WHY YOU MUST HATE POVERTY?

 

WHY YOU MUST HATE POVERTY?

In today’s edition, I want to share with you a message that will open up your eyes and mind to hate poverty with all your heart. First of all I want to tell you that poverty is one of the diseases that has eaten us up to the bones irrespective of which country you may go. However there is a way out if we only follow it

Deuteronomy 28: 2 says, “And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.” From the scripture above we see that blessings can pursue and overtake a person. Psalm 23: 6 also says, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life...” When you combine Deuteronomy 28:2 and Psalm 23: 6, you get amazing information. We have always been taught that we should pursue blessings, pursue money, be very aggressive and work ourselves to the bones. Then when we get the money, we save it. But now the Bible is saying something completely different. It is saying that those things that you are busy worrying your brain about can pursue and overtake you. Remember that God knows no barrier or impossibility. The most important issue here is if you shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

Most of the wealth in the world is in the wrong hands. Why are they in the wrong hands? It is so because we Christians have allowed. Many of the things that are happening are so because Christians allow them. When we stand as a church of God and say that we disallow a particular thing, it would not happen. Our word cannot be challenged because it is by eternal decree. We are sons of the living God by adoption. We were not voted into it, so nobody can vote us out.

Men love the supernatural and they like to see the miraculous. It is because of that you always find people crowding around street magicians putting big snakes round their necks. The Bible says that signs and wonders shall follow believers. It did not say we should be following the signs. Miracles can pursue and overtake you that is the truth. Beloved, I have a word for you from the Lord as you are reading this message: God says that He has just started His work in your life and He has not finished yet.

At the end of the day, the only true fire and power is God. People may say all kinds of things but the only person who has the final say is not the doctor, or the banker, or the lawyer, or the judge. It is not the president, but the Almighty God. And when God says to your enemy, “Let go,” they have no option but to let go. God can overturn the tables any day. May be you are looking at your situation now and every way seems to be blocked and you come to a conclusion that there is no way. I have news for you. When you get to that level, it is then that God has just started to warm up.

Another truth you must know is that no one can cheat a Christian and go scot-free. If they take your one and only treasure you have, the Almighty will use it to claim one million for you. Haman was pursuing Mordecai but the wife of Haman told Haman the blunt truth. Esther 6:13 says, “And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, if Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fail, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.” That is the standpoint of the Bible concerning the children of God. It is a known fact today that many believers are financially poor, and that is part of the reason the gospel is sometimes very slow. God does not want the situation to be so meaning that Christians are not supposed to be poor. All Christians must at least be comfortable. In Psalm 34:10 says, “The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” Psalm 37:19 says, “They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.” That is what the Bible says and verse 25 says, “I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” This is why I am saying that we must and must hate poverty with all our hearts and not only that but poverty must die.

WHY WE MUST HATE POVERTY?

1.      Poverty Kills. Because the Bible says that poverty i

s not good.Proverbs 10: 15 says, “The rich man’s 

wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the 

poor is their poverty.” So, the poverty of the poor 

man can kill him. Proverbs 20:13 says, “Love not 

sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes 

and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.” These are i
mportant scriptures.  One day I had of a true story that was told
by a brother who had taken his wife for delivery in one of t
he renowned hospitals here in our country. While he was still waiting he saw a woman lamenting with her dead child saying ‘If only I had money my child wouldn’t have died’. In other words, this woman was saying if it wasn’t for my being poverty grinded my child would have lived. Many times I have had people say statements like ‘if only we had money’

2.      Poverty obstructs people who would have blessed you. Poverty will make people run away from a believer. When a man of God has visited somebody at home and he has prayed and he has said the grace, the next thing for him to do is to carry his Bible and go. If after the grace, he still sits down, it means that he is looking for something. And if he is going to be begging for money everyday, he would make people to avoid him.

3.      Poverty will make people to look down on our God.

4.      Poverty is not one of the promises of God for His people. This must be clear to us. Some people turn the Bible upside down. The Bible says that it is harder for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God than for the camel to enter the eye of a needle. Now, when you look into the eye of a needle, and try to imagine a camel passing through it, you may begin to conclude that all rich people would go to hell fire. But it is not so. The eye of the needle in that illustration is the name given to a small hole in the wall of Jerusalem where visitors who came late at night passed their luggage, after the big gate had been closed. The camels had to crawl through the hole to the other side. If it were the kind of visitor that the people did not want, they would say, “Sorry, you can’t pass through the eye of the needle. Sleep outside the gate. But people turn it the other way round. A person can be very poor and be very greedy and a person can be rich and be greedy too.

5.      Poverty hinders the will of God. Poverty will make doing the will of God difficult for many people. Any time Jesus wanted food, He got it. If He was fasting, then He was fasting. Recently was having a chat with a married couple who told me that when they were preparing to introduce and wed, they totally had nothing. And this was so tempting for them to have said it’s not possible. But because they hearkened to the voice of God they introduced and wedded successful with out struggle. If they were to listen to the voice of poverty they would have hindered the will of God.

6.      Poverty most times, delays the growth of a believer when the person cannot even buy Christian books and materials to help him or herself.

7.      Poverty hinders evangelism. A lot of people cry day and night wishing they could contribute to the work of God but they cannot because they do not have the money. Beloved, I want you to take this message seriously because as you read and meditate on it, wealth will be released to you even without you doing anything or your money could become too hot for anybody sitting on it and the person would have no choice but to release it, in the name of Jesus.

8.      Poverty hinders prayer in families. Sometime ago, I was trying to settle a quarrel between a couple. They both said their own sides of the case and at the end of the day I came to a conclusion that the problem was poverty. How could Madam tell her husband not to touch her sugar? She used to count the cubes of sugar left in the box and one day she got there, and found out that three cubes were missing, and her husband was drinking tea. She rushed at the tea to fish out the cubes of sugar. How can that kind of family have a family altar?

9.      Poverty opens room for sicknesses and diseases. A lot
of sicknesses and diseases would have been prevented if poverty
was not in place. When God blesses you and you build your
own house or have your own apartment and have your toilet the
way you want it, then you don’t have to share toilet seats with
many tenants that could give you all kinds of infection.
Many sicknesses such as high blood pressure, hypertension, headaches and bone weaknesses come as a result of excessive worry that is cause by poverty. Poor people over think on how to be well and when disappointed they become sick with no right answer for the hungry waiting family.Who are also waiting for school fees etc.

10.  Poverty can be a source of serious temptation. There was a certain girl who came from a very poor family where she was given one hundred thousand shillings to take to school. One day, she found a man in a big porch car who gave her five hundred thousand shillings. She was shocked and could not believe it. But the man thinking that the money was not enough offered to give her more (temptation). Today many of our young girls who would have been good leaders have been seduced with big amount s of money by prominent men who have in turn slept with them and later contracted diseases like AIDS and the end result is death. Why because of poverty oriented backgrounds.

11.  A poor person has no voice. However much you have developmental ideas as long as you are still poor no one will give you an ear. In other words poverty disassociates you from certain classes of people. Two years back a friend of mine proposed to a lady. Both were believers including both their families. When he went to meet the lady’s parents unfortunately the lady’s father ask my friend whether he was going to feed his wife (their daughter) on Church donation! The young man so disappointed went back and decided to study and have a better job. Why have I brought this story? So that you can know that while you are still poor no one will believe you or even listen to you.

Friend, I am sure you must agree with me that poverty must die. To every blessing of God, there are conditions:

a.      For healing you need faith. b. For salvation you need to repent. c. For protection you need obedience d. For good and long days, you need a good tongue. e. To be anointed, you need a clean vessel.

Below are a few things you need to observe in order to come out of poverty:

1.      Put value in what you do. Today many workers due to unfavorable conditions work with I don’t care mentality. My dear friend what will make you attain success even when it seems dry every where it’s how much you value your work. I have a friend of mine who at the place of work when others valued not their work, he did value every single work he was given and because of his good repetition it has promoted him from an ordinary worker to a managing director

2.      Honor the Lord with thy substance.

To destroy poverty and kick it out of your life you must honor the Lord with thy substance. When we honor the Lord and are faithful to His work, only will our lives overflow with bounty of blessings. Proverbs 3: 9 says: ‘Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase’ For God to pour the world’s greatest wealth upon you as He promised in Ecclesiastes 2:26, then you must be faithful in obeying and honoring Him with your substance and First fruits. In Proverbs 13:22 we are told that “A good man lives an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just”

3.      Lastly, listening to and obeying God. As you listen to the Lord and learn to trust Him. Then He will bless you greatly. In Proverbs 10:22 says ‘The blessing of the Lord, it makes rich, and He adds no sorrow to it’. However, for us to prosper, this demands for us to live a life of obedience, faith and righteousness. Proverbs 15:6 (Scripture reference).

Until you fulfill the conditions for prosperity, you would continually be snowed under with poverty. Poverty has many agents, which are as follows: devourers, little foxes, cankerworms, sicknesses, death, etc.

Finally, after praying a prayer of faith to come out of poverty, take still another step of faith and look for something to do. However for you to fully understand why you must hate poverty, you can order for the message I share entitled” Six Reasons Why Many Christians Are Poor”  and many more topics relating to day to day concepts to living a Victorious Christian life or you can log onto my blog: http://www.yourdailyvictory.blogspot.com

May God bless you

Mr. Bril Emma Opanyi

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