Sometimes comes a season in our lives when it seems like nothing is successful. Everything seems to fall apart and there is an overwhelming sense of lack and drought.

If you feel any deficiency in your life: financial need, lack of positive emotions, friendships, or wisdom, the Bible has an answer for you.

I've been there and I know the sense of hopelessness that impacts the heart. When the amount of money in my account seems to be smaller than the amount needed for taxes, payments and necessities, the anxiety shows up with all of its suitcases. Worries want to make my heart their dwelling place.

The lack shows up and presents a false reality. If we accept it, a mindset of negativity, weakness and despair start to take root. That’s not God’s desire for us!

It’s the enemy coming against the good things in your heart. He comes to kill identity, steal joy and destroy your peace. Satan wants you to believe that you are in a bad position.

Is it actually true? I don’t think so, but it’s not enough to only comprehend reality. We often are dealing with patterns of thinking that need to be removed.

A thankful heart

The will of God in Christ Jesus is that we would be thankful.

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18, ESV)

All the time, in all circumstances. It doesn't say for all but in all circumstances. What you experience can be negative but that doesn't mean God wants it. God’s will is his pleasure and desire for us to have a thankful heart no matter what’s happening around us.

Let’s choose to be thankful for God’s love, redemption, His promises to provide and He never leaves us. Negative circumstances may try to prove all that being false but faith is a choice to stand.

Thankfulness creates joy in our hearts that gives us strength (Nehemiah 8:10). It changes the perspective we have and allows us to make the right decisions.

Simple awareness

We often run in the busyness of life, forgetting to stop. We only listen to thoughts that broadcast the news on what’s happening around us. The problem is that we don’t stop and look for ourselves.

What if you stop to see what you actually have at the moment? Thoughts in your head might be saying that everything is falling apart and the end is near.

But is it true?

I can promise you'll see that you have much more than you realize. You’ll notice that the devil tried to convince you that you have nothing while you had everything except one little thing.

Have you ever wondered about the Garden of Eden? Why did Eve decide to eat the fruit? Because the snake convinced her of deficiency.

I don't think they had any lack. They had a deficiency in things they didn’t need at all. They didn’t have suffering, pain, hardships, evil, etc. If Eve stopped for a moment and realized that she had more than enough now, maybe that fruit and what it could give wouldn’t have been as attractive.

Therefore, don't believe the lie, but expose it and be wise. Don’t get offended by God who is the Giver of every good thing we need. If He gave us His only Son, He doesn't withhold anything from us.

Investing for a profit

The right perspective and knowledge of God help us to make choices that bear fruit. Jesus once told a parable about three servants who got a different amount of talents: five, two, and one.

Those that got more than one talent invested, traded, and ended up having more. The servant who received one talent was afraid to lose it. He hid it in the ground.

He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ (Matthew 25:24–25, ESV)

The master wasn’t pleased with his servant’s decision. The last possession we have tends to be the most valued and most of the time wrapped in greed. Because it's the only one we have left!

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. (Matthew 25:27, ESV)

Have you noticed that even that one talent had the potential to grow? No seed is too small to be sown.

Everything in this world has the power to multiply and grow. Don’t eat your last three potatoes; sow them and you’ll have a harvest of thirty.

If you want someone to love you, love someone else. If you feel down, make someone else’s day better. If you need encouragement, send one to a friend. It will multiply and produce a harvest in your heart.

“Never” doesn't mean “sometimes”

Many read this verse when they are in difficult times.

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:5–7, ESV, emphasis mine)

It’s amazing that God instructed us to not worry about anything, isn’t it? “Anything” means nothing, no one. There is never ever a good reason to be anxious.

Anxiety is a stranger that God never intended us to live with.

Worry is not intended to be part of who we are. It came with the fall. If we start doubting God about one thing, it raises a question if there's nothing else. After some time we could start to doubt God completely.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1, ESV)

If God is the shepherd, we are His sheep. What an illustration! Sheep are not smart enough to take care of themselves. They can’t survive for a long time alone. The shepherd is there to feed and protect them. It’s not the responsibility of the sheep to take care of themselves. Even if they try, they have no power to succeed.

Let's trust our Shepherd to take care of us. We can’t solve anything by worrying. Anxiety only brings us harm while the trust mends and builds up.

Don’t let go of the promises

If God truly has forsaken you, your life would look like Job’s or Jesus’s when he was hanging on the cross. But that’s why He hung, so that we don’t have to!

Jesus fulfilled the Law for us so that we don’t have to experience the curses anymore. Including lack.

You can stand your ground by taking the promises of God. When Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness, he answered the devil using the Word of God. (Matthew 4:1–11)

There’s no new method we need to find. Jesus declared: “It is written…” and the devil stopped bothering him.

It is written for us:

Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed — be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, “I will never [under any circumstances] desert you [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], nor will I forsake or let you down or relax My hold on you [assuredly not]!”(Heb 13:5, AMP, emphasis mine)

Take what you believe and live by it, to stand without backing off. Don’t be afraid to apply the word, don’t be just a mere listener. All listeners are being picked up by tornadoes.

Be wise and grab unto the rock that never moves or changes!

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