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Breaking the Curse of Poverty  David K. Owusu

Craftily, he moved into the scene; lured man into countering the
plans of God through manipulation and twisting the basic truths
ordained of God. Terrible mistake!

“Now the serpent [Satan] was more crafty [subtle, skilled in deceit]
than any living creature of the field which the Lord had made.
And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that
God has said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?’….

But the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die.
For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be
opened …” Genesis 3:1-5 [AMP]

Deception remains the key strategy of the enemy; after all he is the
father of all lies as scripture puts it:

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the

truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:
44 [KJV]

The devastating paradigm shift followed almost immediately; man
was kicked out of the garden and the life of struggle and lack begun,
miserable -separated from the divine supply and left to fend for
himself with difficulty.

17 Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened
[attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit]
from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall
not eat of it’; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In

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