gold and silver, fashionable robes and gowns, the latest in weapons, exotic spices, and horses and mules—parades of visitors, year after year.

1 Kings 17:1-16 (NLT)
¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the ⁱnhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.”  ² Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ³ “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. ⁴ And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”  ⁵ So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. ⁶ The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. ⁷ And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁹ “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” ¹¹ And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”  ¹² So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”  ¹³ And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. ¹⁴ For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ ”  ¹⁵ So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. ¹⁶ The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.

Comment:  This is truly a miracle that they had enough provision to last them until the end of the drought.  This woman was willing to take in a man of God.  And, if you note, she only had enough left for one last meal, but Elijah asked her to give him something first.  She gave him the first portion of what she had remaining, and then God blessed her by insuring she had a continual source of food and provision.

2 Kings 4:1-7 (NLT)
¹ One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”  ² “What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?”  “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied.  ³ And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. ⁴ Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.”  ⁵ So she did as she was told. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. ⁶ Soon every container was full to the brim!  “Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons.  “There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing.  ⁷ When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what is left over.”

Comment:  What a miracle of God!  Can you imagine pouring oil from a flask into jars, and seeing that the oil keeps flowing until you run out of jars?  That must have been quite a lot of oil if they could not only pay off their debts, but live on what was left over!  When did the oil stop flowing?  It stopped when the woman ran out of jars.  If she had more jars, would the oil keep flowing?  Yes.  Sometimes when we are in difficult situations, all we need is a word or idea from God to not only get us out of our situation, but to prosper us!

2 Kings 18:5-7 (NLT)
⁵ Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before or after his time. ⁶ He remained faithful to the Lord in everything, and he carefully obeyed all the commands the Lord had given Moses. ⁷ So the Lord was with him, and Hezekiah was successful in everything he did.

1 Chronicles 4:10 (AMP)
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would indeed bless me and enlarge my border [property], and that Your hand would be with me, and You would keep me from evil so that it does not hurt me!” And God granted his request.

1 Chronicles 14:2 (GNT)
And so David realized that the Lord had established him as king of Israel and was making his kingdom prosperous for the sake of his people.

1 Chronicles 22:11-16 (AMP)
[David speaking to his son, Soloman]  ¹¹ Now, my son, may the Lord be with you so that you may be successful and build the house of the Lord your God, just as He has spoken concerning you. ¹² Only may the Lord give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God. ¹³ Then you will prosper, if you are careful to observe and fulfill the statutes and ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed. ¹⁴ Now listen, with great trouble I have prepared and provided for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for they are great in quantity. I have also prepared and provided timber and stone, and you may add to them. ¹⁵ Further, you have workmen in abundance: stonecutters and stonemasons and carpenters, and all men who are skillful in every kind of work. ¹⁶ As for the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no limit. So arise and begin working, and may the Lord be with you.”

1 Chronicles 29:10-16
AMP –  ¹⁰ Therefore David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly and said, “Blessed (praised, adored, and thanked) are You, O Lord God of Israel (Jacob) our father, forever and ever. ¹¹ Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion and kingdom, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. ¹² Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand is power and might; and it is in Your hands to make great and to give strength to everyone. ¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name.
¹⁴ “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You. ¹⁵ For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining]. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy Name, it is from Your hand, and is all Your own.
TLB –  ¹⁰ While still in the presence of the whole assembly, David expressed his praises to the Lord: “O Lord God of our father Israel, praise your name forever and ever! ¹¹ Yours is the mighty power and glory and victory and majesty. Everything in the heavens and earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as being in control of everything. ¹² Riches and honor come from you alone, and you are the ruler of all mankind; your hand controls power and might, and it is at your discretion that men are made great and given strength. ¹³ O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name, ¹⁴ but who am I and who are my people that we should be permitted to give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we only give you what is yours already!  ¹⁵ For we are here for but a moment, strangers in the land as our fathers were before us; our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon, without a trace. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, all of this material that we have gathered to build a temple for your holy name comes from you! It all belongs to you!

2 Chronicles 1:12 (KJV)
Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

2 Chronicles 7:8-10 GW
⁸ At that time Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Booths. A very large crowd had come from the territory between the border of Hamath and the River of Egypt. ⁹ On the eighth day there was an assembly. They had observed the dedication of the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for another seven days. ¹⁰ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon dismissed the people to their tents. They rejoiced with cheerful hearts for all the blessings the Lord had given David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:11-14 (GNT)
¹¹ After King Solomon had finished the Temple and the palace, successfully completing all his plans for them, ¹² the Lord appeared to him at night. He said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and I accept this Temple as the place where sacrifices are to be offered to me. ¹³ Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, ¹⁴ if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.”

2 Chronicles 9:13-14 (GNT)
Every year King Solomon received over twenty-five tons of gold, in addition to the taxes paid by the traders and merchants. The kings of Arabia and the governors of the Israelite districts also brought him silver and gold.

2 Chronicles 14:2-6 (NIV)
² [King] Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. ³ He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. ⁴ He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands. ⁵ He removed the high places and incense altars in every town in Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him. ⁶ He built up the fortified cities of Judah, since the land was at peace. No one was at war with him during those years, for the Lord gave him rest.
⁷ “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

Comment:  The word “prospered” in verse 7 means to advance, prosper, make progress, succeed, be profitable, to show or experience prosperity, to cause to prosper.

2 Chronicles 17:3-6 (AMP)
³ The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father (ancestor) David. He did not seek [to follow] the Baals [the false gods], ⁴ but sought the God of his father, and walked in (obeyed) His commandments, and did not act as Israel did. ⁵ Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honor [riches and honor in abundance]. ⁶ His heart was encouraged and he took great pride in the ways of the Lord; moreover, he again removed the high places [of pagan worship] and the Asherim from Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:20 (NKJV)
So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.

2 Chronicles 25:5-10 (NIV)
Amaziah [the King] called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the Lord is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim.
Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.”
Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?”
The man of God replied, “The Lord can give you much more than that.”
So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home.

Comment: The Greek word for “much more” is “rabah”, which has the following meanings:

• To be or become great, be or become much, be or become numerous
• To multiply, increase
• To increase greatly or exceedingly
• To make great, enlarge, do much

Comment: Amaziah asks the question about the money spent. In today’s dollars, the estimated price he paid is over $1 million, if not closer to $1.5 million. Instead of immediately being obedient and trusting God, Amaziah asked the question from a perspective of having a poverty spirit. In this case, God can reverse your loss, even if it was a mistake!

2 Chronicles 25:9 (ISV)
Amaziah asked the man of God, “What are we to do about the 100 talents that I have paid to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD has a lot more than that to give you!”

2 Chronicles 26:5 (AMP)
³ Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem. ⁴ He did right in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with everything that his father Amaziah had done. ⁵ He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding ^[a]through the vision of God; and as long as he sought (inquired of, longing for) the Lord, God caused him to prosper.

2 Chronicles 31:3-10 (AMP)
³ Hezekiah also appointed the king’s [personal] portion of his goods: for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and for the New Moons and for the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the Lord. ⁴ He also told (ordered) the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion that was due to the priests and Levites, so that they might [be free to] devote themselves to the Law of the Lord. ⁵ As soon as the king’s order spread, the Israelites gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, [olive] oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in the tithe of everything abundantly. ⁶ The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of sacred gifts which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and placed them in heaps. ⁷ In the third month [at the end of wheat harvest] they began to make the heaps, and they finished them in the seventh month. ⁸ When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel. ⁹ Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps. ¹⁰ Azariah the high priest of the house of Zadok answered him, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over.”

Comment:  Here’s verse 10 in the NKJV:
And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.”

2 Chronicles 31:21 (AMP)
And every work that Hezekiah began in the service of the house of God, in keeping with the law and the commandments to seek his God [inquiring of and yearning for Him], he did with all his heart, and he prospered.

2 Chronicles 32:27-30 (NLT)
²⁷ Hezekiah was very wealthy and highly honored.  He built special treasury buildings for his silver, gold, precious stones, and spices, and for his shields and other valuable items. ²⁸ He also constructed many storehouses for his grain, new wine, and olive oil; and he made many stalls for his cattle and pens for his flocks of sheep and goats. ²⁹ He built many towns and acquired vast flocks and herds, for God had given him great wealth. ³⁰ He blocked up the upper spring of Gihon and brought the water down through a tunnel to the west side of the City of David. And so he succeeded in everything he did.

Nehemiah 2:20 (KJV)
So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us…

Nehemiah 9:6, 24-25 (NLT)
⁶You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you.
²² “Then you helped our ancestors conquer kingdoms and nations, and you placed your people in every corner of the land. They took over the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan. ²³ You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors. ²⁴ They went in and took possession of the land. You subdued whole nations before them. Even the Canaanites, who inhabited the land, were powerless! Your people could deal with these nations and their kings as they pleased. ²⁵ Our ancestors captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took over houses full of good things, with cisterns already dug and vineyards and olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate until they were full and grew fat and enjoyed themselves in all your blessings.

Job 8:7
Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

Job 22:21
Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.

Job 36:11 (AMP)
If they hear and serve Him, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness and joy.

Job 42:10 (AMP)
The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:12 (AMP)
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He had seven sons and three daughters.

Psalm 1:1-3 (AMP)
Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example], nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of scoffers (ridiculers).
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night. And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season; Its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.

Psalm 5:12 (AMP)
For You, O Lord, bless the righteous man [the one who is in right standing with You];
You surround him with favor as with a shield.

Psalm 20:4-5 (NIV)
⁴ May He [the Lord] give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
⁵ May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your requests.

Psalm 23:1; 6
AMP –  ¹The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, to guide and to shield me], I shall not want.  ⁶ Surely goodness and mercy and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell forever [throughout all my days] in the house and in the presence of the Lord.
NLV –  ¹The Lord is my Shepherd. I will have everything I need.
⁶ For sure, You will give me goodness and loving-kindness all the days of my life. Then I will live with You in Your house forever.

Psalm 23:5 NLT
You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies.  You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings.

Comment:  The phrase “overflows with blessings” in Psalm 23:5 is the word “rĕvayah”, which means “satisfaction:—runneth over, wealthy”.  This word is used one other time in the Old Testament, in Psalm 66:12.

Psalm 25:1; 4-15 (NIV)
¹ In you, Lord my God, I put my trust.  ⁴ Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. ⁵ Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.  ⁶ Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.  ⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.  ⁸ Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.  ⁹ He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.  ¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.  ¹¹ For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.  ¹² Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?  He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
¹³ They will spend their days in prosperity, and their descendants will inherit the land. ¹⁴ The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. ¹⁵ My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.

COMMENT:  In verses 12 and 14, the word “fear” is the Greek word yare’, which also means reverent (feeling or showing deep and solemn respect).

Psalm 33:12 (TPT)
Blessed and prosperous is that nation who has God as their Lord! They will be the people he has chosen for his own.

Psalm 34:8-10 (AMP)
⁸ O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good; How blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who takes refuge in Him.
⁹ O [reverently] fear the Lord, you His saints (believers, holy ones); For to those who fear Him there is no want.
¹⁰ The young lions lack [food] and grow hungry, but they who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.

Psalm 35:27 (NKJV)
Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, “Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”

Psalm 36:7-10 (NLV)
⁷ Of what great worth is Your loving-kindness, O God! The children of men come and are safe in the shadow of Your wings.  ⁸ They are filled with the riches of Your house.  And You give them a drink from Your river of joy.  ⁹ All life came from You. In Your light we see light.  ¹⁰ Keep on giving Your loving-kindness to those who know You. Keep on being right and good to the pure in heart.

Psalm 37:3-5
NKJV –  ³ Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.  ⁴ Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.  ⁵ Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
TLB –  ³ Trust in the Lord instead. Be kind and good to others; then you will live safely here in the land and prosper, feeding in safety. ⁴ Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart’s desires. ⁵ Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it, and he will.

Psalm 37:11 (NKJV)
But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.

Psalm 37:3-11 (AMP)
Trust [rely on and have confidence] in the Lord and do good; Dwell in the land and feed [securely] on His faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.  Commit your way to the Lord; Trust in Him also and He will do it.  He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light, and your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun]. Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him; Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.  Cease from anger and abandon wrath; Do not fret; it leads only to evil.  For those who do evil will be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land. For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever]; Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found]. But the humble will inherit the land and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity and peace.

Psalm 37:18-19 NIV
¹⁸ The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever. ¹⁹ In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.

Psalm 37:21 (NIV)
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously.

Psalm 37:22 (NLT)
Those the Lord blesses will possess the land

Psalm 37:25-26
AMP –  ²⁵ I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned or his descendants pleading for bread.  ²⁶ All day long he is gracious and lends, and his descendants are a blessing.
NIV –  ²⁵ I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.  ²⁶ They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing.

Psalm 37:34 (NKJV)
Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land.

Psalm 37:37 (TPT)
But you can tell who are the blameless and spiritually mature. What a different story with them! The godly ones will have a peaceful, prosperous future with a happy ending.

Psalm 41:1-2 (NLT)
¹ Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor! The Lord rescues them when they are in trouble.  ² The Lord protects them and keeps them alive.  He gives them prosperity in the land and rescues them from their enemies.

Psalm 49:16 (NKJV)
Do not be afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house is increased.

Psalm 62:10 (NLV)
Do not get money in a wrong way or be proud in stolen things.  If you get more riches, do not set your heart on them.

Psalms 65:11 (NLT)
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.

Psalm 67:5-7 (AMP)
⁵ May the nations praise you, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise you.
⁶ Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God, our God, will richly bless us.
⁷ Yes, God will bless us, and people all over the world will fear him [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

Psalm 66:12
KJV – Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
NLT – Then you put a leader over us.  We went through fire and flood, but you brought us to a place of great abundance.

Psalm 68:5-6 (TPT)
To the fatherless he is a father. To the widow he is a champion friend. To the lonely he gives a family. To the prisoners he leads into prosperity until they sing for joy. This is our Holy God in his Holy Place!

Psalm 68:19 (NKJV)
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation! Selah.

Psalm 72:1-3 (TPT)
¹ O God, make the king a godly judge like you and give the king’s son the gift of justice too.  ² Help him to give true justice to your people, honorably and equally to all.  ³ Then the mountains of influence will be fruitful, and from your righteousness prosperity and peace will flow to all the people.

Psalm 84:11-12 (AMP)
¹¹ For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows grace and favor and honor; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
¹² O Lord of hosts, how blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, relying on You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectation].

Psalm 85:1 (NLT)
Lord, you poured out blessings on your land!  You restored the fortunes of Israel.

Psalm 85:12
NLT – Yes, the Lord pours down his blessings. Our land will yield its bountiful harvest.
TPT – Yes, the Lord keeps raining down blessing after blessing, and prosperity will drench the land with a bountiful harvest.
GNT – The Lord will make us prosperous, and our land will produce rich harvests.

Psalm 92:12-14 (AMP)
The righteous will flourish like the date palm [long-lived, upright and useful]; They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic and stable]. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. Growing in grace] they will still thrive and bear fruit and prosper in old age; They will flourish and be vital and fresh [rich in trust and love and contentment];

Psalm 103: 1-5 (AMP)
¹ Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is [deep] within me, bless His holy name. ² Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget any of His benefits;  ³ Who forgives all your sins, Who heals all your diseases;  ⁴ Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you [lavishly] with lovingkindness and tender mercy; ⁵ Who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the [soaring] eagle.

Psalm 104:1-2, 13-15, 24-25, 28, 33-34 GW
¹ Praise the Lord, my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with splendor and majesty. ² You cover yourself with light as though it were a robe. You stretch out the heavens as though they were curtains.
¹³ You water the mountains from your home above. You fill the earth with the fruits of your labors. ¹⁴ You make grass grow for cattle and make vegetables for humans to use in order to get food from the ground. ¹⁵ You make wine to cheer human hearts, olive oil to make faces shine,
and bread to strengthen human hearts.
²⁴ What a large number of things you have made, O Lord! You made them all by wisdom.  The earth is filled with your creatures.
²⁵ The sea is so big and wide with countless creatures, living things both large and small. ²⁶ Ships sail on it, and Leviathan, which you made, plays in it. ²⁷ All of them look to you to give them their food at the right time.
²⁸ You give it to them, and they gather it up. You open your hand, and they are filled with blessings.
³³ I will sing to the Lord throughout my life. I will make music to praise my God as long as I live. ³⁴ May my thoughts be pleasing to him. I will find joy in the Lord.

Psalm 105:37 (NKJV)
He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.

Psalm 107:9 (NIV-84)
He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Psalm 107:31-33, 35-38 (TPT)
³¹ So lift your hands and give thanks to God for his marvelous kindness and for his miracles of mercy for those he loves!  ³² Let’s exalt him on high and lift up our praises in public; let all the people and the leaders of the nation know how great and wonderful is Yahweh, our God!  ³³ Whenever he chooses he can dry up a river and turn the land into a desert.  ³⁵ But he also can turn a barren wilderness into an oasis with water.  He can make springs flow into desert lands ³⁶ and turn them into fertile valleys so that cities spring up, and he gives it all to those who are hungry. ³⁷ They can plant their fields and vineyards there and reap a bumper crop and gather a fruitful harvest.  ³⁸ God will bless them and cause them to multiply and prosper.

Psalm 107:43 GW
Let those who think they are wise pay attention to these things so that they may understand the Lord’s blessings.

Psalm 112:1-5 (AMP)
¹ Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)  Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who fears the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and worships Him with obedience], who delights greatly in His commandments.
² His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed.
³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
⁴ Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).
⁵ It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 112-1-9
NLT – ¹ Praise the Lord! How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight in obeying his commands.  ² Their children will be successful everywhere; an entire generation of godly people will be blessed.  ³ They themselves will be wealthy, and their good deeds will last forever.  ⁴ Light shines in the darkness for the godly. They are generous, compassionate, and righteous.  ⁵ Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly.  ⁶ Such people will not be overcome by evil. Those who are righteous will be long remembered.  ⁷ They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them.  ⁸ They are confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly.  ⁹ They share freely and give generously to those in need. Their good deeds will be remembered forever. They will have influence and honor.
TPT – ¹ Shout in celebration of praise to the Lord! Everyone who loves the Lord and delights in him will cherish his words and be blessed beyond expectation. ² Their descendants will be prosperous and influential. Every generation of his godly lovers will experience his favor. ³ Great blessing and wealth fills the house of the wise, for their integrity endures forever. ⁴ Even if darkness overtakes them, sunrise-brilliance will come bursting through because they are gracious to others, so tender and true. ⁵ Life is good for the one who is generous and charitable, conducting affairs with honesty and truth.  ⁶ Their circumstances will never shake them and others will never forget their example. ⁷ They will not live in fear or dread of what may come, for their hearts are firm, ever secure in their faith.  ⁸ Steady and strong, they will not be afraid, but will calmly face their every foe until they all go down in defeat. ⁹ Never stingy and always generous to those in need, their lives of influence and honor will never be forgotten, for they were full of good deeds.

Psalm 113-2-8 (AMP)
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever. From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised [with awe-inspired reverence]. The Lord is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, Who is enthroned on high, who humbles Himself to regard the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, that He may seat them with princes, with the princes of His people.

Psalm 115:11-16
AMP – ¹¹ You who [reverently] fear the Lord, trust in Lord; He is their help and their shield.  ¹² The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless, He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.  ¹³ He will bless those who fear and worship the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder], both the small and the great.  ¹⁴ May the Lord give you [great] increase, you and your children.  ¹⁵ May you be blessed of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.  ¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the children of men.
KJV – ¹¹ Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.  ¹² The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.  ¹³ He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.  ¹⁴ The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.  ¹⁵ Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 116:12 (AMP)
What will I give to the Lord [in return] for all His benefits toward me? [How can I repay Him for His precious blessings?]

Psalm 118:24-25 (AMP)
This is the day which the Lord has brought about; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, we beseech You, O Lord; send now prosperity, O Lord, we beseech You, and give to us success!

Psalm 119:40-41 GW
⁴⁰ I long for your guiding principles. Give me a new life in your righteousness.
⁴¹ Let your blessings reach me, O Lord. Save me as you promised.

Psalm 122:6-9 (NKJV)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels.” For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.” For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Psalm 126:3-4 (NLT)
³ Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us! What joy! ⁴ Restore our fortunes, Lord, as streams renew the desert.

Psalm 128:1-2 (NKJV)
Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Psalm 144:15 (AMP)
Happy and blessed are the people who are in such a case; yes, happy (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, to be envied) are the people whose God is the Lord!

Psalm 145:15-16 (NKJV)
The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season. You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Psalm 145:18-19 (AMP)
¹⁸ The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth.
¹⁹ He will fulfill the desires of those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him; He also will hear their cry and will save them.

Proverbs 3:1-2 (NKJV)
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.

Proverbs 3:6 (TLB)
In everything you do, put God first, and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success.

Proverbs 3:9-10 (AMP)
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your crops (income); Then your barns will be abundantly filled and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Proverbs 3:1-10 (TLB)
^1-2 My son, never forget the things I’ve taught you. If you want a long and satisfying life, closely follow my instructions. ³ Never tire of loyalty and kindness. Hold these virtues tightly. Write them deep within your heart. ^4-5 If you want favor with both God and man, and a reputation for good judgment and common sense, then trust the Lord completely; don’t ever trust yourself. ⁶ In everything you do, put God first, and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success. ^7-8 Don’t be conceited, sure of your own wisdom. Instead, trust and reverence the Lord, and turn your back on evil; when you do that, then you will be given renewed health and vitality. ^9-10 Honor the Lord by giving him the first part of all your income, and he will fill your barns with wheat and barley and overflow your wine vats with the finest wines.

Proverbs 8:17-21 (NKJV)
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. Riches and honor are with me, Enduring riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver. I traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice, that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.

Proverbs 8:32 (AMP)
Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,
For blessed [happy, prosperous, to be admired] are they who keep my ways.

Proverbs 10:22 (NLT)
The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Comment: The Greek word for “rich” is “ashar”, which means to be or become rich or wealthy or to gain riches.

Proverbs 11:24
NLT – Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything.
TPT – Generosity brings prosperity, but withholding from charity brings poverty.

Proverbs 11:25
NLT – The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
MSG – The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped.
AMP – The generous man [is a source of blessing and] shall be prosperous and enriched,
And he who waters will himself be watered [reaping the generosity he has sown].

Proverbs 13:13 (MSG)
Ignore the Word and suffer; honor God’s commands and grow rich.

Proverbs 13:21 (TPT)
Calamity chases the sin-chaser, but prosperity pursues the God-lover.

Proverbs 13:22 (AMP)
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for [the hands of] the righteous.

[Comment:  Having and being able to leave an inheritance to your children’s children.  That could add up to be quite a sum of money!]

Proverbs 14:21 (TPT)
It’s a sin to despise one who is less fortunate than you, but when you are kind to the poor, you will prosper and be blessed.

Proverbs 15:6 (NLV)
Great riches are in the house of those who are right with God.

Proverbs 16:3 (AMP)
Commit your works to the Lord [submit and trust them to Him], and your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance].

Proverbs 16:20
NKJV – Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
AMP – He who pays attention to the word [of God] will find good, And blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is he who trusts [confidently] in the Lord.
TPT – One skilled in business discovers prosperity, but the one who trusts in God is blessed beyond belief!

Proverbs 8:17-21 (AMP)
¹⁷ I love those who love me; and those who seek me early and diligently will find me. ¹⁸ Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness (right standing with God). ¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, and my yield is better than choicest silver.  ²⁰ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice, ²¹ that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth and true riches, and that I may fill their treasuries.

Proverbs 19:8
NKJV – The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.
TPT – Do yourself a favor and love wisdom. Learn all you can, then watch your life flourish and prosper!

Proverbs 20:21 (AMP)
An inheritance hastily gained [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 21:21 (NKJV)
Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.

Proverbs 22:4
NLT – True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.
TPT – Laying your life down in tender surrender before the Lord will bring life, prosperity, and honor as your reward.

Proverbs 22:9 (AMP)
He who is generous will be blessed, For he gives some of his food to the poor.

Proverbs 28:22 (ESV)
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Comment: Remember that God wants to bless you, and because of your obedience to Him, you can be a blessing to others. Being stingy means you’re holding on to money or things. God wants you to be available to do His will, which will include being a blessing to others.

Proverbs 28:25 (NKJV)
The greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the Lord will prosper.

Ecclesiastes 5:19-20 (AMP)
Also, every man to whom God has given riches and possessions, He has also given the power and ability to enjoy them and to receive [this as] his [allotted] portion and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God [to him].
For he will not often consider the [troubled] days of his life, because God keeps him occupied and focused on the joy of his heart [and the tranquility of God indwells him].

Ecclesiastes 6:3 (NKJV)
A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Isaiah 1:19
KJV – If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.
TLB – If you will only let me help you, if you will only obey, then I will make you rich!

Isaiah 3:10 GW
Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them.
They will taste the fruit of their labor.

Isaiah 30:19, 23-26 (AMP)
O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will most certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry for help; when He hears it, He will answer you.
He will give you rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread [grain] from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in large and roomy pastures. Also the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams of water on the day of the great slaughter (the day of the Lord), when the towers fall [and all His enemies are destroyed]. The light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days [concentrated in one], in the day the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the wound He has inflicted [because of their sins].

Isaiah 32:8 (TLB)
But good men will be generous to others and will be blessed of God for all they do.

Isaiah 45:3 (NIV)
I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.

Isaiah 48:17 (AMP)
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way that you should go.

Isaiah 48:18 (AMP)
Oh, that you had hearkened to My commandments! Then your peace and prosperity would have been like a flowing river, and your righteousness [the holiness and purity of the nation] like the [abundant] waves of the sea.

Isaiah 55:3 (NCV)
Come to me and listen; listen to me so you may live. I will make an agreement with you that will last forever. I will give you the blessings I promised to David.

Isaiah 60:4-5 (NKJV)
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you;
Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy;
Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.

Isaiah 61:6-7 (AMP)
⁶ But you shall be called the priests of the Lord; People will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, and you will boast of their riches.
⁷ Instead of your [former] shame you will have a double portion; And instead of humiliation your people will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double [what they had forfeited]; Everlasting joy will be theirs.

Jeremiah 6:16 GW
¹⁶ This is what the Lord says:
Stand at the crossroads and look.  Ask which paths are the old, reliable paths.
Ask which way leads to blessings.  Live that way, and find a resting place for yourselves.

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 31:3, 14 GW
³ The Lord appeared to me in a faraway place and said,
“I love you with an everlasting love.  So I will continue to show you my kindness.
¹⁴ I will satisfy the priests with rich food.  My people will be filled with my blessings,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:42 (NKJV)
This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.

Jeremiah 33:3, 4, 6-9 (NKJV)
³ ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’  ⁴ “For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against the siege mounds and the sword: ⁶ Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. ⁷ And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. ⁸ I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. ⁹ Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.’

Comment:  The word “health” in verse 6 is the word “shalowm”, which means healing, prosperity, peace, safety and soundness.

Ezekiel 34:25-31 (NLT)
²⁵ “I will make a covenant of peace with my people and drive away the dangerous animals from the land. Then they will be able to camp safely in the wildest places and sleep in the woods without fear. ²⁶ I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing. ²⁷ The orchards and fields of my people will yield bumper crops, and everyone will live in safety. When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the Lord. ²⁸ They will no longer be prey for other nations, and wild animals will no longer devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will frighten them.

²⁹ “And I will make their land famous for its crops, so my people will never again suffer from famines or the insults of foreign nations. ³⁰ In this way, they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them. And they will know that they, the people of Israel, are my people, says the Sovereign Lord. ³¹ You are my flock, the sheep of my pasture. You are my people, and I am your God. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 36:11 (NKJV)
I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 4:27 (NKJV)
Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”

Daniel 6:25-28 (NIV)
[After God saved Daniel from being eaten in the lions den.]
²⁵ Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth:
“May you prosper greatly! ²⁶ “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.
“For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. ²⁷ He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth.  He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
²⁸ So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Comment:  The word “prospered” in verse 28 means to cause to prosper, to show prosperity, be prosperous, have success, be successful

Joel 2:25 (NKJV)
“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame.

Comment: The Hebrew word for “restore” in this passage is shâlam, shaw-lam’; a primitive root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications):—make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-) pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward.

Amos 9:13 (The Message)
“Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. “Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills.”

Haggai 2:19 (NLT)
[The Lord speaking to Haggai]  “I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn.  You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops.  But from this day onward I will bless you.”

Zechariah 1:14,16,17 (NLT)
¹⁴ Then the angel said to me, “Shout this message for all to hear: ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: My love for Jerusalem and Mount Zion is passionate and strong.
¹⁶ Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I have returned to show mercy to Jerusalem. My Temple will be rebuilt, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, and measurements will be taken for the reconstruction of Jerusalem.  ¹⁷ Say this also: ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: The towns of Israel will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem as his own.’”

Zechariah 8:13 NLT
Among the other nations, Judah and Israel became symbols of a cursed nation. But no longer! Now I will rescue you and make you both a symbol and a source of blessing. So don’t be afraid.

Zechariah 9:11-12 (AMP)
¹¹ As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you [My chosen people, the covenant that was sealed with blood] I have freed your prisoners from the waterless pit.
¹² Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], O prisoners who have the hope;
Even today I am declaring that I will restore double [your former prosperity] to you [as firstborn among nations].

Malachi 3:10
ESV – Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
NIV – Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.  Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

Matthew 2:1-2, 7-11, 13-15 (NKJV)
¹ Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, ² saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”
⁷ Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared. ⁸ And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.”
⁹ When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. ¹¹ And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
¹³ Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.” ¹⁴ When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, ¹⁵ and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

Comment: In Matthew 2:7, King Herod asked the wise men at what time they saw the star, and based on the time they saw the star and taking into account the amount of time the wise men traveled to arrive in Jerusalem, King Herod deduced that Jesus, at that time, was a young Child, as King Herod called him in Matthew 2:8.  This is confirmed in Matthew 2:16 when King Herod ordered the massacre of children aged 2 and below in Bethlehem after the wise men departed without telling him the exact location of Jesus. However, Joseph was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt before the massacre happened.

Comment: These wise men must have been very rich and powerful people, otherwise how could they, being foreigners, be granted a personal audience with King Herod himself?  Hence, they must have brought a fairly large amount to Jesus when they visited him in their house; large enough to make Joseph and Mary suddenly very rich, large enough to finance Joseph and Mary’s immediate escape to Egypt with Jesus, large enough to pay for their living expenses there until King Herod’s death, large enough to finance their journey back to Nazareth where they eventually settled.

Comment: These valuable items were standard gifts to honor a king or deity in the ancient world: gold as a precious metal, frankincense as perfume or incense, and myrrh as anointing oil.  When researching and reading about the value of the gifts, many estimate that at that time, translated into modern money, frankincense would have cost $500 per pound. Myrrh would have cost $4,000 per pound.

Matthew 6:33 (KJV)
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 7:7-11 (AMP)
⁷ Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened. ⁹ Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will [instead] give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will [instead] give him a snake? ¹¹ If you then, evil (sinful by nature) as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give what is good and advantageous to those who keep on asking Him.

Matthew 7:11 (KJV)
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Matthew 10:8 (AMP)
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

Matthew 25:29 (NLT)
[Jesus speaking]  “For to everyone who has [and values his blessings and gifts from God, and has used them wisely], more will be given, and [he will be richly supplied so that] he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have [because he has ignored or disregarded his blessings and gifts from God], even what he does have will be taken away.”

Mark 11:24 (NIV)
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Luke 1:45 (AMP)
And blessed [spiritually fortunate and favored by God] is she who believed and confidently trusted that there would be a fulfillment of the things that were spoken to her [by the angel sent] from the Lord.

Luke 6:38
AMP – Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over [with no space left for more]. For with the standard of measurement you use [when you do good to others], it will be measured to you in return.
NLT – Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.
TPT – Give generously and generous gifts will be given back to you, shaken down to make room for more. Abundant gifts will pour out upon you with such an overflowing measure that it will run over the top! Your measurement of generosity becomes the measurement of your return.

Luke 11:28 (AMP)
But He [Jesus] said, “On the contrary, blessed (happy, favored by God) are those who hear the word of God and continually observe it.”

Luke 19:24-26 (NLT)
²⁴ Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ ²⁵ And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas already!’ ²⁶ [Jesus explained,] ‘I tell you that to everyone who has [because he valued his gifts from God and has used them wisely], more will be given; but from the one who does not have [because he disregarded his gifts from God], even what he has will be taken away.’

John 10:10 (AMP)
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].

Comment:  The word “abundance” in this verse is the Greek word “perissos“, which means “beyond measure”, “more abundantly”, “exceedingly abundantly above”.

Acts 13:17
The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country;

Comment:  The word “prosper” in this verse (or also translated as the word “exalt” or “exalted” in other verses) is the Greek word “hypsoō“, which means “to raise to the very summit of opulence and prosperity”, “to exalt, to raise to dignity, honour and happiness”.

Romans 8:28
NIV – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
AMP – And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.

Romans 8:32 (NKJV)
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Romans 10:11-13 (AMP)
AMP – ¹¹ For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him [whoever adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] will not be disappointed [in his expectations].” ¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile; for the same Lord is Lord over all [of us], and [He is] abounding in riches (blessings) for all who call on Him [in faith and prayer]. ¹³ For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord [in prayer] will be saved.”
GW – There is no difference between Jews and Greeks. They all have the same Lord, who gives His riches to everyone who calls on Him.

COMMENT:  The word “riches” in this verse is the Greek word “plouteō“, which means “to be rich, to have abundance (of outward possessions)”, “to be richly supplied”.

1 Corinthians 15:58 (TPT)
So now, beloved ones, stand firm and secure. Live your lives with an unshakable confidence. We know that we prosper and excel in every season by serving the Lord, because we are assured that our union with the Lord makes our labor productive with fruit that endures.

2 Corinthians 8:9 (AMP)
For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich [“plousios”], yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich [“plouteō“] (abundantly blessed).

Comment:  The Greek word “plousios” means wealthy, abounding in material resources, abundantly supplied, wealthy; figuratively, abounding with:—rich.
The Greek word “plouteō” means to be rich, to have abundance (of outward possessions), to be richly supplied, to be (or become) wealthy (literally or figuratively):—be increased with goods.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11
NIV – ⁶ Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. ⁷ Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. ⁹ As it is written:
“They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”
¹⁰ Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. ¹¹ You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
AMP – ⁶ Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to others] will also reap generously [and be blessed]. ⁷ Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift]. ⁸ And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity. ⁹ As it is written and forever remains written,
“He [the benevolent and generous person] scattered abroad, he gave to the poor,
His righteousness endures forever!”
¹⁰ Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing [that is, your resources] and increase the harvest of your righteousness [which shows itself in active goodness, kindness, and love]. ¹¹ You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous, and this [generosity, administered] through us is producing thanksgiving to God [from those who benefit].
MSG – ^6-7 Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop. I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will give. That will protect you against sob stories and arm-twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving. ^8-11 God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it,
   He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon.
   His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out.
This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God.

2 Corinthians 9:8 (AMPC)
And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].

Galatians 3:6 (NLT)
⁶ In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.” ⁷ The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God.  ⁸ What’s more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would make the Gentiles right in his sight because of their faith. God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, “All nations will be blessed through you.” ⁹ So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.

Comment:  The word “blessing” in verse 9 means to invoke blessings, to celebrate with praises, to pray God to bless it to one’s use, to ask God’s blessing on a thing, to cause to prosper, to bestow blessings on, favored of God, blessed.

Ephesians 3:6 (NLT)
And this is God’s plan: Both Gentiles and Jews who believe the Good News share equally in the riches inherited by God’s children. Both are part of the same body, and both enjoy the promise of blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:7-9 (NLT)
⁷ By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving Him by spreading this Good News.  ⁸  Though I am the least deserving of all God’s people, He graciously gave me the privilege of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures [riches] available to them in Christ.  ⁹ I was chosen to explain to everyone this mysterious plan that God, the Creator of all things, had kept secret from the beginning.

Comment:  In verse 8, the word “treasures” (or “riches”) means wealth (fullness); (literally) money, possessions, or (figuratively) abundance, richness, or (specially) valuable bestowment – riches.

Ephesians 3:20 (AMP)
Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us.

Ephesians 6:3 (TPT)
You will prosper and live a long, full life if you honor your parents.

Philippians 4:19 (AMP)
And my God will liberally supply (fill until full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:15-19
AMP – ¹⁵ And you Philippians know that in the early days of preaching the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone; ¹⁶ for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs. ¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift itself, but I do seek the profit which increases to your [heavenly] account [the blessing which is accumulating for you]. ¹⁸ But I have received everything in full and more; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent me. They are the fragrant aroma of an offering, an acceptable sacrifice which God welcomes and in which He delights. ¹⁹ And my God will liberally supply (fill until full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
GW – ¹⁵ You Philippians also know that in the early days, when I left the province of Macedonia to spread the Good News, you were the only church to share your money with me. You gave me what I needed, and you received what I gave you. ¹⁶ Even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs twice. ¹⁷ It’s not that I’m looking for a gift. The opposite is true. I’m looking for your resources to increase. ¹⁸ You have paid me in full, and I have more than enough. Now that Epaphroditus has brought me your gifts, you have filled my needs. Your gifts are a soothing aroma, a sacrifice that God accepts and with which he is pleased. ¹⁹ My God will richly fill your every need in a glorious way through Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Glory belongs to our God and Father forever! Amen.

Comment:  Note that Paul is not praying for God will richly fill your every need, he is declaring that God will richly fill your every need.  Also, the word “supply” means to cause to abound; to furnish; to supply liberally; to fill to the top so that nothing shall be wanting; to fill to the brim.

1 Timothy 5:17
NLT – Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.
AMP – The elders who perform their leadership duties well are to be considered worthy of double honor (financial support), especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching [the word of God concerning eternal salvation through Christ].

I Timothy 6:17-19 (NIV)
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.   Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.   In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

Comment: “Rich” in this verse is the Greek word “plousios”, which means “wealthy, abounding in material resources or abundantly supplied”.  This Greek word is the same word used in 2 Corinthians 8:9 “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich (“plousios“), yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich (“plouteō“).  The Green word “plouteō” means “to be rich, to have abundance, outward possessions, to be richly supplied”.

1 Timothy 6:17 (NKJV)
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

Comment: God recently told me, “I give you richly all things to enjoy”. He then followed it with, “On earth as it is in heaven”. The first part is from 1 Timothy 6:17. The second part is from Matthew 6:10, which is the part where Jesus teaches us how to pray. “Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven.” Here’s exactly what God told me: “I give you richly all things to enjoy, on earth as it is in heaven.  The reason you don’t have the things I want to give you is that you think you don’t deserve them.” Ouch. Time to change my way of thinking by meditating and reading God’s Word!  For more about this, check out our article called, “God Told Me to Deem Myself Worthy of Success and Prosperity“.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 (MSG)
Tell those rich in this world’s wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage—to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they’ll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.

James 4:2 (AMP)
You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].

James 5:11 (AMP)
You know we call those blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] who were steadfast and endured [difficult circumstances]. You have heard of the patient endurance of Job and you have seen the Lord’s outcome [how He richly blessed Job]. The Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

3 John 1:2
NKJV – Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
AMP – Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul prospers [spiritually].

Revelation 1:3 (AMP)
Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and who keep the things which are written in it [heeding them and taking them to heart]; for the time [of fulfillment] is near.

Now, lets review some reminders about wealth.  Yes, God wants you to prosper.  But, He wants your heart to be in the right place.  In other words, you need to remember where your wealth comes from!  It is HE who gives you the power to get wealth.  Wealth comes from Him.  If you are not careful, your pride can get in the way.  It’s important that your heart is humble, respectful, and understands that all glory goes to God for what He does for you!

Click here to check out this article about what God told me personally about wealth and prosperity.

Here’s some scriptures to remind us about keeping and guarding our heart and being generous, as well as to remind us to title.

Psalm 62:10 (GW)
Do not count on extortion to make you rich.  Do not hope to gain anything through robbery.  When riches increase, do not depend on them.

Matthew 6:19-21 (NIV)
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Comment: Remember, God wants you blessed. But, it’s a heart attitude. Is your heart 100% for God or is your heart wanting more treasures on earth? God wants your heart in the right place. He also has no problem whatsoever in you being blessed or being monetarily wealthy. However, are you willing to give away your money or things when God asks you to give something to someone else?

Are you a conduit for blessing others or are you a hoarder? More importantly, when blessed, make sure your heart is in the right place with God. If it’s not, ask Him to change it!

Matthew 19:23-24 (AMP)
Jesus said to His disciples, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it is difficult for a rich man [who clings to possessions and status as security] to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man [who places his faith in wealth and status] to enter the kingdom of God.”

Comment: Again, over and over again God has blessed financially those whose trust, confidence and heart was toward God instead of possessions. Don’t place your faith in wealth and status. Instead, thank God that He has given you wealth, and provided for you exceedingly abundantly all that you can think or imagine. Keep your heart in the right place as the blessings of God overtake you.

Mark 10:17-30 AMP
¹⁷ As He was leaving on His journey, a man ran up and knelt before Him and asked Him, “Good Teacher [You who are essentially good and morally perfect], what shall I do to inherit eternal life [that is, eternal salvation in the Messiah’s kingdom]?” ¹⁸ Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is [essentially] good [by nature] except God alone. ¹⁹ You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not testify falsely, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” ²⁰ And he replied to Him, “Teacher, I have [carefully] kept all these [commandments] since my youth.” ²¹ Looking at him, Jesus felt a love (high regard, compassion) for him, and He said to him, “You lack one thing: go and sell all your property and give [the money] to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].” ²² But the man was saddened at Jesus’ words, and he left grieving, because he owned much property and had many possessions [which he treasured more than his relationship with God].

²³ Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who are wealthy [and cling to possessions and status as security] to enter the kingdom of God!” ²⁴ The disciples were ^[e]amazed and bewildered by His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is [for those who place their hope and confidence in riches] to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man [who places his faith in wealth or status] to enter the kingdom of God.” ²⁶ They were completely and utterly astonished, and said to Him, “Then who can be saved [from the wrath of God]?” ²⁷ Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people [as far as it depends on them] it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
²⁸ Peter started saying to Him, “Look, we have given up everything and followed You [becoming Your disciples and accepting You as Teacher and Lord].” ²⁹ Jesus said, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up a house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, ³⁰ who will not receive a hundred times as much now in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms—along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. ³¹ But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”

Mark 10:29 GNT
²⁹ “Yes,” Jesus said to them, “and I tell you that those who leave home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and for the gospel, ³⁰ will receive much more in this present age. They will receive a hundred times more houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields—and persecutions as well; and in the age to come they will receive eternal life.

Comment: It’s important to place your trust, hope and confidence in God and not in wealth. Again, God wants to financially bless you, but it’s important that you keep your heart in the right place – that of trusting God and being obedient to Him.

Jesus spoke about the parable of the wealthy man and stressed danger for the “one who continues to store up and hoard possessions for himself, and is not rich [in his relationship] toward God.” (Luke 12:21 AMP)

When God blesses you, make sure you give glory to God instead of yourself and do not hoard possessions. Rather, when God tells you to give something away, give it away with happiness in your heart. Be ready, willing and able to bless others.

Luke 12:15 (AMP)
Then He [Jesus] said to them, “Watch out and guard yourselves against every form of greed; for not even when one has an overflowing abundance does his life consist of nor is it derived from his possessions.”

Luke 16:10-13 (AMP)
¹⁰ “He who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little thing is also dishonest in much.  ¹¹Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of earthly wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?  ¹²And if you have not been faithful in the use of that [earthly wealth] which belongs to another [whether God or man, and of which you are a trustee], who will give you that which is your own?  ¹³No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand devotedly by the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon [that is, your earthly possessions or anything else you trust in and rely on instead of God].”

James 1:25 (AMP)
But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].

Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NKJV)
Thus says the Lord:
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
But let him who glories glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me,
That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.

2 Corinthians 9:11 (NIV)
You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

2 Corinthians 9:10-11 (AMP)
¹⁰ Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing [that is, your resources] and increase the harvest of your righteousness [which shows itself in active goodness, kindness, and love]. ¹¹ You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous, and this [generosity, administered] through us is producing thanksgiving to God [from those who benefit].

1 Timothy 6:17-19 (AMP)
As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.   Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share [with others]. In this way storing up for themselves the enduring riches of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

1 John 3:16-17 (NLT)
¹⁶ We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. ¹⁷ If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person?

Nehemiah 8:10-12 (NLT)
¹⁰ And Nehemiah continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!”
¹¹ And the Levites, too, quieted the people, telling them, “Hush! Don’t weep! For this is a sacred day.” ¹² So the people went away to eat and drink at a festive meal, to share gifts of food, and to celebrate with great joy because they had heard God’s words and understood them.

Comments: As the Lord blesses you financially, remember to tithe to Him. Ask Him what church and ministers you should tithe to and He will direct you.

Deuteronomy 14:22-26 (AMP)
“Every year you shall certainly tithe [a tenth] of all the yield of your seed which is produced by your field. ²³You shall eat the tithe (tenth) of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock before the Lord your God in the place where He chooses to establish His Name (Presence), so that you may learn to fear [and worship] the Lord your God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] always. ²⁴ If the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His Name (Presence) is a great distance from you and you are not able to carry your tithe, because the Lord your God has blessed you [with such an abundance], ²⁵ then you shall exchange your tithe for money, and take the money in your hand and go to the place [of worship] which the Lord your God chooses. ²⁶ You may spend the money for anything your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or [other] strong drink, or anything else you want. You shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Ezekiel 44:30 (AMP)
The first of all the first fruits of every kind, and every contribution and offering of every kind, from all your contributions and offerings, shall belong to the priests [church]. You shall also give to the priest the first of your coarse meal and bread dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

Hebrews 7:1-4 (NLT)
This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him. Then Abraham took a tenth of all he had captured in battle and gave it to Melchizedek. The name Melchizedek means “king of justice,” and king of Salem means “king of peace.” There is no record of his father or mother or any of his ancestors—no beginning or end to his life. He remains a priest forever, resembling the Son of God. Consider then how great this Melchizedek was. Even Abraham, the great patriarch of Israel, recognized this by giving him a tenth of what he had taken in battle.

Malachi 3:6-12 (NLT)
“I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed. Ever since the days of your ancestors, you have scorned my decrees and failed to obey them. Now return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
“But you ask, ‘How can we return when we have never gone away?’
“Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me!
“But you ask, ‘What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?’
“You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me. You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease.  Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Then all nations will call you blessed, for your land will be such a delight,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Leviticus 27:30 (AMP)
And all the tithe (tenth part) of the land, whether the seed of the land or the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.

Proverbs 3:9-10 (AMP)
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your crops (income);
Then your barns will be abundantly filled and your vats will overflow with new wine.

1 Corinthians 16:2 (AMP)
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put something aside, in proportion to his prosperity, and save it so that no collections [will need to] be made when I come.

Philippians 4:15-20 (AMPC)
¹⁵ And you Philippians yourselves well know that in the early days of the Gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church (assembly) entered into partnership with me and opened up [a debit and credit] account in giving and receiving except you only.
¹⁶ For even in Thessalonica you sent [me contributions] for my needs, not only once but a second time.
¹⁷ Not that I seek or am eager for [your] gift, but I do seek and am eager for the fruit which increases to your credit [the harvest of blessing that is accumulating to your account].
¹⁸ But I have [your full payment] and more; I have everything I need and am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent me. [They are the] fragrant odor of an offering and sacrifice which God welcomes and in which He delights.
¹⁹ And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
²⁰ To our God and Father be glory forever and ever (through the endless eternities of the eternities). Amen (so be it).

Isaiah 58:7-11
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Mark 12:28-31 (NLT)
One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

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