Peaceful Prosperity

Satan uses a particular tool to incite war, conflict, and oppression: money.

He immediately goes to work using this tool from the very beginning of this Telestial sphere. Interestingly, warding off this attack has nothing to do with money, but everything to do with one's internal perspective about money.

Satan tries to make money feel scarce, like it needs to be fought for and hoarded. God invites us to be grateful, wise, and generous with our resources. Satan uses money to stir conflict among people; God uses money to allow us, His children, to experience peace as we see each other as His equally valued children.

Often when God prospers His people, they slip into Satan's agenda of proud and warring hearts. Yet, as they humble themselves, God will let them try again. I believe He wants us to learn the great peace, nobility, and abundance that can come with prosperity if we will simply choose Him.

Peaceful prosperity is the antithesis of Satan's agenda; it is the Utopian result of a God-like people (See 4 Nephi); it is the goal and vision of what we can obtain, both individually and as a society!

Thus we see that money is neither good nor bad, but can be used as a tool for either. If money were evil then good people could not be good in having it and every corner of the earth would be ruled with oppression, destruction, bloodshed, and horror.

Inasmuch as people are infused with peaceful prosperity, then love, kindness, gratitude, and abundance will abound. In other words, peaceful prosperity in individual hearts will generate outward peace and prosperity among a people.

I hope to inspire peaceful prosperity in the hearts of men, women, and children -- to foster a multi-generational tradition of opposing Satan because we prosper peacefully. This is the movement I stand for.