Forwarded from Winning the Lost (SavedthruGrace_David)
The Truth about Giving
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:16-19
Imagine walking into an exclusive store with one of the wealthiest men on the planet. Picture the person you are with picking out something that costs a staggering amount of money. Then ask yourself this question: would you offer to help him pay for the purchases? Of course not because you are fully aware that he already has all of the resources he needs for anything he desires. He does not need your help and would probably think you had an ulterior motive for offering it.
God needs our help even less than a billionaire does. All of the resources and wealth in existence ultimately belong to Him. “If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof” (Psalm 50:12). Everything that we have is a result of His grace and provision, not our own strength and ability. Yet despite not needing our help, God graciously invites us to be part of His work, giving back some of what He has already given us. When we do that, He blesses us in return.
This is the truth Paul pointed out when he thanked the church at Philippi for their financial support. God credited them for giving and marked that on their account, even though He didn’t need the financial help and even though He had given them all that they gave to Paul. God’s grace extends even further as He provides for the needs of His children not based on what we can provide, but on our relationship and according to His unlimited resources and riches.
Today's Growth Principle
Giving to God is not a sacrifice but a privilege, and it brings His blessings and provision in a special way.
~Paul Chappell
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:16-19
Imagine walking into an exclusive store with one of the wealthiest men on the planet. Picture the person you are with picking out something that costs a staggering amount of money. Then ask yourself this question: would you offer to help him pay for the purchases? Of course not because you are fully aware that he already has all of the resources he needs for anything he desires. He does not need your help and would probably think you had an ulterior motive for offering it.
God needs our help even less than a billionaire does. All of the resources and wealth in existence ultimately belong to Him. “If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof” (Psalm 50:12). Everything that we have is a result of His grace and provision, not our own strength and ability. Yet despite not needing our help, God graciously invites us to be part of His work, giving back some of what He has already given us. When we do that, He blesses us in return.
This is the truth Paul pointed out when he thanked the church at Philippi for their financial support. God credited them for giving and marked that on their account, even though He didn’t need the financial help and even though He had given them all that they gave to Paul. God’s grace extends even further as He provides for the needs of His children not based on what we can provide, but on our relationship and according to His unlimited resources and riches.
Today's Growth Principle
Giving to God is not a sacrifice but a privilege, and it brings His blessings and provision in a special way.
~Paul Chappell
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Forwarded from Filling Our Cups With Hope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ☕️
John 15:13
John 15:13
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Forwarded from Christine Wyrick
ABC30 Fresno
Grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups accuses Hershey of cutting corners
The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups has lashed out at The Hershey Co., accusing the candy company of hurting the Reese's brand by shifting to cheaper ingredients in many products.
Forwarded from Handfuls On Purpose❤️ *See Ruth chapter 2 (Jasmina)
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Romans 3:23-25
Romans 3:23-25
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“And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.”
Jeremiah 30:22-24 KJV
Jeremiah 30:22-24 KJV
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Forwarded from Winning the Lost (SavedthruGrace_David)
Salvation Never Runs Dry
“I remember being in a city where I noticed that the people resorted to a favorite well in one of the parks. I said to a man one day: “Does the well never run dry?”
The man was drinking of the water out of the well; and as he stopped drinking, he smacked his lips, and said: “They have never been able to pump it dry yet. They tried it a few years ago. They put the fire-engines to work, and tried all they could to pump the well dry; but they found there was a river flowing right under the city.”
Thank God, the well of salvation can never run dry either!”
~DL Moody
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“I remember being in a city where I noticed that the people resorted to a favorite well in one of the parks. I said to a man one day: “Does the well never run dry?”
The man was drinking of the water out of the well; and as he stopped drinking, he smacked his lips, and said: “They have never been able to pump it dry yet. They tried it a few years ago. They put the fire-engines to work, and tried all they could to pump the well dry; but they found there was a river flowing right under the city.”
Thank God, the well of salvation can never run dry either!”
~DL Moody
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
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Forwarded from Handfuls On Purpose❤️ *See Ruth chapter 2 (Jasmina)
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Psalm 51:10
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
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"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
Hebrews 12:11 KJV
Hebrews 12:11 KJV
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“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
James 3:14-16 KJV
James 3:14-16 KJV
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“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."
James 3:17-18 KJV
James 3:17-18 KJV
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God First (Seeking God through Jesus)
Hebrews 2 - Questions Q: What must be given the more earnest heed to? Q: Why? Q: For if the word spoken by angels was what? Q: And every transgression and disobedience received a what? Q: How shall we what? Q: if we neglect so great of what? Q: Which…
Hebrews 2 - Questions & Answers
Q: What must be given the more earnest heed to?
A: The things which we have heard.
Q: Why?
A: Lest at any time we should let them slip.
Q: For if the word spoken by angels was what?
A: Stedfast,.
Q: And every transgression and disobedience received a what?
A: Just recompence of reward.
Q: How shall we what?
A: Escape.
Q: if we neglect so great of what?
A: Salvation.
Q: Which at first began to be spoken by who?
A: The Lord.
Q: And was confirmed unto us by them that what?
A: Heard Him.
Q: God also bearing them witness, both with what?
A: Signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Q: According to his own what?
A: "Will?"
Q: For unto the angels hath He not put in subjection the what?
A: World to come.
Q: Whereof we what?
A: Speak.
Q: What question did one in a certain place testify, saying?
A: "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?"
Q: Who was made a little lower than angels (messengers), crowned with glory, and was set over the works of the hands of God?
A: Jesus.
Q: Thou hast put all things in subjection under what?
A: His feet.
Q: For in that He put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing that is not put under Him. But now we see not yet all things put where?
A: Under Him.
Q: But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for what?
A: The suffering of death.
Q: Crowned with what?
A: Glory and honour.
Q: That He by the grace of who?
A: God.
Q: Should taste death for who?
A: Every man.
Q: For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through what?
A: Sufferings.
Q: For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of what?
A: One.
Q: For which cause He is not ashamed to call them ? What?
A: Brethren.
Q: Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto who?
A: Thee.
Q: And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, Behold I and the children which who hath given me?
A: God.
Q: Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through what He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil?
A: Death.
Q: And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to what?
A: Bondage.
Q: For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of who?
A: Abraham.
Q: Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto who?
A: His brethren.
Q: Why?
A: So that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God.
Q: To make reconciliation for the sins of the what?
A: People.
Q: For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are what?
A: Tempted.
Q: What must be given the more earnest heed to?
A: The things which we have heard.
Q: Why?
A: Lest at any time we should let them slip.
Q: For if the word spoken by angels was what?
A: Stedfast,.
Q: And every transgression and disobedience received a what?
A: Just recompence of reward.
Q: How shall we what?
A: Escape.
Q: if we neglect so great of what?
A: Salvation.
Q: Which at first began to be spoken by who?
A: The Lord.
Q: And was confirmed unto us by them that what?
A: Heard Him.
Q: God also bearing them witness, both with what?
A: Signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Q: According to his own what?
A: "Will?"
Q: For unto the angels hath He not put in subjection the what?
A: World to come.
Q: Whereof we what?
A: Speak.
Q: What question did one in a certain place testify, saying?
A: "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?"
Q: Who was made a little lower than angels (messengers), crowned with glory, and was set over the works of the hands of God?
A: Jesus.
Q: Thou hast put all things in subjection under what?
A: His feet.
Q: For in that He put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing that is not put under Him. But now we see not yet all things put where?
A: Under Him.
Q: But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for what?
A: The suffering of death.
Q: Crowned with what?
A: Glory and honour.
Q: That He by the grace of who?
A: God.
Q: Should taste death for who?
A: Every man.
Q: For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through what?
A: Sufferings.
Q: For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of what?
A: One.
Q: For which cause He is not ashamed to call them ? What?
A: Brethren.
Q: Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto who?
A: Thee.
Q: And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, Behold I and the children which who hath given me?
A: God.
Q: Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through what He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil?
A: Death.
Q: And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to what?
A: Bondage.
Q: For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of who?
A: Abraham.
Q: Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto who?
A: His brethren.
Q: Why?
A: So that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God.
Q: To make reconciliation for the sins of the what?
A: People.
Q: For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are what?
A: Tempted.