"Desiring financial increase when I'm financially stable is evidence of a greedy, unsanctified heart."
How it sounds in your head: You've got enough. The bills are paid. You're not starving. Wanting MORE exposes something dark in your heart - greed, materialism, the love of money that's the root of all evil. If you were really spiritual, you'd be content with food and clothing. This desire for increase proves you're still carnal, still worldly, still not where you should be with God.
"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers."
-- 3 John 1:2Religion equates desire for abundance with sin, making God's promised prosperity seem like evidence of spiritual failure instead of covenant expectation.
You've heard a thousand sermons about the dangers of wealth, the deceitfulness of riches, the rich young ruler who walked away sad. Every desire for more comes with immediate guilt - is this greed? Am I loving money? The voice says if you were really mature, you wouldn't care about financial increase. You'd be focused on heaven, not earth.
Jabez prayed 'Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and ENLARGE my territory' - he asked for MORE blessing, MORE land, MORE increase. God's response wasn't 'check your greedy heart, Jabez.' It was simple: 'So God GRANTED him what he requested.' Asking for increase pleased God, not offended Him.
I REFUSE the lie that desiring financial increase proves a greedy heart. IT IS WRITTEN that John prayed 'I pray you may PROSPER in all things' - God's desire FOR me is prosperity, and my desire agreeing with His isn't carnality. IT IS WRITTEN that I am blessed with the blessing of Abraham, and Christ redeemed me from the curse so the BLESSING could come upon me - provision, increase, abundance. My expectation of prosperity isn't greed; it's covenant. I receive increase without guilt, knowing my Father delights in blessing His children and runs toward me with abundance because that's His generous nature.
Your Father didn't tell the prodigal 'your desire to come home proves your heart is still unsanctified - work on that in the pig pen longer.' He RAN to him, embraced him, restored him fully because the son's desire to return HOME matched the Father's desire to RESTORE. Your desire for increase matches your Father's desire to provide it.