Practice makes perfect. If you do these things for Jesus, the Lord will bless you. Much Prosperity Gospel preaching advocates these themes. It's a word that America wants to hear. Even Reverend Rick Warren of the California megachurch, Saddleback Church, has said that:

I must apply its [the Word of God's] principles. Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word are all useless if we fail to put them into practice. We must become "doers of the word."1

Let's get Jesus' "take" on this.

Jesus was concluding his famed Sermon on the Mount. You have heard about that famous discourse many times during your life in the church. Among its gems include The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12 — where Jesus refers to the blessedness of those who mourn, are pure in heart, and are pe…