I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, you chose

“I call heaven and earth to recored this day against you, that I have sat before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20

God has restored the tree of life. That gift is found in John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.’

According to John 4:14, ‘the gift of God is a well of living water springing up in everlasting life. It satisfies every thirst and hunger.’

The problem that most people encounter when it comes to receiving the promise is faith. They don’t know how to partake of the promises or the power!

The Spirit of Poverty

Ephesians 6:10-12, says our warfare is not with flesh and blood, but against spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.

The spirit of poverty is a personality that strips the soul of any spiritual or moral value.

There are many battles being fought:

Battles of the soul– People who are inwardly tortured, suicidal, bipolar. Mark 9:14-29, young man who was thrown in the Fire and Water.

The man crying night and day in the graveyard and cutting himself with stones, Mark 5:1-19

Outward battles– prince of the power of the air! Demonic influences in and over communities. Matthew 4:16 (KJV) “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”

Battles of between the flesh and spirit– Romans 8:5-10  

Spiritual battles– Jesus said, Luke 10:18, ‘I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning’

Cultural battles– The Hebrew & Greek widows, Acts 6:1

Corporate Battles– Union fighting against the move of God, Acts 19:1-41

Political Battles– Herod sought to kill Jesus when he was born! He murdered all the children two years and under that where in Bethlehem, and the coasts, Matthew 2:11-18

Racial Battles– The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans, John 4:9

Family Battles- Genesis 25:19-23

We are confronted with the same spiritual forces of darkness that our fore-fathers struggled against.

One common excuse I heard as a chaplain in the jail & prison ministry, “I sold drugs to put food on the table. I stripped houses to buy diapers. I gambled my retirement, pension, disability, and social services check to hit the lottery for millions. I’m waiting on my favored number to hit. If you don’t play, you can’t win.”

Global forces of the spirit of poverty, which is of the “power class” of the demonic power structure is driving population shifts

We are in a season where there is a massive flow of people! People are on the move! The spirit of poverty strips people of resources and the ruler of the darkness of world are pushing people into prostitution, sex trafficking, political corruption, drug dealing and much more!

Decisions are being made in high places. The Whore of Babylon, the kings of the earth and merchants are fornicating in high places. They are plotting and planning global commercial endeavors.

“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:3 (KJV)

Watch population shifts– During the late 1880s Europeans migrated to the United States from many different parts of the world bringing their cultures with them. In Detroit, these nationalities were separated into different parts of the city.

During 1900s, stories of extreme poverty had rooted itself all over the nation, especially in the south. You heard stories of extreme poverty but you rarely heard stories of people who honored God, applied his word and prospered. People were pushed into the darker side of life. People prospered off of vice. Their prosperity was always temporary. They had to plunge deeper into darkness in order to sustained the flow of income.

I was born in Detroit Michigan. My father and his brothers migrated from Granada Mississippi to Detroit to find work in the car factories. They were running from racism and economic hardships. The Detroit Rebellion of 1967 was a manifestation of the frustration many felt during those times.

The forces of global of economics

During the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, even into the 90s, the spirit of poverty drove people into darkness. The lifestyle of pimps and drug dealers was glorified as a way into riches.

Growing up in the north exposed you to a different kind of racism called corporate greed. The system provided certain population groups enough education to work as a laborer in the automobile plants.

As a young Christian, I remembered trying to fit into man’s system. I finished my military enlistment during the recession of the 80s when finding employment was difficult. I knew enough to give tithes and offerings. My faith in God kept me safe and blessed. I prospered but I didn’t know enough to keep prospering. As I look back on that time, I suffered from a lack of vision. I had other people’s visions. I amassed a large amount of unnecessary debt. All of that changed as God opened my eyes to his vision. Once I got God’s vision, means, and method, things changed for me.

Times have Changed

Times have changed, the spirit of poverty is still driving people into darkness. There are more millionaires and billionaires than ever before. A person can play $2.50 lottery ticket and hit the numbers for millions and millions of dollars. The same lie that the serpent sold Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has not changed.

The Serpent said, “You’re not going to eat ‘Because God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden! You shall not die, God knows your eyes shall be opened and you shall be like God knowing good and evil.’

Eve saw the fruit that it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and good to make one wise and she took the fruit ate it and turned and gave it to her husband!

After Adam and Eve experienced the consequences of what God told them would happen, Eve said, “The Serpent deceived me and I ate.”

According to Revelation 12:9, the same Serpent who deceived Adam and Eve is deceiving the whole world.

People are still buying into the lies of the devil and eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They want to be gods. They want to be judges of good and evil. It never works. It was always God’s will for us to eat from the tree of life.

Jesus said this about Satan: He was a murderer from the beginning, he doesn’t abide in the truth, there is no truth in him. He lies to take advantage of you. He is a lair. He is the father of the lie. John 8:44.

How can Satan be a murderer from the beginning? Satan used Cain to kill Abel because Abel was threat to Satan’s future. Satan thought that Abel could be “the promise seed” that would bruise his head, (Genesis 3:15). The truth is, he murders people!

The Lie

Over the years, I have heard the same lie over and over.

The American Pimps calls it “The game or Our Game”

The Mafia call it, “the Black Hand”; “Our Thing”

Adam Smith, the father of capitalism called it, “The Invisible Hand”

Old time Amway distributors called it, “The Business”

Internet scammers call it “The Black Hat”

Internet profiteers call it “The White Hat”

Rappers call it “M.O.E”, Money Over Everything

There are many names but its the same old lie

But really, “What is it?”

God says, “My ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-13

God gave Adam land in two places, in heaven and on earth. God gave Adam seed and fruit trees. Adam was to tithe the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as a sacrificial offering. Adam’s assignment was to transform earth into the garden of Eden.

God’s vision for earth has never changed. Whereas Adam’s assignment was producing beauty upon the earth; Satan turned the earth into a wilderness. He destroyed the cities and refused to open the doors of his prison (Isaiah 14:17).

Jesus does the exact opposite. He preached good tiding to the meek. He binds up the broken hearted, proclaims liberty to the captives and opens the prison cells of those who are bound, Isaiah 61:1.

Adam broke trust by eating the fruit of the sacrifice. The system judged him immediately because that’s designed of creation the beginning. Death began to manifest in their bodies. They applied the leaves of the garden as a healing balm.

The Serpent is now Adam’s new spiritual head and partner. The Serpent gained seed in the new partnership. The Serpent is enforcing his will on mankind.

God judged Adam’s sin in order to make a way out of eternal damnation. God never walked away from his vision for creation. God redeemed man to original purpose! He still hold people accountable.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)

He still makes provision for the just as well as the evil, Matthew 5:45. God holds people accountable as in the days of Noah. Every person will judged according to their works, Revelation 20:11-15

Glorious Promise

Isaiah 55:8-12

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

All hell can be breaking out around you but the Word of the Lord shall stand forever. The Bible is full of examples of God’s ability to keep his word. One of the most powerful examples outside of raising Jesus from the dead is bringing 3 million people out of 400 years of bondage. He fed them 40 years in the wilderness. Their clothes did not wear out or their feet swell.

The testimony that came out of the forty year journey in the wilderness is, the people lived by trusting in the Word of God.Jesus spoke to this after spending 40 days fasting and praying in the wilderness. He testified when Satan tempted him to prove that he was the Son of God. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

What is the Word? God so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life!

As is often the problem, people don’t go on to perfection.They stop growing. They don’t have God’s vision, “be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue, have dominion over the earth.”

Seed is pro-vision, “for the vision.”

They don’t have his means: Seed, fruit trees and eternal life

They don’t have his method: Seed time and harvest

I believe, if the immigrants that are coming to the United States, would invest their energies into the Word of God. They could turn any part of the world into an oasis. Why?

Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all those other things shall be added unto you! Creation was designed to be a partnership between God and man!

The Truth is many governmental leaders, as far as partnership is concerned are fornicating with the Whore of Babylon (Revelation 17-18) and the people are suffering the consequences.

Get a bigger vision

Jesus said, I am the vine and my Father is the caretaker. Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he take it away. Every branch in me that bears fruit, he cleans it that it might bring forth more fruit. My father is glorified when you bear much fruit!

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 (KJV)

Grace and Peace!

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