Hello Everyone,

If you saw someone drowning and God said the only way to save them was to throw in your child, would you do it? I wouldn't. But that's exactly what God did in order to save our souls. We were going under, drowning in sin, and God, our only hope, did what only He could do, which is to bear our sins, in our place, so we could be saved!

Now we're saved, but many here know that drowning feeling, because many are drowning in debt and going under financially. One of the main weapons the devil uses to stress out believers is money troubles.

Good news: There is hope, and help. The Bible has the answers. Jesus spoke more about money than He talked about heaven and hell combined! And there are many more principles throughout the Bible that will help us...including right here in our Nehemiah study...

Read chapter 5:1-19

v. 1 They are fighting over money. 'Til debt do us part!

v. 2 They have a shortage for basic human needs...just for food.

v. 3 Just to eat they have to sell their necessities of life.

v. 4 Now they are borrowing money just to pay their taxes! The IRS accepts credit cards because of this.

v. 5 Their children have been sold into slavery, their future mortgaged away. The same is happening in the USA today.

For the first time ever, we are raising a new generation who does not expect to have things better than their parents. It used to be that the kids would help the parents later in life...now it's been reversed and if not for the parents, many grown kids would not survive.

These are God's people in our text, and they are in financial bondage, and that greatly limits both their happiness and what they can accomplish in their lives.

God has a better way. What God orders, He PAYS for. Where God guides, He PROVIDES! He is our source, our BE all and END all.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil