The Bible
teaches about poverty and its effects on people. To write or
speak about a spirit of poverty does not fall into the arena of
prosperity teaching. A spirit of poverty has nothing to do
with how much anyone owns, what they eat or wear. A spirit of
poverty can oppress, and not infrequently does, wealthy people.
Many people below the "poverty level" are not oppressed by this spirit.
It has nothing to do with wealth or lack of it. It is related to
greed and fear of loss.
A spirit of poverty can be defined as a demonic spirit empowered by
iniquity and sin in the areas of giving and receiving. It
operates generationally through iniquity, therefore it is a familiar
(or family-line) spirit. This spirit is related to Belial, the
destroyer, described in Psalm 18:4 and 2 Corinthians 6:15. A
spirit of poverty is a condition in a person, a people, and / or a land.
