After Jesus was resurrected, he began to resurrect our spirits as we showed faith. He told the disciples that someday people would believe even though they would not have the advantage of seeing him in the flesh doing all the miracles that He performed while upon this earth.
My fellow saints, we need one another to give strength and confirmation to that faith that seems to ebb at times. There are strength in numbers. Make any rock you stand upon your church. There are many people hurting out there. Many of the hurting are poor, but there are many of the rich hurting as well. Some of the materially rich have set their faith largely on material things and found it an empty and lonely life at the top of this material world. They are lonely while standing in a forest of friends; people dressed merely in the costume of a friend. When the money disappears, so do the friends. Pray for the rich and pray for the powerful for many of them are in need of richness in spirit to complement their richness in the material things.
Our Lord cares not whether we are rich or poor in material possession. He is concerned with the poor in spirit, and they can be at any level in the material world. Do not confine yourself to looking in the direction of any one material class; rich, middle class, poor. We our concerned with the condition of the spirit, not the pocketbook. Christianity is faith in the lasting, the forever...in God through Jesus Christ.
My fellow saints, we need one another to give strength and confirmation to that faith that seems to ebb at times. There are strength in numbers. Make any rock you stand upon your church. There are many people hurting out there. Many of the hurting are poor, but there are many of the rich hurting as well. Some of the materially rich have set their faith largely on material things and found it an empty and lonely life at the top of this material world. They are lonely while standing in a forest of friends; people dressed merely in the costume of a friend. When the money disappears, so do the friends. Pray for the rich and pray for the powerful for many of them are in need of richness in spirit to complement their richness in the material things.
Our Lord cares not whether we are rich or poor in material possession. He is concerned with the poor in spirit, and they can be at any level in the material world. Do not confine yourself to looking in the direction of any one material class; rich, middle class, poor. We our concerned with the condition of the spirit, not the pocketbook. Christianity is faith in the lasting, the forever...in God through Jesus Christ.
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