GOD IS OUR SUPPLY

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. This is the first commandment and a very potent spiritual truth. Somewhere else in the old testament it says that God is a jealous God. I think that man often interprets or visualizes God with a human form and human traits, emotions and failings. But God is Spirit ...the Creator of the universe and I believe the Creator is way beyond human emotions. God is Love.... but it is a Spiritual Love and not a love that involves human fears and insecutities such as jealousy. At this point, my sense of it all is that there is really one Mind or Conciousness and that is the consiousness that created the universe. Because we are part of the creation, we are part of this conciousness.


Referring to God, the Bible says that we live and move and have our Being within God. God/Spirit fills all space...is all wise and all knowing. Because we are that meshed with God, we don't have to go anywhere to find God. Some like to say God is within us. I don't think this means literally that  God is contained in a physical body. How can infinite Spirit be contained in such a manner? I do think it means that that if we are still and go within...and listen..."Be still and KNOW that I am God"...that we will have access to all we need. This can mean....access to right ideas and access to "supply" in whatever form we need it. This doesn't mean that we are GOD but that we have access to and can express all the GOOD that God is. As a child I was taught that my reason for Being is to express God's qualities which are spiritual qualities.


Many are observing ....as the article below brings up.....that the more we make gods out of money, sensuality, personalities (such as presidents, rock stars and other material human beings) and the more we trust in matter in general, the more we will find ourselves enslaved by matter. One by one our material props will fail us.... till we realize the truth of being that God is our supply. When we place our trust in personalities and governments, which are temporal and have human failings we are bound to suffer the natural consequences. This is not to say that we don't need food or money or housing but that by Trusting in God and seeking the real and eternal FIRST....ALL the rest shall be added unto us.

Genesis 47:13-27 RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE - STIMULUS SERMON Genesis 47:13-27 I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in   Virginia three cheers. This guy is obviously a leader. Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is.....It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000 years. --------------------------------------------------- Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word.  Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis.  We'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27. Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ....(reading)... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray.  So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them.  And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built.  So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain.  And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again. So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine wasn't over, was it?  So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.  Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?  Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh."  So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain. What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters? That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery?  Yes.. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master? Yes. But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters!  Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen .  And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly."  God provided for His people, just as He always has!  They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained possessions!  But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one. We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us.  It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind.  And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders. What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same.  And a lot of people like to call Mr.Obama a "Messiah," don't they?  Is he a Messiah?  A savior?  Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH!  No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.  Bow with me in prayer, if you will... Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone.  We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.." And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation.  We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.  Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government. In God We Trust...