Generational curse-- POVERTY

And then this happened.. I held onto this pic and vowed not to share it again because I didn't want people to mis-judge me for sharing it but NO, GOD GETS ALL THE GLORY FOR THIS ONE...

So, during this time in my life I was a struggling single mom of four kids. I had just made a decision to make a major move mentally, spiritually, and physically.

I was living in the projects (Parkway Gardens) Southside of Chicago at the time and i was receiving a type of section 8 voucher that didn't move with you. So, if I decided to move I will lose it. I was living in a 3 bdrm apartment and was paying less than $300 for rent (cheating the system like some of y'all did or use to do)😳🤐 anyway, but it was all I knew. I was living in survival mode but I knew I wanted out.

One day, I took that out.. I packed my kids up and moved our stuff from the hood to the Northside in the suburbs and didn't look back. Problem was, I didn't deal with that poverty-stricken mindset so I took that with me too.

I moved to a suburb on the Northside of Chicago because I was desperately wanting my kids to experience a different lifestyle than I had been raised in and what I was use to.

I was an entrepreneur at the time, in the beauty business and I just thought as long as I could do some hair and lashes and people like me that I was good!! I quickly realized it was more to maintaing a business and making money moves than that to have a successful business but anyway...

the point of my testimony is that POVERTY had me BOUND.

I was running from something.

Trying to break free from something that I didn't even know at the time had a name called POVERTY.

And then I ended up homeless within 6 months of that move. I tried everything I knew to prevent taking my kids though that experience. I mean I was doing hair all over the place, working at Macy's, even driving a taxi cab to even try to make ends meet and I just couldnt. BUT I was a believer in Christ Jesus!

I was going to this church on the Southside of Chicago (It will remain nameless but some of you that have been following me may remember this day) and I maintained a prayer and fasting lifestyle.

I was praying for my situation to change.

I was praying for more money to pay my overdue bills.

I was praying for help!!

This particular Sunday I was on the altar worshipping and praising God and after going back to my seat my Pastor noticed me and called me up. He told me that my worship caught his attention and that he had heard from God to bless me "like he usually do it".

Now, I'm the type that whenever there's a line to give, I'm up there. I'm quick to drop a seed because I believe in God's principles of sowing and reaping.

I remember thinking this is God and only God would have known..I use to secretly wish that was me!! 😄😁😆I would see other people getting blessed like I did in the picture all the time and use to wonder wow, I wonder would that ever happen to me. Secretly wishing it but I never believed it really that it would happen but it actually did!!

I always said afterwards that God wanted to wink at me and let me know that baby girl, I got you!!

He answered an unspoken prayer!!!

So, Pastor called me up there, told me what was on the heart of the Father and totally blessed my life!! People came from every where throwing money at my feet!! My kids were sooo blessed by that! In that moment that increased their faith to believe in God more because they thought we were rich after that, lololol!! Well, could you blame them..we were living poverty-like.

So, the bottom line to this testimony is this:

Just like Hagar's story...Lord, you reminded me how deeply you know me in the moments when I felt unseen... I now can say, I experienced the God El Roi... the God who sees me!!

And God sees you too!!

GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!! GOD SEES YOU!!!

It’s hard not to crush on Him like this when the I AM THAT I AM, the ANCIENT OF DAYS, the KING OF GLORY, the LORD GOD MIGHTY IN BATTLE, the GOD OF THE ANGEL ARMIES, the HEALER, the REDEEMER, the GOD WHO NEVER CHANGES, the LION OF JUDAH WHO IS ROARING IN YOUR SITUATION AS I SPEAK, the ONE WHO ANSWERS AND DELIVERS SPEEDILY……..SEES YOU!❤️

His name is El Roi | Genesis 16:13⠀

YOU WILL TESTIFY THAT THE LORD HAS REMEMBERED YOU TOO!

NOW... and since that experience God has blessed us soo much! We have been delivered from the curse of poverty and have been blessed and prosperous not just financially but spiritually as well!!!

#beglorifiedGOD #GOLIVEANDTESTIFY #GENERATIONALCURSEBREAKERS