Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that makes us encouragement,

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I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Hi, and happy Monday, friends.

Let me ask you this, do you ever get the feeling that just because you don't

currently have something god can't do something as if our lack of resource is tied to his lack of

ability to provide some people call this a poverty mentality which feels a little insensitive to me

since there is true poverty in this world. Some people call it a scarcity mentality

or the idea of feeling like there's not enough. I want to talk about a perspective shift for us

if we are in this place today right after this. I want to say right off that we who don't live in actual poverty, I don't know if that's you listening,

but I do know that is me. We can't speak into what true poverty feels or really looks like.

U.S. News and World Report said that in 2017, 39.7 million people were poor. One in eight Americans. Now, you know, I'm not a big

statistics person, but that's a lot of folks, even if that's somewhat close. So I want to

just start off by acknowledging there is true hunger and need in America and even greater needs

in this world. It's vast. And Jesus help us truly. We need to be

a part of that solution, whatever that looks like in our world. But it's ironic because a lot of us who

do have enough walk around with the mentality, I think, that we don't. Partly, I think, because this world

trains us to never be satisfied and always

feel like we're missing out on the more others have. And partly because I think our faith is heavily

swayed by tangibles rather than promises of God. Not long ago, my friend Lauren, who came to

Ministry Strong, posted a story on her Instagram about how this mentality had begun to sort of take over her life and her ministry.

She and her husband do rural pastoral ministry, and they're quite financially stretched many

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