The new year is progressing, but the economy doesn't seem to be marching on with it. The recent bank bailout seems to have had little effect. About $350 billion was given to banks to get them lending again a few months ago, but it hasn't spurred the economy yet. Where did the money go? The government admits it doesn't really know, and yet is ready to give twice as much more while it's in debt at record levels.
Money itself is not evil, but the problem with it is it tends to take God's Place in the eyes of the people who seek it. Jesus taught about the importance of keeping your eye single. A single eye sees God only and doesn't watch for other things and trust in having them, but trusts in God only. He said when your eye is single your whole body is full of light.
Even Jesus Christ experienced stress. In fact, His state of psychological stress was so severe that it has since been written about in medical journals: Hematohidrosis is a condition in which the blood vessels around sweat glands dilate to the point of rupture, whereupon the blood flows into the sweat glands - coming out as droplets of blood mixed with sweat.
This is a physical phenomena not frequently experienced, even in the most stressful circumstances. Yet, Jesus found Himself sweating blood on the evening before His crucifixion.
During this period of time, Jesus demonstrated for every Christian how God equips a saint to think about, walk through, and succeed when under necessary .Jesus was literally "overwhelmed with sorrow", "full of anguish" and "falling face down" in prayer.
Money itself is not evil, but the problem with it is it tends to take God's Place in the eyes of the people who seek it. Jesus taught about the importance of keeping your eye single. A single eye sees God only and doesn't watch for other things and trust in having them, but trusts in God only. He said when your eye is single your whole body is full of light.
Even Jesus Christ experienced stress. In fact, His state of psychological stress was so severe that it has since been written about in medical journals: Hematohidrosis is a condition in which the blood vessels around sweat glands dilate to the point of rupture, whereupon the blood flows into the sweat glands - coming out as droplets of blood mixed with sweat.
This is a physical phenomena not frequently experienced, even in the most stressful circumstances. Yet, Jesus found Himself sweating blood on the evening before His crucifixion.
During this period of time, Jesus demonstrated for every Christian how God equips a saint to think about, walk through, and succeed when under necessary .Jesus was literally "overwhelmed with sorrow", "full of anguish" and "falling face down" in prayer.
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