I just heard in my spirit, “Stewarding poverty is not the same as stewarding abundance (blessing). This is why the spirit of poverty must be broken before abundance can be accessed.”

I asked the question, what is the difference?

The answer came immediately from the Lord, “Stewarding poverty is about protecting what little you have. Stewarding abundance is distributing what you have access to. The spirit of poverty wants to hold on to what you have, while the spirit of abundance wants to distribute what you have been given.”

Immediately after hearing this conversation in my spirit with the Lord, I heard Proverbs 11:24 “One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.”

The Lord has been showing me what He does for one, He wants to do for all. The challenge is, not all want to be free in order to access what is available. I know that sounds absurd, but it is true, not everyone wants to be free from a spirit of poverty.

To be free from a spirit of poverty is to trust and trust comes from knowing a person is trustworthy, not from being given an abundance of blessings. Abundance without a trusting relationship with the giver, will magnify the spirt of poverty, which does not want liberty, because it is afraid to trust.

Wanting the blessings of God without trusting who God is, will not liberate us, our liberty comes from trusting God and knowing who He is. We must know Him because access to abundance is to become a distributor of God’s abundance. Trust is the key to stewarding abudance and breaking off the spirit of poverty. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org