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Prosperity Related To Being Rich - Page 2

My Patriarchal blessing talks a lot about temporal wealth and it says the Lord will bless me with exceedingly temporal wealth ( I still waiting for it ) but it will be according to my Faith because I may forget God because of the excess of richness.
Often I think my Faith must be really small :--> but at the same time I always felt that if I ever became rich I may become very mean and prideful (I don't know why I have this feeling). Maybe my Spiritual part have not grown up enough and I'm not ready for it, that's why I have not been blessed with those things as yet. I don't know.

Rich To Related Prosperity

There are hundreds of people in these valleys, who never owned a cow in the world, until they came here, but now they have got a few cows and sheep around them, a yoke of oxen, and a horse to ride upon, they feel to be personages of far greater importance than Jesus Christ was, when he rode into Jerusalem upon an donkey's colt. They become puffed up in pride, and selfishness, and their minds become attached to the things of this world. They become covetous, which makes them idolators. Their substance engrosses so much of their attention, they forget their prayers, and forget to attend the assemblies of the Saints...

Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, p.267, Brigham Young, August 14, 1853