Having been given the challenge of being placed in this world that the only freedom from poverty was placing my dependence on God. In this “place” I’ve found a peace… of contentment. Trusting in the truth of His Words that nothing passes through His hands without His knowledge.
While many are homeless and cries ARE heard from the Father of their hunger. He is faithful, He is already working ahead of the expressed needs before the cries were sounded. He places the knowledge of need inside many people, in us. To do all that we can. God supplies all our needs, in this world there is more than enough resources to feed and house us all. What keeps these needs from being met for some…Its greed and gluttony, distraction and deception, selfishness and…satan. NOT the Father. He gave us all that we need IN this world. When there is suffering its what “we” as His creation have failed to do our part in. Being wasteful of so much that can serve others. Even Jesus had the disciples gather up the “left over” fish and bread when they fed the thousands their fill. They took up the broken fragments! The very pieces that many of us throw away on a day to day basis.
There were once times that I went to the garbage bins behind a grocery store to help feed my children. God DID provide! The food fed us!
My health was never thought to become chronic that I’d become permanently disabled, the thorn in my side brought me to His feet!
I wasn’t feeling prepared that their dad would up and leave us and never to surface again. He’s been found now, 14 years later to have multiple criminal felony charges and my children are safe and have no desire to steal or cause someone harm. God’s grace IS sufficient.
We lost our home, our vehicle, we had to relocate, we had no relatives offering for us to reside with them. God brought people and circumstances that came to pass that 7 years later, He brought us favor! We now have a beautiful home that we are able to call “ours”!
My testimony has endless pages…from enduring the life of sexual abuse as a child, overcoming addictions, recovering from deaths bed from disease, having been paralyzed to walking, home bound to freedom! It IS the truth that sets us free!!! Thank You Jesus!

We can read:
“The blind that received their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor…HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM” Matthew 11:5.
I don’t hear mention from our Saviors lips of prosperity in material possessions that were given? Nor have I read where the poor are encouraged to seek out in abundance. We aren’t to conform to things of this world. So why are we struggling over the truth of what is written?
Jesus asks…
v.8 “But what went ye out for to see?” [Who were you looking for...? What were you expecting...?] “A man clothed in soft raiment? behold they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses.
v.9 But what went ye out for to see?…”
v.10 “For this is HE of whom it is written, BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE THY FACE, WHICH SHALL PREPARE THY WAY BEFORE THEE”
Jesus IS our example. He did not parade himself in excessive life style living.
He did not tell the poor to “reach out…get rich! Jesus didn’t say, “I have came that you may have more things of this world!”

This affliction is only for a little while…our treasures are waiting for us in heaven!
The Father KNOWS who’s heart is deceptive, who could help and who chose not to. It is our confidence in Him and in the promises of the rewards when we finish “the race” here, in THIS life time. No matter what our situation is and the circumstances that are involved, God’s watching, waiting, AND weeping with us.

Our trust in Him, despite our seen circumstance and the lack of pleasureful things of this world surrounding us in our lives, that IS the evidence of things hoped for.

We are all given trials and tribulations that will form us to who HE created us to be…IF we seek HIM in the midst of our trials for HIS direction He’ll guide us. IF we seek to understand He’ll comfort us… we ALL serve His purpose. Every experience we endure we can overcome, IF we keep to HIS Will for us. Learning to hear His “voice”, act obediently to His stirring us inside.

What’s going on with “our” world..? These are the beginning of sorrows. The Tribulation as written in Matthew 24:4-31

I pray that some will have bared with my lengthy “comment” to the end …I’m confident that God has used me in SOMEONES life through this… In Jesus’ Name ~ Amen

“Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled”
Matthew 24:34
REJOICE HE’S COMING!

All messages taken to the extreme and out of context can be used to demonstrate the simplicity of the mind of man and the desire of another to be led instead of lead. By man’s very nature he is said to be born into sin and in need of a rebirth or a born again to transform him into his true being. So for any man to say he “knows” with out demonstration that he possesses the ability to do “greater things than these” has no place to sit on the seat of judgement.

Personally I think it was a great video showing a little of both sides of the pendulum of what the message lacks when faced with the true opposition of poverty. But for me to say in absolute that either side is right or wrong – that sounds a little less like discernment and more along the lines of judgment.