Poverty Is Not The Lack Of Money; Poverty Is The Proof Of Misguided Money.

              Poverty Is Not The Lack Of Money; Poverty Is

                      The Proof Of Misguided Money

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                                       Proverbs 11:24-25 (NKJV)

                                      “There is one who scatters, yet increases more;

                                   And there is one who withholds more than is right,

                                                         But it leads to poverty.

                                        The generous soul will be made rich,

                                     And he who waters will also be watered himself.”

Against the popular consensus, poverty is not the lack of money. Just

because you don’t have money doesn’t me you are impoverished. Many

times, the lack of money or poverty is the result of years of one

misguiding their money. I remember many years ago when I was just a

young boy hearing a conversation between my mother and father. My

father said to my mother, “What should we buy, beer or bread?” At

that time we didn’t have enough money for both, so they had to choose

between beer and bread. My mother responded, “Let’s buy beer.”

It wasn’t that my parents didn’t have money. They just used their

money in the wrong way. How do you spend your money? Do you see it

as a seed or simply money? Do you generously give it or hoard it? Does

it go toward the things of God or toward fulfilling the lusts of your

flesh? Where your money goes determines whether you walk in

abundance or in poverty. The choice is yours. Poverty is not the lack of

money; poverty is the proof of misguided money.

                                               CONFESSION

                       “Poverty Is Not The Lack Of My Having Money.

                      Poverty Is The Proof I Have Misguided My Money.”

SCRIPTURE READING Proverbs 13