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Beating the Spirit of Poverty When It Attacks Your Calling

There is an actual spirit of poverty—a demonic force—in the world that loves to rob and steal from God’s people. Today, we will talk about how to beat the spirit of poverty when it attacks your calling.

The spirit of poverty plunders Christians by influencing their thought patterns.

If you want to carry out dreams big enough to glorify God and fulfill your commissioning to do greater works, then you’ll need to take proactive steps to beat the foul spirit of poverty.

The spirit of poverty wants you to believe you are worthless. Not only does it want you to believe you are worthless, but it also wants you to believe:

• your call and ministry are worthless;
• your voice is worthless;
• you have nothing important or worthwhile to say or contribute;
• your net worth should demonstrate worthlessness; and
• you should not be paid for your labor and service/ministry to humanity.

But you know what? The devil and his minions are liars, and none of those evil whisperings are true.

The TRUTH is you and your calling have immeasurable, inestimable value and worth.

Jesus Christ deemed you so valuable that He was willing to be:

• imprisoned;
• beaten;
• stripped naked in public;
• accused;
• abandoned;
• betrayed;
• publicly humiliated;
• convicted unjustly of crimes He didn’t commit; and, ultimately,
• give His life FOR YOU. Yes, YOU are worth that much.

Jesus paid the price for you with something far more precious than money: blood.

He poured out His life for you. He freely gave every drop of blood in His innocent body for you. You were worth it to Him then, and you’re worth it to Him now.

Know this today: Blood is not a currency that pays for worthless things. It doesn’t even pay for lesser things. For example, you don’t purchase gasoline for your automobile with blood. You don’t buy your lunch with blood. You don’t purchase groceries with blood.

Why? Because these are lesser things. But YOU are one of God’s greatest works, and He deemed you worth dying for. He deemed you worth purchasing back from the slave market of sin with the blood of His precious Son, Jesus.

If God thinks you were worth dying for–and He’s the One who created both your time and your testimony–then your testimony, message, labor, creativity, knowledge, understanding, and calling also have value in every way.

What you have to say matters. Your contributions to the earth matter.

See, the enemy would love for you to think you are worthless. But you’re not. The blood of Jesus proves otherwise. This means that you can be confident when you walk in your calling, knowing:

• you have something worthwhile to say and contribute;
• people will listen to you as you testify of God and share your talents with the world (and even if only one person listens at first, thank God for the one; your influence will grow over time), and
• yes, you can even get paid for doing what you’re called to do. Your message is a needed service to humanity, and people get paid for serving humanity!

You can beat the spirit of poverty with the truth of God’s Word:

You are called, ordained, and appointed for such a time as this. Your calling has worth; your message has value; and you don’t have to starve or stay in the back row, in the shadows, or at the back of the line for the rest of your life.

The evil spirit of poverty would love to rob you of the joy and blessing accompanying your calling. Don’t let it. The blessing of the Lord makes you rich (in every way–spiritually, physically, relationally, emotionally, and financially), and He adds no sorrow to it. Walk in your calling with confidence today, for you have inestimable value in God’s eyes.