Wednesday, October 12, 2011

poor

What is poor? Is it a state of being or a state of economic status? It has been stated that if you have food, clothing and shelter you have more than 75% of this world. Let that sink in for a moment...... Food clothing and shelter you have more than 75% of this world... Is poor a mindset or an economic status? What is wealth? can someone without food clothing or shelter have wealth? can someone with 3 houses 3 cars a boat and much food be poor? Look at the following passages of scripture and see what the scriptures say about wealth and poor.
Proverbs 10
As you go about today, ask yourself what am I? Whose am I? Do I follow God with all that I.You will see in the passages above, vs 22, 27, and 29 have LORD that is not by mistake, they could have spelled it Lord, but that would not mean as much and would be a wrong translation of the passage. LORD is not by mistake. When you see LORD that in Hebrew is YHWH. or as would would spell Yahweh. That was the name that God gave to Moses in the burning bush. It is the name that the Israelites and Jews even today will not say, they cannot say it because it is God's personal name and they are not worthy to say his personal name. It literly means I AM. I AM what? I Am provided, sustainer, healer, shepherd, I AM everything you are not. Louie Giglio wrote a book and has a talk. I am not but I know I AM. Lest we think we are wealth or poor think of where that comes from. Think of I AM. Are you poor or are you wealthy may have more to do with whose you are then what you have.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Colossians 3:5-9
Death, not something that we want to deal with. I don't think anybody looks forward to this. The word even makes us cringe. Wrath, can death and wrath be love? To love someone is to give your all to them. To give up things that you may want to do something they may want to do. Love is an action, death is an action wrath is an action. What is the wrath of God? Could the wrath of God be his love? is it bad to put to death sinful activities? is it bad to not want your friend to be involved in poor choices? To stop a friend from making a poor choice you have to show your wrath. To wrestle a friend to keep them safe is your wrath on them, it is also your love on them. God's love for you may be showed in wrath. Sometimes our love needs to be strong, sometimes it needs to be coddling. How are you experiencing God's love today? If you are feeling wrath maybe you need to put to death the things not of God, if you are experiencing coddling keep putting to death the things of this world to show your love for God.