Where the Lord has brought me to in my life is that I am content where I am, and I am learning that when I sort my money out each time I receive it there are three basic things that MUST be done. Pay God his money (I strongly believe in titheing) Pay a set amount in charity (not in charity shops) and a set amount in savings. Learn to live off the rest and do not under any circumstances borrow money. That is the practical side.
The belief side is: be ready for God to bless you, claim his promises that He will bless you, and yet always submit to his will, for in allowing poverty to strike He will have a plan and will bring you through.
Vickie I am sorry if I misunderstood what you were saying, I have in the past (and still do) seen people who pull out those quotes and emphasize being poor so much that it's like there's a virtue in poverty (almost making poverty ino being some saintly quality) but yet they dispise the rich merely because they are rich. It is this that I am trying to educate against because it denies God the opportunity to bless them as He desires. Agur who wrote proverbs 30 said give me neitheir poverty nor riches, lest I be full and deny my Lord or lest I steal and bring shame on the Lord my God (paraphrased) . Yes there is danger in both extremes, yet by God's grace we can handle any situation He gives us.
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