Vallotton is at it again...selling the Gospel for some of the trinkets of this world...

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And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. -- 2Peter 2; 3 (ESV)

https://charismamag.com/spirit/spiritual-growth/35734-why-your-jealousy-might-be-a-sign-you-have-a-poverty-mindset

Sometimes when you write about someone frequently you can start to feel bad. I swear I am not picking on Kris Vallotton. It is just that he insists on continuing to butcher God's Word and promote the most egregious false doctrines on the planet. As long as he continues to try and lead the sheep to slaughter I must try to show them the light of the true Gospel. Kris is wholly enamored with this world. His writings and teachings always reflect this. There is the usual allotment of Christianese and some mysticism thrown in for good measure but he is always prostituting the gospel as a Ponzi scheme to get rich. Let us reason once more through the slop he calls theology in article linked above:

"What's the thing in your life that you desperately want God to change? Is it a cycle of insecurity, your personal health and fitness, the courage to get over your fear of speaking in front of people? Perhaps it's that you're longing for reconciliation in a particular relationship? I know that when you're in a season of waiting and holding onto God's promises, that one of the most painful things is seeing someone else walking in the very breakthrough you'd give anything to have. It feels like salt in a wound, and if you're not careful, you can allow this to magnify your perceived lack." -- Kris Vallotton

What is the job of a preacher beloved? To point you to Jesus Christ through the presentation of His Word. What does Kris open up with? Breaking a cycle of insecurity, overcoming a fear of public speaking, and better health. These are all admirable goals and desires but they are also all carnal. They all speak to temporal improvements in this life. These are the things Kris thinks of for us to desperately want God to change and for us to hold onto God's promises for. Think about the shallowness of that for a moment. I am not saying that a desire for better health is not commendable or that we should not seek God in prayer for it but to say it is the thing we desperately want God to change sounds fairly superficial. The real superficiality is yet to come though. He links a video of himself and summarizes it as follows:

"When you're trying to change your life, you have to change the way you think first. Let's use the illustration of money as an example. Let's say you're broke, and you've been broke your whole life, and you come from a family who has been broke, and your grandparents were broke... and you pray and ask God to deliver you from being broke. Then the next thing that happens is that God sends "Johnny Rich" into your life, and he has the car you want, the house you want, and basically everything you want. In this scenario, if you have a poverty mindset, you're jealous of Johnny and you don't receive anything from him. However, if you realize that you can't become anything you haven't seen or heard, then you realize God's actually using Johnny to show you what's possible. When God puts an example of your promise in front of you, He's not trying to make you miserable; He's trying to show you what's possible." -- Kris Vallotton

Being broke is something a Christian needs deliverance from? Yes this is definitely how Vallotton believes and teaches. He glosses past the obvious envy and covetousness he promotes by saying you want Johnny's car, house and cash. Then Kris wields one of his favorite false teachings -- the poverty mindset. That is right beloved. There is no such thing. It does not appear anywhere in the Bible. It was created and developed solely in the wickedly deceitful heart of Kris Vallotton. Really stop and consider what Kris is teaching gullible and impressionable sheep here. That if someone rich comes into your life -- God sent them there to show you what His promise looks like! How disgustingly absurd! Considering the admonitions and warnings God gives us about money, the more likely scenario is that Johnny Rich as sent by Satan to tempt you with the promises of this world. This is a direct off shoot of the experiential Christianity Kris believes where what we experience is valued higher than Scripture and what we feel is deemed as coming directly from the Holy Ghost. The thought that Johnny Rich, who brings with him "everything I want" is from the devil never even crosses the mind of Kris Vallotton. Buckle up beloved as we find out why:

"God is no respecter of persons and if He did it for Johnny, then He'll do it for you! However, you can't become what you haven't seen or heard." -- Kris Vallotton

Here we get our first bible fragment, referring to Acts 10:34 but Kris completely mangles the purpose of the text. It is not to say that because Johnny is rich you should be too! That is simply prostituting the Word of God. Now God COULD make you as rich as Johnny or as poor as the poorest vagrant in this world. THAT is what it means that he is no respecter of person. Just like He could take Johnny and make him destitute or require his life that very night. THAT is how He is no respecter of person. Alexander the Great had conquered the known world by age 30 but was dead at 33. This is the problem Kris always has. His teaching so far has made Johnny Rich the story. He is the one you want and desire to be like. He is what you ought to covet. Jesus? Eh, not so much.

"Oftentimes God sends an answer in the picture of something He wants to do in our lives, but if we have a poverty mindset we respond by being jealous of it instead of embracing it.

You were made like Jesus, in God's image ... However, it isn't until you see Him that you become like Him (1 John 3:2). The same thing is true in other aspects of life. You can't become something you haven't seen!" -- Kris Vallotton

I know I have asked a couple times to seriously consider what is being taught here but this requires some serious consideration beloved. The Bible is God's Word to us. It is not meant to be sliced and diced to extract portions that fit an unbiblical narrative we are pimping. What Kris does here is simply abhorrent and disqualifies him from dividing the Word of Truth. 1John 3:2 was written by God through the Apostle John for a reason. Kris has been trying to prostitute the idea that in order to become something you must first see it. He has no biblical text to support such an egregiously stupid statement so he resorts to trying to find a text he can pretend supports this notion. This is the text in question:

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. -- 1John 3: 2 (ESV)

This verse is speaking about the second coming of Jesus Christ not some universal principle about not being able to become something until we see it! Here is what Gill's Exposition has to say about the "we shall be like Him" portion:

we shall be like him; in body, fashioned like to his glorious body, in immortality and incorruption, in power, in glory, and spirituality, in a freedom from all imperfections, sorrows, afflictions, and death; and in soul, which likeness will lie in perfect knowledge of divine things, and in complete holiness; - Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yes! The glorious body that awaits us! Immortality! Incorruption! Freedom from all imperfections, sorrows, afflictions, and death itself! Our likeness to Christ is found in the perfect knowledge of divine things and in complete holiness! Or you can go for Kris Vallotton's interpretation and finally get Johnny Rich's car. I do hope we are seeing the problem with such an utterly carnal theology.

"When you pray for a change then He'll send you a picture of a change. He'll send you people who have what you want, not so you can take it from them but so you can get it from Him." -- Kris Vallotton

Ugh. I am going to need a shower after this. Yet this is what Kris Vallotton's religion boils down to beloved. What can you get from God? Let me also push back finally on this made up theology that God sends you a picture of the change He wants to bring into your life. No He does not. Did God give Abram a picture of being a father of many nations or the promised child? No. Did He show him that killing Isaac would end up ok? No He did not. Did He show David a picture of the palace when he was anointed King? No He did not. God does send people into your life so you can covet what they have. The entire premise is ludicrous and unbiblical. Once again though we see the relationship Kris has with the god he created. He is somebody to get something from. Think about the theological construct Kris has created here. Anytime something or someone crosses your path that represents or possesses something your greedy little heart desires it was brought into your line of sight by God so you can visualize it and get it from god. Who is God in this scenario? You are! Does the Bible present a God that is our errand boy? Most certainly not. Mercifully, he concludes:

"If you want to change your life, you have to change your thinking. If you want to change your thinking, then you have to hang around people who are thinking right. So this week I want to challenge you to take a hard look at your life with this question: what answers has God already put in your life that you've looked at with jealousy instead of gratitude? There's no shame in admitting it, and in fact you can't actually conquer what you will not confront. Our response determines whether we are postured for increase or relegated to lack." -- Kris Vallotton

Increase and lack for Kris Vallotton has everything to do with the trinkets and baubles of this earth. Never a mention of spiritual disciplines and giftings. To him the poor person is poor because of their mindset. Never a thought to the sovereignty of God. He has no answer or thought for the millions of Christians living in impoverished countries. Guess they all must have that dreaded "poverty mindset." What utter garbage does Kris Vallotton offer the body of Christ. He is right about one thing beloved. If we want to change our thinking we need to change who we keep hanging around our life. This is especially true with what teachers we allow ourselves to have access to. If we allow Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, or Mike Murdock then we will begin to think we are little gods who can create with our words and that God wants us rich beyond our greedy dreams. If we allow Jennifer Leclaire, Bill Johnson, and Mike Bickle then we will begin to think we have to prepare the earth for Jesus's second coming and that any demonic shift in the supernatural must be God. If we allow ourselves to listen to Kris Vallotton then we will begin to think that everything in the Bible is about us and how rich God wants us to be if we would just quit our poverty mindset. We will start to look at God for what we can get from Him instead of what He has already done for us. You can keep your prostituted false gospel Kris. I guess I would rather have an imaginary poverty mindset than a very real heretical theology. It seems as if the key verse was written for people like Kris Vallotton. It is Peter talking about false teachers in our time. In their greed they will exploit you with false words such as "poverty mindset." Thankfully their condemnation is from long ago and their destruction is not asleep. Beloved, we should look to God for all He has already done for us and not as some cosmic ATM to dispense what the devil tells us we are lacking. We are spiritually wealthy beyond measure. That ought to be our mindset.

Reverend Anthony Wade -- February 12, 2018

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.