“I need more money.”<\/p>\n
“Why?”<\/p>\n
“So I can provide for my family, pay my bills, clear my debts, brighten my testimony, and give to the kingdom.”<\/p>\n
“What about getting wealth and stuff?”<\/p>\n
“Give me neither poverty nor riches,”<\/span> (Proverbs 30:8).<\/p>\n I think of that verse fragment fairly often.<\/p>\n I thought of it again this morning when I read this:<\/p>\n The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.<\/span> -Genesis 39:3<\/p>\n Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. -Psalm 128:1,2<\/p>\n Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. -Psalm 37:3,4<\/p>\n Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. -Joshua 1:9<\/p>\n Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall he added unto you. -Matthew 6:33<\/p>\n As long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. -2 Chronicles 26:5<\/p>\n Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. -Deuteronomy 8:11,17<\/p>\n Is not the Lord your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? -1 Chronicles 22:18<\/p>\n Daily Light on the Daily Path<\/a> — June 8, Morning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I forgot.<\/p>\n I thought in my heart the way I wasn’t supposed to.<\/p>\n I was wrong.<\/p>\n I have repented.<\/p>\n I have learned…again…that pride flattens<\/a>.<\/p>\n