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| Free Christian Ebooks How to Fight Poverty with Bible Verses |
Regardless of how
many times you have unsuccessfully tried to break free from the bondage of
poverty, you must not despair and accept to die in poverty. You have to decide
to believe that God would like you to prosper since His Word says Blessed be God who has pleasure in the
prosperity of his servant (Psalm 35:27) and Jesus came so that we can Have life and have it to the full.
(John 10:10)
Therefore, to have
a full life in all fronts, you have to combine spiritual, mental, verbal, and
physical interventions to form your own holistic deliverance ministry to fight
poverty and live in abundance.
The first
spiritual intervention is to pray and ask God to help you become financially
free. Understand that even if other humans beings do not have time to listen to
what you have to say because of your financial statu, God will listen to you For
the Lord hears the poor (Psalm 69:33) and He will deliver the needy
when he cries, the poor, and the person who has no helper. (Psalm 72:12)
In addition, not only does the Lord listen to the poor, but He also Raises the poor
out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap so that He may seat
him with princes. (Psalm 113:7-8) We can see a
practical example of this when King David sent for Mephibosheth who as the
crippled son of Jonathan and told him that “You shall eat at my table” (2 Samuel 9:7) after making wealthy by
declaring that “I will restore to you
Mephibosheth all the land that belonged to Saul your grandfather. ” (2
Samuel 9:7)
Therefore, even if you have been living in seemingly hopeless
circumstances and even if you consider yourself utterly useless like
Mephibosheth who asked King David, “What
is your servant, that you should show kindness to such a dead dog as I?” (2
Samuel 9:8) understand that God can cause you to be raised like from the
oblivion of poverty to the prominence of being seated with Kings and princes.
Understand also that God can change your financial situation even if you
are crippled physically, educationally or materially like did for Mephibosheth who
could not help himself acquired his grandfather’s real estate since he was lame.
Therefore, pray for God can translate paupers from poverty to prosperity,
and since He reassures us that For the oppression of the poor, for the
sighing of the needy, now I will arise," says the Lord. "I will set
him in the safety for which he yearns". (Psalm 12:5) Pray and ask Him
for the financial freedom that you yearn.
As you pray, use awesome Bible verses which are the foundation of any
deliverance ministry and Christian spiritual warfare because the Word of God is
the Sword of the Spirit that God has given us to fight with. (Ephesians 6:17) We
will therefore will call the Scriptures that we will use to fight poverty SWORD WORDS.
SWORD
WORDS that you can use as personal poverty deliverance prayers include:
1. Remember me, O
Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your
salvation so that I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones and rejoice in the
gladness of Your nation and glory with Your inheritance. (Psalm 106:4-5)
As you pray, believe that God will help you since having
faith in God and in His Word is how you hold up your shield of faith which is
one of our spiritual weapons and the weapon that is able to quench all the
fiery darts of the enemy. (Ephesians 6:16)
In addition to praying for yourself, ask your Pastor to
pray for you and attend Deliverance services so that you can learn different spiritual warfare prayers
and receive deliverance from poverty.
After praying, put on the helmet of salvation since it
is one of the weapons of our warfare being part of the armor of God that we
need to put on to fight our spiritual battles. (Ephesians 6:14-17)
All you need to put on this helmet of salvation is to
say with your mouth that “Jesus Christ is the Son of God” and believe in your
heart that God raised Him from the dead when He died for our sins on the cross and
you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)
The next spiritual
step, which also doubles up as a mental step, is to remove all negative thoughts from your mind so that you can be renewed
in the spirit of your mind. To do so, set set specific Christian meditation
sessions during the day when you can meditate on prosperity scriptures such as:
1. Those who seek
the Lord shall not lack any good thing. (Psalm
34:9-10)
2. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psalm 84:11)
3. The desire of the righteous will be granted. (Proverbs 10:24)
4. He sets the poor on high, far from affliction, and makes their
families like a flock. (Psalm 107:41)
5. Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above and it comes down from the Father. (James 1:17)
6. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not lack. He makes me to lie down in
green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul … He
prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies. He anoints my head
with oil and my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life. (Adapted Psalm 23)
Ensure that you read at least one chapter of the Bible everyday
because the Gospel is another of our warfare weapons. Combine reading the Word
of God with speaking the Word of God
because it is the sword of the Spirit that we are to wield to fight our
spiritual battles. Even if you are facing mind boggling debts, do not utter
self defeating words of financial death,
defeat or destruction as you will be agreeing with the enemy who is trying to
destroy you economically. Instead, confess positive Christian affirmations
such as:
1. I am blessed when I come in and I am blessed
when I go out. (Adapted Deuteronomy
28:6)
2. I trust in the living God who gives me richly all things to enjoy. (Adapted 1 Timothy 6:17)
3. My eyes look
expectantly to You, O God and You give me food in due season. You open Your
hand and satisfy my desire. (Adapted Psalm 145:14-16)
4. I know that the
Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and justice for the poor. (Psalm 140:12)
5. The needy shall not always be forgotten and the expectation of the
poor shall not perish. (Psalm 9:18)
6. My sufficiency is from God. (Adapted 2 Corinthians 3:5)
7. My land/business/blog will yield its increase and become profitable. (Adapted Psalm
85:12)
8. He who did not
spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)
After renewing your mind and your mouth with the Word of
God, renew your actions by living right. Be
righteous and truthful in all your financial and other dealings because
the breastplate of righteousness and the belt of truth are the other parts of
the armor of God that we need to put on to fight our spiritual battles.
(Ephesians 6:14-17)
After renewing
yourself spiritually, mentally and verbally, you now have to begin the physical
interventions. Begin by breaking all
poverty promoting habits such as buying things to impress other people and
breaking budgets.
Pray and then position yourself for prosperity by using
your gifts and talents to make money. If you are working under terrible
circumstances like Jacob did, do not despair. Keep your faith in God like Jacob
who told his former employer Laban, “I
served you fourteen years for your daughters and six years for your flock, and
you changed my wages ten times. Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham
and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away
empty handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands.” (Genesis
31:41-42)
God helped Jacob even though he had to persevere for twenty years
under Laban’s treachery and trickery until he prospered so that when he left
his employment, he was able to prepare a gift for his brother Esau that
consisted of 200 female goats and 20
male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams, 30 milk camels with their colts, 40 cows and
10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 foals. (Genesis 32:13-15)
If you are not able to get a regular job, consider it a
blessing in disguise and look into ways of how you can begin making money
online. You can do this by blogging to make money, affiliate marketing (or
selling other people’s products), becoming a virtual assistant (VA), writing
blog posts for other bloggers as a freelance writer or even tutoring online.
If you are sick or disabled in any way, believe that you
can still break the chains of poverty and make money from home by using your
computer. Therefore, begin by taking advantage of the opportunity that you have
right in front of your eyes and work hard.
Work hard even when the going gets very rough and trust
that God can fulfill your desires right there in your disadvantaged situation
just as He maintained the Israelites for 40 years in the wilderness. He rained
manna on them, made quail landed near their tents, and ensured that their clothes
didn’t wear out or get sick with their feet didn’t swelling.
Therefore,
1. Trust in the Lord
2. Do good
3. Dwell in the land
4. Feed on His
faithfulness
5. Delight yourself
also in the Lord
And He shall give you the desires of
your heart. (Psalm 37:3-4)
In addition, since God who has
pleasure in the prosperity of his servant (Psalm 35:27) ensure that you are
serving God in one way or another even as you seek financial independence. This
could be by donating a portion of your time or products to help others and let
them know more about God.
