You Gotta Be Hungry

 

You Gotta Be Hungry. 

I've always been minimalistic. 

No, let me rephrase that. I grew up believing that spending money on certain things were unnecessary, that money should be saved for important occasions or emergency, that expensive things were unnecessary luxury. 

It shaped me into believing that I only deserved the bare minimum and that the urge to get something bigger was born out of discontent and greed. 

Until recently I re-learned. 

I re-learned that I am deserving of good things, even if they are expensive. I've always operated from a place of lack.. 

Saying that I couldn't get something because it was too expensive or i could do without it, and it came to pass, I never got them. 

But now, I've learned to operate from a place of abundance. To speak what I want into existence. Declaring that I'm deserving of it, I want it, and work towards it. 

Your mouth is the key to life and death. To lack and abundance. And when we stay in a place where we think that something is too expensive because we think “we can always get it cheaper”, we'll never grow. 

It has worked for me and my capacity has grown. 

Yesterday I wanted to buy a mirror, then I got a call from someone, when I told her about the mirror and said the price, she shouted and said, “isn't that too expensive? “

I immediately smiled in my mind and understood what it was. 

This price wasn't up to 20k.

I said it was okay, and I internally smiled because that would have been me if I wasn't listening to God's word and letting it transform me. 

“20k ke, money I'll use to buy four”

Some of us are still guilty of this 😄, as am I still sometimes. 

I would never have spent the amount of money I've spent in the last week, but I spoke it, I told myself that I would do it, and I did. 

The old me would be content with the barest minimum and call it humility. 

This upbringing stems from our parents thinking that the hunger for more would lead a person into doing despicable things to get them. 

It's as though they do not believe that God is capable of blessing the legitimate work of your hands (as far as you can see “and speak”), without you doing negative things. 

All good things come from God. 

You deserve more, but you gotta be hungry, you gotta be tired of the bare minimum. You gotta operate from a place of abundance and not of lack… 

You are a child of God. 

Abundance is your portion. 

You deserve it. 

But you gotta be hungry for more. 

For bigger. 

Or else.. The minimality you think is humility and contentment, you'll realize that you were just afraid and settling because you didn't think you could ever get the big things. 

Break free. 

Be hungry.