Mar 18 • Daily Liberation
I Worked Hard, Prayed Hard, and Still Had Nothing to Show For It
Nobody ever taught me how to build wealth…They taught me how to survive without it.
When I was young, my parents opened up a savings account for me and my siblings.
I remember watching that balance grow and feeling something I had never felt before — ownership… progress… possibility.
For the first time, I felt like I was building something that was mine.
Then one day, my mother sat us down and told us she needed the money.
Just like that… everything we had saved was gone.
And in that moment, without anyone saying it out loud, three beliefs got written deep into my mind:
- Money doesn’t stay.
- You can’t protect what you build.
- And when family needs something… yours doesn’t matter.
I carried those beliefs for years without even realizing it.
Then I went to church… and unknowingly, those beliefs got reinforced.
I kept hearing that “money is the root of all evil”… but nobody emphasized the word "love of" at the beginning of the verse.
I saw a version of Jesus that looked poor… and was taught that poverty meant humility.
Wealth was labeled as greed… and lack was dressed up as contentment.
So every Sunday, my spirit was being fed…but my mindset around money was being quietly limited.
I was growing spiritually… but shrinking financially.
So I did what I thought was right.
I worked hard.
I prayed hard.
I stayed faithful.
And yet… I still had nothing to show for it.
And when money did come… I spent it quickly.
Not because I lacked discipline but because deep down, I didn’t believe it would stay anyway.
That’s not a money problem.
That’s a belief system.
Everything changed when I stopped casually reading Deuteronomy 8:18… and actually studied it.
That’s when I realized God didn’t just allow us to get wealth…
He equipped us for it.
The word "power" in that verse, in Hebrew is — koach — which means power, ability, capacity.
Not someday… not randomly… but intentionally placed inside of us to produce wealth.
And the word for "wealth" in Hebrew is — chayil — isn’t just money.
It means strength.
Excellence.
Resources.
Influence.
Victory.
Abundance in every area of life.
That means poverty was never the goal.
It was never a badge of honor.
And it was never God’s design.
That revelation broke something open in me…and I can’t go back.
Now I’m building what I wish I had when I was stuck.
A community rooted in truth, not tradition.
A place where we go back to what God actually said…not just what we were taught.
Where we build real Kingdom wealth, not luck-based wealth, not “one day” wealth…
But wealth we create through our gifts, our obedience, and the koach God already placed inside us.
So if you grew up like me…
Working hard…Praying hard…Doing everything right…But still feeling like wealth keeps slipping through your hands…
You’re not crazy.
You were just taught incomplete truth.
But that stops here.
Drop a 👑 in the comments if you’re ready to break those cycles…and step into the life you were actually created to build.
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