I just heard something I believe was from God by the Holy Spirit ...
I
told you, in previous writing, how the cleaning lady said it would be so expensive to feed
these 4 cats which have moved into my courtyard ... I had turned to God and asked HIM about this although
I did not think there was any problem ... At first, after committing this to God I didn't hear anything. But today I heard something which I judge to be from God.
I had gone out on porch and got the
litter pail to clean my cat's little box ... and I moved the old fuzzy
bath mat to top of firewood where I had put an old blanket, planning to
put both the bath mat and blanket into a dog house which I buy for the stray cats for winter, and I heard the following:
" You take care of them (the stray cats) the way I take care of you."
These
stray cats are mostly helpless. They are subject to the cold. Before
the cold comes, I know the cold is coming. They don't know what is
coming. So seeing what is coming in winter weather, I provide for them. I plan to buy them an insulated dog house to make them as comfortable as possible in the cold. I don't plan to buy them the cheapest thing available but the best available.
God provides for us before the event reaches us. And God promises that He will feed us with the "finest of wheat".
When I buy cat food for these stray cats, I don't look for bargain food. I buy them good food, the same quality food that I have bought for my cats in the past years.
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As
we live, following HIM, one step at a time, we are exactly where we
should be, doing exactly what we should be doing when the event happens
that we do not even know is coming.
God
has us ready for the event without us trying to get ready. We are
ready in a way the people who trust in themselves can never be ready. We just keep reading Bible and things of God and set our goal daily to do what we believe Bible is showing us to do by the Holy Spirit.
Mt. 6 ... Jesus says ... 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye:if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters:for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
(If you love money and pursue money, you will not be able to serve God. At some point that desire for money will cause you to go in a way that is opposite from the way God would have you go and you will end up serving money as you try to store up more money.)
Therefore the apostle Paul says ... I Tim. 6 ... 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil:which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Mt. 6 (Continuing with that which Jesus says ...)
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air:for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow:for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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God makes every provision for us and feeds us with the finest of the wheat. We end up lacking nothing and we have no want because of God and because we follow HIM daily and refuse to follow riches of this world as other people do.
We set our goal daily as follows ... But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;... doing that which is right in the sight of God daily, second by second, decision by decision.