Roll Away the Stone of Poverty

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.  Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been [dead] four days.John Chapter 11 verses 38 to 39.

Lazarus is an abstraction for the name Eliezer meaning God has helped. This means that instant help at all times from God was available to Lazarus yet he fell sick, died and was buried because Jesus Christ did not show up when Lazarus was sick. Eventually, Jesus arrived and was taken to the tomb where Lazarus lay almost beginning to rot. The stone covering the tomb blocked entrance into the tomb therefore no one could access Lazarus. Jesus then ordered that the stone should be rolled away.  The stone constituted a blockade. Until the stone was removed, Jesus could not intervene and when the stone was removed at the command of Jesus Christ, Jesus intervened. The stone was blocking Lazarus’ exit from the tomb which explains why Jesus commanded the stone to be rolled away.

Beloved, this implies that open gates grant access to miracles. Miracles of course differ but for this article, the focus is on the miracle of abundant wealth to people who hitherto had never known or accessed wealth. Please see Isaiah Chapter 60 verses 11 to 13 for an understanding of how open gates translates to the transference of wealth. Wealth cannot be transferred if the gates that the wealth will pass through are barricaded by a stumbling stone. Stumbling stones may not necessarily be physical. They could be spiritual and mental or either.

Unbelief and doubt can constitute great stumbling blocks to wealth if they are not rolled away like the stone at the tomb. This is because unbelief makes people doubt the word of God and therefore disobey God’s instructions to make wealth. Additionally unbelief denies people the precious presence of the Holy Spirit Who helps people make wealth by directing them on what to do with regards to who to associate with and where to be or go to in order to make wealth. In Luke Chapter 1 verse 45, the Bible records that the word of God to Mary was performed because she believed. The performance of God’s word and His promises on abundant wealth is therefore a function of your belief. To roll away the stone of poverty, whether generational or not, it is your responsibility to drop the filthy garments of unbelief so that your faith can become stronger.

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Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Move: Refuse to be immobilized and rooted o a spot. The four lepers at the gate of Samaria moved from the city and gate of Samaria where there was famine to the camp of the Syrian army where there was abundance. Please see 2^nd Kings Chapter 7 verses 3 to 9.

The four leprous men at the entrance of the gate at Samaria were probably beggars which explain why they sat at the gate to receive alms. But alms were not forthcoming because of the long siege by Ben-Hadad, King of Syria against Samaria. The siege resulted in a famine that made people eat up their children (2^nd Kings Chapter 6 verses 24 to 33). Prices of food also skyrocketed. The King and people of Samaria were in a dilemma. When would the famine end? When and how would the siege end considering that they had no military might against Ben-Hadad? Besides inflation would continue to soar as long as the siege continued; and cannibalism would become the norm. Something had to be done and quickly too. The King threatened to kill Elisha and wondered why he should wait for God any longer when he was quite sure that the calamity was from God.

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Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

While poverty can be multi dimensional, the tools for eliminating poverty are also multidimensional. Therefore if poverty shows up as financial poverty, you start the elimination process by cultivating and maintaining a fervent relationship with God, repent of all the known and unknown sins that festered poverty in your lineage (most times poverty is generational), in you and  then ask God for what to do. You can start from the Bible where the promises of God concerning financial abundance are myriad. Please see Deuteronomy Chapter 15 verse 6, 28 verses 12 and 13, 2^nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 9, 3^rd John 1 and 2.

Certainly, there is a spiritual dimension to challenges but that dimension can be addressed spiritually by dealing with the spirits and satanic beings behind the oppression through the blood of Jesus Christ rather than dancing around the spiritual oppression through divination, complacency, pity parties and what have you. Complacency is actually quicksands. It sinks you deep into a rut where you are hampered by the inability to get out of whatever rut you need to get out of.

You can break out of poverty if you make up your mind to do so irrespective of the odds stacked against you. You can start now and immediately reject and renounce poverty no matter how long poverty has resided in your lineage. You can do this by a reorientation from generational mindsets regarding poverty and wealth. Study generational expenditure patterns, income generating patterns, wealth creation mentality, what people recourse to when faced by challenges. Do the members of this family ever seek out their divine purposes on earth? Do they exist to eat and breed children, with no generational impact on humanity other than just eat and breed children? Do they celebrate poverty as a mark of righteousness and piety? Poverty is not a mark of righteousness and piety. It is a mark of satanic opposition.

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Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Nobody was created poor by God. Everyone was designed to be wealthy in the original plan of God for man. However, sin interfered and brought poverty along which explains why Jesus Christ became poor so that humanity can regain wealth. Please see 2nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 9. Therefore, the choice and decision to be wealthy is yours irrespective of wherever you are now in the wealth pedestal and whatever circumstances assail you. The choice and decision to be wealthy has to be accompanied by a speedy and prompt mental paradigm shift that will dislodge all the mental strongholds of poverty entrenched in your mental processes over the years. 

Poverty means lack, absence of capacity. A state of lack or want is a state of poverty reflecting spiritual poverty, ignorance, poverty of ideas, financial poverty, emotional poverty, psychological poverty, material poverty, poverty of ethics, etc. Therefore, poverty incapacitates, most often to stagnate, to hinder or limit progress, to slow down and to progressively destroy. 

Poverty is satanic and manifests the following symptoms – spiritual poverty, mental poverty, including intellectual poverty, financial poverty, physical poverty, etc. Poverty is also multi dimensional and afflicts at various levels – mental, physical, intellectual, marital, spiritual, financial, economic, social and political. Even when poverty is satanically induced, it can be eliminated at the foot of the cross through total surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God never intended poverty for anyone. It is a tool of the enemy to stop people from entering into and actualizing the plans and purposes of God for their lives. No matter the hydra headed dimensions of poverty, the satanic altars serving it, the events and circumstances in your life that make it seem like poverty is your lot in life, beloved, hear the word of God in 2nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 9. From this Scripture, it is clear that poverty is not God’s plan for anyone. Secondly, poverty can be eliminated because over 2, 000 years ago, Jesus Christ paid the full price for the elimination of poverty. Please see Colossians Chapter 2 verses 12 to 15, 1st John Chapter 3 verse 8. Therefore, if poverty afflicts you on account of sin (be it personal, ancestral, community, national) or it is satanically engineered, Jesus Christ has paid the full penalty for it. What you need to do is take the poverty and all its branches and root to the foot of the cross for total destruction and elimination from your life and lineage. God is faithful and will gladly do it as His desire and plan for you is to live an abundant life in Christ Jesus.