STOP POVERTY IN YOUR LIFE
Leviticus 25:35; 3 John 1:2
Today we are starting to consider a series on the topic: Stop Poverty in Your Life. In this series, the first thing we are going to do is to establish why it is important to stop poverty in our lives. God has not designed us for poverty. Therefore, accommodating poverty is doing what is contrary to God’s will. It is the responsibility of every child of God to do what is needed within the confines of the word of God and God’s guiding principles to stop poverty in our lives. Note that poverty is not a virtue. It is against God’s will for our life.
Why must we stop poverty?
- Poverty leads to decay. According to the book of Leviticus, chapter 25 verse 35, the Bible says, and if thy brother be waxing poor and falling in decay with thee, then thou shall relieve him, yea, though he be a stranger or a sojourner that he may live with thee. This scripture implies that poverty leads to decay and God does not desire that any of us, his children, live a life of decay. Therefore, we must not allow poverty in our lives so that our lives will not be look like a decay.
- We have to stop poverty because poverty makes a person become a commodity. It is not God’s plan for any of his children to become ‘tradable commodities’ sold from one man to another. But one of the instruments of the devil to make people become almost less than human and become commodities of trade, is poverty. In Genesis, we see Egyptians selling their all and themselves to be able to buy food to eat in the time of famine (Genesis 47). Therefore, poverty reduces people to commodities. As sons and daughters of God, it is our responsibility to refuse poverty completely so that poverty does not reduce us to become what can be traded from man to man.
- Poverty makes a man’s life to be full of sorrows. In Luke 16:20, we find the story of Lazarus, a child of God who was a beggar namedLazarus. The Bible said this man Lazarus laid at the gate and he was full of sores. Poverty is the only reason why a man will have sores and be unable to treat.
Therefore this morning we remind you that poverty is not a virtue and God does not expect us to accommodate poverty. As we go further into the studies in the coming days, we will discuss how to fight poverty and win the victory as have been provided for us by God.
CONFESSION: There is no place for poverty in my life and destiny.
