Living By Faith

Q. I just read your post entitled Living By Faith and followed the tags and read Trusting The Lord For Everything. Excellent answers to both questions and much needed by all believers in our country.

My questions is this: we have some preachers who preach the Word but the people seem to be starving. If the speaker tries to feed them meat they almost seem to cover their mouths (and ears) and back up. Living by faith is just a phrase to most believers and faith is inversely proportional to the material goods we have, as you stated. Is this a fulfillment of prophecy or just the natural progression followed by Europe before us and what can be done?

A. Someone once said, “Religion gives birth to prosperity and the daughter consumes the mother.”  The more prosperous people become the more self reliant they become. They stop living by faith and begin thinking that they themselves are responsible for their successes.  Because of that they no longer give thanks to God for what they have and no longer ask Him for what they want. After a while the concept of living by faith is so foreign to them they can’t imagine how to do it, and don’t want to learn.

History has shown that eventually God will take away their prosperity in an effort to get their attention and turn them back to Him. The fact that nearly half of the world’s wealth has disappeared in the past year may be an indication that this has begun.  If so it’s another sign that the End of the Age is near.