"You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less"
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A prosperity-gospel truism dressed up as emotional psychology, Mike Murdock's line turns human attachment into a simple law of attraction: we gravitate toward whatever makes us feel enlarged, and we recoil from whatever shrinks us. The verb "increases" is doing double duty. In ordinary self-help it might mean confidence, clarity, peace. In Murdock's ministry ecosystem, it also quietly nods to money, status, proximity to "favor" - the measurable signs that God is allegedly upgrading your life. The sentence is engineered to sound descriptive, not prescriptive, while smuggling in a command: curate your relationships the way you'd prune a portfolio.
The subtext is transactional. "Anyone who increases you" isn't framed as a person with depth, history, or need; they're a resource. "Anyone who makes you less" becomes a threat, not a human being in a rough season. That binary is rhetorically convenient for a preacher whose brand depends on encouraging listeners to detach from skeptics, critics, or draining family dynamics - and, more pointedly, to attach to mentors, ministries, and spaces that promise "increase". It flatters the audience by implying their instincts are righteous: if you drift from certain people, it's not avoidance, it's alignment with growth.
As advice, it's slick because it repackages ambition as self-protection. As theology, it's revealing because it reframes community less as covenant and more as leverage. The line doesn't just describe movement; it justifies it, giving spiritual cover to a very modern impulse: turning relationships into outcomes.
The subtext is transactional. "Anyone who increases you" isn't framed as a person with depth, history, or need; they're a resource. "Anyone who makes you less" becomes a threat, not a human being in a rough season. That binary is rhetorically convenient for a preacher whose brand depends on encouraging listeners to detach from skeptics, critics, or draining family dynamics - and, more pointedly, to attach to mentors, ministries, and spaces that promise "increase". It flatters the audience by implying their instincts are righteous: if you drift from certain people, it's not avoidance, it's alignment with growth.
As advice, it's slick because it repackages ambition as self-protection. As theology, it's revealing because it reframes community less as covenant and more as leverage. The line doesn't just describe movement; it justifies it, giving spiritual cover to a very modern impulse: turning relationships into outcomes.
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