How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement that now claims millions of followers in America. Bowler traces the roots of the prosperity gospel: from the touring mesmerists, metaphysical sages, pentecostal healers, business oracles, and princely prophets of the early 20th century; through mid-century positive thinkers like Norman Vincent Peale and revivalists like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin; to today's hugely successful prosperity preachers. Bowler focuses on such contemporary figures as Creflo Dollar, pastor of Atlanta's 30,000-member World Changers Church International; Joel Osteen, known as "the smiling preacher," with a weekly audience of seven million; T. D. Jakes, named by Time magazine one of America's most influential new religious leaders; Joyce Meyer, evangelist and women's empowerment guru; and many others. At almost any moment, day or night, the American public can tune in to these preachers-on TV, radio, podcasts, and in their megachurches-to hear the message that God desires to bless them with wealth and health. Bowler offers an interpretive framework for scholars and general readers alike to understand the diverse expressions of Christian abundance as a cohesive movement bound by shared understandings and common goals.

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"Prosperity Unleashed: Living Your Dreams" is a captivating journey of self-discovery and resilience. Follow Max as he navigates the trials and tribulations of pursuing his dreams amidst a backdrop of uncertainty and temptation. Through sacrifice and determination, Max learns that true prosperity is not just about material wealth, but about embracing a mindset of abundance and gratitude. With each page, readers are drawn into a suspenseful narrative filled with twists and turns, culminating in a powerful revelation that challenges conventional notions of success. This compelling tale inspires readers to redefine their understanding of prosperity and embrace the journey towards fulfillment with courage and conviction. Prepare to be captivated by this thought-provoking exploration of the human spirit and the limitless possibilities that lie within us all.

America, we are at a pivotal point in time. Our priorities are not in order, and our future is on the back burner. Greedy and proud, our self-righteous way of living has flushed our ethics down the drain, and it seems we've forgotten what this country was founded on. The path we are on as a nation is a dark and dangerous one that will ultimately lead to a land that is dry and desolate. America is on the brink of a moral, economic, and military collapse, and if we choose to not act upon our rights as US citizens, our country may be lost forever. Fortunately, though, there is hope! We each have a voice and the freedom with which to make ourselves heard. We each have a choice in every decision to be made as a nation. We each have the ability to make things change. Together we can reclaim our sweet land of liberty. This should be and can be a turning point for America, but we must unite to make it happen. Putting aside petty differences and aiming for common goals, we can change the future of America. A new day has dawned, and our time is now! This book will put a fire beneath your seat and rev up your spirit. It will make you want to revive the American dream for yourself and your fellow man. It will offer hope to the hopeless, motivation to those lacking, and help to those who have lost faith in their country.

Prosperity Now! Second Edition I can just hear your reasons: I've got a kid. I've got a mortgage. I've got parents. But someday.... Stop with the excuses. It's time to answer that question with a resounding "Yes!" John Frederick has discovered a spiritual path to living the life you want, and in this new book based on his popular course, he will lead you to the Life of Your Dreams. Are you asking, "How?" As John reveals, you don't even need to ask how. The Universe will supply the "How." You are simply responsible for supplying the dream, believing in your dream, and making the decision to manifest it. Using ancient and modern spiritual principles, Prosperity Now! will guide you through a twelve-week journey to the Life of Your Dreams. You will learn how to discard old, false, and negative ideas in exchange for uplifting, positive, and powerfully practical ideas that work. Using examples from his own life, John will gently guide you to wake up to this reality: You are worthy and deserving of a fabulous life of your choosing. You can "Begin it now." Change your mind and watch your world transform to meet the new you! It all begins with Prosperity Now!

We all have innate talents. We all have tremendous prosperity. And we all have incredible creative power. When we tune in to the power of deliberate conscious creation, there is no end to what we can achieve. That infinite feeling of freedom is the bliss that is our divine birthright. This is the cosmic potential that lives within us all, if we choose to cultivate the prosperity of a rich inner life.Cosmic Wealth is a unique guide that invites us to better understand how to live the law of attraction, harmoniously with other universal concepts, in every day life. Channeled messages are interwoven with practical cosmic truths to create a richly refreshing perspective on the Creatorâs divine design. This wonderful book will help you remember the magic of belief, your incredible innate talents, many delightful cosmic principles, and the inward process of investing them all - to consciously and prosperously create the life of your dreams.

Individual perceptions about economic mobility could influence one's achievement motivations and prospects about the future. Such perceptions have significant downstream implications on consumption and sense of well-being. This dissertation introduces perceived economic mobility as an individual difference variable, which reflects the degree to which individuals perceive a society as mobile in the way that it allows people to move up or down the economic ladder in relative standing, and investigates how it affects impulsive spending and subjective well-being interacting with materialism. In Essay 1, I illustrate how perceived economic mobility moderates the linkage between materialism and impulsive spending. Using various data sources, four studies show that materialistic consumers do not easily engage in impulsive spending when they perceive high economic mobility, whereas they tend to spend impulsively when they perceive low economic mobility. I trace this effect to the self-regulation process of materialistic consumers, such that when perceiving high economic mobility, they regulate their behavior toward long-term financial success, sacrificing the pleasure of acquisitions in the present. In Essay 2, I investigate the moderating role of perceived economic mobility on the relationship between materialism and subjective well-being. Three empirical studies show that materialistic consumers can be happy just like non-materialistic consumers when they perceive high economic mobility, while they show low subjective well-being when they perceive low economic mobility. I suggest that the moderating role of perceived economic mobility is mediated by expected chance of achieving financial success, such that when perceiving high economic mobility, they expect that they can reach material affluence they dream of. Such optimistic prospects for the future enable them to be less vulnerable to the gap between current and ideal status in regard to standard-of-living, which reduces one's subjective well-being otherwise. By elucidating the important role that perceived economic mobility plays on impulsive spending and subjective well-being, the current research sheds a fresh light on consumer research and offers public policy implications.