Does God want you rich? - Maybe

I’ve been thinking about a couple theological issues recently: the God Wants you Rich issue, and the never-ending debate about free-will and election. It has made me stop and think, not about the issues, but more about the nature of God, the nature of humanity, and God’s revelation to humanity.
The Bible story contains episodes about rich people and poor people, both of whom were loved, followed and honoured by God. Paul said he knew what it was like to be in plenty and in want. Most of the disciples died in prison, not "Adult, Christian communities" complete with shuffleboard and swimming pool (no bridge tables or dancing floors, of course). What does God want? Nothing singular; He wants different things for different people. We modern people keep trying to identify "GOD" by labeling, describing, theologizing and naming. Remember, God only reluctantly gave his name to Moses; and that name meant nothing (or everything). God wants my friend to have money, and he gave him the gift of giving, and a heart for missions. What he gives to both the local church and to missions I wish I made in a year! (oh, oh, am I hung up on money? Maybe that’s why God doesn’t want me rich.)
This raises the issue, however, of how God reveals himself to us, humans. "The Bible teaches," is, at once the best and the most dangerous thing I teacher can say. The best because it is God’s revelation and is the standard by which we must measure our theology. The most dangerous because our Modern notion of "teach" is didactic. That is, we look only at those verses that state truth in abstract forms. E.g. "by grace are you saved…" The problem is, most of scripture is story. God has chosen to teach us through story, not through a theological text. In the story of Job, for example, God answers Job by saying, in effect, "I’m God. You’re not. Live with it."
When the teachers of predestination open scripture, they quote many didactic verses. But when their opponents suggest that many of the stories suggest that God is moved and even God’s mind is changed by the pleas and prayers of his people, (suggesting something other than an iron, sovereign, immovable Will), the teachers disregard those scriptures (a majority!) with "that’s God accommodating human readers. The bible doesn’t really mean that. And if you believe that you are working from a human pride position.
What does the Bible teach? Does God want us rich? Sometimes and perhaps. Does God foreordain who will believe? Perhaps and sometimes. Does God’s mind change based on the pleas of his people? Sometimes. What does the Bible teach about God? "I’m God. You’re not. Live with it." It asks us to follow, to seek, to ask, to wrestle, to risk, and to change the world.