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Courage breeds Courage

The communists, with Biden as the figurehead, are waging a war of inches. They are also working on many fronts against: Parents’ rights, pro-life rights, gun rights, etc. The next step, however, is a big one. It is to take our money and control us with it (or control us by withholding it). Central Bank Digital Currency will complete the power grab because the Government will be in control of all our money.

If you have been afraid to speak up, you can see that that strategy has not been effective.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.”
– pg. 51, Letter to the American Church, Eric Metaxas, Salem Books.

Thousands of years ago an entire people hung in the balance. One woman, a queen, had a decision to make.

Esther 4:14 & 4:16b (NASB95)

[Mordecai:] “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

[Queen Esther:] And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Queen Esther risked being killed (the king had killed his previous queen) if Queen Esther went in to him without him summoning her. Yet her people, the Jews, were about to be exterminated. She did what was right, not knowing what God would do – either save her or let her perish.

If you are a follower of Jesus, Jesus said you will never die, not a hair on your head will perish. Though satan can kill the body, after that there is nothing more he can do. I may be killed sounding the alarm but if I am I will immediately be face to face with Jesus, my God and my Protector.

If you speak up, more people will speak up. If you remain silent, more people will remain silent. Whether you like it or not God has given you a role to play in this struggle for Truth and Freedom and Righteousness.

There is Freedom on the side of Truth, may we all be free!

I am lovingly, peacefully, and legally taking political action.

How about you?

Read Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas.

And take loving, peaceful and legal political action too.

Please share this if you agree.

https://i-m-4-u.com/2023/09/03/courage-breeds-courage/

Jesus notices the Poor Widow

Mark 12:41–44 (NASB95)
41 And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums.
42 A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent.
43 Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury;
44 for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on.”

I don’t think this is about sacrificial giving. I think this is about dependence, trust, and relationship. The widow did not have Social Security or a retirement plan; she had nothing. Her dependence on God had developed trust in Him and facilitated an ever closer relationship with Him. Giving her last cent to God was saying: “God, I give away my last money to you as my way of saying I am totally dependent on You, I trust You more than money, I love You.”

This is what I think Jesus thought was significant, not what percentage of your disposable and essential income you give. When I am making my daily decisions, and I make my decisions based on my relationship with God and what He wants and not what money dictates; I will have learned this lesson.

Not compulsion . . . Hilarity!!!

2 Corinthians 9:6–8 (NASB95)
6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

Jesus talked to the Pharisees about how they tithe their little spice plants out of obedience to the law (and so that they looked good to themselves and others) but ignored the “weightier” matters of the law (love, mercy, forgiveness, . . .).

After learning from Pastor Andrew Farley I see myself walking in the Pharisees’ path instead of Jesus’. I have been tithing under compulsion, because of the blessings and curses found in Malachi, not because I am a “cheerful giver.” I have even written posts about tithing and encouraged my sons to tithe.

Jesus wants me to give the way he gives: liberally, extravagantly, pressed down, shaken together and overflowing. Jesus doesn’t give to me because he will reward himself if he does and curse himself if he doesn’t. He gives to me because he LOVES ME. He is filled with “hilarity” (root word of “cheerful”) when he gives to me.

I have prayed to give with hilarity and God has granted my request. The first time I gave with hilarity my wife and I gave to friends of ours who were in a difficult financial spot. I was filled with hilarity . . . and love, for God who enabled us to give, and for my friends who were crying they were so happy at what God had done for them.

That kind of joy I have never received by following the law and giving 10% of my income motivated by blessings and curses.

Instead, Jesus calls us to hilarity. And he has promised to supply an abundance for us to give.

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