Episode 215: Symptoms of a Poverty Spirit: Learning to Carry Abundance + Prosperity

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this raw and honest episode, Christine Jewell tackles the dangerous trap of living with a poverty spirit while seemingly having abundance. Speaking from personal experience of feeling uncomfortable with God's lavish love during a month in Italy, Christine reveals why external prosperity without internal freedom isn't true wealth—it's spiritual bondage disguised as blessing. Drawing from recent conversations with clients who were struggling to receive abundance and feeling guilty about enjoying God's goodness, Christine unpacks the subtle shift that moves you from scarcity thinking to carrying true prosperity and provides a clear roadmap back to spirit-led abundance. If you're uncomfortable being taken care of or if you find yourself resisting beauty and increase in your life, this episode will help you identify the symptoms of a poverty spirit and learn to carry God's abundance with peace.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

• You feel like you're uncomfortable when someone wants to do something amazing for you
• The life you once prayed for now makes you anxious about losing what you have
• You're carrying guilt about enjoying beauty, abundance, or being lavished with love
• You're working from a place of strife despite having external success and possessions
• You suspect you're limiting God because you think you're not worthy of more
• You're ready to learn how to truly partner with God in prosperity rather than push Him away
• You need to understand the difference between living with abundance versus living in fear of abundance

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

🔨 Recognize the symptoms: struggling with being cared for, resisting beauty, fear of giving, and hesitation to ask God for more

🌊 True prosperity includes peace—if there's strife attached to your blessings, examine the spirit behind them

👂 God tests our ability to receive just as much as our ability to give—both reveal the condition of our hearts

💎 Freedom means being submitted to Christ alone, not to fear, mammon, or the opinions of others

⚡ When you shrink yourself, you shrink God by saying what He did through you isn't good enough

🏗️ Biblical prosperity (shalom) means completeness in spirit, mind, and body—wholeness where nothing is lacking

NOTABLE QUOTES:

• "To the level that you have a problem with me taking care of you, you're eventually going to have a problem with taking care of other people at this level."
• "When I shrink myself, I shrink Him because I'm saying what you did to me is not good enough."
• "We are called to be receivers and distributors of what God has for us. The question is, are we trustworthy receivers?"
• "You cannot serve both God and mammon. We have to decide, who am I going to be submitted to? That's freedom."
• "There is no lack in the Kingdom of God. We don't attach to the vine and then think we need to make an apple."
• "Biblical prosperity is linked to peace—it shall be well with you, complete, whole, not fragmented, with progress and plenty."

FEATURED SCRIPTURES:

John 10:10 - "I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly."

Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." Matthew 6:33 - "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."

Matthew 6:24 - "You cannot serve both God and mammon."