O God, I Beg Two Favours
sryall ♦ January 13, 2018 ♦ 1 Comment
From a devotional:
Prov 30:7-8 O God, I beg two favors from you; let me have them before I die.
First, help me never to tell a lie.
Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.
Psalms 23… I shall not want…also comes to mind…
A clean slate… A new year… Resolutions…
I heard a speaker once talk about how he had just landed off the red eye to be met at the airport by his secretary and a clean suit… the last thing he wanted and he had totally forgotten about the event… He was the keynote speaker at a ladies function.
While on the stage only halfways awake, he was listening to the hostess talk about a need for a missionary team that required $7,000 for a much needed building… She asked him to come and lead the prayer…
And he said NO!
Instead he got up to the podium and looked out over the sizeable audience and said that he was sick and tired of all the prayers that went up when the reality is simply among everybody there they could easily raise the $7,000. He then took his wallet and ask the lady to open it up and take whatever cash he had in there and put it into the offering. He then announced that whatever amount they were short he would write a personal check and cover the balance. He wanted every woman in there to trust God to take whatever money they had their wallet and believe that God would bless them and return it and to come on up and put it in the offering.
Nobody started to move so finally he looked at one lady, pointed and said you come up here and pointed and repeated to the next few. He said that people were taking money out of their wallets and stuffing it into the hymnals.
After everybody had come he asked two women to go and count the money. They had raised more than $7,000.
We live in a country so blessed…
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Very dramatic. I do think we live in a stingy society. the Bible standard is to give 10%. Studies show we give less than 1%.
I would contend that such withholding affects our mental health. If we are so reluctant to bless the work of the Lord with our offerings, we are likewise reluctant to receive God’s blessings.
What do you think?