Poor Man Rich Man

No matter how much financial stress you have always remember that you’re already rich. The problems of provision begin about the time that you realized you wanted something that you didn’t have. Probably around the age of six or so when you started conspiring and using begging, Birthdays and Christmas to try and get your “needs” met. And from then till now you still have to deal with it. You’ll never have everything, and the things you do have require money to maintain so it’s a constant challenge and will be until the day you die. You’ll never get it all at once otherwise it would be like the flood of Noah. But your life is like a lake and the money flows in and out. You haven’t died yet, so somehow there must have been enough water so far and God’s not planning on letting your supply run dry. There can be seasons of rain and seasons of drought but you’ve gone through it all and made it out. You must have, because you’re still alive and kickin. You can stress over it and try to change it or you can just accept the fact that it is the way it is. Having more or less will magnify the opportunity to stress, it’s a catch-22, so what are you gonna do? How about just decide not to worry about it anymore. Just do the best you can and go on down the road enjoying life.

Trying to get free from financial responsibility is like trying to get free from the need for air. You’ll have what you need when you need it. And if you’re finding that it just won’t last, it’s because you’re trying to go too far too fast. If you try to run the race beyond your pace, you’ll experience pain and your vitality will go down the drain. Sometimes you may run, others walk or even crawl, but God is still there through it all. And even if you’re lying on the side of the road, totally spent and think you can go no more, the truth is that you’ll get through it again because you got through it before. So don’t give in to fear and don’t dismay, it won’t do any good anyway and God provides the bread day by day. He’s done it before and He’ll do it again and to worry is a sin. He said he’d provide and so He will, even tough sometimes it’s hard to breathe if you’re on a hill. There’s always enough air, you may just need to slow your pace, because until you die you’re in this race. So just keep on doing what you can do and one step at a time you’ll get through.

You’re already rich in everything that matters, God’s love, peace and joy overflow your platters. The choice is yours - you can feast any time any day, on God’s goodness or on dismay. With what’s important, you’re already blessed! So focus on that and not the rest.

Eph 1:3-4
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
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James 2:5
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
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1 Tim 6:17
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
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Col 1:27
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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Phil 4:19-20
19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Eph 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Eph 3:16-19
16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].

17 May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,

18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
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