WHY GOD WANTS YOU TO PROSPER?
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
    
    Life is all about balance. Just like a tightrope walker, we must master the art of maintaining balance while walking on a high-tensioned wire. This can be done either by using a balancing tool (such as an umbrella, a fan or a balancing pole) or by “freehand,” using only our body to keep balance. The key here is balance.
    I have traveled all over the country to speak in hundreds of conferences and training events. And the most requested topic anywhere I go is MONEY. Yes, it is “Money, money, money must be funny, in a rich man’s world.” (If this song is familiar to you, we are probably of the same age.)
    It has been every person’s quest to become successful, prosperous and rich. Even Bible believing and God-fearing Christians desire this. Unfortunately, because of ignorance or faulty wisdom, we have done crazy things and made bad decisions that we still regret or are paying the consequences for up to now. Some of us have even gone to the extent of doing everything in our power to get rich and in the process, have fallen into many temptations and snares. Those of us who have been too eager for money have wandered from the faith and pierced ourselves with many griefs (see I Timothy 6:9,10). We sometimes go to extremes when we want something so badly.
    When things are out of balance, there is a great tendency for things not to work.
    Too much stress makes you sick while too much rest makes you lazy.
    Too much spending makes you a shopaholic while too much savings makes you a hoarder.
    Too much eating makes you fat while too much dieting makes you skinny.
    Too much emphasis on prosperity does not necessarily imply that it is a sign of God’s favor. Too much emphasis on poverty as a sign of closeness to God is equally erroneous. Both extremes are not good ways to understand how God’s kingdom operates.
    Too much emphasis on spiritual matters may cause us to refuse to talk about money matters because we say that “anyway God will provide” and that we live by faith. This, too, is unhealthy.
    Let us bring everything into proper perspective and balance.