12/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Economic Challenges.
12/02/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Economic Challenges.
Text:
```2 Kings 4:1 NLT One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”```
COMMENTARY
What should be our stand in the face of economic meltdown? As Christians should we borrow to feed our family? Should we give ourselves to borrowing or begging to be able to foot our bills? Debt could turn one into a slave. When you live the life of yes, yes yes. What do I mean, you say yes to everything provided it bring food to your table. Have you not seen people accepting to do something worth 100k for just 10k? Hunger could make you look haggard, tattered and beggarly. Never accept everything goes lifestyle.
There might be in practicality no slaves in the strict sense of it this days but we still have modern slaves. The type of job you do and the offers you accept describe your position in that transaction. In the money market we have Creditors and debtors. God promised us the position of creditors and not otherwise. _Deuteronomy 28:12 KJV The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow._
Bargaining power is what the money commanders uses to bring people under their siege. Also be kind to yourself not to bring down your neck to any big man. Even at the death of one of these son's of the Prophet, they could not forgive his debts. They still moved further to enslave his children. Thank God for divine intervention. If yours is becoming too much it is better you cry for divine intervention like this widow cried to a Prophet. There is power to make one rich from God's altar. Cry unto God for that power to overcome your debt and economic woes.
Food for thought:
There is power to make one rich from God's altar.
Prayer:
```Lord help me to overcome debt and modern day slavery in Jesus name.```
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