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Financial Powerlessness and Prophetic Recovery
"Are there any overriding themes that bring meaning? The Heart. I'm a creative and prophetic visionary and was recently reawakened to that fact. This is all par for the course. The long precursor to prosperity is existing in the spot where literally nothing works out and everything gets sucked up and erased. The zero point of financial powerlessness."
You work at a job that pays under ten dollars an hour and you can survive and pay for basic needs but there isn't enough to make the leap to the next echelon. Crappy labor jobs or stressful retail work dealing with bad customers. This is the life for many. You don't have any real money and after awhile you stop having hope. The slow resignation settles in and you stop dreaming. Years of silent passionless struggle erase the memories of the early dreams; especially when you self-medicate after work to relieve stress. Then it becomes a very bad cycle of confusion and the rut permanitizes itself upon the soul.
What is Prophetic Recovery? It is more than just recovering what was lost. The prophetic element of assurance, sight unseen, of what God thinks about me and says I am, undergirding the recovering process. Exhortation to believe. Hope.
There are certain kinds of depression that occur when creativity and spiritual calling are compressed and blocked. Not believing that you have any valid prayers to pray. This is another aspect of healing- believing that God hears the prayers. When you know that you are anointed you move into prophetic assurance. Second guessing what you are hearing shuts down clarity. This is the faith that comes through practice and stillness.
As a Christian living in the United States in the first decade of the new millennium my desires are to have a car, broadband internet access, a job, enough money to go eat a big piece of meat at the steakhouse, buy a big television and be comfortable. I constantly reevaluate my life on earth. What are my priorities?
I could go anywhere and do anything. Left to my own devices I gravitate toward self-preservation, money, food, and getting laid. God got a hold of me and nothing is the same anymore. There is a higher purpose here than struggling through each day in misery and poverty. The gifting and calling of God are irrevocable. I have an amazing ability to look at a situation and stand back from what is happing to discern the themes. Part of my calling is not to be fine. Apathy is the curse and it is out to kill the spirit. I've been hit in the head by a two by four and am terrified of going back to sleep.
I spent the first week here getting over the fear of only having eight dollars left. I spent the second week getting over the fear of homelessness. The third week I got over the fear of being hungry. I don't have car insurance. I don't have registration. I don't have a phone or an address. I don't have a bank account or a retirement account. In fact I don't officially exist in this state. I don't officially exist anywhere. I've dropped off the societal map only to resurface here with you.
In the fourth week I got over the fear of being stuck in a crappy job. I've never been able to break through the ten dollar an hour ceiling. It's easier to go on a big mission for God than stay in one place, work and endure the mundane misery of everyday life. Wash your clothes, wash the dishes, clean the toilet, go to work and earn money, pay bills, go to church on Sunday. That is pretty much it.
Are there any overriding themes that bring meaning? The Heart. I'm a creative and prophetic visionary and was recently reawakened to that fact. This is all par for the course. The long precursor to prosperity is existing in the spot where literally nothing works out and everything gets sucked up and erased. The zero point of financial powerlessness.
The walls are closing in and I'm functioning in very tight parameters. The sum total of everything you've ever done on earth is measured by what exactly? Keep going. Faith, hope, be encouraged. Because the backdoor to the king's chamber is through the dungeon.
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