SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
ATTACK YOUR LACK and BE THANKFUL TO GOD
Article by Pastor Philip Nissley,
New Hope Assembly of God, Taylor, MI
Putting God first with your time, your heart and life and first fruits offering is important for Prov. 3:9 says to “Honor the Lord with the first fruits of ALL your increase.” Jesus said in Matt. 6:33 “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things (clothing, food, shelter, what people go after) will be added to you”. Then obey the law of first fruits for God promises that he will pour out his blessing exceedingly, abundantly, above what you can ask or imagine. So according to Proverbs 8…
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As we enter Thanksgiving Season and have much to Thank God for! We take approx. 23,000 breaths each day, but when was the last time we thanked God for one of them? We live in a land provided by God to the Pilgrims who survived crossing the Atlantic in a small ship in 1620 and were kept that first cold winter from death and disease. As a free country, we must not get so caught up in our comforts and making money that we forget God or our Godly beginnings! When we trust only in our means, we fall into lack—the opposite of what God wants for us! Jesus said He came as God to earth so we might “have life and have it more abundantly”. Psa. 34:8-9 “O taste and see the Lord is good …for to those who fear Him there is NO want.” So, if you’re living with a deficit of health, a deficit of joy or peace, or a money deficit…give your life and things to God and claim Psa. 34:10 “They who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing!”