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Out of Poverty Into Abundance*
By Don Gossett
1. Poverty is not God's will for my life. He says, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper, and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” 3 John 2. I here and now confess that I am through with poverty. The words "insufficiency" and "inadequacy" are no longer a part of my vocabulary.
2. Jesus came to give me "life and that more abundantly" John 10:10. This abundant life of Christ overflows unto physical and material abundance. In Jesus, abundance is mine!
3. The Good News Jesus announced in Luke 4:18‑19, included liberation from poverty. Never again shall I confess "lack, for "My God shall supply ALL of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ" Philippians. 4:19.
4. God is not a poverty stricken God and He doesn't produce poverty‑stricken children. The Bible abounds with promises that God "will open the windows of heaven " "satisfy," "shower down," "rain," "pour in," "provide,' "replenish," and "prosper us.
5. The Bible clearly reveals Satan as the devourer, the thief, the destroyer. He seeks to consume our resources, deplete our money, exhaust our financial ability. "Not ignorant of his devices," I will "resist the devil and he will flee from me" James 4:7.
6. God promises that when I honor Him with my substance, by giving Him the firstfruits of all my increase, my reward shall be PLENTY (Proverbs 3:10). Plenty means sufficient income enough money, satisfaction. When I pay my tithe (the first dime of each dollar, the first dollar of each ten), and give offerings above the tithe, God promises to liver me from a "hand to mouth" existence, and prosper my way (Malachi 3:10).
7. Poverty produces embarrassment. Distressing, difficult days are experienced when impoverished. No longer! I am CONFESSING and GIVING my way to supply of all my needs, to plenty, to abundance. I now have the means to provide adequately for my family. I am in "command of money" instead of money commanding me. Hence, I will give cheerfully, liberally, bountifully unto my Lord. He gives back to me "good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over" Mark. 6:38.
Good‑bye poverty. Thank you ,God, for abundance!
BOLD LIVING CARD N0. 38
WE BOUGHT OUR HOME
During the first 18 years of my life, I lived with my parents and family in 36 different houses; this meant an average of every six months we moved to another place. I determined, that when I was grown and had my own family, that we would get a home, settle down, and never would move from place to place.
Then the Lord called me to preach, and I was a young evangelist when I married. Consequently, for nearly 12 years, we were constantly traveling, living out of suitcases, going from place to place, to preach the Gospel.
My wife and I told the Lord the desire of our hearts: to buy a home, so that our children would have a sense of well‑being, which I had been denied as a boy.
In 1961, we were living in Victoria, British Columbia. My family was residing at a motel while I was traveling out in evangelistic meetings. With $100 saved up, my wife and I decided we must locate on the lower Mainland of British Columbia, and we went looking for a house to rent. We saw a house which had a sign on the front: "House For Sale or Trade." We had nothing to trade, and not enough money for a down‑payment to buy it, but we stopped to see it anyway.
When we walked into the house, my wife exclaimed, "The Holy Spirit bears witness with my spirit, that this is going to be our home!"
I was hesitant to agree to her announcement, thinking only of our lack of money and other problems. However. we fervently prayed then and there, asking the Father that if it were His will and provision for us, His children, that He would provide that house for us. After some days of negotiations, the Lord miraculously made a way whereby we became owners of that home.
It was our home for 28 years. Indeed, it proved to be the source of blessing that we hoped that it would. Our family thanked God for the blessings of the Lord in providing this home for us, and maintaining it for us all of those years.
"Every wise woman buildeth her house; but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands" Proverbs 14:1.
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