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1 | claiming things in your life | Is 53:5 | SamtheShocker | 136538 | ||
I am not trying to impress you I am just saying God has been more than Good to me and if he did it for me he can do it for you. I just trying to encourage whoever reads on this website that age doesn't matter and that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. Jesus came that we may have life and have it more abundantly . So don't get mad at me because I was did what God ask me to do and in return he gave me the desires of my heart. My first car cost 200 dollars and was a piece a junk everytime I put gas in it the car broke down miles later. (16) When I drove that 1980 ford tempo in 1997 I was grateful and thankful that God had allowed me to have a car. I appreciated it. So now in 2004 I am driving a 40,000 Lexus (at age 21) and you don't want me to tell nobody. Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. Last year my tithes and offering and gifts were over six thousand dollars to my church. I do believe I am blessed to be a blessing and do minister to strangers and people i know. I do tell them how good God has been to me and what the lord has brought me through. How I was going to bust hell wide open but christ had mercy on me and saved my soul. Its not a sin to have nice things in life its not a sin to have money in the bank. Its not a sin not to live check to check. No one put a gun to my head and said pay tithe. No one put a gun to my head and said wake up early and go to sunday school no one put a gun to my head and said join the usher board no one put a gun to my head and said be an assistant teacher for the young mens bible study no one put a gun to my head and say pray for your enemies no one put a gun to my head and said those new timberland s you just bought and give it young man over there no one made me give the a brand new pair of nikes I bought and I didn't even have a chance to wear them yet and gave it away. Nobody made me buy my brother a pair of Jordans when I bought mine. Whether you believe it or not I am blessed beyond your imagination more you can imagine or thinketh. | ||||||
2 | claiming things in your life | Is 53:5 | EdB | 136547 | ||
You have fallen for the lie. You equate material blessings to God's blessings. God does bless us materially but that is not what scripture is talking about. Scripture talks about eternal blessings things that aren't going to pass away one day. We are a blessed people is a blessed country materially but spiritually we focus on materialism rather than the truth of God. People in nations that have less than us and understand the true blessings of God pray that one day our eyes will be opened to the truth. This naming it claiming it is from the pit of hell. Satan wants our focus on material blessings so our eyes aren't on Christ. He wants us feeding our fleshly lust so we aren't feeding our spirit. Satan desires us to equate riches to God's blessings so we focus on getting rich rather than seeking God's blessings. Yes God will give us our heart desire but it up to us to insure our heart desires the right things. Too many want to feed fleshly lust instead of feeding the spirit. Our tithe is not a investment where we buy in and wait for God to make us rich. If we have our health then God has in fact opened the windows of heaven. If we have precious children then God has opened the windows of heaven. If we have a place to lay our heads then God has opened the windows of heaven. A Lexus or any car for that matter, is a purchase that degrades in value faster than anything short of a computer. A car is not a wise purchase but to most a necessity. The advertising firms have made a car a status symbol and sign of luxury. It is true we can bath ourselves in luxury but is also true we can live more humbly and share what we have. The "choice" is ours which do you think God would have us make? EdB |
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