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| Stanley Chuck |
God’s
prosperity is superior to man’s prosperity; God’s blessing is not limited like
man’s, and it is sorrow-free. We read in the scripture that, the blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And
He adds no sorrow with it – Proverbs 10:22.
I
like you to know that this is important because we have to know the source of
true prosperity. Man can make you rich but not richer than himself; man’s
blessing is limited but God’s is endless and sorrow-free.
Poverty limits people, even socially. There is a class you cannot access
if you are poor, no matter how anointed you are. The
greatest freedom a man can attend is economic freedom; the black nations have
no vote at the UN because of economic backwardness. No man ever has undivided
respect in his home without first, gaining financial freedom. You need to be
economically strong to determine where to live. I do not say these things to
you to make you feel bad; I tell you raw facts and reality.
Now
to break the limit of poverty, you must begin with vision. God’s blessing to
man is not always God-determined; it is vision-determined. It is vision that
determines the measure of your prosperity; God makes provision but vision
determines the allocation; God’s provision is provided for all, but a man’s
vision determines his allocation; God is inexhaustible and unlimited but it is
the vision of a man that limits the man.
A
few scripture reference will tell you how it is you that determines your
provision. Heaven belongs to God but he has given man the heart to possess – He
says to Abram, Lift up your eyes and look
from the place where you are – northward, southward, eastward, and westward;
for all the land which you see, I give to you and your descendants forever.
Genesis 13:14-15. Now I like you to know that you cannot go ahead until you
see ahead; vision is a motivator; what you can’t see, you can’t pursue. In
verse 15, God will not give you
everything he has; he only gives you what you can see from all he has, so your
journey into greatness begins with your vision. Not often what you studied in
school that determines where you are but what you can see. Your salary is not
the end of your vision; God’s blessing is on daily basis; it says: give us this day our daily bread. Though a man’s salary is the reward of his labour, but God’s
blessing is a daily favour.
God
said to Jeremiah, you have seen well.
Be conscious of the fact that God is always excited by your vision; your vision
is your meeting point with God; His word is delayed by your vision; he starts
working with your vision. There is always a better place than where you are;
vision is seeing beyond the immediate. Thank God for where you are but see
beyond the immediate; see beyond your salary; you are limiting yourself by
settling with the status quo.
When
you lack vision, you always settle with and worry about the unimportant issues
of life. Your car engine knocks down, and your heart knocks down as well
because you are thinking of where to get the money to fix it. We are restless
and worry about most things in life because we always do not see ahead of us.
Only what you see is what God will give you.
Vision
motivates superiority mentality; begin to imagine a future in prosperity; it is
a process of bringing tomorrow into reality. With vision, your actuality is
born because; it is with your mentality, another word for vision that
determines your actuality.
Poverty
is a spirit and what it does is to hold down the mentality of its victims; it
makes one think inferior; makes you think like a beggar and borrower. This
spirit has affected the black man of our time. The spirit of poverty is the
spirit of inferiority; the spirit of prosperity is the spirit of superiority.
That was the spirit that worked in Abraham, that when king Melchezedek offered
him gifts, he refused.
The
spirit of poverty always makes you think of what to get and not what to give;
whom to get from and not whom to give.