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Make God your source and sustainer
It is perfectly God’s desire that you should be rich and successful. He wants you to get rich because he can express himself better through you if you have plenty of things to use in giving him praise and glory. A bible passage says, “through prosperity shall he get his kingdom be spread abroad”. God can live more in you if you have unlimited command of the means of life. You must understand that the thought he thinks towards you are thought of riches and wealth and not of poverty. What he wants is that you make the most of yourself, for yourself and for others, and you can only help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grows. It is the life of God seeking fuller expression of your unlimited possibilities.
I perceive strongly that the clues of God’s original covenant of wealth for anyone who desire to be rich are to covet God and not a covetous spirit. Job 22:21 says, “Submit to God and be at peace with him. In this way prosperity will come to you”. You do not have to covet the prosperity of property of others, or to look at with wishful or lustful eyes. No man has anything of which you cannot have yourself. “Thou shall neither covet your neighbours’ wife, nor his goods. The blessing of the lord will bring you wealth, with no trouble attached. People are envious, covetous, and selfish have no real chance of becoming wealthy no matter how much they desire it. Note: Animosity will reduce you to an animal. Avoid it.
There is an old saying that a youth with a single aim of life arrives early at the harvest. Youthful life is more often not an asset. It is an unfortunate thing that so many of our youths this days should start out in life with just one aim and ambition, and that is to make money. This becomes the leading purpose in their lives and thwarts their way of looking things. Everything else is seen in dwarfed proportions. They do not consider making life of building character. They are bent only on making money. This greed for making money has become the misfortune and corruption that has almost collapsed the moral foundation of our society and is the all-absorbing topic everywhere. There is no more distressing sight in world than that of one who is completely in the clutches of a heartless, grasping, greed-spurred on by the ambition which has taken possession of him – the devouring ambition to get ahead of others in moneymaking, to outshine them socially actually destroys happiness. Man makes the money and money never makes the man. We must continually think therefore, of what the influence would be pointing all our faculties, focusing all our energies upon the money making goal when everything in us looks money ward and our gaze is held persistently upon the Naira and what it will bring. A feast is made for laughter and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything – Prov. 10:19.

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