I already forgave. I just want a solution. Maybe I already have solution, but I just need to embrace it instead of looking back.

It’s a cycle of sadness, analyzing, flashbacks, clues, mental problems, mediocracy, and then more sadness.

I have been giving thanks, thinking positive, writing blog, but it’s surprising that things are still there to be overcome.

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When I consciously create rooms, good stuff is able to fill it. From now on when you have important projects to complete, then empty yourself and your schedule. Make it so boring that you want to desperately want to do something. And make that project so inconsequencial so that you are not intimidated to do it, and then you will do it.

This is how to become diligent?

Do not time box your day so much that you are always think about the next thing to do. Do not look for distractions to feel productive while being intimidated by the project you actually want to do, and then you will do it without procrastination.

Learn to consciously dissociate the fears from the project in question, and make your heart glad that you have something to do or you will become so bored. Tend to your spiritual and psychological need by spending time with God and yourself, letting your heart and mind know that it’s okay, it’s safe, it’s fun to do what you actually wants to do.
Make it a goal to only create room for the thing you want to do, otherwise do nothing so that it becomes so bored you prefer to do that.

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It will require much less willpower and energy.

When I used to try to focus and beat addiction, was I just hurting myself instead?

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The problem was my faith. Passive faith doesn’t work. In fact, my life sometime manifested events and things that were opposite of what God promised in His Words. Later, I discovered that simply by believing in His words mentally and not following them up won’t work. You have to actively pursue the promises of God, and tell your life to align with them.

Romans 8: 31 -39

^“31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?… ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Matthew 11:12

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.

Hebrews 7:11-12

¹²We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Every born again Christian has faith of the size of a mustard seed. The difference is how often we exercise the faith we have. We have the words of God, and we need to reinforce our faith in the promise by confessing it with our mouth and believing it fully in the heart. The circumstance might not fall in line with our faith, and what we need to do is to rebuke the circumstance with the words, until it obeys.

The faith of Jesus spoke only once. Whatever He commanded must obey at ONCE. Our faith might not be as strong as Jesus’, so we need to do it repeatedly until it works. We work our faith until it works. If we are not working it then it won’t work.

Now I decide to be a conqueror for everything that is within my sphere of influence. Everything I see that contradicts with the words of God I will condemn and command. Isn’t it what being a Christian is about?

I will seize income, opportunity, relationship, and all good things I need and see fit, and whoever and whatever stands in my way before my blessings are the mountains. I will not stop before any mountain like I used to. I was too soft, too gullible, and too wimpy. As soon as mountain appears, I politely walked around it or climbed through it in silence, instead of removing it. I interpreted closed doors and missed opportunities as either the will of God, or my own failures. I was too slow to realized that the only person who came to kill, steal, and destroy was Satan, not God. God doesn’t like us to be hindered by obstacles, but to conquer our obstacles.

My only failure was that I didn’t exercise my biblical faith enough.

I am going out to build New Testament Church, and share my thoughts on YouTube and conquer the viewers. I will be servant for many and rule. I will conquer. I will be on top, not bottom! Amen

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We completely agreed that this opportunity manifested because of our word of faith. If we had been negative, we wouldn’t had encountered this opportunity.

So we went to work on setting up shop to sell this product for about a week, and then I got sick for a few days and things got slowed down a bit as the project was getting finished. There was a spiritual warfare going on, which I believed was Satan trying to sabotage our project and made us doubt.

Things looked bright though. When I was sick I just kept on visualizing the prospect of developing something big, something comprehensive, for God online. Basically, me and my friend will be building more income-generating assets like this one we were doing, and start creating Youtube videos, article marketing campaigns, and other online and offline marketing outlets to market our Lord Jesus Christ and the full Gospel.

Full Gospel means the whole truth, not some “once saved always saved” or “find a local church and just join them and you will be fine” kind of well-intended deceptions.

It also includes miracle healing and deliverance from evil spirits.

That’s the long term goal. Let’s go back to our small project to sell this product online.

In this project, we learned one important thing — make your project doable and manageable within a reasonable time frame. While we should dream big, we should always partition our dream into manageable, achievable, implementable, measurable, and profitable portions. Don’t shoot for the star right from the start.

Another thing is, focus. Don’t jump from one project to another before the first one is built and running. Create a project that give you momentum to achieve more for the next ones. If it’s an asset, then make sure it generates ongoing income first. Don’t starve yourself by doing one gigantic project that won’t see result until a year later.

Third is, take actions. Accept the fact that every action involve some risk and opportunity cost. But the biggest risk is spending time doing nothing that lead to income.

After you settle for the best choice you can find within a reasonable time frame, just do it. Stop looking around for greener pasture. Just finish the project you have on hand. Don’t keep studying and practicing but do nothing that directly lead to income. You must stop studying and researching at certain point. If you really have to spend a long time on research because the project is much bigger than you can handle with the knowledge and skill you already have, then it’s too big for you, go back to the first lesson I just shared.

When you get your first project running, then you have the feedback and experience which you can build upon for the next one.

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Did God not care about my success? Satan wants us to think that way.

Tonight I am studying an exam. Every practice question was painful to go through.

I am going to be a math teacher.

Maybe God wants me to understand something here. Maybe He is trying to show me that there is spiritual warfare behind each tiny step toward my calling in life?

It was so painful.

9 years of financial and career failures: unemployment, incomeless, and debt. Why? It’s mystery. Mystery is such a burden. (Ecc 1:13)

I “am” miserable. Misery makes me distracted and addicted to sinful pleasure to medicate myself.

Then God brought me to rememberance of some of my past sin: When I was in the internship program in my Uni year I “cursed” a potential employer because he showed up late. I “cursed” professor of a statistic class because I couldn’t understand what she was saying.

Then I failed the internship program, and later my GPA, especially for the statistic courses, never went higher than 70 in my whole University years. I barely got my honor degree.

I reaped the fruits of my mouth.

Proverbs 18:20

²⁰A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

Psalm 34:12-16

¹²What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

¹³Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

¹⁶The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The pains I was going through tonight caused suicidal thoughts to resurface.

It’s all good. I am repenting of my past sins here. Just some old baggage to deal with.

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I had been praying for 2 hours between midnight and dawn, and unexpectedly wept and wailed for my past, even though I said to myself, “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.” (Phil 3:13)

I had been thinking about my past, again. There were many unanswered prayers, repeated shortcoming, detours, and disappointments in it. A sad past is not the problem, the problem is that I have always wanted it to change but it didn’t.

Like I said in my last post, I had been unemployed for 3 years now. Many students from my program had been working for years already, and they had passed the co-op program, meaning they are ahead of me 20k Canadian dollars at the minimum.

Thinking of that, I wept. I decided to work hard for financial independent 12 years ago ever since my dad insulted God and me by saying that he was the one who provided bread and clothing, not God, but I still chose to go to Church and stuff. It was so hurt. I remembered how he counted what he had done for me as a father with his fingers.

That year was so stressful that I developed eyes diseases, which have plagued me since.

After 12 years, I felt I had nothing to show for. After all the things that I have tried and invested time and energy in, I had nothing to show for. Maybe this blog will bring me somewhere I don’t know, but for now I got nothing. Maybe I have a lot of rewards in heaven now, but I am not sure.

Going back to the big dream I had about money 12 years ago.

Like I told you in another post. My career was not smooth.

There were humiliation and misunderstanding from family, carnal Christians, my love interest, and plain bullies because of my incompetence and mental weaknesses. They kept using my weaknesses against me. This is how the world runs. It is not compassion based, but fear and power based.

Thinking of some of the words my family and friends have spoken against me, I wept even more. (see the letter I sent to a blogger in this post for some of those)

I couldn’t help but thinking about how all my love interests ended up choosing non-Christians. Two of them trying to do missionary dating. The last one brought me the most humiliations and wounds. I saw her in nightmares.

I wept again. I thought about how even an unbeliever beat me by a land slide, academically and financially. He didn’t even try as hard. He got in and captured her heart just like that, while I had gone through so much rough for 2 years.

Then I thought about the glory of God the Father. I thought about how Jesus had always been able to glorify the Father in everything he does. I guess even His random thought and breathe glorified the Father.

Me, not so much at all. Looking at my past, how could anyone look at it and feel good about being a Christian? How could anyone who looked at this person in his 20s who couldn’t survive without his parents ever see it as positive?

I cried out to God and really asked Him to enable me to live a life that glorify Him from now on, and at that moment I really broke down, again, and wailed. It really hurt me to say the word glory, because I really didn’t think my life glorified God too much. I consumed air, food, and many resources by living, but I felt I had given nothing back.

I want to experience Him everyday from now on, at work, family, school (if I ever study again), and everything else. I wanted Him to reveal to me the path I should go so that I can be absolutely clear and affirm this time.

Speaking of school, I really couldn’t forget how depressed and unproductive I was in University. I kept praying and trying, but to no avail. Until one day, God really took away my bitterness and depression with one major hit. It was like a surgery: The last girl I loved whom I mentioned 5 paragraphs up went out with a non Christian.

That time I repressed for like 4-5 days, burning within. I was not burning with anger, but with all sorts of pains: regret, fear, confusion… and other emotions that I don’t want to mention here. On the 4th or 5th day, I broke down, weeping and wailing, on and off for a whole day. The sky was raining, on and off. When I wept, it rained. When I stopped it stopped. When I resumed weeping, it resumed raining.

God showed He cared and understood with the rain. Rains are His tears.

But it didn’t take away my unproductiveness and failures. They had kept coming after that episode, but I felt that my depression had mostly gone since.

Going back to the now, so I was praying still, crying out to God over and over again.

And I really really prayed that He will reveal to me His specific will, like where, what, when, who, and all sort of detail as to what I should do next to make money so I can provide for my family and set a good Christian example. I really wanted God to be very specific from now on.

I prayed for honors, which I never really had, except the Honor Bachelor Math degree I barely got after God miraculously toned down some key requirement for the program just when I failed some key courses. I thanked God for that.

I spoke out clearly what I prayed for. I spoke specifically. I rebuked all the demons that used to pull the strings behind my failures.

I really wanted my Dad and Mom to retire 3 years ago. If I had become an Actuary, that would have happened already, and my dad won’t remain the Duo priest that he still is now.

I really prayed and in the name of Jesus Christ ordered Satan to release what he has stolen from me and my family sevenfold.

Sometime, we need prayer like this one. We need passion, word of faith, sheer loudness, and focus if we are dealing with some strongholds that have been around for decades. Ordinary prayers won’t do.

To me, this time tears come naturally. I don’t even need to force it. In light of the information I gave you, I bet you could understand now why I was so emotional charged at the time. God simply channeled my emotional energy into one of my most passionate prayer ever.

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I have lost that clarity at some point during that first 2 years, and because of that, 2 years became 3 years. I guessed God wanted me to really take 2 years of rest, not doing other things. He added another year because I didn’t really take rest at all.

In my first year I started to fidget. In fact, I fidgeted right from the start! 3 months into my unemployment, I joined a Network Marketing company, figuring that it wont hurt because 1) they are very positive people. 2) I feel inadequate at money, and they are personal finance company. 3) I joined that company before, but didn’t earn a dime, so I wanted to pick up on where I fell. 4) If anything goes wrong, I can always quite. It’s just a NM!

I didn’t entirely wait for God to speak before I jump on the Network-Marketing-Business-Opportunity-Build-Your-Own-Great-Financial-Empire bandwagon with both feet.

The result? Negative. Although the company has a lot of pumping-you-up talks, those are just legalism. Positiveness itself become the law, but no one truly obey it, especially my upline.

She gossiped a lot. She was the slave-driver type. Very micromanaging and belittling to her downline. I couldn’t bear it. A 9 to 5 job can’t be worst than that because at least you get a salary from it, but you take on a lot of negativity from her for nothing. You actually invest money into it  for things such as travel expenses, because NM is a “business”.

Long story short, I paid dearly for departing from what God told me to do.

I didn’t stop. I moved on to Internet Marketing at the end of the 1st year. Then I kept looking for opportunity here and there. I didn’t really take rest for God and fully devoted to listen to what He wanted to say to me.

As a result, my ears became itchy to hear New Age teaching, occultic science, and money making schemes. I didn’t know what they were and was pretty innocent about those teaching at first- those were Law of Attraction, the Secret, Manifesting what you want, photoreading, memory technique, stevepavlina.com and his New Age based personal growth teaching, positive thinking, and etc.

These teachings seemed innocent at first glance, but their roots traced back to occult knowledge.

I wanted to derive success principles and formula from the spiritual realm, but was secretly leaving God out of the equation. That was what I basically did. Now God makes it clear to me: I was trying to build my own version of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11).

I totally bought into the vision of having my own business empire from the money guru, NM superstars, and their kind. I rationalized that I needed money if I was to serve God full time in the future.

Remember I mentioned in the top that I wanted to learn how to meditate on God’s word day and night? My motive for learning biblical meditation was because I wanted to receive God’s promise of prosperity. He promised that whoever meditate His word day and night will prosper (Psalm 1) But since 2004 when I first heard of this spiritual practice, I never really achieved it and obtained the promise from God.

Later I learned that trying to practice spiritual discipline without God and His Holy Spirit is essentially occult. I didn’t realize that.

This got me into the desert of mediocrity, confusion, and failures!

After I started to blog about God and what He reveals to me through the scripture in May 09, it started to change for the better. I was going back to full fellowship with the Holy Spirit and fully listen to Him. I slowly rediscovered the plan and vision He had for me. Once again, the duck went back to the water.

I am not saying that I had departed from God, but I was trying to follow two system: the world system and God’s system. On one hand, I still pray everyday and seek His will and blessing, but on the other hand, I fidgeted and my ears got itchy for knowledge and formula that could do without God.

What happen if you try to mix two incompatible systems? It breaks! It won’t work.

When I became self-centered, trying to learn from the world to solve my own problems and inadequacies, I was not able to fully embrace God and His perfect plan for me.

It’s all or nothing: Either I stop praying, and just become a Sunday Christian, and do what the world does and prosper that way, or I stop doing anything the conventional way or the successful people’s way, and do whatever God tells me to do, and leave the results to Him.

Money and success principles of men do work, but work what? They work to make you rich and success in earthly term, but not in terms of God’s perfect and unique plan for you. And you have to totally ignore the voice of God to fully embrace the self-driven way of success in order to make it works. You can’t do it half-heartedly. You can’t say, oh I want to do X and make a lot of money from that, and a while later, only to feel like hey, I feel that God is saying it’s isn’t the best path for me so let just stop.

You can’t succeed on your own term if you heed God’s voice half way through and stop what you are doing. You have to ignore Him entirely. But of course you won’t choose this way if you love God.

You have to fully embrace one or another. God’s way require total surrender. If you follow God totally, you always face something bigger than you imagine, wild beyond your comfort zone and control, and totally stare at your ego in the face. You have to hold on to faith till the end to see God comes to your aid and lifts you up at last.

When I say fully, I also mean meticulously. You have to let God gives you the green light in everything you do, what you read, where you go, which project to do, which job to apply for, which client you take, which employee you hire, what you believe, how you do anything, and everything!

You can’t just ask for a general idea or direction like I did. You can’t just finish your morning devotion and assume you can go about the rest your day and God would just make everything okay for you. You can’t just ask God to shut the doors to opportunities that He doesn’t want you to take. You have to be laser-focused.

You have to consult and communicate with Him as much as possible. You should be always ready to scrap any humanistic idea, program, plan, philosophy, and always try to do it in God’s revealed way.

So in this 3 years, I learned about curses, word of faith, end time prophecy, spiritual battle, occult, witchcraft, blessing, and many other spiritual things. If I am busy being earthly successful, I won’t be able to learn those important lessons.

I praise God that even though I was quite lost and disillusioned sometimes, He brings me back to the center of His will every time.

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I really came out of the closet – about the fact that I don’t believe in the “one saved, always saved” and the “Rapture is for every believer” theories, and the fact that I think most of what our church teaches and doesn’t teaches have so far failed to equip me to face most of my challenges in life.

Should you tell these things to your brothers and sisters? While I don’t usually tell the church folks what I really believe to avoid a fight, I think at the end of the day you should let your brothers and sisters know.

The aforementioned theories really did major disservices to sincere Christians, insincere Christians, and anything in between, because the theories undermine the importance to watch out for what is to come – the future judgments: the Tribulation and even Hell.

I also shared with them a tiny bit about the trials I had been through. It was quite hard to have to explain to someone who has always been doing well in a typical job why you have been incomeless and unemployed for 3 years.

Generational curses and verbal curses were the major factors that break my destiny.

Before I went for lunch with them, I’d spend an hour praying to God. It was saddening to pray about my past and ask God what I should say if the couple ask about my “job hunt”. I was wandering in the desert financially.

How do I explain this to them?

I had lost so much honor and opportunities in the past already. And here I have to explain to other about it and make myself go through the entire memory bank again!

So I started off by telling them how I have this conviction to seek God’s perfect will for my life in everything, including job search, and that God hasn’t really instructed me where I should go in terms of job finding. (Proverbs 3:5-6) (And I do have sent out applications, even to Wal Mart, but all doors closed. I was once hired for a week and was said to be over qualified. The owner and I had a lot in common, even went to the same church, but it didn’t last over a week)

Basically, when I worked, I was always on the verge of getting fired. If there were options, I often ended up choosing the slow and crooked path. When there were opportunities, they often slipped through my hands in the last second. Blessing evaded me most of the time.

I doubled and tripled my will. I prayed. I read. I sought help. Every door closed. I joined a Network Marketing company to keep myself positive, since NM usually have those pumping-you-up prep talks and positive thinking rules, but even that turned sour. Positive thinking without Truth and God is futile.

I couldn’t explain my suicidal thoughts. I couldn’t stop my depression. I had short attention span. Every dream I cherished ended up broken. Almost every nightmare that I dreaded get fulfilled. (But I think God really kept some of the worst ones from happening, such as I didn’t really commit suicide, and I didn’t go blind, even though my eyesight haven’t got healed yet)

As a result, I also had to spend a lot of time to come to term with my memory and try to know the whys. But the down side of that was, the more time you had, the more your brain will find things to occupy those time. The more time you give your brain, the more it thinks.

Okay, back to the topic.

God told me the major reason of all these was because of curses that still operated in my life, so I was able to break them after learning these things. Demons feed upon curses and they really go after anyone who is under curse(s).

Also, there was my own problem – my own lack of faith? I thought I had faith, but I had failed to speak the word of faith often! As Christians, we should speak the word of God with faith, not verbalize the negatives of the situation nor complains. Over the year, my negative confessions often get fulfilled. Speaking of self-fulfilling prophecies. See my view on What Is Faith

After I learned about these things, I was really shocked, but now I have to explain them to my Baptist fellows. Baptist Churches don’t teach these things.

I have been told to keep quiet about my new findings because they can cause such a big impact to others. Well, millions of churchgoers could be going to hell without knowing it. We have millions of people in the churches today, but not all of them are getting saved in the end. I know it for a fact. They must at least be given a fair treatment by telling them the truth.

False security will only drastically increase one’s chance of falling into sins and refusing to repent:

Hebrews 3:12-13

12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Today was such a battle for me, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. And people kept asking me about my “job hunt”…

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I liked these topics very much, but there is a problem: If there is some dis-information, untruth, and ungodly ideas within these teaching it is hard to detect.

Some riches people, personal growth guru, celebrated salesmen or business expert enjoyed great frame by offering expensive seminars that teach people how to make more money.

It’s good to teach people abundance, but there is a danger, what’s good isn’t always what’s best.

God want to give us abundance too, if the abundance doesn’t distract us from Him and cause us trouble.

Psalm 49

¹ Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
² Both low and high,
Rich and poor together.
³ My mouth shall speak wisdom,
And the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.
⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.

⁵ Why should I fear in the days of evil,
When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
⁶ Those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the multitude of their riches,
⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him—
⁸ For the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever—
⁹ That he should continue to live eternally,
And not see the Pit.

¹⁰ For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,^[a]
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.
¹² Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain;^[b]
He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³ This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of their posterity who approve their sayings.  Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are laid in the grave; (Grave means Hell, not the burial place for the corpse)
Death shall feed on them;
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
And their beauty shall be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.
¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,
For He shall receive me.  Selah

¹⁶ Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;
¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him. (Descent to hell)
¹⁸ Though while he lives he blesses himself
(For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),
¹⁹ He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see light. (Hell is always dark)
²⁰ A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
Is like the beasts that perish.

This passage reminds me of what’s even more important than wealth and success. One of the most important things is eternal life. If we are able to attain comfortable living in this life, but fail to keep our souls for heaven, and have to spend eternity in Hell, it would be tragic.

I am not against rich people and abundance. Rather, I don’t like preachers who rebuke wealth, success, and abundance without good scriptural supports. There is time when we need to give up good things for God, but there is also time when we need those things to expand the kingdom of God.

If the wicked have all the money, while we Christians suffer poverty, it’s not going to be effective for us to expand the kingdom of God on earth. The wicked will have plenty of resources to create evils and destroy good, while Christians employees have to live for paycheck to paycheck, be busy just to survive, and being bossed around by godless employers to do godless deed.

There is something wrong with this picture.

We have to ask God to dry up the financial resource of the kingdom of Satan. Otherwise many rich, but godless men will continue to reject God, but if God makes them poor and us rich, we will have money to give to the poor.

The poor is more open to receive the gospel than the rich. (Matt 19:23)

If we allow ourselves to continue to suffer lack and wants instead of exercising our faith to soar financially, or imitate Jesus, who always give food and wealth out of no where whenever his ministry need them (Matt 14:13-21; Matt 15:29-38; Matt 17:24-27), we are doing a major disservice to a needy world.

If we are to get rich, we have to get rich in the God-centered way. If the godless folks get all the riches because we fail to intercede for the world and to live up to our potentials, that’s bad.

I sensed that the Holy Spirit is telling me to pray against the kingdom of darkness, to dry up their financial resources.

1. “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, and they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah 50:38)
2. “Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant.” (Jeremiah 51:36-37)
3. “The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up. The rivers will turn foul, and the brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes will wither.” (Isaiah 19:5-6)
4. “The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Basham and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.” (Nahum 1:3-4)
5. ‘A sinners wealth is stored up for the righteous’ Proverbs 13:22
6. ‘He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor Proverbs 28:8
7. ‘To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God’ Ecclesiastes 2:26

Who belong to the kingdom of darkness? Abortion clinics; politicians that promote ungodly policies and argue against godly law; Mediums and witches; Cult and false religions; businesses that sells ungodly products or services such as pornography, violent materials such as PC games like Grand Theft Auto, Hollywood movies; casinos; night clubs…

If God keeps every ungodly person poor, and only allow His faithful to become rich, more people will receive Jesus as their Lord and savior because poor people receive gospel easier. If the proud and arrogant stay rich, they stay proud and arrogant.

Make sense?

And they will have much less financial resources to create evils that tempt and deceive the innocents into Hell. Less babies will die because less pro-choice people will have the financial resources to study medicine, godless politicians will run out of campaign money, and ungodly activists will suffer financial lack too much to remain active for evil causes and anti-Christians agenda.

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