Post by VR on Jun 25, 2016 7:47:04 GMT
2016 | June 24th | 176 of 366 | EVENING | Phil 3:13-21 |EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 44 of 66 | PHILIPPIANS 4
Signpost Words | ‘LIVING ON LESS THAN NOTHING’
Some Observations |
This is the most magnificent thankyou note ever written and gives a little insight into Paul’s method of mission and his financial support base. It is evident that he had a method to his mission but his financial support base was rubbish. Even so, he pressed on with his calling, counting the cost and learning to be content with less than little. A single man can do this, a married man with a family, cannot.
A Call To Action |
God cares more about your availability to Him, than the availability
Signpost Words | ‘LIVING ON LESS THAN NOTHING’
Highlight Verses | Philippians 4:10-19
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress. Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. NKJV
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress. Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. NKJV
Some Observations |
This is the most magnificent thankyou note ever written and gives a little insight into Paul’s method of mission and his financial support base. It is evident that he had a method to his mission but his financial support base was rubbish. Even so, he pressed on with his calling, counting the cost and learning to be content with less than little. A single man can do this, a married man with a family, cannot.
A Call To Action |
God cares more about your availability to Him, than the availability