Friday, June 7, 2019

Make Wealth Happen - Lessons from the Widow of the Indebted Prophet


Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha


You may be born poor but you were not created poor. God did not create you poor which explain why He gave you the power to make wealth as recorded in Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verse 18. God also gave Jesus Christ as sacrifice for you to become rich. Please read 2nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 9.

Beloved, the circumstances of your birth, lineage, nationality, race and whatever may boldly scream poor, poor, dirt poor but please note that God Who created you for a purpose and Who loves you enough to sacrifice His only Child for you did not create you poor. Everything you require to become wealthy was already deposited in you at creation before the foundation of the world. God created you rich, a lender to the nations. Please read Deuteronomy Chapters 15 verse 6 and 28 verses 11 to 13. Therefore, do not allow your circumstances place limitations on you so that you do not make the necessary effort to take the relevant steps to get out of poverty.
You are created rich and can easily, by the grace and power of God alongside the divine wisdom of God get out of poverty in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.



The widow of the indebted prophet is a classic example. The family was poor, poor as they come which explain why they lived on debt. Unfortunately, the man of the house who had piled up the huge debt died. This was another unfortunate incident in this poor family because the death of the man implied that the debt would not be paid any time soon. So the creditor came calling on the family – he would take the two sons of the debtor for debt servitude. This was probably the wakeup call which the woman required. Only recently widowed, her two sons were to be taken away by the creditor for slavery. The woman was overwhelmed. She ran to Prophet Elisha to do something about the situation; to ensure that her two sons were not taken away into debt servitude.



Significantly and quite instructive, Elisha did something. But it was way beyond the wildest imagination of the woman who was used to living off debt and probably the generosity of family members and friends. Elisha did not cancel the debt, did not command the creditor to back off. Rather, for the first time in the life of the woman, she was to engage in an economic activity which would give the family income, income to pay off their debts and income to live on for the rest of their lives. They were no longer to live off debts and the generosity of other people. They were to earn their own money and live debt free.

Beloved, it had never occurred to this woman and her children that they could ever earn their own money. But Elisha’s instruction to her and her sons showed them how to do so. Significantly, there was a mental paradigm shift in their consciousness. The widow and her sons dropped the consciousness of debtors, and took on the consciousness of lenders to the nations. And as they obeyed the Prophet to the latter, they made wealth happen and became not only debt free but respectable members of their community. Also, God’s intervention in their lives through divine directives given by Elisha opened their eyes of understanding that they were not poor people who could never earn livable income and would therefore always be borrowing. It also made them realize that God blessed them with the innate capacity to make wealth; be debt free and respectable. Significantly, you do not have to lie, to cheat or steal or even do anything ungodly and illegal. All you need to do is to partner with God and He will help you make wealth happen just as He did for the widow and her two sons.

Beloved, you have great innate potentials to be wealthy, very wealthy if you so decide. Your present circumstances which appear challenging are actually the stepping stones, disguised opportunities which you need to make wealth happen, because together with God, you can make wealth happen, be debt free and be respectable in your community. Take the leap of faith which you urgently need today, identify the income generating activity you want to engage in, commit it to God and proceed to wealth city. May God bless and favor you as you embark on this divine journey to unleash your divine but innate potentials in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Shalom


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