What seemed to be a straightforward commentary on wealth can become a passage on discernment or devotion or pornography or trust, depending on what the Spirit has in mind for you. This is particularly clear when you pray with a group and hear two people with opposite interpretations who are ...
Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, ...
They belonged to a large and influential class that included men of noble birth and comprised much of the wealth and learning of their nation. Among these were many who imposed on the credulity of the people. Others were upright men who studied the indications of Providence in nature and who...
Luke 16:9-12 (NIV) "I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings... If you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been tr...
26To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. ...
(I am still hammering on a truth) America is going into the dumps morally. The GOP who use to be the guardian of our faith and national morality has gone rogue and is very deceptive and is destroying America. The democrats are fighting to hold America together and solve the wealth gap ...
And He is going to pour out His wrath upon those who have killed the people and destroyed the earth in their quest for wealth. What is our job? Preach the good news whenever possible and wait eagerly for His return. A parable, titled by the modern translators, reads like this. “You ...
Granted, when God asked what he wanted, he was given wisdom by God and then riches and honor as a bonus (1 Kings 3). At the same time, he did ask for wisdom and thus managed Israel well and knew wealth like no other king. Scripture summarizes: “King Solomon excelled all the ...
(43 years), I have seen people come to Christ and receive Him. And, just as Jesus warns in the parable of the seed, there are many who receive the truth with joy, but for various reasons (e.g., cares of this life, riches, and tribulation), they fail to grow roots in the soil...
Let good works be done without delay, and largely; let all your estate be laid out for the healing of your wound; let us lend of our wealth and our means to the Lord, who shall judge concerning us. Thus faith flourished in the time of the apostles; thus the first people of ...