God's Will: Provision, 2

Prosperity does not mean having all the money we want, nor even necessarily a lot of it, but our having adequate financial resources, on a day to day basis, so that no one under our financial care (e.g. church, family, employees, etc.) is deprived of the necessities of life because of us.

This material provision is generally met by God's blessing our labors, rather than by money coming out of the blue.

God blesses the labor of our hands with success. (Psalm 1:3)

Even a casual reading of Proverbs demonstrates how God works through our own labor to prosper us: Proverbs 6:6-11; 10:4; 12:11, 24, 27; 14:23; 17:24 (the failure to focus on the task at hand); 18:19; 19:15; 20:4, 13; 21:25, 26; 24:30, 34; 26:16 (pride is connected with laziness); 27:23-27; 28:19.