Does God Put Limits on Our Prosperity?

I attended an advance (which some call a “retreat”) a few years ago and one of the speakers made a statement I never forgot. “We only allow in our lives what we think we are worthy of. Accept God’s abundance.” This is on my computer so I can see it every day.

Here are some questions to ask yourself and think about:

• In God’s eyes how much are you worthy of having financially?
• How much do you think you’re worth as far as earning power goes?
• How much are you worth per hour, per week, per year?

Our minds put limits on us in many areas of finance. We are not even aware that this is happening until it is pointed out to us. I was not aware until someone pointed it out to me. In some areas I was shocked as to what my limits were and immediately set out to change them.

For example: if what you earn or think you are worth is $15.00/hour (the new proposed standard for minimum wage), that is about $30,000/year. At $30,000.00 per year for a family of four, that is barely above the poverty threshold. Lower middle class is $35K to $75K, and upper middle class is over $100K which averages out to about $48.00 per hour.

The jump from $15.00 per hour to $48.00 is not much. Why don’t more people make the jump? Perhaps they don’t see themselves as worth more per hour? That is one of their limits.

Perhaps they were raised at the lower income level, and that is all they know how to make. Perhaps that is all they have ever seen themselves worth doing. Perhaps more seems so impossible they never think about how to increase their income. Perhaps more than what they are earning now would be outside their comfort zone.

Perhaps it is fear of the unknown:

• Fear of making more than their friends make
• Fear of seeming to be greedy
• Fear of having to learn new skills to bring to the marketplace
• Fear of being uncomfortable and being out of place
• Fear of not being smart enough or good enough

All of these limitations on our income and our prosperity do not come from God. They are limitations we put on ourselves because of how we see ourselves.

If we want to go from $15/per hour to $48/hour, if we want to go from just above the poverty line to upper middle class, we have to change what we think we are worth. We have to get rid of the limits we have placed on ourselves.

We are the only ones that limit our success or prosperity in life.

God’s prosperity has no limits or ceilings. Accept His abundance.

In your pursuit of The Prosperous Life, throw out the limitations you place on yourself and put this verse in your mind instead:

Proverbs 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.