Ever since I was little, I began planning who I was going to be when I got older, and where I was planning to go. You see, I came from a household where there was not a lot of money. There were even more limited resources. So, I made it up in my mind that I would do and be whatever it took to become successful-not wanting for anything. I never wanted to run out of money. And I never wanted to be in a position to where I only could afford needs, and not very many wants. I let this become my obsession, giving the enemy the entry he needed to attack me with it. I had to learn that once I allowed something (worldly desire) to become my main concern-my obsession, then it becomes my god-taking the very place of my Heavenly Father. As a result of my sowing this bad seed, I was plagued with financial problems for the most part of my adult life. I worked two jobs (when Chastity was little), and I went back to school, achieving multiple degrees. Yet, I never achieved the financial freedom that I had chased my entire life.
I didn't understand how I had worked so hard and so much to get to a certain place in life-one without financial limits-yet, financial abundance still eluded me. No matter what I did, and no matter what I tried, I still found myself in lack. After much frustration and confusion, I started trying to figure out what was going on in my life (on my own). Again, I had left God out of a certain period in my life! After I realized that I was simply chasing my own tail, and losing my peace everyday, I finally realized that I needed to start back talking to God. I needed to understand what what happening in my life. In doing so, He made me realize that it was my own actions that had placed me in such a predicament. For, I had put something else in His place in my life. He made me realize that I should have never relied on my own self, my degrees, etc., to get me to a place of financial dependence. I should have relied solely on Him to get me to where I wanted to go in life. He made me realize that instead of chasing the "almighty dollar" to get me to where I was trying to go, I should have been chasing Him for direction to where He wanted me to go! And because I did not do things decently and in order ("Let all things be done decently and in order" (1 Corinthians 14:40)), I had to pay the price for such rebellion! I had given the enemy permission to wreak havoc in my finances! I had given him permission to place me in a financial pit-never being able to climb out!
But, once I called out to God, He came for me once again! He made me remember the power that He had already given me, as a believer in Him! So, I started to declare His will over my life and in my finances! I confessed and repented, and I started following His principles in the Bible again, applying every promise He had made to me! Once I started back tithing and sowing seeds of expectation, releasing my faith that God had something better for me, that is when my financial situation started to change! That's when I began to experience a shift in my pocketbook! I began to see His greater for me! I began to see His abundance in my life, where lack used to live! I began to walk in overflow!
And finally, I began making plans with God; instead of setting best-laid plans without Him! Lastly, I realized that no matter what plans we make for ourselves, until we consult God on each move we would like to make, those plans will never turn into promises! They will merely continue to be simple lines on paper! The key to abundance is not in how much education we have or working 2 or more jobs to make it. The key to abundance is simple-God is a god of provision! So,we must be willing to experience the person of God (relationship with Christ) in order to experience the principles of God (His promises for provision-tithing, sowing, etc.) (Dr. Mike Murdock) This absolute revelation totally changed my financial situation!
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