God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
God tests His people through hardship.
Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.