Breaking the Back of Poverty.

I am reminded of the story about a young man a century or so ago who had a dream of coming to the United States. He worked hard and saved everything he could to finally be able to buy a ticket. The price took everything he had, but soon he boarded a ship sailing for America. Throughout the day and evening, he would see people heading toward the dining room to eat. He knew he could never afford the cost of even one meal, so when he was hungry, he would go back to his room and eat from the paltry, dwindling supply of crackers and peanuts. Eventually he ran completely out of food, but he was determined to avoid complaining. He knew that in time he would soon get a job and eat all he wanted. Somehow he managed to survive the Atlantic crossing.

A couple of days before the ship was scheduled to dock in New York Harbor, the ship captain asked, “Young man, I’ve noticed that you never come to breakfast or lunch or dinner. Is there some reason?”

The young man responded, “Sir, I must admit that I spent all of the money I saved just to pay for the ticket to America. I didn’t have anything left over to buy even one meal.”

“My goodness,” the ship captain exclaimed. “I am so sorry that you misunderstood. The ticket price includes all the meals, too!”

Something the young man didn’t understand almost destroyed him!

What You Don’t Know Can Destroy You
Too many times we are like that. Christians know that Jesus Christ, through His death and resurrection, provided eternal life for anyone who believes in Him.

But being prepared for the next world doesn’t always mean that you know God’s principles for living the abundant life in this world.

This is why it is possible that even as you seek to live a godly life and give to the Lord’s work, you may not be receiving the harvest that God has in store for you.

What you don’t understand may be destroying you.

The Lesson That Changed My Life
If we don’t understand and obey the Word of God today, tomorrow we will lose. I had to learn this lesson of breaking the back of poverty the hard way many years ago.

During the 1970s when I was in desperate need, my father-in-law-to-be gave me this word from God: “The reason you’re in debt, Benny, is because you’re not a giver!” Then he told me a truth that would change my understanding forever: “If you want to get out of debt, you must begin to obey God’s Word. Pay God’s bills and then He will pay yours!”

I was shocked, but little did I know that what I had just heard would be the best news imaginable. I called my secretary in and said, “Marian, get the checkbook out! I’m going to obey God!”

I began telling her to write a check for $1,000 to this ministry, and another $1,000 to that ministry, and so on. We had $20,000 in the bank, but we owed $200,000. Still I told her to send out 20 checks for $1,000 each, and I emptied the bank account. That was Wednesday. I went home and stayed there until Sunday. When I arrived at church, I had exactly 10 cents in my pocket and nothing in my bank account. When they passed the offering plate, wouldn’t you know it? God told me to give the 10 cents I had left!

I fought against it as the offering plate approached, but I knew it was God’s voice. By the time I placed the 10 cents in the plate, I was actually trembling. It was such a small amount of money, but it represented the fact that now I had absolutely nothing.

Monday morning I opened a letter and saw a check for $1,000! The letter said, “The Lord spoke to me today to send this to you. I don’t know why, but I’m just obeying Him.” The postmark showed that it had been mailed on Wednesday, the same day I obeyed God.

That was just the beginning. We started receiving check after check. Each letter said pretty much the same thing: “The Lord told me to send this to you.” We were completely out of debt in six months!

We Serve a God of Miracles!
I am telling you that the God we serve is a God of miracles. This could be a precious moment for you because my heart is filled with faith for you and your family. My faith is strong that God wants to bring you out of the financial pressure you are under. God gave me a mighty miracle nearly 30 years ago, and I have faith that the same miracle will happen for you today.

When you sow it into the Lord’s work, He gets you out of your bondage. All you have to do is obey Him. It may look impossible to you today, but the Lord we serve—the God of miracles—has a miraculous plan designed especially for you. It is obedience that moves His hand. Trust Him to break the back of poverty, for the God we serve will surely do it!

And it is your seed that will make all the difference in the world! What you keep is your harvest. What you sow is your seed.

When you open your hand, God opens His windows. And the seed that leaves your hands never leaves your life—it just leaves your hands and goes into the future, where it multiplies.

Your Miracle
Do you need a miracle in your life? Do you want something better for yourself and your family? Do you need God to break the back of poverty in your life?

Then follow these three principles:

1. Acknowledge the Lord as your Source of everything.
2. When you ask God for a miracle, ask for His direction and instruction.
3. Plant your sacrificial seed for a specific result—to free you from financial bondage.

You cannot buy God’s favor, of course. With your seed you tap into God’s supernatural power through your obedience and faith as you listen to His voice.

What kind of a future do you want?

What seed are you willing to sow?

What result are you placing on that seed in faith?

What kind of harvest are you expecting?

The Lord Jesus tells us, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again”(Luke 6:38).

Be part of this unusual harvest season!  Believe for a major impact in your life.

As you offer your seed-gift, be sure to tell us what harvest you are expecting so we can agree with you in prayer over that harvest.

Sow your seed now! It is a decision that can change your life forever!

Sow your seed with mighty expectation for today and the future, no matter what the circumstances around you may be!

Now is the time, for your greatest days are ahead. Your future is so much greater than your past, and your destiny is more prosperous than anything you have known before!

Thank you for all you are doing to take the Gospel of Jesus around the world through crusades, conferences, broadcasts, and mission outreaches.

We know it is “not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6)…

Preaching the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ,
teaching the unchanging Word of God, and
expecting the mighty and miraculous
power of the Holy Spirit,

Benny Hinn

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