Deuteronomy 8:18  NKJV
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

As the children of Israel prepared to get into the Promised Land, Moses started reminding them of all that the Lord had said to them in the wilderness and why it was important that they don’t forget who and whose they were. In this verse, he reminds them not to forget the Lord, for it is Him who gave them power to get wealth (not poverty), and that it was towards a specific purpose. 

First of all, He gives them power to get wealth, not wealth itself. God is not a money launderer, who is going to be raining 100 dollar bills into houses of prayer. I’m not saying He can’t do it, but He hasn’t chosen that as the path for wealth creation. God instead gives us ideas, creativity, connections, opportunities and every favourable thing to enable us engage the economic systems set in place so that we become wealthy. He is making a way for us to get the right jobs, start the right businesses, and make the right investments, so that we become wealthy. Instead, many are still praying for a miracle!

Isaac, who was a part of this covenant with Abraham, didn’t sit down and pray for money. Instead, he sowed in that land and reaped a hundredfold. Moreover, according to the scriptures, it was in a time of drought. So, did God rig the system? Maybe not. Remember that Isaac, like his father Abraham, had contentions with neighbours over wells. He had many wells, and probably irrigated and watered his gardens. The man began to prosper, continued prospering until he became very prosperous! His net worth was so great it attracted envy.

This is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation, but I keep teasing my friends that you haven’t began prospering if no one is envying you! Isaac was blessed by God to prosper but had to do some work. You too have already been blessed, but you need to engage the economic systems if you're going to build wealth.

Today’s devotional is taken from the book Straight Forward Financial Growth