For All You Prosperity Preachers Out There...

I'll never understand why people believe that after they receive Christ they should be "healthy, wealthy & wise." If we follow after our Lord, we are blessed whenever we receive health, wealth or wisdom, but we can expect suffering and trial.

1 Corinthians 4:11 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, 12 and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.