FRESH DEW SERVICE _27TH JULY,2025_WALK THROUGH IT:WALKING THROUGH FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS
FRESH DEW SERVICE JULY 27, 2025
SPEAKER: PASTOR EDWIN BIAYEIBO
TOPIC: WALK THROUGH IT: WALKING THROUGH FINANCIAL HARDSHIP
TEXT: PSALM 23 4 5, PSALM 37:17
God knows about your financial hardship, God is mindful of you, and God will come through for you".The valley of financial hardship is a harsh reality. It's not a delusion. It is a path that many have walked, are walking, or may soon walk through. That everyone has to face.
Six life lessons that hardship teaches us
1. Obedience to Divine instructions. Abraham faced hardship and relocated abroad, and when Isaac faced hardship, God instructed him not to travel abroad. Every time there's hardship, it's a time to test your obedience to Divine instructions. Every blessing of God is location-sensitive.
2. Famine exposes what's really in your heart: Seasons of lack reveal your inner values and principles. The Three Hebrew Boys demonstrated their faith in God in the face of hardship. When famine comes, it'll reveal the real value in you.
3. Famine repositions you for destiny alignment (the japa syndrome in Nigeria): Most people relocate abroad because of hunger. And most of those relocations can be a decade alignment, a Divine repositioning. Hunger can sometimes be God's strategy in aligning you with His Divine purpose.
4. Hunger births innovation and strategic thinking and unleashes human ingenuity: It is often said that "necessity is the mother of invention". Scripture is filled with people who, through their ingenuity in the time of famine, created wealth for themselves. Hunger brings out the ingenuity in you, the creativity in you. Hunger makes you think.
5. Famine reveals Divine providence and covenant difference.
Five keys to thriving in the season of famine.
1. Practical Wisdom (Flexibility and Budgeting). Flexibility is the ability to make adjustments to budgets.
2. Diligence and diversification. Be diligent and find a small side hustle.
3. Obedience to Divine instructions
4. Prophetic partnership. Make a lifestyle to always support a kingdom course. If you want to walk in real kingdom prosperity, apart from tithe and offering, get a kingdom course and partner with it.
5. Sacrificial giving.
Five keys to thriving in famine
1. Maintain a thankful spirit -- gratitude even in lack
2. Be teachable and humble -- learn, unlearn, and relearn. If you're not ready to be teachable, you will not go far. If you're not ready to learn, you'll realize that the world has left you behind.
3. Keep showing up -- consistency in obedience and service.
4. Be resourceful -- walk with what you have. Whatever it is you have on your inside, walk with it, start with the resources in your hands.
5. Guard your mouth -- speak faith, not fear. Be careful with your confession. Remember that death and life are in the power of the tongue.