Poverty occurs 15 times in the Bible. Proverb 10:15 " The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the Poor is their poverty"
When you are talking about the strongest, the most powerful and the dangerous spirit plaguing the blackman, poverty is one of them.
You see, when a man is in need, he is frightened, fearful and jittery. He can commit suicide, he can do anything just to survive.
Just look around, in our enviroment, Poverty is visible. Many have done various thing just to get money, they are still doing it, just to get ahead. They do not even care about their souls, i keep wondering, these money ritualists know they are going to die, yet they still do it and are still doing it. God will help us.
Poverty is bad. Poverty can kill. Poverty is a curse. Shame,reproach and disgrace are the closest friend of a poor man. Proverb 14:20 " The Poor is hated even of his own neighbour; but the rich hath many friends" There is yoruba adage that says "osi lonje tani mo o ri, owo lonje mo ba otan" Poverty means you are Mr. Nobody, wealth means i am related to you.

Let's check Thesarus.com and enter Poverty, it means want, exreme need, often financial.
Dearth- absence,defect.
Distress- Hardship, adversity.
Synonyms are Abjection, Aridity, Bankruptcy,Barreness, Beggary.
Abject- Poor, frightened, exremely unhappy,
Arid- very dry and without enough rain for plants. Unsuccessful, not interesting and lacking in imagination.
Bankruptcy- unable to pay debts, depression, bottom out.
Barreness- fruitlessness, childlessness, emptiness,impotence,bleakness,desolateness.

How do we define Poverty?
Poverty is not only the absence of money. Poverty is the absence of wealth creating idea. Poverty is the absence of virtue. The Poorest man in the world is the man without a vision. The grandmother of all crime is poverty. Many are into crime not because they want excess but because they are at Zero level. If the Government can do something for the Jobless crime will go down. Poverty can cause a revolution. Poverty won't respect your status. When you look at your greatgrandfather, grandfather, and you father and you discover that they all died Poor. Ah! This is terribble. Now, your immediate environment is occupy with Poor people, everybody is poor. Wahala dey o! This is generational Poverty. You will need to dig deep into the foundation of your family with fasting, weeping and crying to God for a change, so that you will not die like them.
In the spiritual realm, poverty is a dirty demon, very dirty. The smell of Poverty is as the smell of death.
Poverty is a terrible thing. You must hate poverty, not only hate. You must develop a mindset on how to destroy poverty in your life.
Poverty is giving out your precious daughter to work as housemaid.
Poverty is when others are sending their children to school, you have no means of even sending them to a vocational training. Very sad.
Povery will make a man to commit suicide because his wife left him..
Poverty is to be hungry and there is nothing to eat.
Poverty will make a man to live in one room with 5 grown up children in a face me and face you rented house.

Wait for the concluding part.

God bless you.
God2man.

Poverty drives you to religion. . .the Opium for the Poor!

Let's continue,

Poverty is to be identified with only one tattered smelling cloth, always, the same cloth, and the colour is fading.

Poverty is eating from the dust bin of a poor man.

Poverty is to be sharing food together with dirty animals like pig.

The Bible gave us a perfect desription of a poor man named Lazarus, Luke 16:20-21 " And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores."
See what poverty can do for a man, dogs licking his sores.

Poverty is to be afflicted with a deadly ailment and there is no means of paying hospital bills.
Poverty will make a man to run away from home after hearing that his wife deliver quadruplet(four children).

Poverty will make a man to carry heavy load on his head until the head becomes bald.

When you see an old man of 60 using a small carriage to move goods for a woman of 30, it means that the old man is experiencing acidic poverty.

Poverty is what is driving young Nigerians with great potentials abroad to be working in the mortuary, washing dead bodies.

Poverty will make a man to use dead man's passport to secure a job in a foreign land.

Poverty is a curse, this curse will make a man to fight his God sent helpers.

Poverty is to be out of favour with men.
Ladies and gentlemen, when the spirit of poverty is in the life of a man, when his divine helpers give him #5 milion naira to start something, the money will go down to the drain, insofar that he will even be paying debts. You put such a man to at the top, he will go to the bottom, push him to the front, he goes back. This is chronic poverty.

Also, when there is more than enough money to send a child to school, but the child cannot even add 2+5 together, then you know that there is a bigger problem, the brain is dead,it is mental poverty. Such a child is suffering from mental poverty.

Having enough money without the business prowess is a disaster.
It means the man is okay finacially but mentally poor.

Again, what is the esence of having millions in your account and you cannot sleep, no rest of mind, no peace of mind. Then the man is still poor.

It is also important to know that in the absence of character and a positive attitude, a man is still poor. Why? The money will eventually destroy him.
What do you do when you are confronted with challenges, obstacles, difficulties, problems and set back. Do you begin to cry and tremble? That is why you need a good character and a positive attitude to excel.
Money is not everything. Money is limited in some areas, but a good attitude and a great mindset will go a long way to assist in having an enduring wealth.
A man with a bad attitude will destroy his own business.
Humilty, honesty, kindness, forgiveness, must not be found wanting in the life of a man.
These virtues are more important than your education and your chain of certificates.

If you say you are handsome and you do not have money, girls will belittle you, also a married will have problems at home.

If thieves are always attacking you, stealing your money, then it is a bad sign that poverty is your friend. It is also a bad omen, when you cannot keep a regular Job for many years.
When you only eat what you see and not what you like it means there is poverty.
Womanizers that are submitting their semen on satanic altars by visiting prostitute are writing a letter to poverty.

What is the Way out?
There are many things to do. Some people need to pray themselves out of poverty, some people are expected to relocate, because where they are is not the place of blessing.
Many christians need to become a spiritual rainmaker by continue to sow seeds continuosly into the work of God and patiently wait for the heavens to rain blessing upon them.
Some will have to find out why they are here on earth, discovery always lead to recovery. Some people do not even know themselves. Why am i here? What am i suppose to do? Where am i going?

Work hard. Do not be lazy.

Change your mindset.

Luke 6:33, seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

Pray hard.

Then continue to learn and read books on how to deal with poverty.

God bless you.
God2man.

Sorry, Matthew 6:33 "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteous; and these things shall be added unto you."

Not Luke 6:33

God bless you.
God2man.

You may hate poverty but you must submit and accept it as the fate of your lot for religion to have a chance in your life. Without poverty and being downtrodden, religion has little chance of taking control of your soul. So therefore, the poverty condition must remain. If all become rich in earthly wealth, religion and it's god will be forgotten and the various men of god know this all too well. Poverty must remain to in order to keep helping religion to flourish. FACT!

All sheeple praise and hail poverty!

The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Prov 10:25b.