Poverty is a choice

Being born in a poor family is not a choice. Being 40+ and struggling with basic needs is a choice. Living and dying poor is a choice. God gives everyone time and chance (Ecclesiastes 9:11) to succeed. Even in the most abject poverty conditions, someone emerges strong like the proverbial phoenix. God has no favorites (Romans 2:11). Your mindset, choices and habits have trapped you into poverty.

Proverbs 24:33-34 – A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Ask any failure how someone succeeded, “She slept with the boss. He bribed for promotion. Corrupt government deals. Illuminati money. His father was rich. He has a university degree.” It’s easier to blame the Devil, corruption, your background and the state of the economy... than your bad choices and stinking thinking.

You’ll never be liberated from poverty till you see this truth – oft, we are where we are because of a series of choices we have made. There’re twins born by the same mother and one ends up poor. Yes, the poor will always be with us, but must you be the poor? Must you be the beggar receiving from everyone? Why beg what you can earn?

Why solicit for sympathy when Nick Vujicic is a millionaire with no arms and no legs? What excuse do you have for poverty? It’ll never hit your wallet till it hits your mind. It will never reflect in your bank account till it registers in your mind. Poverty is a result. Who do you think is to blame for your poverty? Most wealthy people came from humble backgrounds.

Be tired with failure. Break the generational failure in your family line. Decree war on poverty. Poverty is dehumanizing. Poverty robs your dignity. Poverty makes you bitter with life. Poverty makes you attack success. You can only give what you have. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Peaceful people live peaceful lives. You cannot be at peace with yourself when you’re impoverished.

DR. K. N. JACOB