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How God Prepares Us for Wealth
- Jada Elam
- Oct 16
- 4 min read
Deuteronomy 8:7-11 (NIV) 7 "For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. 10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day."
Why am I still in a season of lack? Why does it feel like wealth is so far away? Maybe that life is just not meant for me…
Maybe you have asked these questions to yourself recently or one time in your life and you’re not quite understanding why you’re not seeing any change in your finances.
The prayers are working, the Lord has been hearing you but remember that there is always a journey of preparation before the provision can happen. Let’s look at the Israelites on their journey to the Promise Land.
Why was their journey from slavery in Egypt to the Land of Milk of Honey 40 years long?
Many would answer that was their lack of faith and repetitive disobedience. While this is 100% true, I want to highlight the fact that the Lord declaring their journey to go from 40 days to 40 years was actually an act of provision and protection rather than a consequence of behavior.
See, the disobedience wasn’t a surprise to the Lord, but it confirmed that there had to be a renewing of the mind that took place before bringing His people into the promise. From the verse above, we see the promise is coupled with a warning. The verse is stating:
the Lord is the one bringing us to a place of abundance and providing a life where we lack nothing
once we reach the promise, it will be very easy and tempting to forget God and be disobedient toward the one who brought you to abundance
So, we see, the repetitive disobedience came from the Lord repetitively testing the Israelites to see if that the slave mentality they had from Egypt was still there. The Lord would give them a taste of the promise and then observe their response which would reveal if they would praise the Lord and keep His commandments or forget God and be disobedient like the verse warns us about.
Their 40-year journey was the Lord’s way of protecting them from destroying the promise land and themselves by trying to step into abundance with a slave’s mindset. Placing abundance into the hands of someone operating with a slave mentality (aka a person operating with limiting beliefs out of survival mode) is like trying to fit a size 8 foot into a size 5 shoe; it would hurt the person and no work out. Changing someone’s circumstance without changing their mindset first is wasteful because ultimately, we can only go as far as our minds will go.
So, we see that the 40-year journey was a way to protect the Israelites from misusing the Lord’s abundant provision and harming themselves in the process. The Israelites had to learn how to honor God with what they were given and show that they could be trusted with little in order to later be trusted with much.
In order to renew our minds, we have to:
Believe in God and His promise of abundance for those who follow after Him
Identify the limiting beliefs (slave mindset/worldly mindset) we are still operating with
Surrender those beliefs to God and replace them with TRUTH aka the Word of God
Every time we get paid or we get an influx of money, it is a testing of our hearts to see if we will surrender to God or fall into the same trap of not honoring Him for the provision He has given us. Will you continue miss the mark like the Israelites did or will you make it your mission to learn how to overcome the survival mentality, step into the wealth mindset needed, and learn how to honor God with your finances?
If this is your mission and you don’t want to prolong your journey to the land of milk and honey anymore, then I have saved a seat you at my next workshop!
The Well Done Workshop is coming to Virginia Beach, VA on November 12th at 7PM—and it’s more than an event. It’s your invitation to renew your mind, realign your finances, and rise as a faithful steward of what God has entrusted to you.
Together, we’ll learn how to manage money with purpose, walk in wisdom, and prepare for the ultimate affirmation: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Reserve your seat today—and bring the people you want to enter the Promised Land with. Let’s grow, steward, and step boldly into what’s next. See you there!
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