Overcoming the Religious Spirit ebook - MorningStar Ministries

introduction
The spirit of poverty is one of the most
powerful and deadly strongholds Satan uses
to keep the world in bondage. Every church
and every believer must fight and overcome
this enemy in order to walk in the purposes
for which they are called. This stronghold is
one of the enemy’s most successful weapons
against us. But by overcoming it we will gain
a place of spiritual authority from which we
can be used to meet some of the world’s most
pressing needs. Wherever this stronghold is
overthrown, it is like casting off the darkness
of the most terrible spiritual winter and seeing
the world blossom into spring again.
When we think of poverty, we usually
think of money or economics, but the spirit
of poverty may or may not have anything
to do with these. The spirit of poverty is a
stronghold established for the purpose of
keeping us from walking in the fulness of
the victory gained for us at the cross, or the
blessings of our inheritance in Christ. This
can relate to everything from the quality of
our marriages to the anointing we have for
ministry, as well as any other resources that
we need for what we have been called to do.
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