I've also noticed in my life that my financial stability and prosperity is often in direct relation to my relationship with my Father in Heaven. In other words, when I am living my life in complete accordance with His will and not my own, things seem so much easier, meaning not so much that my troubles go away, but I can face the storms with peace in my heart and not sink. When we stop "seeking our own" the Lord opens His windows. When we are truly "converted" to his gospel--his cause, his work and his glory (Moses 1:39--"For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.") then that is when he sees fit to "enable" us. (I've learned a lot over the last few years about the word enable from my boys who have been through therapy/rehab and from friends who have quit drugs). When we are actively engaged in His work, he enables us to prosper and to be secure so that we can continue in this way (temple attendance, member missionary work, hometeaching/visiting teaching, visiting sick, magnifying callings, etc, etc).
This is why it is important to live providently, to budget, and live well within our means and not covet the things of the world where moth and rust corrupt. We can't take that boat with us to our next life or our fancy things for showing off.
3 Ne. 13: 32-33
32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
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"No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done" (History of the Church, 4:540).
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