My God is not Poor I

Text: Heb. 2:1-8
More Lessons: Isa. 60: 8-16
Bible Reading in One Year: 1 Kings 1-4

A major evil confronting the church today is the siege of poverty among the children of God because they are ignorant of what the Bible teaches concerning prosperity. Disaster comes when people do not understand certain principles and they don't care to seek knowledge in those areas. There is an error we find in the church today which is the teaching that making money is a sin. We should be knowledgeable about what makes some people rich and others poor. Poverty is not merely an economic crisis, it is a spiritual condition. People always like to attribute their poverty to limitations around them like family and educational background, unemployment in the nation, lack of connection and so on. This is a wrong belief. The first major cause of poverty is spiritual emptiness. This is why Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor...: Luke 4: 18.

Poverty is also a matter of the mindset of a person. Generally, bad economy can cause poverty but the individual root cause is spiritual emptiness and the wrong mindset. There are some people who do not know God and are rich because they have the right mindset towards money. When a person has the wrong mindset he will be poor because the way a man thinks determines whether he will end up rich or poor. While the first cause of poverty is spiritual emptiness the second is wrong mindset.

There are unscriptural words and inspirations that pre-programme a mind for poverty. When a person carries a mentality that he is poor because no one has ever been rich in his family; no matter what you put in such a hand, he cannot prosper. If you think poverty, you will continue to be poor. The Bible says as a man thinketh in his heart so he is: Prov 23:7. No matter how much gets into the hands of some people, it soon finishes because they think lack. Even when others have the money they still feel poor. The first thing you must do if you want to break free from poverty is to destroy that thing that tells you that you are poor. Don't walk by sight, you are not poor. To prosper you must discard the thinking that if you didn't start well you cannot end well.

Therefore to become prosperous is foremost to give up the thought that you are meant to be poor. Our text says the gold and the silver belong to God. Change the mentality that it is only unbelievers or people who steal money that can be rich. Think and always confess riches and it will come your way in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Declare that you are not poor
* Pray against every form of spiritual emptiness in your life
* I destroy every spiritual cankerworm in my life in the mighty name of Jesus.

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