Today, we continue our series entitled “Living the Grace Life,” where we will learn to embrace and walk in God’s unmerited, unearned, and often undeserved favor throughout 2025.
As part of this series, I am teaching a verse-by-verse exposition of the book of Galatians. Let’s get into it.
Key scriptures for this year:
2 Corinthians 9:8 TPT
“Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything—every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.”
Galatians 5:4 TPT
“If you want to be made right with God by fulfilling the obligations of the law, you have cut off more than your flesh—you have cut yourselves off from Christ and have fallen away from the revelation of grace!”
Romans 6:14 ERV
“Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace.”
1 Corinthians 15:10 NIV
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”
Scripture(s) we will study today:
Galatians 2:10 NIV
“All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.”
James 1:27 TPT
“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”
Luke 7:22 NLT
“Then he told John’s disciples, ‘Go back to John and tell him what you have seen and heard—the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.'”
3 John 2 AMP
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers.”
Proverbs 10:22 NKJV
“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.”
Setting the Stage:
Yesterday, someone asked me during our live stream: “Can you speak on how one can be a financial blessing when there’s already financial lack?” I felt led to address this question today.
Here’s what I want you to understand: Jesus’ answer to poverty was never money—it was the Word of God. Look at what Jesus told John the Baptist’s disciples: “the gospel is being preached to the poor.” Jesus didn’t give money to the poor. He gave them something far more powerful. He gave them the Word that would transform their thinking and lead them out of poverty permanently.
You see, you can give a poor person money and meet their immediate need, but if you don’t change their heart and mind, they will need the same handout the next day. But when you get the Word down inside a person, they discover their divine purpose, and their purpose will lead them out of poverty.
So, what does this mean to you today? A few things.
1. The Real Problem with Poverty is Not Lack of Money—It’s Lack of Proper Thinking.
3 John 2 tells us that you will never prosper beyond the level of your soul prosperity. Your soul contains your mind (how you think), your emotions (how you feel), and your will (how you make decisions). The poverty mindset lives in your soul, not
in your circumstances.
How this applies to you:
— You will never routinely go beyond your level of thinking. You may venture out from time to time, but you will eventually return to your level of thinking. This is why lottery winners often end up broke again. They won money, but they never changed their mindset.
— Your thinking is your autopilot. To change your life, you must change your internal programming.
— Right thinking produces right living. Divine success begins on the inside. The measure of success you experience in life will come as a result of the measure of divine success within your soul. Your legs will never take you where your soul has never been!
— The prosperous soul believes in God’s limitless dreams and relies on God’s limitless power. Poverty thinking says, “There’s not enough.” Prosperity thinking says, “God is my source and He shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory.”
— To maximize your divine purpose in life, you must SEE yourself as the person God has called you to be FIRST. You must SEE it before you can BE it. This is why developing a prosperous soul is so critical.
— Personal testimony: I grew up in East New York, Brooklyn—the murder capital of the USA at the time. We were on public assistance. I walked through abandoned buildings full of broken glass and broken dreams. My upbringing impacted my mindset. My mother taught me to have a tireless work ethic. But she did not teach me the Word. It was not until I got the Word down in my heart that my thinking changed and my thinking had to change for my circumstances to change.
2. Jesus’ Answer to Poverty: The Gospel is Preached to the Poor.
Let’s consider Luke 7. Jesus always ministered the answer to life’s problems. What did Jesus minister to the blind? The ability to see. What did Jesus minister to the lame? The ability to walk. What did Jesus minister to lepers? Clean skin. What did Jesus minister to the poor? Not money—He preached the Word to them!
How this applies to you:
— In Luke 4:18, Jesus was reading from Isaiah 61:1 and He told everyone present that He was anointed to do several specific things: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”
— Jesus was anointed to BE THE ANSWER to every human problem. Look at the pattern: For those who were blind, Jesus was anointed to give them SIGHT. For those who were captives, Jesus was anointed to give them LIBERTY. For those who were oppressed, Jesus was anointed to SET THEM FREE. But notice—for those who were POOR, Jesus was anointed to PREACH THE GOSPEL to them.
— Jesus didn’t come to give the poor money. He never gave anyone $5. He came to give them the WORD! The same anointing that opened blind eyes and broke chains of bondage was the anointing that would transform the poor through the power of God’s Word. Jesus understood that poverty is not primarily a money problem; it’s a mindset problem that requires the transforming power of the WORD.
— The gospel Jesus preached to the poor contained the power to permanently change their condition. Physical healing addresses the body, and deliverance addresses spiritual bondage, but the WORD addresses the SOUL—the mind, will, and emotions. When the poor received the Word, they received the power to think differently, choose differently, and live differently.
— This is why Jesus said in Luke 7:22 that “the gospel is preached to the poor.” He wasn’t giving them temporary relief—He was giving them eternal transformation. The Word of God has the power to renew the mind, change thinking patterns, and lead people out of poverty permanently through the discovery of their divine purpose.
— The Word of God contains the power to transform your financial situation by first transforming your thinking. When you understand who you are in Christ and what He’s provided for you, your thinking changes, and changed thinking leads to changed outcomes.
— The Kingdom operates differently from the world. While the world operates on buying and selling, God’s Kingdom operates on sowing and reaping. Grace teaches you to plant seeds instead of just trying to get money.
— The Good News includes the fact that poverty is not God’s will for your life. The same grace that saved you also provides for you. You are not saved by grace but left to struggle financially. There is a grace on your life to cover every area of your life.
— Remember Proverbs 10:22: “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.” When God’s blessing is on your finances, you don’t have to stress, strain, or compromise your values to get ahead. The blessing of the Lord produces wealth without the worry, anxiety, and moral compromise that comes with worldly wealth. I know people do not like it when a Pastor mentions money or the word “wealth,” but I would have to skip over parts of the Bible to avoid it.
— When you get the Word down inside you, you discover your divine purpose, and your purpose contains the provision you need. God never calls you to do something without providing what you need to do it.
3. How to Be a Blessing When You’re in Financial Lack: Start with What You Have.
The question from yesterday’s livestream was: “How can you be a financial blessing when there’s already financial lack?” Here’s the Kingdom principle: You don’t have to have money to be a blessing—you just have to have a heart to bless others and faith in God’s system.
How this applies to you:
— Remember the widow’s offering in Mark 12. She gave two small coins—all she had to live on. Jesus said she gave more than all the rich people because she operated in faith while they operated in excess. Some people today would say she couldn’t afford to give. But from Jesus’ perspective, she couldn’t afford NOT to give. The reason why Jesus commended a widow who gave everything she had to the church was because He knew His Father, in heaven, would not fail to provide her a HARVEST on the seed sown.
— God’s system is sowing and reaping, not having and hoarding. When you’re in lack, the way out is not to hold tighter to what little you have—the way out is to plant seeds in faith, believing God for the harvest.
— Start with what you have, not with what you wish you had. Do you have $5? Sow it in faith. Do you have $1? Plant it as a seed. God can multiply anything you put in His hands. This is how I got out of poverty. I had to change my mindset and learn to become a conduit for the resources God gave to Isabella and me.
— Grace provides seed for the sower. 2 Corinthians 9:10 says God “supplies seed to the sower and bread for food.” God will give you seed to sow even when you’re struggling. Look for opportunities to be generous with whatever you have.
— Your attitude in giving matters more than the amount. When you give from a heart of faith and love, even small amounts become powerful seeds that produce supernatural harvests.
— Understand the difference between your harvest and your inheritance. Your inheritance in Christ (salvation, righteousness, eternal life) is equal for all believers. But your harvest depends on what you sow. If you sow little, you reap little. If you sow nothing, you reap nothing.
4. Grace Breaks the Poverty Mindset by Revealing Your True Identity.
Galatians 2:10 shows us that Paul was “eager” to help the poor. He wasn’t reluctant or obligated—grace had transformed his heart to want to bless others. When grace is working in your life, it changes how you see yourself and others.
How this applies to you:
— Grace reveals that you are blessed to be a blessing. Even when you’re struggling, you’re still Abraham’s seed, which means the blessing of Abraham is on your life. Genesis 12:2 says, “I will bless you… and you will be a blessing.” And Proverbs 10:22 reminds us that “the blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.”
— You are not defined by your current circumstances. Grace teaches you to see yourself the way God sees you—as His child, His heir, and His representative on earth. When you know who you are, you can’t stay trapped in poverty thinking.
— The Lord’s blessing produces wealth without the negative side effects. Unlike worldly wealth that often comes with stress, broken relationships, and moral compromise, God’s blessing enriches your life in every way. When God increases your finances, He also increases your joy, your relationships, and your impact for His Kingdom.
— Grace empowers you to think generationally, not just situationally. Instead of thinking, “I need to get out of debt,” start thinking, “I need to build wealth for my children and grandchildren.” Instead of thinking, “I need a job,” start thinking, “I need to discover and walk in my divine purpose.” If I receive vision from God, the provision will come.
— The grace of God gives you the power to break generational cycles of poverty. Just like God delivered Isabell and me from a poverty mindset (because I grew up in the ghetto and Isabella grew up in abject poverty in Dominica), He can use you to establish a new financial legacy for your family.
— When grace transforms your identity, you start attracting Kingdom opportunities. The right people, the right ideas, and the right resources will be drawn to the grace operating in your life.
Declaration of Faith:
Father, I thank You that by Your grace, I am no longer trapped by poverty thinking or poverty circumstances.
I declare that my mind is renewed according to Your Word concerning prosperity.
I understand that You didn’t just save me by grace—You also provide for me by grace.
Your blessing produces wealth without stress, strain, or moral compromise.
I am blessed to be a blessing, even when I’m in financial lack.
I operate in Your system of sowing and reaping, not the world’s system of buying and selling.
I start with what I have, not with what I wish I had.
I plant seeds in faith, expecting supernatural harvests.
I am discovering and developing my divine purpose, knowing that my purpose contains my provision.
I think generationally, building wealth for my children and grandchildren.
I am a living testimony that grace can take anyone from poverty to prosperity.
I am living #TheGraceLife, and GREATER IS COMING FOR ME.
I declare this by faith. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
This is Today’s Word! Apply it and Prosper!
