On a recent broadcast of Life in the Faith Lane, a viewer asked the following question: “How do I pray for freedom of debt? I take two steps and then something happens, and now it’s more debt. I do tithe and serve at the church.”

Below is the Holy Spirit-led answer and prayer strategy from Coach Annamarie. If you are struggling in this area too, take this for yourself and your situation!

Annamarie: Are you tithing where God wants you to tithe? Is it a good storehouse? Sometimes it’s where you’re tithing. We are to tithe where we are fed – bottom line. Is your church really feeding you? Are you growing there? You see, people say they tithe. Are you really being fed there? You have to tithe where God tells you to tithe, and it has to be a place that you’re being fed, where you’re seeing growth. That’s the big thing. It’s where you’re tithing, number one, and two, have you repented for you and your family bloodline and your husband’s family and family bloodline of all your financial sins? 

You see, there’s two parts to Malachi Chapter 3 when you read it. My husband, Michael, and I were still in debt after 20 years of marriage. We were giving to our church. We weren’t giving our faithful tithe, but we were giving. I have the story about how God brought Mike and I to ground zero. 

You can watch that here: HOW GOD MADE MY HUSBAND AND I  DEBT FREE AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.

The Lord said to me, “You and Mike are in disobedience, and you’re robbing me.” Robbing Him?! Robbing Him?! What?! He said, “Malachi Chapter 3. Read the whole thing!” It starts out talking about the fact that  the people in our bloodline, our ancestors, and us robbed God. We weren’t faithful with our tithes, and even money that was set aside that was meant for God was not given to God. 

So what is that? Financial sin against God. What does that mean? If you’re reading the whole chapter of Malachi Chapter 3, it says God will rebuke the devourer, meaning you’ll be debt free. Anything that’s devouring your finances will be debt free. You’ll come out of debt. Your finances will increase. 

So it could be that you think you and your husband are being good and tithing, but what about the people in your family bloodline? Is there somebody that robbed God and the enemy’s still using that to devour your finances, has a legal right? I’m not talking about somebody going in a church and robbing the collection plate; although, that has happened. What I’m telling you is there are people in your family bloodline that did not tithe, that were not faithful with their tithe that called themselves Christians, or people that robbed God – held back their tithe on purpose or promised God that they would give money to something and didn’t do it. That all has to be repented for all the way down your family bloodline and you and your husband because you are one flesh. 

So Mike and I had to hold hands right there and repent for ourselves and our lifetime and everybody in our family bloodline going all the way back to Adam and Eve for financial sins against God and anybody who robbed God, didn’t faithfully tithe, or said they were going to give to God but didn’t. We had to repent for all of that and get it under the blood of Jesus Christ. 

And every once in a while I have to go before the Lord and repent again and say, “Father God, is there something I promised I would do for you? Is there something I promised that I would sow into? Did I say I was going to give to Israel and didn’t? Did I say I was going to give to a ministry and didn’t? Did you tell me to give somewhere, and I didn’t do it? I repent for that, and I ask for grace, mercy, and forgiveness. I ask for a reprieve. I ask for the blood of Jesus Christ to go on it.”

I’m getting a prophetic word right now. This is for somebody. It could even be for me right now. It could be for you, (name of person who asked the question). Did God tell you to give somewhere, and you didn’t do it? Maybe you even said you were going to do it, sat down with your husband or told somebody you were going to give to a certain thing, and God said, “Do it,” whether it be Israel or a certain charity or a certain church or ministry, and you had intentions of doing it, but you didn’t do it? The enemy can hold that against you. It’s literally giving God a false promise. It’s like robbing God. Did you put the money somewhere else? Just simply repent right now!

Pray Out Loud

• “Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I come before you humbly, and I repent for any time I promised to give, any time I said I was going to give financially – sow a seed, give a tithe or a donation – when I said I was going to do it and I didn’t do it. I repent for any time You told me to give and I didn’t do it. I repent for any time I was meant to give and I didn’t do it and used the money for something else. I repent for robbing You, God. I repent for lying to You, God. I repent for bearing false witness against You, Father God. I repent for sinning against Your word in Malachi Chapter 3. 

• “Father God, I ask You to receive my heartfelt repentance today, and I ask for You to have grace and mercy upon me and upon my finances. Father God, I ask right now for Jesus to put His blood on all these sins that I’m confessing and any sins that I’ve forgotten about that would cause the legal right of the demonic to come against my finances – that would cause me to be in debt and continue to have financial strife. Any sins that are against You, God, and against Your word – the ones that I did knowingly and unknowingly, I repent right now for them, Father. I ask for Your grace and mercy and for the blood of Jesus Christ to speak a better word for me and my finances right now because my money is not my own. It belongs to You, God. 

• “Father, I ask You to release me from the consequences of these sins right now because of the blood of Jesus Christ that is covering them – all of my financial sins and my poor financial stewardship. Father God, I ask You to give me another chance to get it right – a second chance. I ask You also to rebuke the devourer, that it would silence the accuser against me and strip him of his legal right to come against my finances. 

• “Father, I ask for the blood of Jesus to go anywhere where the enemy is trying to cause delays in my finances or cause me to have debt, and to go on the sins that are causing that. I am not meant to have debt. Jesus paid my debt already. 

• “I thank You, Lord Jesus Christ, that You paid all of my debts. I am debt free because of Jesus Christ, and I have the receipts – the blood of Jesus. And it is written, “A curse causeless cannot alight,” and because of the blood of Jesus Christ, there is no curse. The devil can no longer bring curses against my finances. I am debt free because of Jesus Christ. Jesus became a curse for me. 

• “Father, I thank You for this opportunity to repent, and for the blood of Jesus Christ to be speaking over all my financial sins. All of my financial sins are now wiped clean in the heavens and the earth by the blood of Jesus. I have a second chance from God, and I have grace and mercy.

• “Father, I ask You to reveal to me anywhere that I have been disobedient with my finances and give me a second chance to come into obedience. If I’m not tithing where You want me to tithe, then show me where You want me to tithe. I ask You, Father, to rebuke the devourer off of everything in my life right now, according to Your word in Malachi Chapter 3, because of the blood of Jesus Christ that is now covering all of my sins with finances and tithing and my ancestors’ too. Thank You, Jesus Christ.

• “Father God, I want to be blessed to be a blessing because You’re blessed to be a blessing. I want increase so my tithe gets greater and greater and greater for You and Your kingdom – for Your plans and purposes in the earth, for Your storehouse to be filled, where there will be food in Your house, Father, and food in my house and in the house of my family. 

• “I thank You for this opportunity to repent. We get to repent, a free gift for all of us. I ask You to do this for me and my family because of the precious blood of Jesus that has interceded on our behalf and covered our sin, and we are now clean, made new again, and Your grace and mercy is upon us and Your blessing also, Father.

 

• “Let the windows of Heaven open up for us right now and pour out a blessing so great we can hardly contain it. I ask You to rebuke the devourer off of us right now, off of our finances, off of our harvests, off of our families, and off of our bank accounts. You are our treasure, Father God. In Jesus’ name, You are the source of our supply. You run our supply routes, Father God. Assign Your angels to our supply routes to protect it, Father God, and redeem it from all evil, by the blood of Jesus, covering our supply routes and accelerating our finances and our harvests to us, in Jesus’ mighty name, amen and amen! So be it!”

Resource

Also see my short teaching and prayer, “What Gives A Cause For The Curse And How To Remove It Forever.”