Prosperity

This verse hit me like a ton of bricks recently.

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers 3 John 1:2 (King James 2000 Bible)

If we have a problem in the area of the soul (mind/will/emotions) for example an area of emotional distress or hurt that is unresolved and unhealed, this will have a direct effect on our financial prosperity. It could also affect our health. Research has been done on psycho-sematic illnesses so it is documented how our physical body can manifest a lack of prosperity in our souls. But it works for our money too. I remember watching a Television program where a homeless person was "given" $100,000 and "followed" by the TV crew. Within just over a year that homeless person was back on the streets in a worse-off financial condition than previously (and with additional debt). It all came back to the lack of healing in this person's "soul" area especially over money issues. There have been stories done on lotto winners too often with similar results.

I have read that verse for years over and over, and even memorised it. But this week a light went on. It is vital to ensure we are healed of emotional scars in the Light of God. Unless we have dealt with emotional pain and received emotional healing for issues around finances, we do not have the mental and emotional resources required to retain large wealth.

 Our financial health depends on it.

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