DEMYSTIFYING POVERTY AND WHAT TO DO

Beloved, poverty is evil and is very bad. One of the greatest tragedy plaguing black man and the entire human race is poverty. It is so disheartening to see our people traveling to foreign countries to work as housemaids, gardener, mortuary attendants, cleaner and all kinds of jobs to survive, it is even worst when academician and people of great intellectual capacity travel abroad to serve their juniors. These are the consequences of poverty. As I am writing this piece, many all kinds of dirty things including ritual just to get out of poverty.

The great grandfather or grandmother of all crimes is poverty. If you look into these crimes critically, you will discover that these crimes can be traced to poverty.

Proverbs 30:8-9"Remove far from me vanity and lies, give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me, Lest I be full , and deny thee and say, who is Lord? OR LEST I BE POOR, AND STEAL, and take the name of my God in vain"

Many are into crime not because they really wanted to do so but because they got stranded, they did not know what else to do to solve their financial problems.

However, if the Government can do something for the jobless as they do in some developed countries, they would not need to employ more armed police because crime would have gone down drastically.

When a man is in need, you put him in a state of being tempted to do anything evil. He is unstable, unbalanced,he
2. He is frightened, fearful and jittery. He can do anything, he can kill, he can commit suicide. He will just do anything to survive. This is what the ritualists do. They may be pricked in their conscience to stop but because of the pressing need they ignored the silent voice of conscience and continue to use human being like them for ritual just for cash. Where will it end them? Of course, they know where they are going. Hell fire.

Poverty can bring shame, reproach and disgrace to a person, family or nation.
Proverbs 14:20 " the poor is hated even if his own neighbor, but the rich man hath many friends"

Poverty can kill. See what is written in the Bible, Proverbs 19:15b " the of the poor is their poverty"

Poverty means: Mr. Nobody or Mr.Useless.

Let's see how poverty can be defined or explained.

The simplest definition of poverty is lack of money, this is just at the peripheral. If we really want to go deep or make it more meaningful, poverty is the absence of good virtue. When a man is devoid of good virtue like patience, honesty, kindness, humility and self control, then the man is extremely poor.
For example, patience a great virtue, you don't have patience, you are considered to be very poor. It is written in the scripture, Proverbs 21:5" The thought of the diligent tend only to plenteousness, but of everyone that is hasty only to want.
So, never be in hurry, one step at time. If you can be patient enough, you will have everything.

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3.it has often been said that the poorest man is the man without vision. To be visionless is to be good for nothing.

Of course, poverty can be herditary. Nobody needs to tell you that there is problem when you discover that your great grandfather, grandfather and your father struggled till they died. This could be generational.
When the great grandfather had covenanted his children children to the next generation to poverty and struggling because of the sin he committed and was cursed. This is generational poverty.
It is necessary to dig deep into your foundations with fasting, weeping, prayer and ask why. Not only that you need to ask questions from a member of your family about what really happened. Then go for deliverance and counseling.

Poverty is dirty and full of rags. The smell of poverty is as the smell of death. You must develop a mindset on how to set it ablaze and destroy it completely.
Poverty must die.


Vocabularies of poverty:

Hardship, adversity, distress, aridity, abjection, bankruptcy, beggary, barrenness.
Poor, frightened, extremely unhappy, unsuccessful,not interesting and lacking imagination.
Emptiness,impotence, bleakness, desolateness.

More from Thesaurus: Poverty
destitution, indigence, misery, neediness, pauperism, penury.

What is poverty?

English dictionary meaning:

Poverty is the state of being poor.

Poverty is any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired.
Poverty of soil
Poverty of blood
Poverty of the spirit.
4. The Bible gave us a perfect example of a poor man named Lazarus in
Like 16: 20-21" And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores. And dressing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores"
This is poverty in the real sense of the word.

Life applications of poverty:

Poverty is when others are sending their children to school, you have no means of doing the same thing.

Poverty will make a man to commit suicide because his wife could no longer endure it.

Poverty will make a man carry heavy load until his becomes bald.

Acidic poverty is what will make a 60yrs old man to use small carriage to move goods for a 30yrs old lady.

Having enough without the business prowess is a tragedy. He is okay financially but poor mentally.

When you eat what you see and not what you like then there is poverty.

Poverty becomes a curse when you begin to fight your God sent helpers unnecessarily.

Poverty is to marry a deficit as husband or wife. The man is demonized with the spirit of poverty. After the marriage, every good things the wife had disappeared, cars, houses, landed property and so on, they began to beg for money 3 months after wedding.

Poverty is to feel to big to do small thing that will bring money.

Poverty is to spend all your night to sleep, no time to pray or read. It is an invitation to Poverty.
5. Poverty is to have more than enough children, 5 children, husband and wife living in one room apartment of face me and face you.

Poverty is to be known with only one cloth, tattered and dirty.

Poverty is to sleep in the street or under the bridge.

Money versus poverty

Having enough money without the business prowess is a tragedy. The person may be okay financially but poor mentally.

Money is not everything, money is limited when it comes to health issue but a good attitude and great mindset will assist in keeping the wealth.

Godly attitude is needed to overcome poverty

A man with a bad attitude will destroy his business. Humility, honesty, kindness, forgiveness must not be found wanting in life of a man. These virtues are more important than your chain of certificates.


Are there solutions to one of the most prevalent problem on earth?
Poverty?


I have to be honest with you. The solutions to poverty is highly complicated.

There are so many things to do because problems varies from person to person, place to place, community to community, town to town and village to village.

The first step to take is acknowledged that there is a problem and that you cannot save yourself. When the problem is highly complicated only God can save you.
First thing first, acknowledge that you have gone far away from God then humble yourself, go on your knees and be sorrowful for your wayward life, repent of any known sins and them surrender your life to Jesus Christ.
6. Now, the journey to destroy poverty begins

1. Matthew 6:33 " Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you"

Be kingdom addicted with undying love for the expansion of God's kingdom.
Matthew 22:37 " Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"

Once you have the mindset of loving God with all your heart then it be easy for you give yourself or surrender everything to God.
Romans 12:1 " I beseech you therefore, brethren by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service"

2. Never be misled by some preachers that you don't need to pray for wealth that all you need to do is to give and that is all. No need to pray. Just give. This is a lie from the pit of hell.
Let's see Jabez in the Bible, Jabez prayed until he became and institution. This is Bible standard. Everything needs prayer. You cannot rule out prayer. Prayer is a necessity. It is the wealth of Poverty.
You need prayer to be blessed and also to keep the wealth.

What kind of prayer do you pray?
Prayer for self discovery. Who are you? Who am I? What am supposed to do? What is my purpose in life? This is very important because you may be doing the wrong thing now as I write. If you are supposed to be driver and you say you want to be a pastor. This is destiny diversion. Poverty number one.
7. Prayer to destroy unknown curses that might have been created by your great grandfather, grandfather and father. Great grandmother, grandmother and mother.
Psalm 11:3 if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
No matter how well read you are. No matter your level of education, you may even have PHD, but if there is an unbroken curse of " you will not prosper" in your father's house or mother's house. You can never be free from poverty. You will have money today, tommorow, you are broke. You will never have more than enough to the extent that you give out to people.

Next, what do you pray for? You pray to destroy evil covenant.

Pray for divine helpers. God should send helpers of destiny to you and connect you to them permanently. God should separate you from unfriendly friends bringing poverty into your life, they could be your closest friends. You may not know, you need to pray that God should open your eyes to see these people.

Pray for divine favor. God's favor to be on you and your handiwork.

Pray for open heaven. Your personal heaven should tear for abundance.

Pray for uncommon wisdom. Pray creative ideas

Pray for money magnetizing power.

Get prayer books from the nearest MFM bookshop or MFM Church. Don't just pray useless prayers. Pray targeted prayers.
8. Bad investment of your money. Never be deceived by any business you have not fasted and pray about. Don't be tempted to jump into an online marketing business or Facebook business you know nothing about. It could be a trap. Always seek counsel from experience people and ask questions why the business is not known by everyone. Ask why they are hiding it from people. Ask from these business men how many houses they have built. Most importantly, pray and seek the face of God if you want invest huge amount of money on any business, besides, make sure there is market for what you are investing your money on.


9. Your company of friends and the people you communicate with everyday will determine your prosperity. If you move with the people that are empty headed, empty heart, empty brain then the life will be empty. People that cannot think properly. All they know is to dress half naked. No vision. No purpose in life. NFA meaning no future ambition.

10. Knowledge about how to manage money to bring huge profit is very important.

11. Confessing the word of God daily. Joshua 1:8 the book of the law msut depart out your mouth. What you say is what you see and what you see is what you get.

12. Pray for the anointing of the holy Spirit. The anointing of God attracts wealth into your hands.

13. Doing your business with so much perfection to the extent that people have no choice except to come to you because of the way do their work and the way you treat them. 9.everyday, it goes a long way to reduce crime and poverty do.

Individuals, corporate organizations, service providers should come out with a plan to help people and reduce poverty in the land.

The Church too has a big role to play. The Church has been helping people a lot but they need to be more specific about their way of helping people.
For example, instead of building project, money can be invested in people. Say #200,000 for one converted prostitute or new convert to start a business. This is how money can help in establishing soul in the Lord.

MTN, Airtel, Glo, Etisalat are called upon to be more specific about helping people out of Poverty. Empower one man per month and follow him up. This will ultimately reduce poverty.

Free distribution of books or free education by the Government to help the less privilege is another way.
The Government can also pay unemployed graduate or jobless people some money to keep them away from crime. Crime rate will reduce and police will have less job to do. The great-grandfather of crime is poverty.