Deliverance from Debt

The New World order has an interesting economic system. In this system we are taught to be in debt. Although the United States is recognized as a world leader, as a country we are in 5 trillion dollars of debt. The average citizen of this great world order in also in more debt than they can handle. One of the areas that God wants to deliver us from is debt. Let’s look at what the Word of God says about this subject.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:8

For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Deut. 15:6

The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Deut. 28:12

As the children of God, we are to be the lenders and not the borrower. God even set up guidelines for the children of Israel as they were to administer the lending institution. It was not to be administered to them.

"Every fiftieth year, on the Day of Atonement, let the trumpets blow loud and long throughout the land. For the fiftieth year shall be holy, a time to proclaim liberty throughout the land to all enslaved debtors, and a time for the canceling of all public and private debts. It shall be a year when all the family estates sold to others shall be returned to the original owners or their heirs.

"What a happy year it will be! In it you shall not sow, nor gather crops nor grapes; for it is a holy Year of Jubilee for you. That year your food shall be the volunteer crops that grow wild in the fields. Yes, during the Year of Jubilee everyone shall return home to his original family possession; if he has sold it, it shall be his again! Because of this, if the land is sold or bought during the preceding forty-nine years, a fair price shall be arrived at by counting the number of years until the Jubilee. If the Jubilee is many years away, the price will be high; if few years, the price will be low; for what you are really doing is selling the number of crops the new owner will get from the land before it is returned to you.

"You must fear your God and not overcharge! For I am Jehovah. Obey my laws if you want to live safely in the land. When you obey, the land will yield bumper crops and you can eat your fill in safety. But you will ask, 'What shall we eat the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?' The answer is, 'I will bless you with bumper crops the sixth year that will last you until the crops of the eighth year are harvested!' And remember, the land is mine, so you may not sell it permanently. You are merely my tenants and sharecroppers!

Leviticus 25:8-23

"If a fellow Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to you, you must not treat him as an ordinary slave, but rather as a hired servant or as a guest; and he shall serve you only until the Year of Jubilee. At that time he can leave with his children and return to his own family and possessions. For I brought you from the land of Egypt, and you are my servants; so you may not be sold as ordinary slaves or treated harshly; fear your God.

"However, you may purchase slaves from the foreign nations living around you, and you may purchase the children of the foreigners living among you, even though they have been born in your land. They will be permanent slaves for you to pass on to your children after you; but your brothers, the people of Israel, shall not be treated so.

"If a foreigner living among you becomes rich, and an Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner or to the foreigner's family, he may be redeemed by one of his brothers, his uncle, nephew, or anyone else who is a near relative. He may also redeem himself if he can find the money. The price of his freedom shall be in proportion to the number of years left before the Year of Jubilee--whatever it would cost to hire a servant for that number of years. If there are still many years until the Jubilee, he shall pay almost the amount he received when he sold himself; if the years have passed and only a few remain until the Jubilee, then he will repay only a small part of the amount he received when he sold himself. If he sells himself to a foreigner, the foreigner must treat him as a hired servant rather than as a slave or as property. If he has not been redeemed by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, then he and his children shall be freed at that time. For the people of Israel are my servants; I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:39-55

We are to be the lenders and not the borrowers. We must decide not to taken in by this new world order, but must make God the head of our finances. We must believe and obey God in the area of our finances.

What if you are already in debt? Does God deliver his people from debt? Look at 2 Kings.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

2 Kings 4:1-7

Here we see God work through the prophet Elisha to deliver a woman supernaturally from her debt. God can do that for us today as well. Many of us have not because we ask not.

You may not be able to do a lot about the debt you have gotten into in the past, but you can decide not to continue to get into debt. Decide right now that you will trust God in the area of finances. You do not have to go into debt to get the things of this world. But you must allow the Holy Spirit to guide you as you deal with your finances.