Universal Church of the Kingdom of God work, perseverance and faithfulness to God" will produce earnings for people, a doctrine called prosperity theology, and that a tithe of expected earnings should be given to the Church. They offer the "promise of the psalm" ([[Psalm 23]], "The Lord is my shepherd"): peace, healing, protection, prosperity and favour. A 2015 [[academic paper]] by Ilana van Wyk, author of the 2014 book "The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa" analyses "Prosperity and the work of luck in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God" in South Africa, where the UCKG has a very significant presence.
Psalm 102 where it is split as an antiphon into a "call" ("Lord, listen to my prayer", or "Hear my prayer, O Lord") and the response ("and let my cry come unto Thee"). This psalm occurs in the Monastic office of St Benedict (480-547) in the Saturday vigils or Matins. It occurs in the same place in the Roman Breviary of St Pius V (1568) and occurs at Saturday Terce in the Roman Breviary of St Pius X (1911). In the revised office of Pope Paul VI (1971) the Psalm occurs on Tuesday Week 4 Vigils The second verse is set in