"I need to accept poverty as discipline so I learn to value money and not waste again."
How it sounds in your head: Maybe God is keeping me broke so I appreciate it when it comes. I wasted it before, so He's teaching me through lack. Once I learn the lesson, He'll open the windows. This season of struggle is character building.
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree')."
-- Galatians 3:13Religion making God the author of poverty and calling it divine pedagogy - contradicts the finished work of the cross.
Christian books teach that God uses lack to teach stewardship. Your poverty feels purposeful, like a divine classroom. Breakthrough seems contingent on learning the lesson.
She left her land for seven years during famine. When she returned, the king RESTORED everything she owned PLUS all the produce of the fields from the day she left. She got back-pay for years she wasn't even there - supernatural restoration, not poverty discipline.
I REFUSE the lie that God is using poverty to teach me. IT IS WRITTEN that Christ REDEEMED me from the curse of poverty - He became the curse so I could walk in BLESSING. My Father doesn't teach through what Jesus died to remove. IT IS WRITTEN that the thief comes to steal but Jesus came to give ABUNDANT LIFE. Poverty is the enemy's work, not my Father's curriculum. The BARAK blessing brought Abraham out of famine into wealth - God doesn't use lack to build character in covenant sons. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. Deuteronomy 28:11 says the Lord opens His GOOD TREASURE - I am blessed with abundance NOW, not after learning lessons. Supernatural provision flows to me by covenant RIGHT NOW.
Your Father isn't authoring your poverty as a lesson plan - He already paid to REMOVE poverty at the cross. The Shunammite got back-pay for years away. Your Father is a GIVER, not a withholder disguised as a teacher.