Spiritual warfare in your finances or breaking financial curses and strongholds. Spiritual
warfare in finances. I believe that this world that I live in, you live in is spiritual
and everything that happens in this world has a spiritual
power behind it. Spiritual world created the world that we see. Therefore, our basis of understanding
everything we see, has to come from our understanding of the world we don't see. There's
a spiritual world. God is a spirit. I believe that there is Light and there is Darkness. There is God
and there is Satan. We believe there's kingdom of darkness, there's the kingdom of Light. We believe
there's a blessing and there's curses. There is hell and there is heaven. If you don't start
from that point of view, to look at anything in your life, you are missing a most important part,
in dealing with whatever you're dealing, whether it's in marriage like we did spiritual warfare
in marriage, whether it's in your health, whether it's in your finances and so, 'How does spiritual
warfare affect my finances?' If you've been going through a spiritual warfare in the area of your
finances, maybe stress, worry, fear, some lack, shortage, an attack on your finances,
I want you to drop number one right now in the chat, if you're saying you know what I've been in
this season, I feel like there's been a warfare on my finances and I am excited to be equipped today
and so, if you feel like there's been a warfare in your finances, in the area of your finances, drop
number one in the chat right now. I just want to see if there's anybody else that is going through
this or this is just a topic, that is going to help somebody else who will be re-watching. Even
if you're re-watching, drop number one if you feel like, Hey, there's been a spiritual warfare
on my finances, there's been these attacks on my finances. I've been struggling maybe,
you're without a job right now, maybe you just got laid off or maybe certain things financially,
just even though the attack maybe came on your health but it's hitting your finances.
We must understand, though I don't believe in the demon of poverty, I believe that there is
a curse of poverty that exists in this world. Because we see that from the first beginning,
when I released the e-course on curses today, I dealt with that more in that e-course that
with disobedience to God released a curse and where that curse hid, it brought attack or that
curse hit the ground, the workplace. The Bible says, in sweat you will make your bread or you
will begin to achieve, pay your bills through sweat and that was part of the curse that came
on the ground. So it's possible my friend, that the spiritual world can affect your finances.
In fact, it says in Proverbs 10 verse 22, The blessing of the Lord makes one rich and He adds
no sorrow with it. If there is a blessing of the Lord, that means that there could be a curse.
You can't have a blessing, if there is no existence of curses. For those people who say
curses don't exist anymore, all of that is just a fabrication of charismaniacs. I want to tell
you that's not true. Because in Revelation, it says at the end, when Jesus will take the proper
place as the King of the earth, there will be no more suffering, there will be no more pain and
then there will be no more curses, at that time, that time is not now. Jesus rules in our heart,
we are still in a place where curses exist and the Bible says, The blessing of the Lord
makes one rich. So the blessing of the Lord is not riches but the blessing of the Lord is
a spiritual empowerment for expansion. Come on! drop that in the chat. The blessing of the Lord
is the spiritual empowerment for expansion. The blessing of the Lord makes one rich. So, if the
blessing can spiritually empower you to expand, then the curses can spiritually cripple you
to shrink, wither, die away, decay and go backwards. The blessing empowers you spiritually
to expand. The curses they cripple your ability to move forward. It's like a dark cloud,
that chases, follows a person in the area of their finances and I don't have to honestly
today convince you of that, because we see that all over today, in our own life, we can see that
in people's lives, where person takes one step forward, three steps backwards in their finances
and it's easy to blame the economy, it's easy to blame the place you live in, it's easy to blame,
like well, I live in the third world country and a lot of you, you watch me from the places where
it's not necessarily economically prosperous as it is in the United States. But in here
it does not say the blessing of the Lord makes one rich in America. It says, the blessing of
the Lord makes one rich and it adds no sorrow with it. The blessing is an empowerment for
expansion. It's a spiritual force behind you that's pushing you, propelling you forward.
Before God told Adam to be fruitful and multiply. God blessed Adam. Before God told
Noah to be fruitful and multiply, God blessed. Why did He bless? Did He give him things? No.
Did He give him houses? No. He gave him spiritual empowerment. Before God told Abraham to multiply,
He blessed him. Blessing, I would bless you, God said to Abraham. Why? Because you cannot expand,
you cannot advance, you cannot move forward, you cannot excel
if in the realm of the Spirit, you are bound, you have to be empowered and the word 'Blessing'
is 'Empowerment'. Please hear me loud and clear, Blessing is not cars, blessing is not houses and
vacations. Blessing is not fat retirement checks, blessing is not, none of those things. They could
bring. Blessing could bring that but blessing is not it. Blessing is a spiritual empowerment
for expansion, advancement and for going forward. The same thing happened with
Jacob. God blessed Jacob. Same thing happened with Mary. God blessed Mary. Same thing happened
with bread. Jesus blessed bread and it multiplied. Everything that God blesses, multiplies, advances,
expands, moves forward. Please hear me, the focus is not the physical, the focus is the spiritual.
And maybe you're watching and you're like, yeah I get it that's really cool but Vlad
you know this doesn't apply to us, because we're in the New Testament. Well, in the New Testament,
the Beatitudes, Jesus says, Blessed are you who hunger, blessed are you. He's not talking about
stuff. He's talking about a spiritual empowerment that's going to accompany a person that carries a
blessing of God upon their life. Curses on the other hand is the spiritual crippling, like a
chain that holds you back, from going where you're supposed to go, from going where you want to go,
from going where God called you to go. Something is holding you back, you feel it, you sense it
and I believe that God wants to break that today. I believe that God wants to break every
chain that holds a person crippled and limited in the area of their finances. Maybe it's you,
I want to encourage you today, I want to pray with you today and I want to share practically
also on what you can do practically to begin to combat and win in the realm of the spirit,
that will eventually manifest in the area of your finances. Now,
having money doesn't make you blessed any more than having five dollars does not make you Jeff
Bezos, okay. Jeff Bezos has five dollars but having five dollars doesn't make you,
him and so a lot of people have stuff, they just don't have blessing. Blessing of God can get you
stuff but blessing of God is not stuff. Blessing of God is divine empowerment for expansion.
Prodigal son had money but he had no blessing. Jacob had no money but he had blessing, when
he wrestled with his. First of all, he got it from his brother then he got it from his father through
deception and then, he finally got it from the Lord. Jabez asked God for a blessing. He wasn't
asking God for things. He was asking God for a spiritual empowerment and so, from the beginning
I want to mention, stop asking for things. Ask God for a blessing. Stop asking God for materialism,
for material things, ask God for a blessing. That's normal to ask God for a blessing. The Bible
says that, I set before you blessing or curses. I want you to choose blessing. I set before your
life or death, I want you to choose life. As a Christian, my pursuit is not I want to be rich,
I want to be blessed and blessed looks different for me than it will look for you. Blessed looks
different here than it looks in other countries. Blessed looks different now than it looked
two thousand years ago. but it has one common thing in every situation is divine empowerment
for expansion. Divine empowerment to fulfill God's purpose in my life, that's what blessing
is. God provides whatever you need to fulfill whatever He called you to do and He breaks every
hindrance that stops you from doing that. With that said, financial problems can have spiritual
roots. We see David in 2 Samuel 21 verse 1, it says, there was a famine in the days of David,
for a few years and this famine was not a climate problem. This was not a weather problem,
this was spiritual. It wasn't David's sin that caused this famine problem. It was the sin of
his previous king, Saul who broke the covenant with Gibeonites and it provoked God's judgment,
discipline and famine came as a result of that. Many financial problems that people are facing,
could have the roots in generational iniquities in the area of finances.
When people took finances and offered them to witchcraft, when people took finances
and offered them to witch doctors, when people try to use good luck charms to attract money,
when people deceived financially, when like Judas, they stole financially. Judas got demons,
we see no other sin in Judas' life except stealing that led to betraying Jesus. But
this opens door to demonic. We see that Ananias lied about the amount of money that he sold his
house for and the Bible says that, Satan filled Ananias heart to lie in the area of finances.
We see that the servant of prophet, he lied to his master, to his prophet about the money that Naaman
was offering and because of that leprosy came upon his life. We see Achan brought a curse
upon his family, destroyed his family utterly as well as brought defeat on the nation of Israel,
through what? Through financial misdealings. These iniquities, these sins in the area of finances,
they provoked God's judgment, God's discipline I could say. They
take the protection of God off of our life and they allowed the enemy to run rampant and instead
of living under a blessing, we can live under a financial curse. This does not mean that every
person that struggles financially is cursed and I'm going to explain that in just a moment
but if there are financial sins you've committed of stealing, shedding financial blood,
where you sold something to someone, it was broken and you knew it and you got the top dollar for
it but you ruined somebody's life through that, when you cut corners financially, when you maybe,
through burglary, through robbery, through shoplifting or other things you deprived other
people of what was theirs. The Bible says, through that we can experience demonic attacks because
we are operating in the nature and character of Satan, himself, who is the thief and the killer
as well as when we're not generous, when we are greedy. The Bible says in Malachi ,that it can
open bring a curse. God says, you are cursed with the curse, when people are not generous.
I know so many people could fight over the whole tithing thing and it's, like oh should we tithe,
it should we not. Let's put that aside for a moment, okay. We know one thing Jesus was
extremely generous, our God is very generous and for a Christian, you can be poor but you cannot
be stingy. When as a Christian, you're stingy, when as a Christian, you're not helping the poor,
when as a Christian, you see somebody who has huge need, I'm not talking about somebody spamming you
on Facebook or Instagram and honestly, you can verify if they really have an orphanage or not,
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about your brother or your sister, whom you see the
Bible says, okay. People on Instagram, I am sorry for those of you on Instagram who are spamming me
with all kinds of orphanages and everything. I can see you and I don't know your photos if
they're true or not. But the Bible is holding me accountable about the poor people I can see,
within my church, within my city, within my street. When I hear of somebody losing the loved
ones, when I hear of somebody they cannot make ends meet and I am not open in my heart to help
that person and I have the means. The Bible says that God is not pleased with that, that kind of a
lifestyle can provoke and draw the discipline of God and a person can live under a curse.
Vlad, really just like that, just like that. Why? Because the heart of God is
to be generous. The heart of God is to help the poor. The heart of God is to help others
and the heart of the enemy is not to help anybody. The heart of the enemy is to steal,
kill and destroy and when we do that, we operate under the character and the nature of the enemy.
The world is spiritual and a lot of our financial problems have spiritual roots.
A lot of these financial curses are generational and they operate through lies,
lies about money that we believe, love of money that we have, and certain losses, we experience.