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Joh 3:30 : "He must increase, but I must decrease...

The current situation you find yourself in is only today's predicament. What will you do about the eternal question laid before you by your Savior? "Feed my sheep, Love one another as I have loved you, Leave the ninety and nine behind and go after the one...

Money won't solve the immediate anymore than it will solve the future. 1Ch 29:15 : "For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow..." There is no provision that you may provide for yourself or family that can be compared to being clothed in His provision. If you are your Father's son, and your Father knew you from the beginning, then does not your Father know what you need? "You have not because you ask not." What is Jesus saying? That if we ask He'll give us the posessions that we desire and the life of leisure we dream?

Jesus is saying that If you want eternal life it is yours for the taking. It is about eternal, indestructible issues, not dust and chaff to be blown in the wind. No man comes to this until he has given up his desires and asks to be a useful tool of the kingdom. When that happens, whatever riches come your way will be as trash thrown upon the fire. Wealth is measured in the closeness to the King of King, being so near to Him that His knocking on hour door is as your very own heartbeat.

You can absolutely attain that nearness that He desires from His sons and daughters, first you must decrease that He might increase. Like a fire burns the slag and only the gold remains, you must reduce yourself till you're...

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