Do Christians get an easy, prosperous life as soon as they believe?

Les teaches that too many modern-day believers have gotten the idea that just as soon as they become a believer, everything is going to be a bed of roses. They expect two Cadillacs in the garage, the biggest home in town, and a life lived sumptuously. But he contrasts that expectation with the hardships described in the text: beatings with rods, stoning, shipwrecks, a night and a day in the deep, journeyings often on foot, perils of water, robbers, countrymen, heathen, city, wilderness, sea, false brethren, weariness, painfulness, watchings, hunger, thirst, fastings, cold, nakedness, and daily concern for all the churches. Les also points back to Romans, “if God for us, who against us,” and says this ease-and-prosperity idea is not what he means, and never has.