Here is the irony of prosperity…it is not get rich so I do not have to work, it is increase so I can be a blessing to more people. The more you have the more work you will do. When God blesses you with more friends, there are more text messages to respond to. When God blesses your business with more customers there are more products to produce.

We tend to strive to rise when we are struggling to rise. Prosperity is not a problem, but it is more work. Some people spend so much energy striving to prosper, under the Adamic curse of Genesis 3:17, toil from the sweat of your brow. What we don’t know how to do is reveal a work ethic that produces more work, because to whom much is given more will be added.

More added is not striving for more, it is working in such a way that it says, I can handle more for I have managed what you have given me thus far well. It is not earning anything, but it is not apathy either. Sonship is about inheritance, but it is not something for nothing. Sonship is about relationship. Sonship is apprenticeship, teaching you how to take over the Father’s business.

Psalm 2 says, Ask of me and I will give the nations as your inheritance. If you don’t like to work, you will not like the inheritance of the nations. The more we are given the more responsibility we have and the more work we are called to do. Prosperity is a blessing that adds no sorrow to it, because it is not striving, but it is working.

Friends, God wants to prosper us, He delights in the prosperity of His children, but how many of us have a work ethic that reveals we can handle more prosperity? Prosperity is not so you can sit more, it is so you can serve more. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org