Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar

True prosperity is wholeness, meaning nothing missing and nothing broken, and it's not limited to financial wealth. Wholeness includes peace, health, relationships, purpose, joy, security, and a clear identity in Christ. This prosperity is a finished work through Jesus and is received, not earned by performance or religious duty. Believers are called to rest in the reality that they're already blessed and to live from that truth. The overall goal is to shift from striving and fear of lack to resting and trusting in God's unending provision. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

Grace-based success isn't defined by material wealth or external achievements but by wholeness, identity in Christ, and alignment with God's purpose. True prosperity means nothing missing and nothing broken in every area of life—spirit, soul, and body. Success flows from knowing who you are in Christ and allowing that identity to guide your purpose, rather than chasing validation or worldly definitions. Purpose isn't what you do but what flows from who you are in Christ. Living from rest, not striving, and allowing Christ to be formed in you is the essence of grace-based success. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

Believers have been made right with God. He sees us as righteous not because of anything good we have done, but because of what Jesus did and our faith in that. Our right-standing with God is the result of being born again; at that point, He immediately saw us as holy, perfect, and redeemed. This stance in Christ is permanent and independent of our behavior, which reflects our continually transforming state on our Christian journey. Understanding what He is trying to teach us equips us to bring the Word of grace to a guilt-ridden, sin-conscious world. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

Believers have been made right with God, regardless of their actions. As Christians, we're righteous because God says so and we believe it; this is our stance, which is permanent. By contrast, our state is continually changing as we progress through our earthly lives, making mistakes but gradually becoming more and more like Christ. The world offers us plenty of choices of foundations to build our lives on; any foundation other than Jesus Christ will crumble and fall when trouble hits. Basing our identity on Him makes us ready for heaven. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

God has great plans for our lives, but those plans are blocked when we deceive ourselves. Deceiving ourselves makes us spiritually blind to the truth of a situation; this is something God wants to deliver us from. Self-deception springs from the fall of man in the garden of Eden, and our sinful nature that resulted from it. The lies we believe about ourselves neutralize us. Recognizing who we are in Christ and believing what God says about us opens our eyes to the truth about ourselves. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

Feeling like we're inadequate causes us to focus solely on ourselves instead of on God, and brings us into self-effort to try to improve ourselves. We're delivered from this emotion through our belief in Jesus Christ and our dependence on Him. The world has plenty of "solutions" for the negative emotions associated with condemnation, but trusting in and relying on Jesus is the only permanent one. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483or visit www.worldchangers.org

True prosperity is defined not by money or possessions but by wholeness, which includes having peace, joy, health, purpose, and an intimate relationship with God. Under grace, prosperity flows from our identity in Christ, not from performance or religious obligation. Joseph was called prosperous not because of his status or wealth, but because of God's presence with him; today, we have God in us. Giving is no longer transactional but an expression of love and alignment with Jesus' finished works. Grace-based prosperity is rooted in relationship, not religion, and transforms every area of our lives. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

The world completely misses the concept of what it means to prosper from a biblical perspective. Unlike what we have become accustomed to, prosperity isn't defined by material wealth or external success but by a relationship with God and the wholeness that comes from it. Prosperity is a finished work through Jesus Christ, and believers are already blessed with all spiritual blessings. We don't have to strive for it but simply receive it as a gift. True prosperity involves not just material abundance, but also peace, joy, righteousness, and a deep relationship with God. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

True prosperity isn't defined by material wealth but by a relational connection with God. This contrasts with transactional relationships—based on performance and reward—with relational relationships rooted in trust, love, and understanding of God's character. Prosperity is wholeness, encompassing peace, purpose, identity, health, finances, and relationships. We're warned against being driven by mammon, which is the spirit behind money, and encouraged to build boundaries that protect our peace. Ultimately, true prosperity flows from intimacy with God, not from striving or manipulation. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

God wants to empower us. Specifically, He wants us to be able to break free from addictions, cravings, and lasciviousness. Submitting to a change in identity—from who the world tells us we are to who Christ says we are—delivers us from addictive behavior. Seeing ourselves the way God sees us through Jesus changes our thinking, which subsequently changes what we do. Looking to Christ is the only way to find freedom from our sins. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

Christians live in a culture diametrically opposed to the way God designed them. We're spirit beings living in a carnal external environment filled with ungodly influences constantly pulling at us. These influences suggest that giving in to cravings and addictions—not the presence of God—will make us happy. The devil, who is behind those influences, attacks our thinking and tries his best to make us sin-conscious. We maintain our peace and joy when we're aware of our identity in Christ and refuse to let go of it. o support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

In these last days, we'll see unprecedented global changes, but not all of them will be good. Persecution will increase as part of Satan's targeted attack against believers and against God's church. The enemy will use shame, guilt, and condemnation as weapons; we're to respond by standing in our righteousness and in our identity in Christ. Our trust in God and in His grace gives us power over the enemy. Despite the vastness of the universe and all the places where God could have abided, He loves us so much that He chose to live in us; we must therefore never let religion talk us out of who we are in Him. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org

As God's people, believers have been set aside as being different from everyone else. Our faith in Christ makes us stand out from the common people; it also draws hostility from a world that gives no regard for God. We're spirits possessing souls, which are where our thoughts and emotions live; in light of this, it's imperative that we carefully monitor who is influencing our thought lives: Satan rules the world, and his strategy is to invade our minds by ensnaring us in worldly things. By remaining strangers to the things the world considers home, we allow the Holy Spirit to keep us safe from danger. To support the ministry financially, text "CDMPodcast" to 74483 or visit www.worldchangers.org