If you believe in God, you must believe in a God that wants you to be rich, to be successful, to have a great relationship, and be perfect.
Some preachers and Christians preach this version of God.
But if you’re following the Prosperity God, then it has been widely cited by Biblical scholarship that you’re following the wrong God. You’re not going to wake up tomorrow as a Christian with thousands of dollars in your bank account. You’re not going to wake up tomorrow as a Christian with a promotion, and you’re probably not going to wake up tomorrow as a Christian with the perfect relationship.
The belief that God will make you prosper materially is known as “Prosperity Gospel,” and it is a very, very dangerous and heretical belief that God will make your life great in this world just because you’re a Christian.
And it doesn’t help that so many televangelists and self-proclaimed “Christians” peddle versions of Prosperity Gospel that seem legitimate at face value.
Televangelist, Robert Tilton, once told us that “being poor is a sin.” Megachurch Televangelist, Jerry Savelle, once told us that “if we please God we will be rich.”
