Combating the Spirit of Poverty: Knowledge
Combat according to Google means to take action to reduce or prevent (something bad or undesirable). It also means to engage in a fight with; opposite in battle. Some synonyms are fight, battle against, wage war against (*insert tongues here lol*), stand up to, attack, prevent, stop, hinder, frustrate, check, and put an end to.
This. One. Is. Deep.
When I tell you God has shown me such powerful revelation concerning this, I’m blown away, and of course, I had to go through this myself. I am still learning as we speak. Poverty is not just something that comes in the form of an entity, like a demon or evil spirit, but the knowledge or ignorance that a person may possess. Yes, ignorance is not the only thing that can hinder us, the things we learned and now know from what we’ve collected as we've gone through life can hinder us. We must unlearn some things and learn the right things. We must let go of the old to bring in the new, the new wine can not do well in the old wineskins (Matthew 9:17). The old things you may have learned about money are not fit for how you should be handling it now. Yes, it’s important to get deliverance to rid you of any spiritual oppression, however, to steward true freedom well, you must now fill up that empty spot with the things of the spirit of God. We have to make sure that in order to stay delivered we have the revelation that will keep us delivered. The word of God in Proverbs 9:11 b tells us “An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. The righteous are delivered by knowledge. It is for this same reason, when you see a person who is mature in the faith, you do not see them seeking help from people all the time to help them overcome challenges. They have matured in the knowledge of God through the word of God and obeying it. They know how to fight and how to depend on God more than people. So they can discern when to seek help from a fellow brother or sister in Christ. The more you obey the word of God, the less you will find demons tormenting you because it is from the scripture we get wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge and wisdom go hand in hand, this is why it’s important to ask God for both. Wisdom and knowledge will save and preserve your life.
Proverbs 3:15-22 KJV "She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Long life is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. By wisdom the Lord hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths were broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion; So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck."
Proverbs 4:5-9 KJV, “Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Though Proverbs correlates to the Hebrew language, the word wisdom in the Greek stood out to me. According to the Blue Letter Bible app, Wisdom (G4678- Sophia) means:
wisdom, broad and full of intelligence; used of the knowledge of very diverse matters
the wisdom which belongs to men
spec. the varied knowledge of things human and divine, acquired by acuteness and experience, and summed up in maxims and proverbs
the science and learning
the act of interpreting dreams and always giving the sagest advice
the intelligence evinced in discovering the meaning of some mysterious number or vision
skill in the management of affairs
devout and proper prudence in intercourse with men not disciples of Christ, skill and discretion in imparting Christian truth
the knowledge and practice of the requisites for godly and upright living
supreme intelligence, such as belongs to God
to Christ
the wisdom of God as evinced in forming and executing counsels in the formation and government of the world and the scriptures
Definition of Knowledge (according to Google)
facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.
You have to break the covenant you came into agreement with in how you may have handled money in seasons prior or currently, repenting if you have been an immature steward over your finances. Why? Because while you did that, you made a covenant with mammon not just by worshipping him but giving him legal rights to lord over your finances. To do what he wanted over it, and your bloodline, as long as the contract kept rolling. The thing some Christians don’t understand, unfortunately, is that you don’t get to choose how strong a demon oppresses you once you choose to have a relationship with it, it doesn’t matter how inconsistent you are with this demon to play it “safe”, once you chose to cheat on God, you loose protection rights that you only get in being completely faithful to Him. This is why Jesus told us in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” We have to make it right with God and break off anything that is preventing His will from being done in our lives, whether we did it knowingly or unknowingly, before Christ or after. This open door can come from handling someone else’s money like a parent or friend, who may not be doing well with their finances because of greed and poor decisions, so you’ve been taking that burden upon your self when it was not meant for you to right someone else’s wrongs especially if they refuse to do right or receive correction.
You may have to come out of agreement with a curse is upon the land that you live on or once use to stay in. For example, if your family is orginally from a third world country where poverty is prevalent and you moved to the United States, you might want to break any covenants concerning the land of that nation. Or if you grew up (or even currently living in) in an impoverished neighborhood, than you should come out of agreement with any agreements, covenants, and contracts, that is upon the land.
For the majority of us, this can also be a bloodline issue. A generational curse that we have to break by the blood of Jesus Christ. To deal with bloodline issues, you must use the blood of Jesus. It’s the only blood that can cleanse us from sin issues and reverse the wrong that has been done in our generational line. Hebrews 12:24 KJV states, “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” Many of our ancestors were not always the praying grandmother or grandfather, some have partaken in witchcraft, freemasonry, eastern star religions, sororities/ fraternities, and other occultic groups or even participated in occultic rituals. Whether it was for fame, fortune, power, protection, doors were open to the enemy that gave Him legal right over the bloodline to oppress us however he would want. But glory be to God we can now break curses through our Lord Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:13, “ Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” We have the power to break curses through prayer as blood-bought believers in Jesus Christ.
This revelation is important because many who are Christian, living for the Lord, may not know why there may be a stronghold concerning their finances, trying to pinpoint the exact cause or even blame themselves and still find no solution. Sometimes the problem is not a lack of obedience or righteousness that a person may be living in, but the lack of knowledge concerning a matter. This is why we have the privilege to repent on behalf of or even as our ancestors according to Leviticus 26:40, “ If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;.” This is why we must seek God for everything because He will eventually reveal what you need to know when he sees your desperation and desire to know.
Jeremiah 29: 12-14 KJV, “Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”
Matthew 7:7 KJV, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
Prayer
Dear Lord, Heavenly Father, I present myself to you today to thank you for this revelation that you have revealed to me. I thank you Lord that you have kept your promise by delivering me with your knowledge as your word tells us “it’s by knowledge that the just are delivered. Lord God, I repent for myself and as my ancestors for all the wrong we have done towards you especially in the place of finances. I repent for every time we sacrificed our children to Moloch for the sake of fortune and then entered into a covenant with Mammon. I repent for every time we partook in demonic rituals, sacrifices, witchcraft, voodoo, channeling the dead, etc. I repent for every time I involved myself in someone else’s finances that were not right in your sight and that were in covenant with other spirits outside of you, whether I knew it or not. I repent for operating on my own understanding and not humbling myself with a willing spirit to ask you for guidance concerning such matters. I renounce, denounce, come out of agreement, and divorce myself and my family line from every demonic contract, altar, covenant and incantation that has tied us to Moloch, Mammon, and other evil spirits. I repent that we entered into a covenant with them, and now we need to come out of it, Lord, please have mercy on us and spare us from all demonic retaliation that would try to come because of our choice to obey and completely surrender to you. I break covenant and divorce myself and my bloodline from every curse upon the land (you can be specific) that is hindering me from living in your will for my life, financially, matrimonially, mentally, spiritually, and every other area in my life. I make a public declaration in both the physical and spiritual realm that I am under the new covenant of Jesus Christ, according to Hebrews 12:24, “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over myself, my bloodline, land, husband, children, finances, and anything else concerning me. I declare that Jesus is now Lord over all these things. I pray in the name and blood of Jesus, Amen.
God bless you all and thank you for taking the time to read. I pray this blessed you.
Also, If you would like to accept the love of God and His son, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, or even if you have backslidden and want to return to the Lord, Here’s a prayer to guide you.
“ God almighty, I come before you to accept your love, to no longer reject you and what you have done for me. I choose to stop running from you and to finally stop rejecting myself of your love. Thank you for dying for me Lord Jesus, thank you for taking on my sins and shame. Thank you Lord that you became a curse for me so that I would no longer be bound by them but set free by your blood that was shed for me. Thank You for making yourself available to me, as friend, father, Lord, God, helper, comforter, savior, and all the good things I need in my life. Jesus I love you and ask you to help me keep loving you like how you want me to. I accept you completely as my Lord and savior, not what this world and demons have presented to me. Now I declare in the both spiritual and physical realm, that I not longer belong to Satan nor his Kingdom but according to Colossians 1:13, God has delivered me from the kingdom of darkness and has placed me in the Kingdom of light, where Jesus Christ is, I declare I belong to Jesus Christ and I now seat with Him In heavenly places. I rebuke all demonic retaliation in me making this decision and come into agreement with a sound mind in Jesus name. I repent, renounce, denounce, and divorce myself from all the sins I’ve committed (list what you can remember) and break the evil covenants associated with them, and I declare once again I am a part of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. In Jesus name I pray and seal this prayer in His blood, Amen.”
Hallelujah! Congratulations if you made this decision. I pray that you prevail in your walk in the Lord, that forces of darkness continue to fail concerning you, and that the forces of light continue to persevere and propel you in the name of Jesus.
And if you have not yet, get you a Bible. Please, it’s a lot of ghetto foolishness concerning Christianity and religion. The Bible is the only way to protect you from it and will show you how to be a Christian and have a real relationship with Jesus Christ.
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