In a candid opinion shared on the Honest Brunch podcast, Apostle Abel Damina has questioned the theology that suggests financial prosperity is the result of giving money to God, insisting such doctrine misrepresents biblical intent.
“It is not what you give to God that makes Him give anything to you. How much can you even give to God?” Apostle Damina asked during a recent message.
“If God were hungry, He said He wouldn’t ask you. If He needed a house, He wouldn’t live in yours.”
The preacher stressed that everything believers have was first given by God, and that divine blessings cannot be earned through offerings.
“All I want is your heart—that’s what God says,” he emphasized. “What do you have that God didn’t first give you?”
He also challenged common interpretations of scriptures often used in prosperity teachings, including the story of Isaac sowing in a time of famine.
“People say Isaac sowed and reaped a hundredfold, but go and check it. He was a farmer. He planted seed—literal seed—and God gave him a harvest,” he explained. “It wasn’t money. Don’t let somebody make you foolish.”
Addressing the famous verse in Deuteronomy that states God gives the power to make wealth, Apostle Damina clarified that it was given within a specific covenantal context.
“God told Israel to remember how He sustained them in the wilderness,” he said. “Their money didn’t buy them food or water. He gave them manna and water from the rock.”
He warned that applying such verses universally distorts their meaning.
“You’re not on the way to the promised land. You’ve already received the promise through the resurrection of Christ,” he concluded.
