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Give your heart and mind to God first…

Give your heart and mind to God first…

 

Hear Israel’s King David…Psalm 40…

 

…I waited patiently for Jehovah; And He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock (solid ground not quicksand), and established (taught David how to behave and directed his step) my goings. And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah… (sounds like David knew what P.U.S.H. meant…Pray Until Something Happens)

…Blessed is the man that makes Jehovah his trust, And respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And Your Thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto you (who is going to tell Jehovah what to think or when to think it?); If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered…

…Sacrifice and offering you have no delight in (Does God have pleasure in someone who has to offer a sin sacrifice…or Does He have pleasure in repentance or obedience which requires no sacrifice…other than the heart, mind, soul, and spirit to surrendered or sacrificed in  obedience to His Word); Mine ears have you opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering have You not required. Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do Your will, O my God; Yea, Your law is within my heart. (Psa 40:1-8)

 

 

Are you the judge or being judged…a chance to give and be blessed or a chance to hold to “your” money? When you see a man humble himself and ask for money…is it a chance to be a blessing or is he a liar and a cheat…a sinner being punished?

And judge not, and you shall not be judged: and condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: release, and you shall be released: give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure you mete it shall be measured to you again. (Luk 6:37-38) (Do you give instruction out of the pit or laugh and say better learn your lesson…do you wash his feet or move your own feet away?)

 

 

 

Do you want to please God by giving to His children and His works?

 

Give as God has prospered you…or to be prospered…

…Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do you. Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come… (Sunday is the first day of the week and there is a Sunday each week…So we have a command from an Apostle with the Authority of the Holy Spirit and same as God…to meet each first day or Sunday and take a collection given to more than one congregation)…But this I say, He that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity (because he “has” to…do you sigh when asked to give or do you smile): for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace (unearned…undeserved favors) abound unto you; that you, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work…No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon…(do you hold to “your” money or do you despise giving to needy Christians? Do you love to give to God children or do you hate to give money to a good work?) (1Co 16:1-2…2Co 9:6-8…Mat 6:24)

 

Exhortation to be faithful…in loving your neighbor as yourself…the perfect law of liberty

He that hath pity upon the poor lends unto Jehovah, And his good deed will He pay him again. Chasten your son, seeing there is hope; And set not your heart on his destruction…But he that looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer that forgets but a doer that works, this man shall be blessed in his doing…What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies… (Pro 19:17-18 Jas 1:25 Rom 8:31-33)

 

Prayer

Father please open our eyes and ears and help us to prosper in all thing concerning You and Your only Son Jesus the Christ…In Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

Pause for Prayer and Devotion to God…a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus…

 


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Did you create yourself…can you?

Did you create yourself…

 

You will not covet…

You will not covet another’s…for the love of money is the root of all evil…and all that the world has to offer is the lust of the body (flesh), the lust of the eyes (the I want what I see)…and the pride of life (the self-made man).

 

As it is written…What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, You shalt not covet: (Rom 7:7)…

As it is written…Love (covet…desire…wanting) not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him…For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory (self-made or without God) of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever… (1Jn 2:15-17)

 

The Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil…

As it is written…For the love (coveting or the obtaining without God’s permission) of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows…But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness (right doing by God and man), godliness (developing the character pleasing to God), faith (in God and His words which do us no harm), love (love of God first and creation second), patience (enduring the needs of others for God’s will to be done), meekness (obedience to God and His word) (1Ti 6:10-11)

…for the love of money is the root of all evil. It is like Eve…did she see the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…yes or no? Did she see it could be eaten…yes or no? Would it supply the knowledge God knew without God’s permission…yes or no?

…Money can buy you all the lust of the flesh you desire…the love of money can supply the lust of your eyes…the love of money can supply the I am better than the way God made me or I am self-made or better than the poor or the pride of life…

Coveting is the opposite of giving and usually involves some form of violence either through circumstance outside influence or directly with acts of personal violence…

…Coveting is making yourself into your own version of self (godliness being like God without going to God for the blessing) …it is I want what God gave you not what He gave me.

 

If you desire greater than you have…then use Jesus’ prescription for receiving a greater blessing…

Jesus said as it is written…Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, even so do you also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter you in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened (difficult) the way, that leads unto life, and few are they that find it. (Mat 7:7-14)

 

Prayer

Father please help us forsake the world and the lust of the flesh and eyes…and the pride of life and create in us righteousness…godliness…faith…love of You and others…be with us when trial happen and remind us so we can become meek or obedient to Your will in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

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Pause for Prayer and Devotion to God…a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus…

 


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Do you have love for another soul…

Do you have love for another soul…

Yes or no?

Do you have ears to hear…the truth from God…

 

Now there went with Him great multitudes (many people) and He (Jesus) turned, and said unto them…

…If any man comes unto Me, and hates not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple…(Luke 14:25-26)

(If any soul…does not hate every other soul which does not abide in Jesus…then Jesus will not adopt him as a disciple, by revealing a greater or more important truth for his soul to prosper and grow in Christ.)

Jesus said as it is written…Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal…

(How do you obtain treasure in Heaven?)... for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The lamp of the body (flesh) is the eye (the lust of the eyes needs to be Holy not of the world) if therefore Your eye be single (visioning the Holy treasure), your whole body shall be full of light (Jesus also said…He is the Light of the world…it will be full of Jesus vision for you and your life). But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. (evil consists of three things…the lust of the flesh…what the body craves…the lust of the eyes…coveting and envy wanting what God has given you…and the pride of life…I am better than other people) If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness! (each religion has some form of godliness to counterfeit the Holy…if those counterfeit blessing are not from the Holy One then you are spreading evil not God’s will)

…No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (everything not God which most consider the love of money being the root of evil…because money can get most people the lust of the flesh…lust of the eyes…and allows people to assume they are better than the poor) (Mat 6:19-24 ASV)

Question to ask or check your heart…Do you despise having to give money to God when you give to the poor? Or Do you hold to giving to the poor because Jesus is the reason you have money?

 

Question to ask or check your heart…Do you hate to give money to the poor or do you love the opportunity to share what God has given you?

 

As it is written Jesus said…Whosoever does not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:27)

 

…So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounce not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple. (we essentially have nothing but what God has given us…we did not control the parents we were born into either rich or poor…we do not control the circumstances we have been thrown into…who can control his own health or determine his own parents?

…Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt has already lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? (salt is preservative…an influencer of taste…when you are thrown into troubled waters…do you influence the situation or do you preserve God’s will with the good news of Jesus and or prayer? Or do learn how to walk on the trouble seas like Peter and Jesus...salt which has not saving influence or taste?) It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Luk 14:33-35 ASV)

 

Are you the salt for Jesus…can you be His disciple?

Have you been baptized for Jesus…yes or no?

Will you be baptized for Jesus…yes or no?

Will you surrender all by renouncing everyone including your own life and live for Jesus?

 

Prayer

Father who is in Heaven…please save us from the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride in life and possessions or positions in life…and meet our deepest needs…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

A Pause for Prayer and Devotion to God…a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus…

 


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