"My family's poverty is generational and I'll never break the cycle."
How it sounds in your head: Everyone in my family has always struggled with money. My grandparents were poor, my parents are poor, and everyone expects me to be poor too. It's just who we are. Some families have money and some don't, and we're the don't kind.
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich."
-- 2 Corinthians 8:9Enemy + generational agreement teaching that family patterns override covenant promises and poverty is inherited destiny.
She's literally never seen anyone in her family have financial breakthrough. Every conversation is about what they can't afford, and the idea that she could be different feels like betraying her family identity.
She came from Moab (cursed nation), widowed with nothing, gleaning leftover grain to survive - the definition of generational poverty. One season of being in the right field made her great-grandmother to King David and ancestral line to Jesus - from poverty to royalty in one generation.
I REFUSE the lie that my family's poverty determines my destiny. IT IS WRITTEN that through Christ's poverty I become RICH - He broke every generational curse at the cross. I am not defined by family patterns; I'm defined by covenant. IT IS WRITTEN in Galatians 3:14 that Abraham's blessing is mine, and Abraham went from nothing to extremely wealthy. The Israelites broke 400 years of slavery in one night with treasure in their hands. I am the generation that breaks the cycle. The BARAK blessing on my life overrides every family pattern. Ruth went from cursed outsider to King David's lineage in one season.
Your Father doesn't see your family tree - He sees you grafted into HIS family tree where Jesus is the root and abundance is the fruit. He's already written your name in the breakthrough generation story.