One reason to be joyful in the midst of inflation
Are you facing a financial mountain today?
Maybe your mountain is growing debt. “Inflation is killing me right now. I can barely make the minimum payments on anything.”
Maybe your rent has shot up. “This apartment was affordable when we moved in, and now it is not. We’re going to have to move.”
Or perhaps you can no longer afford to take the post-pandemic vacation you and your spouse were so excited about.
Every time we face a mountain—in this context, a money problem that seems too big to conquer—we will have to figure out what we’re going to do next. Will we keep going? Or will we surrender?
Poverty thinking loves surrender.
When it sees the mountain looming in the distance, it says, “Nope. I’m done. This is the end of the road for me.”
At one point in my life, I was familiar with surrender. It was not like me to push forward and fight. Whenever poverty started talking to me, I usually took its advice.
Poverty: “There is a mountain in front of you, and you can do nothing about it. You need to give up because you can’t move this thing. It’s too big for you. You are going to fail if you try.”
Me: “Wow. You are totally right. There’s no way I could move this mountain!”
That was where I was in life.
The good news is, God didn’t leave me there.
Instead, He provoked me to try. He encouraged me to keep going, even when the situation seemed impossible. I discovered that if I girded up my courage and pushed on the mountain standing in my way—it moved. It was not the impossibility that the poverty spirit told me it was.
In the midst of inflation, what is the poverty spirit trying to tell you?
“You’re in financial trouble! Your money is drying up, and so is your hope.”
“You’ll never be able to climb out of this hole.”
“You haven’t hit bottom yet, but you’re sure going to.”
If you listen, you will hear the Holy Spirit provoking you.
“Why don’t you try and see what happens?”
“This is not the time to give up. Here’s why.”
“You can do this thing because I am with you.”
“Your miracle is coming.”
Poverty thinking will try to push us to surrender, but God uses “mountains” to strengthen us—the same way He uses an eggshell to strengthen a hatching chick. The fight helps us grow, and we become stronger.
Whatever mountain you are facing today, it is not bigger than the One who helps you.
You might not have much faith for a miracle, but I tell you what—if God has told you to move forward, don’t be afraid to do what He said. Because the mountain is coming down.
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