PROSPERITY/SEED GOSPEL. YOU HAVE MIXED FEELINGS?

Mixed feelings arise when something that would  otherwise be noble is corrupted. Something like giving. The Prosperity/Seed gospel as currently presented has this effect on many people who want to give but have questions on how/where/who. 

These are all genuine questions.

Some preachers will use the old testament laws on giving when it beneficial to them, and ignore it when deemed unfavourable, mostly to enforce their greed. But...in the old testament, where offering was and could only be expressed by works of the flesh, there were rules of sanctifying the gifts.

The Levite's had no land/heritage like the other tribes. There was a limit to their prosperity:

Joshua 13:33
But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of  Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

For survival, they were dependent on the peoples gifts - actually, a portion of their gifts offered FIRST TO GOD, which was also a portion of their food and livestock...any offering purportedly for God has to go through God before the priest/pastor. God was their portion/inheritance too. Is the "seed" of of the prosperity gospel offered to God or to men?

Joshua 13:14
Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.

Currently, most pastors/shepherds have their own portion in this life(in all forms of that word,) - investments, while some of their sheep are disinherited, have nothing to their possession ... because of a predatorial social/economic system, a system modern pastors are using to further oppress their followers by using the power - money, Mammon, the god of this age, this civilization, as a tool of oppression even within the Christian congregation.

There is also a very important ingredient of offerings that is currently ignored. A cheerful heart. If the gift is given to God, it CANNOT be forced, otherwise it becomes an abomination. When you look at how someone is dressed and order them to pay a certain amount of money depending on what status you perceive of them, it is not a free will offering. Neither is cursing congregants who have nothing to give. That is use of the spirit of fear for personal ends. God did not receive anything that was not of free will;

Exodus 25:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

The shepherds have turned predators, as prophesied:

Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness

And the sheep are getting fattened, with the powers/cares of this world. Remember how the devil works; 

1 John 2:16 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
...for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of .. Father, but is of the world.

Nothing wrong with prosperity, but when it becomes your religion, its because you have made it your god. So even more by the laws/standards of the old testament, the seed/prosperity gospel in its modern, emphatic form (which is mainly prospering the pastors) is in error. In fact, they are causing people to sin, by giving with unwillingness, without joy. That's what happens when people give out of fear. And fear is from the devil. They are behaving like the two sons of Eli: 1 Samuel 8;

The sons of Eli used to take the sacrifices(which belonged to the anyway) with contempt and pride. They like ours, felt entitled, and forgot the gifts/offerings were for worship, for God. 1 Samuel 2:14.And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

This is what is happening in our age. The alter, once again, is defiled, because of greed, selfishness and pride of a priesthood that has imposed itself upon men, and made men to abhorr the offering of the Lord.