Friday: Why Worry 5

"In tithes and offerings you are under a curse. The whole nation of you, because you are robbing me."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Do you believe it is Friday already, how time just passes by so very fast. Today is beautiful, do you know that God does not really give us bad days, we sort of make them on our own. Think about that one for a while. Friday and the day we pray for those who really work for the Lord. And you should be on that prayer list. Please add to our daily prayer list, Sandy and her family, Donna and her family, and Beverly and her family. Sandy, Donna, and Beverly are sisters. Pray for their mother whose memory is fading.

Why Worry? You know the bottom line on this worrying thing is we will have far less to worry about and to cast over to God if we just would live to please him to start with. I talked a tad yesterday about people that seem to have a lot of money, big house, big car, boat, motor home, etc. Now some of these folks might have been given their money, some might be in way over their heads and are really just putting on the dog, so to speak... But others who really love God, and who are giving and giving and giving to him, are feeding the poor and putting clothes on the naked, and helping the homeless, don't you think that maybe, just maybe, God is just blessing them and blessing them? You cannot out-give the Lord. If you give in faith from your blessings, your blessings will grow.

Malachi 3: 8 - "Will a man rob God? yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings you are under a curse. 9 The whole nation of you, because you are robbing me." 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. TEST ME IN THIS," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessings that you will not have room enough for it." (NIV)

What else can I say about worries? Let me just wrap it up like this, Come to Jesus, live for Jesus, give to His work, love Him and your neighbors, do what is right...

Father in Heaven, we want to start today living for You. We have bundled up our worries, and we are casting them to you. We pray for our families and pray that those in the family that are not saved come to You. We pray that we can lead our families in Your path, walking in Your light in all we do, we pray that we will help our neighbors and not just those next door. We really want to get it right and not worry about things. Lord, I pray that we head off the worries by not doing things that cause worry. Lord, be with those on our prayer list and help them... in the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Go forth, cast your worries to Jesus and live for God, and do not rob Him, and then share those blessings and stand back for you will be blessed, not because I said so, but because the Lord said so and it is recorded in the Bible... AND I BELIEVE IT. love ya, dan.