Poverty Mindset

 

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I have never been poor, I have been broke many times but never poor. Poor is a mindset. Mike Todd.

 

A poverty mindset is demonic. 

not just the poverty mindset of never having enough money, but also opportunities, health, favor, grace, power to manifest Jesus, 

A poverty mindset is simply saying “Jesus is not enough”. 

 

Look Im not saying we spend money foolishly and I am not saying that we don’t save money or invest money… but what I am saying is the mindset as to how we see money. Do you see it as available to everyone? Do you see Gods favor available to you? 

It is simply having faith that God will provide what he has promised and what he has already paid for us to have. 

Look in todays financial climate… it is easy to be poverty conscious and feel like there will never be enough. Inflation is extremely high, banks are failing, gas is sky high, if you are selling your house you will probably lose money… its a mindset. Oh, all these things are true but my mindset is one of abundance.

Someone asked John D. Rockefeller (of all people) "How much wealth does it

take to satisfy a person?" He replied, "Just a little bit more." The Romans

had a proverb: "Money is like sea water; the more you drink, the thirstier

you become.”

This is completely a poverty mindset… I will never have enough, and the more I get the more I will need, and the more I get the more I will need. 

 

I love giving money away, I love giving stuff away. I bet I have given 10 guitars away, I have probably given 7K in the last year away… mostly to complete strangers… I give my stuff away all the time. But here is what is funny, I almost never give it out of an excess in my life, But I do give it out of a mindset of abundance. I recently walked in to a gas station and the a woman working there god told me to give her $160 that was in my wallet….  actually he told me to give everything I had in my wallet to her and tell her it was for her family… and THEN I realized how much it was. but at the exact same time I was in need of money for my own needs and my own family. But I can honestly say I had absolutely no reservation in giving it to her and in fact i kind of laughed and said to myself… “I wonder how God is going to meet my needs”. About 3 days later someone handed me an envelop with 2K dollars in it. 

There are many weeks where I have no idea what to preach on, but I have an abundance mindset so I don’t panic. I know God is a giver and he will tell me what to preach on with enough time to study and prepare… and yes it sometimes  is Saturday night… But if I let a poverty mindset take over I try to preach a sermon from the past or I preach someone else’s sermon… and you know what it might sound great, people might love it… but with no spiritual impact.

An abundance mindset says “Gods got about a million sermons he has for me”… I will just trust him. 

Luke 6:38 give and it shall be given unto you…

Very common verse, but the whole contest of all these verses surrounding this verse teaches us that the mindset you operate in is what you will reap. 

Be merciful and you will be treated with mercy… you may not be experiencing mercy when God calls on you to extend mercy… but you have a mercy mindset so you do it anyway. Love those who can’t love you back… and you may not be experience much love at that point, but you have a love mindset so you love anyways… and yes give money to those who will never pay you back, but you give anyways because you have an abundance mindset. 

TODAY YOU ARE FREE TO LAY DOWN YOUR POVERTY MINDSET AND TO TUNE IN TO YOUR MINDSET OF ABUNDANCE.