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Summary
- Short prayers ask for abundance in money and a steady home, relief from the fear of not having enough, the work of one’s hands, gratitude, generosity, wise use of money, health, love in the family, joy and hope, and patience while waiting.
- In John 10:10 Jesus says he came that people “might have it more abundantly”; Luke 12:15 warns that life “consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth,” and Proverbs 30:8–9 asks for “neither poverty nor riches.”
- Traditional prayers for plenty include the 1928 Book of Common Prayer’s “For Fruitful Seasons” and “For Plenty,” and the Orthodox Great Litany’s petition “for abundance of the fruits of the earth.”
- The Lausanne Movement’s Theology Working Group called the teachings of the prosperity gospel’s strongest promoters “false and gravely distorting of the Bible.”
- Christian prayer for plenty is addressed to God, not to a god of wealth or to the universe; Jesus said, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24).
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Deuteronomy 8:18; Psalm 90:17; 121:2; Proverbs 30:8–9; Matthew 6:11, 24, 32–33; Luke 6:38; 12:15; 16:10; John 10:10; Romans 15:13; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Galatians 6:9; Ephesians 3:20; Philippians 1:9; 4:11–12, 19; 1 Timothy 6:17–18; 2 Timothy 1:7; 3 John 1:2). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Fruitful Seasons,” p. 40; Thanksgivings, “For Plenty,” pp. 51–52. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Great Vespers, the Great Litany, p. 5; the Divine Liturgy, the Great Litany, p. 81. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Lausanne Theology Working Group. “A Statement on the Prosperity Gospel.” Lausanne Movement. https://lausanne.org/content/a-statement-on-the-prosperity-gospel
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