In the denomination I’d been brought up in, we were taught that it was wrong to have anything. I began my ministry in this particular denomination, and they were great about praying for the pastor: “Lord, You keep him humble, and we’ll keep him poor.” And they thought they were doing God a favor!
Then in 1937, I was baptized in the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues. I got the “left foot of fellowship” from my denomination and came over among the Pentecostals. They were doubly that way about praying for the pastor. In other words, they doubled up on their praying: “Lord, You keep him humble, and we’ll keep him poor”!

What Does God’s Word Say?
The idea that God wants His children poor, having no material things, is totally unscriptural. The Bible has a great deal to say about money—about receiving it to meet personal needs and giving it to support the work of God and to bless others.
It is significant that many of God’s servants throughout the Bible were wealthy. I’m not talking about just being spiritually prosperous, either. I mean financially rich! The Bible says, “And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold” (Gen. 13:2). That verse doesn’t require much interpretation, does it?
First Kings chapter 10 tells of the queen of Sheba coming to visit King Solomon to see if he was as wise and great as she had heard. After testing him, asking many hard questions, she told him, “Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard” (1 Kings 10:7).
Job was also very wealthy. God’s Word says, “His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east” (Job 1:3). During the trials and suffering he endured, Job lost his great wealth. But God restored Job’s riches! How do I know? The Bible says, “So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses (Job 42:12).
In Second Chronicles 26:5, we read that as long as King Uzziah sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. It seems clear that God is not against prosperity; otherwise, He would have been violating His own principles when He prospered Uzziah and others.

It is important to realize that God is not against wealth and prosperity. But He is against people being covetous.

– Kenneth E Hagin ( The Midas Touch)
– JESUS SAVES TV