As another school year is upon us, it is our genuine desire to see our covenant children succeed and prosper in life. Prosperity, according to Webster, is a "successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects." People usually associate prosperity with temporal and material success. The measure of a successful man is often gauged "in financial respects," relative to things like jobs, money, stocks, houses, and cars. This is a generalization, but is not the idea of prosperity in our culture, more often than not, linked to one's economic condition?