DELIVERANCE FROM PROSPERITY (2)

From our definition of prosperity, it would follow that poverty is anything we are believing God to take away from us. It could be the absence of money or financial freedom as is well known, the mentality of the same or the absence of recognition, favour or promotion. The absence of ease, rest or peace in a particular area would connote poverty in that area. We all know we can do without poverty. We do not want it. But we do not know or pay heed to the fact that we do not want prosperity- in the sense where it would deny us our heaven, question our salvation or threaten our relationship or fellowship with God.

Then I prayed that prayer by revelation, ‘I will set my eyes and heart on God who is able, through His Son, Jesus and by the Power of His Holy Spirit, to deliver from prosperity, as well as from poverty’. I realized that prosperity is as much a test of our salvation as poverty. Nothing tests humility, meekness and the fear of God as surely as prosperity does. Most will be meek by force under the yoke of poverty. Check these same people out when they get a bit of financial freedom even if it is just three square meals. Compared to where God is taking them, they have not yet started but in the eyes of the poor, a meal is gold and a steady source of that is more than enough for many.

‘I was leading you,’ I heard laid in my spirit. ‘When you did not know, I led you. You prayed to me. You brought everything to me in prayer. Then you got ‘wise. In your own eyes, you became ’wise’. Your eyes opened and you could see. You had money and you could take initiative and you stopped consulting Me.’’

In essence, I got too wise for God. I got too ‘knowing’. God was not smart enough for me, anymore! (Lord have Mercy!) When I did not ‘know’, when my eyes were not yet ‘opened’, I thought (more like, knew) God was All- Wise. I prayed to Him, consulted Him, sought Him on everything and He picked me up, ‘tushed’ me up and placed me among princes. I was wining and dining with great people.

Then I got a plan for myself and it was no longer even, ‘God this is what I want, please do this for me’ talk less of ‘God, what is Your will?’

It was instead, me telling myself, ‘This is what I want.’, and going after it. All of a sudden, God became too slow for me. I was too impatient and ‘too smart’ to wait for and on God.

Now, I thought God did not understand. He did not care. He was not ‘smart’ (Lord, have mercy!). I thought I was being a go-getter. I didn’t realize I was getting myself out of God’s Will and place for my life.

Who was it that said, ‘You can deliver yourself out of trouble but you cannot deliver yourself into God’s Will for your life’? Dare I add that you even deliver yourself out of trouble because He lets you? And you can only get God’s Will for your life with God’s Help?