Africa and Scarcity?

Successful Solutions Kilton Moyo

I was born in Africa and have spent all my youthful years in this continent, my Motherland, and hearing one common song sung everywhere. It is this song that has shaped not only my mindset but that of all of us in Africa. It is the song of scarcity.

You see, I have been born into an environment that said to me everything pertaining to this life was and is scarce in Africa.

They are limitations everywhere in Africa. I was told and taught that there is not enough money in Africa, no jobs, not enough food, not enough clothes, not enough water and even rains. I was told and taught that life in Africa was a life of mourning, fighting for survival and that of limitations. Even the span of life was said to be short because everything in Africa is in short supply. I was told that everything in Africa was of inferior quality including myself. And so I grew up with a mindset of scarcity and that of inferiority. Praise God, I am out of it.

I look around Africa today and I see the greater effects of this mindset. You see, where everything is scarce, there is bound to be competition for everything. The scarcity mindset breeds an attitude of competition and sets people against each other. You see, in Africa we compete for everything. In Africa we do not know how to serve one another but we know how to pull each other down and rubbish each other and steal from each other.

This is because we are thinking survival. This is because we are thinking that there isn’t enough of everything and therefore I must get. In order to get, I must see everyone a competitor and never a brother or partner. You see, beloved, life in Africa is about self. It is controlled by the spirit of selfishness and this spirit is a great robber of the needed ingredients of breaking through. This continent has been seeking breakthroughs for centuries but to no avail.

The competitive spirit kills creativity and brotherliness. Have you ever wondered why Africans are so brutal to each other? They are competing for everything. Have you ever wondered why we are so violent in all we do and in all our engagements? It is because we are in competition. We therefore view each other as enemies and never brothers. See how they treat each other in the transport industry, in mines and everywhere. They are enemies instead of being partners. In my heart, today and in the coming years, I desire to see change in Africa. This change can come only by the renewing of our minds.

It is a lie that Africa is a land of lack and scarcity. This was created to oppress the African mindset and create a poor people who could serve as slaves forever. Africa is the richest continent in the world. Our mineral resources make up to about 80 percent of the mineral riches of the world. Africans still believe they haven’t enough and as a result still use outdated and oppressive laws to control the “scarce resources”. What a shame. In Africa, the land of Gold, it is still a crime to carry even one gram of gold in your pocket. Something is wrong somewhere with these people called Africans. This mindset is destroying Africa. We do not see the plenty around us.

We only see the little, the scarce, the limitations around us and these are not real but just in the souls of our mindsets. The enemy got us where he wanted, to impoverish our inner men. You can never be bigger on the outside than your inner man. Your inner environment creates your outside environment. Poverty and lack in Africa is not in the outside environment but in the inside of every one of us on the continent. Unless we get it sorted inside of us first, we are dying of lack in the land of plenty.

Where I stand, I think the Church in Africa has to wake up. I think somewhere somehow we need to deliver the pulpit from this worldly mindset of scarcity and limitations. It is a sad day when the delivered Church of Christ refuses to grow out of a mindset of limitations into the mindset of abundance and unlimitedness. It’s sad indeed. The generality of the Church in Africa walks in the poverty mindset and calls it the will of God. The church is afraid of abundance and wealth. This is refusal to grow as far as I see it. To me the plight of Africa is not by politicians but by the Church that is refusing to be the light.

How can we be true light and hope for the nations when we refuse to mature and choose to be babies all the way? The church in Africa is busy with housekeeping issues instead of preaching and teaching dominion. We have subjected ourselves to political and religious gods of Africa whose mission is to deceive us of the power and authority Jesus has given us to tread over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and to bind and loose on behalf of Heaven. We are afraid of teaching the creation of wealth in the manner of our God and we want to create it in the manner of the world.

This is deception. We are afraid of standing up for the kingdom of God’s truths and principles and we use a “quiet diplomacy” approach that robs us of our sting. May the church move away from poverty to liberate Africa. May the church open her eyes to the abundance of life God has purchased with the blood of His son. May we behold the finished work of Calvary so we can fully represent the kingdom of God in this life? We are never poor as Africa. We are too rich but have been deceived. Only the Church can deliver Africa from this snare.

You may be asking how? By preaching the undiluted word of God. By preaching and teaching the logos of God. Bring the word in its purity and sharpness. Let the word work in our lives. Beloved, until Christ is preached, we will not enjoy the fullness of His achievement of Calvary. Remember that the word of God gave birth to all things seen and unseen. It is this same word that can deliver Africa from a trapped mindset of scarcity and turn her into the end time giant she is destined to be.

The word of God brings wisdom and power to be who God intended us to be. It will help you to know that petrol is not juice. It will help you know that a snake is not a pie. It will help you know that grass is the food for animals and not humans. The word will help you know you are created and called to worship only the God of creation and not man or things. It will light up your paths and enlighten you as Africa as you pull yourself to your position of abundance and Excellency in the end times. The hope of Africa is the word of God. The Church of Jesus Christ has to arise now and do ministry to this continent. Africa must not delay. You have suffered enough and now your time is in Christ Jesus. Flee poverty Africa.

Kilton Moyo is the author of The Church at War and founder of Citizen Africa Foundation and can be contacted on +263775337 207 or + 263384841 or on email; [email protected].