FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY
Are you always sick? Are you always broke? So, you take good care of yourself, but you are always sick, or you work very hard, you probably work two jobs, and yet you are always broke. You’ve been to all the right doctors, but nothing seems to give. You’ve followed the advice of all the financial gurus, and yet poverty is still stuck on you like glue. You are asking yourself every day if your condition would ever change. Well, I have great news for you! That condition would not only change, but it would run from you, and stay out of your life if you follow one simple guidance I am about to give you.
A few years ago, some people took a homeless guy off the streets and set him up in a very beautiful apartment, with a wardrobe full of nice clothes. They also gave him $100,000 to live on. He was back to being broke and homeless within six months! Why? I will provide the answer in a moment.
In another case, in another city, a homeless guy was taken off the streets, and was provided with accommodation and other needs. He was not given a $100,000 spending money like the other homeless guy. The benefactor was the Pastor of a church in that city. The Pastor encouraged this guy to attend church services regularly – and he did. He became the pianist of that church and never went back to being homeless.
What was the difference between the two homeless guys? The second one changed his thinking patterns, that is, the things he regularly focused his thoughts on, while the first one did not change his thinking.
It is very important to know that you cannot rise above your thoughts, that is, your thoughts or the things you regularly think about shape and control your life. The Word of God says you are what you think. See Proverbs 23:7 (KJV). So, what are you always thinking about? Are you constantly thinking about poverty or sickness? Are you constantly thinking about prosperity and good health? – You are what you think!
What you constantly think or imagine, determines the actions you take, and the actions you take determine your reality or condition, that is, the quality of your life. Simply put, when you continuously think about how poor you are, you develop a poverty mentality or mindset that will cause you to take actions that will keep you in poverty. On the other hand, when you begin to switch your thinking to how prosperous you are despite the poverty you are experiencing, you will develop a prosperity mentality that will cause you to take the necessary actions to bring you into prosperity.
The first homeless guy lost everything and became homeless again because he did not change his thinking; he kept his poverty mindset that caused him to take actions that resulted in becoming homeless again.
The second homeless guy on the other hand, learned to move from a poverty mindset to a prosperity mindset by focusing his thoughts on prosperity rather than poverty and that caused him to take the necessary actions to prosper – and he prospered!
So, the key to changing the unwanted situation in your life, such as poverty or sickness, is to change your thinking. Stop focusing your thoughts on the unwanted situation in your life, and start focusing your thoughts on the condition you desire in your life.
Here is the simple guidance I promised earlier: change your thinking and change your life!
THOUGHT ==➔ ACTION ==➔ REALITY