If this is your first time through this exercise, you may enjoy the explanation below. If you are returning or wish to jump directly to the survey, click on the following link: Take Prosperous Soul Survey
I created this survey for fun, and it has been just that. Many people have taken to the following questions in an effort to discover themselves, to excite changes in their thinking, and to provoke their own prosperity of soul.
The Apostle John wrote to one of his dearest followers of Christ so long ago. That intimate letter began with this admission:
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. (3John 1:2 NASB)
That simple prayer discloses a profound truth. John tells us that both prosperity and good health flow from a prosperous soul. Every one of us hopes for prosperity and health. Perhaps we are closer to those things than we realize. Perhaps we should “attend to our own minds, and so proving what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Rom 12:2).
It is tempting to select the right answer, (you know, the one you would want Pastor Bill to overhear when you are talking to a good friend). However, I encourage you to live a little. I invite you to answer each question “from the gut.” Answer out of how you really think or feel, even if it isn’t pretty. No one will ever see these answers. Respond from your self-talk, not from your “safe public voice.” By doing that, you will be honest with yourself, which is whom this is about. The journey from a poverty mindset to that of a prosperous soul begins with honesty and truth. With these, we can become genuine and contagious followers of Jesus Christ. Without them, we can only become finely fashioned frauds and actors hidden beneath self-made masks.
Please don’t take these results too seriously. Understand that there is so little science in this exercise as to be laughable. I have discovered and imagined each of these questions, and offer them here for your own enjoyment. Scores are the result of my arbitrary assignment of values to answers. No PhD’s were harmed in the making of this survey. However, some may be wounded by its obvious over-simplification, for which I apologize now in advance. I welcome your suggestions for improvement. If you wish to contact us,, please contact us at
I hope this is as much fun for you as it was for me to create. It is simply one way to measure your progress over time. A student taking the test at the beginning of the class and again at the end will undoubtedly see a quantifiable change for the better. Resulting scores are compared and celebrated. Some scores begin high and change very little; others increase only slightly. Most scores jump significantly with each subsequent visit. This is the intention that you would return to the survey, from time-to-time, to celebrate as your thinking changes.
Welcome to A Prosperous Soul.
