Roger Braker: The Prosperous LifePoverty vs Wealth Archives - Roger Braker: The Prosperous Life https://rogerbraker.com/category/poverty-vs-wealth/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:33:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://rogerbraker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-cropped-head-32x32.jpg Poverty vs Wealth Archives - Roger Braker: The Prosperous Life https://rogerbraker.com/category/poverty-vs-wealth/ 32 32 I Shall Not Want Part 2 Restored https://rogerbraker.com/2025/01/04/i-shall-not-want-part-2-restored/ https://rogerbraker.com/2025/01/04/i-shall-not-want-part-2-restored/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:25:54 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1355 Have you ever lost everything? Your income? Your home? Your business? This could put you into serious want mode. But God has promises in His Word to deal with the losses we experience. In most of these records, people did not lose what they had because of stupidity or laziness. The god of this world […]

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]]> Have you ever lost everything? Your income? Your home? Your business? This could put you into serious want mode. But God has promises in His Word to deal with the losses we experience. In most of these records, people did not lose what they had because of stupidity or laziness. The god of this world […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2025/01/04/i-shall-not-want-part-2-restored/feed/ 0 I Shall Not Want — Part 1 https://rogerbraker.com/2024/12/24/i-shall-not-want-part-1/ https://rogerbraker.com/2024/12/24/i-shall-not-want-part-1/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:21:33 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1350 Romans 8:32  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? In my mind, a “want” is more than what is really needed.  And anything more than a “need” would come close to being “greed.”  (see Need vs […]

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]]> Romans 8:32  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? In my mind, a “want” is more than what is really needed.  And anything more than a “need” would come close to being “greed.”  (see Need vs […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2024/12/24/i-shall-not-want-part-1/feed/ 0 Slow and Steady https://rogerbraker.com/2024/07/06/slow-and-steady/ https://rogerbraker.com/2024/07/06/slow-and-steady/#respond Sun, 07 Jul 2024 03:12:08 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1193 Many years ago, I worked on a remodeling crew in SW Oklahoma. We stripped an old house down to the studs to start over with a new interior and exterior. The house was built differently than the ones today. This house had 1 X 12 ship lathe boards set at an angle on the outside […]

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]]> Many years ago, I worked on a remodeling crew in SW Oklahoma. We stripped an old house down to the studs to start over with a new interior and exterior. The house was built differently than the ones today. This house had 1 X 12 ship lathe boards set at an angle on the outside […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2024/07/06/slow-and-steady/feed/ 0 Emotions and our Prosperity https://rogerbraker.com/2024/06/15/emotions-and-our-prosperity/ https://rogerbraker.com/2024/06/15/emotions-and-our-prosperity/#respond Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:47:39 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1188 Emotions or feelings play a large part in our lives. Negative emotions or feelings can have a devastating effect on our response to God and His Word. Nowhere in God’s Word does God say to follow your feelings or emotions. Yet emotions are powerful and can be stronger than our logic or stronger than what […]

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]]> Emotions or feelings play a large part in our lives. Negative emotions or feelings can have a devastating effect on our response to God and His Word. Nowhere in God’s Word does God say to follow your feelings or emotions. Yet emotions are powerful and can be stronger than our logic or stronger than what […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2024/06/15/emotions-and-our-prosperity/feed/ 0 A Radical Idea https://rogerbraker.com/2024/04/27/a-radical-idea/ https://rogerbraker.com/2024/04/27/a-radical-idea/#respond Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:07:50 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1181 Here is a radical idea:  start a prosperity plan. You could start a health plan, a college plan, a renewed mind plan, etc. But here we are talking about prosperity. You can see how well your plan is progressing because money is easy to count. The first part of that plan might be to start […]

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]]> Here is a radical idea:  start a prosperity plan. You could start a health plan, a college plan, a renewed mind plan, etc. But here we are talking about prosperity. You can see how well your plan is progressing because money is easy to count. The first part of that plan might be to start […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2024/04/27/a-radical-idea/feed/ 0 When My Ship Comes in https://rogerbraker.com/2024/04/13/when-my-ship-comes-in/ https://rogerbraker.com/2024/04/13/when-my-ship-comes-in/#respond Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:19:45 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1176 One of the readers of The Prosperous Life wrote to me several years ago and said they learned in the first blog they read what they had been missing in their understanding all their life. That we are not only to be givers/tithers, but we are also to SAVE our money. Others have said knowing […]

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]]> One of the readers of The Prosperous Life wrote to me several years ago and said they learned in the first blog they read what they had been missing in their understanding all their life. That we are not only to be givers/tithers, but we are also to SAVE our money. Others have said knowing […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2024/04/13/when-my-ship-comes-in/feed/ 0 Obedience Results in Stability!! https://rogerbraker.com/2024/02/23/obedience-results-in-stability/ https://rogerbraker.com/2024/02/23/obedience-results-in-stability/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:19:26 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1169 We had no idea the peace and stability that would come into our lives when we began the journey of saving money in our newly formed storehouses. We had been givers, tithers, for years but saving money changed our lives.  Isaiah says that wisdom and knowledge (of God and His Word) will be the stability […]

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]]> We had no idea the peace and stability that would come into our lives when we began the journey of saving money in our newly formed storehouses. We had been givers, tithers, for years but saving money changed our lives.  Isaiah says that wisdom and knowledge (of God and His Word) will be the stability […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2024/02/23/obedience-results-in-stability/feed/ 0 Another Piece of the Puzzle — Investing Part 2 https://rogerbraker.com/2023/12/02/another-piece-of-the-puzzle-investing-part-2/ https://rogerbraker.com/2023/12/02/another-piece-of-the-puzzle-investing-part-2/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:18:56 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1120 The scriptures are divinely designed to be put together. They reveal themselves to those who consider them. In our quest to understand The Prosperous Life God desires for us, investing is one of the important topics. Sometimes, reading verses from other translations can give us greater light and understanding. When it comes to investing, Ecclesiastes […]

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]]> The scriptures are divinely designed to be put together. They reveal themselves to those who consider them. In our quest to understand The Prosperous Life God desires for us, investing is one of the important topics. Sometimes, reading verses from other translations can give us greater light and understanding. When it comes to investing, Ecclesiastes […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2023/12/02/another-piece-of-the-puzzle-investing-part-2/feed/ 0 The Next Step in the Process – Investing https://rogerbraker.com/2023/11/23/the-next-step-in-the-process-investing/ https://rogerbraker.com/2023/11/23/the-next-step-in-the-process-investing/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:21:40 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1115   I have been asked many times where to invest the money folks have saved. In other words, after you have been following the instructions God gives on how to handle the funds He trusted you with by giving and saving and you have a few funds saved, where do you invest these funds? Learning […]

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]]>   I have been asked many times where to invest the money folks have saved. In other words, after you have been following the instructions God gives on how to handle the funds He trusted you with by giving and saving and you have a few funds saved, where do you invest these funds? Learning […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2023/11/23/the-next-step-in-the-process-investing/feed/ 0 The Day That Turns Your Life Around! https://rogerbraker.com/2023/06/24/the-day-that-turns-your-life-around/ https://rogerbraker.com/2023/06/24/the-day-that-turns-your-life-around/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2023 04:23:23 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=1110 Once I learned that the concept of saving money was Biblical and that it was what God said to do in His Word, it was a struggle to really incorporate that into our lives. There was so much I did not understand. A great man once said, “If you want your life to change, you […]

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]]> Once I learned that the concept of saving money was Biblical and that it was what God said to do in His Word, it was a struggle to really incorporate that into our lives. There was so much I did not understand. A great man once said, “If you want your life to change, you […]

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