Prosper, not Maintain

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 2)

Soul prosperity must come first, in our mind, will, and emotions.

We cannot prosper if we do not walk in truth (3 John 3-4).

We do not walk in the truth if we think that we have to do, say, or think a certain way in order for God to love us and work in our lives.

We do not walk in the truth if we do not walk in love:

"And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." (Ephesians 5: 2)

and

"And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it." (2 John 6)

We love because He first loved us (1 John 4: 19).

In order to prosper, be rooted and ground in His love for you:

"That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

"May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

"And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3: 16-19)

We understand this love when rest in His Finished Work:

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4: 10)

Since all our sins are forgiven, since He has called us to life of rest (Hebrews 4: 11), then we cannot prosper in our thinking as long as we are deluded into thinking that we must think and believe a certain way in order to be right with God.