TODAY’S DEVOTION (TUESDAY 31ST MARCH 2026)
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 90TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
It’s the end of the 3rd month of the year, and we thank God for keeping us, from the first to the last day. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers them from them all. The reason why the afflictions of the righteous are many can be found in what we shared in our devotional text yesterday.
God designed the righteous to be the preservatives of lives and destinies on earth. It is a major call on us all who have been made righteous by the blood, Spirit and word of the LORD that is at work in us.
Our right standing with God is the key to the survival of our nations, cities, towns and families. The afflictions of the righteous are usually many because of what their presence does in the lives of others.
In our devotional today, I will be sharing with us about one earthly blessings called money. I hope we are ready! To start with, I want to submit to you that God wants you to prosper; especially as your soul prosper. I am sure you may not have heard these words. God wants all His children to prosper as their souls prosper.
He designed that the prosperity of our souls be rooted in our relationship with God. But many just wants money.
You see, we are the wife of Christ – the true Church, and we will be a very bad wife if all we want is His money and not a relationship with Him. That is what we call the harlot Church in the apostolic. But God wants us to prosper economically, as our walk and talk with Him prospers.
INDEED, LIKE EVERY GOOD FATHER WILL DESIRE FOR HIS CHILDREN, GOD WANTS EVERY OF HIS CHILD TO PROSPER.
Sadly, some are not prospering because they do not understand what prosperity all is about. Many think that prosperity is having all you can and canning all you have. They take materialism for prosperity, hence piercing themselves with many sorrows.
Others even believe financial Prosperity is not for the righteous.
They believe that poverty and adversity are marks of true discipleship. They do not realize that this was a maxim propagated by certain group of elites many years back, through certain priests to keep the poor who seek the LORD poor and the rich who do not rich.
A rich, righteous and well-connected Child of God is a very effective tool of kingdom advance in God’s hands. With his kingdom wealth and connection with God, he can do so much for the LORD on the face of the earth.
The truth is, if you have a wrong believe of anything in the kingdom of God, it will hinder you from manifesting the blessing of the kingdom in that aspect of your life.
We must come into an accurate revelation of prosperity in the kingdom of God to live in prosperity as God’s kingdom citizens, because revelation remains Heaven’s clearance to the earth to come into things supernatural – especially things that will equip us financially to do God’s blessed will.
These are not days of walking in darkness or wrong understanding of things in the kingdom. These are days of clarity of vision and revelation.
Your life will become clear and exciting if you walk in the clarity of the vision of GOD’s plans and programs for it, and in the scriptural revelation of things in His kingdom that have been made available to you. Jesus indeed said if we want to be His disciples we must carry our cross daily and follow Him. That cross is not perpetual poverty and adversity but the price of doing divine will.
THE PRICE COULD BE TEMPORALLY ADVERSITY AND SCARCITY, BUT IT IS NOT PERPETUAL ADVERSITY AND POVERTY.
Some hold another dangerous view; they believe Jesus was poor so they should also be poor. In fact, someone attacked me with this school of thought sometimes back when he heard me preach about financial abundance by the power of God. But Jesus was not poor. What the Bible described as “the poverty of Jesus” has nothing to do with the earthly.
Paul was comparing the eternal glory Jesus stripped Himself off with the earthly glory we celebrate as glory. The Bible made it clear that whatever the earth considers as glorious is poverty compared to what Heaven consider as glorious. That was what the apostle meant.
God cannot afford to keep His own poor this end times because the execution of His end time redemption programs rest upon our shoulder. Lazarus will not be needed this age because he was too poor to have any financial instrument to serve God. Thank God he made Heaven but with no soul to present to Jesus.
In the final day when we will all appear before God; he will only have one out of the five crowns kept for the righteous as reward. God cannot afford to keep us poor this end time, like Lazarus was. We cannot eat under the table of the rich and be able to preach on the media and do all the money-things that need to be done to save souls today.
So, Jesus was not poor in the sense that we know poverty to be. In fact, if you look at Bible History, He was not even poor by earth’s definition of poverty.
So why should we be? If He was poor, He would not have been able to do the many things He did. The Bible made it clear that though He owned no estates because it was unnecessary, He had a house even before stepping into ministry. He was a carpenter, but it was what we will call real Estate today, because carpentry was not just furniture making in His days. They built homes for clients also.
HE HAD A LARGE CLIENTAL, THAT WAS WHY EVERYONE KNEW HIM AS THE SON OF THE CARPENTER.
So, he was indeed rich – both in spirit and in truth. Those who call Him poor are ignorant. I said it before that if you call a man who could get money from the mouth of fishes “poor” it means you are ignorant! He was rich enough to pay all His bills when He was physically on earth!
Those who studied the details said, His garment was so expensive that people who killed Him had to cast lots to determine who will own it. If it was just some rags He wore, no one would have bothered. The Bible says it was a seamless garment knitted by one of the women.
In His days, seamless garments were the most expensive!
He could hire ships and small boats to embark on His ministry trips without financial stress. Don’t forget boats and ships were the highest level of transportation in His days. That means if He were physically on earth today, He will not just be hiring the best cars for ministry trips but airplanes and private Jets.
He was so rich that He made a thief His treasurer. The man was stealing yet His money never ran dry. Thieves will tell you, try to steal from the poor and see what will happen to him or her. There will be nothing to even steal in most cases. Those who have something to be stolen from them will immediately feel the impact of a thief’s visit.
Jesus also had a team of notable women who loved their days supporting His ministry financially. In other words, He had financial partners. The Bible made it clear in the book of Luke that those who were healed of different diseases supported His ministry financially.
You may not have seen all these in the Bible, but they are there. That is why it’s important to learn to read the Bible yourself and not just stop at what people are saying.
Jesus enjoyed the prosperity of the righteous as King of kings and LORD of lords, walking the earth realm with deep humility and strong financial stability. He never had the prosperity of the wicked or that of a fool, that is why people calls him poor. Those who call Him poor only know about the prosperity of the wicked and that d a fool, and since they cannot trace it in Jesus, they end up calling Him poor.
FROM THE INDICES OF THE PROSPERITY OF THE RIGHTEOUS HE WAS NOT POOR.
I believe, if we are to look unto Him as the author and finisher of our faith, we must also learn to look unto Him in money matters as the author and finisher. He walked this earth in the prosperity of the righteous to show us how to walk the earth living in the prosperity of the righteous.
He spoke about hell and Heaven more than He spoke about money, but He spoke about all of them with the same spirit and passion, stressing the importance of making Heaven and having money for economic purposes while you are on your way there.
The only thing He frowned at is a disciple making money his or her god.
He warned that we cannot serve God and mammon. We cannot be loyal to both. If we are loyal to mammon, we will never be loyal to God. We must be loyal to God alone and then money will find us. Money becomes a curse where we become more loyal to riches than to God.
Jesus says we cannot serve God and mammon. The word mammon simply means riches. Mammon was a Canaanite god in charge of riches, a manifestation of Baal. It is a spirit that makes Christians trade relationship with God on the altar of money making. That is why God will never give His Child money in surplus until He delivers Him from the mammon spirit.
Money to those who have been delivered from the mammon spirit is simply an instrument for serving God and advancing His purposes.
The more of it they have, the more of God’s will they can do. The less of it they have, the less of God’s will they can do. That is why God cannot afford to keep them poor; especially if they understand His will for their lives.
The Bible made it clear that His cities or purposes can only be spread through our prosperity. It is our prosperity that will put the word of the LORD on radio, Television and satellite. It is our prosperity that will feed the poor, clothe the naked, build houses for the homeless, and send the fatherless to schools.
And it’s important to note that the prosperity of the righteous is not limited to finance. It is a whole package! There is marital prosperity. There is the prosperity of sound Health, which many do not have. There is the prosperity of the mind.
When God said His cities or plans and purposes will prosper by our prosperity, He was referring to prosperity as a total package. As you embrace this day, I want you to understand that money was not meant to be on our head but under our feet. God created earthly treasures not to be served but to serve His will.
As we move from this month to the next, money shall not be a concern for you. Abundance shall be your portion. In Jesus precious name. Amen!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY
“Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “My cities shall again spread out through prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”‘” Zachariah 1:17 NKJV
