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THE REAL BLING

Will the real and true treasure, please (for the life of us all!) stand up! I know the popular thought for this day is that God wants me to have it ALL now , in this life and I don't have to wait for an eternal reward. All that we need to do is "ask" or "speak" our desires into the atmosphere and God is obligated by His Word, to fulfil them--whatever they are. There are at least two major things wrong with this thinking (and teaching--the very popular Prosperity Movement, Word of Faith Movement both propagate this message, and many of us have embraced much of its message, too). The first problem is: it does NOT line up with God's Word; and the second is: it causes us to focus on distractions--earthly ones, rather than on God and His Kingdom. "And he went on to say to them all,          Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own , no matter how rich you may be." (