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TO TRAVEL A GOOD ROAD

possible to be a successful homemaker, or student, or volunteer lobbyist
as it is possible to be a successful Wall Street broker. But only one of
those things will make us wealthy.

So, you might then ask the question, what does the Bible say about
material wealth? We agree that prosperity means to have good success
in the work of our hands, and this is something that we all desire. But is
this all that there is to the promise of prosperity found in the Bible? We
will see in the following chapter that it is not.

“The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity
in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock,
and the crops of your ground…
The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty,
to send you rain on your land in season, and to bless all the
work of your hands.”
(Deuteronomy 28:11-12)

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