How do we switch from poverty to prosperity? By changing your thoughts! Just last week, a member of my church got a call from a debt collection agency. The call was about a debt from a previous marriage that he had been delinquent for 4 years. Each time he thought about the debt (or got calls from debt collection agencies about it), he would get angry about how his ex-wife should be paying for her own debt, not him.

When he got the last week call, his first reaction was to react in anger and was ready to yell at the caller. Yet, he reminded himself that he had a choice of anger or love. He decided to use love instead of anger. He responded to the caller (whose name was Nicole) by saying that his daughter was also named Nicole and was wondering what he could do to solve this problem.

After some discussion, they agreed for him to send the debt agency a money order (via overnight mail) for $300 of the $2,300 in debt, which he gladly did. After taking responsibility for the debt and his reaction to it, his fortune changed. The next day he played the lottery and won. Yet, it did not end there. He won the following day as well. In total, he won two 4-figure jackpots. This was enough money to pay off not only the remainder of his $2,300 loan, but also the 3 other smaller loans he had. So by paying off his debt, he allowed prosperity to come into his life.

This does not mean that if you pay off some of your debt that you will win the lottery. Yet, if you do take charge of your debt, it will become easier to pay them off. When you avoid or get angry or get resentful about your debt, you will not see the options available to pay it off. And as the saying goes, what we resist, persist. So, ignoring debt will not make it go away. It is like I wrote about last week, “We get what we have, not what we want” . If we have fear and anger towards debt, then the fear, anger and debt will increase. If we take responsibility for reducing our debt, then what we have is an increasing net worth via decreasing debt and then what we will have more of is an increasing net worth. The debt will decrease via continue payments towards paying off the debt, a new job with higher pay or other means like winning the lottery.

So morale of story is if we are angry, resentful or desperate about debt, we will get more of it. If we bring love and peace to our debt by taking control of it, we will make progress on decreasing it.

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