Whose to say they arent depending on God for their every need and God is, in turn, supplying their needs.....100 times over!
-do these preachers require that members pay to enter the building, like a concert? If not, how are they charging for the word?
Some of these preachers promised TV audiences, if they invested in their ministry, God would greatly increase their prosperity. Another sales pitch was that funding them was funding God's work. More than one widow gambled on sending funds. I recently met someone whose mother passed away. He found his mother had spent most of her fortune writing checks to televangelists. He is working at the age of 69 instead of living a prosperous retirement.
Luke 14:12-14 World English Bible
12 He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; 14 and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
Luke 12:15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
Other translations ask the reader to avoid greed.