Success and prosperity draw those who are upwardly mobile and attracted by what is promised by positive preachers. However, if it does not work as well for those lower on the social and economic scale as it does for those higher, it might not be all that different from Pyramid Selling or Multi-Level Marketing.
Preachers: teach and model loving care for those who need it and your church will attract folk who’ve not received it elsewhere. A good message includes all that was taught by Jesus and preached by his apostles. My default setting is Faith in God’s Promises, not Unbelief. Doctors believe that the human body has within it the ability to heal itself (often with the assistance of proven medicines.
I have ministered the healing power of God to the sick in Australia, the UK, and the USA, as well as in many Developing World nations — and have seen many sick people healed by the power of God. He rewards those who are diligent in their faith — those who press in — not those who believe that He exists but is not active in the world. Most people think of Him as passive or disinterested, but that is just not the case (Hebrews 11:6).
You need to get off the back foot and onto the front foot: quit being passive and start being active.
It’s been said: “A mind that is stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.” It’s the same but on a much greater scale when ‘stretched’ by the promises of Jesus through believing, which is faith in action. You do that with so many other things in life, so why not think actively about God and His will for your life? (Not to mention where you and your loved ones will be in eternity.)
The Gospel of John in the New Testament has plenty of promises. If you’ve not yet turned from sin to Jesus and so have not received God’s promise of forgiveness, then please read the New Testament Gospel of John, chapter 3, verses 16 &17, which states that Jesus has made forgiveness available to everyone who trusts in His Son — including those who know that they are sinners.
Believing in Jesus is simple, it does not require brain surgery — just a heart response. Jesus died for you, so why would you not live for him? A good question deserves a good answer. What’s yours?