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Earthly increase and financial gain cannot and should not be used to determine whether anyone is blessed by God including yourself.
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Wealth, power and fame are temporary earthly states of being, soon to pass away; but the blessings of God are forever.
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Brethren, seek for the spiritual, not the carnal; the eternal, not the temporal; the things of Heaven, not the things of the earth.
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If we set our affections on the things of the earth, our hearts and our souls will become earthbound; but if we set our affection on the things of Heaven, where Jesus Christ sits on the Right Hand of God, our hearts and our souls will be heaven bound.
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