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Ecc 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. MESSAGE BIBLE Laughter and bread go together, And wine gives sparkle to life But its money that makes the world go around Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matt 6 is 1st 4 versus talking about alms or compassion giving Next 11 versus (5-15) talking about prayer Next 3 versus (16-18) talking about fasting and then 19 21 likens these acts to depositing wealth into heavens bank treasure means deposit which comes from the root word tith mi Thayer Definition/strongs: 1b1) to bend down, horizontal 1b3) to lay by, lay aside money 1c) to set on (serve) something 2a) to make (or set) for ones self or for ones use 3) to set, fix establish 3a) to set forth 3b) to establish, ordain Treasures and money here are fleeting, and they are fragile, and they are transient, and they are temporal. They can also be a curse. Possessions can damn our lives. When Achan saw the Babylonians garments, and the wedges of silver and gold, and the spoils of Jericho, it ruined him and his family. God sentenced them all to death. God called it, the accursed thing, covetousness. [Joshua 7:1-26] Ahab, because of Naboths vineyard, listened to the sentence of God, The dogs shall lick up your blood where

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the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, the vineyard, accursed! [1 Kings 21:19] Judas sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, and then committed suicide, annanias and sapphire lost their lives because of their love for money It is very easy for us to forget about what is lasting. We can labor for meat and things and forget that while we may think we are living and doing well the most important aspects of living may need to be revisited. Things like prayer are fasting like money in the bank spiritually speaking. Mar 6:5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. Mar 6:6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching. Apisteah unbelief, unfaithfulness disbelief, disobedience

Mat 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Mat 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. Mat 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Therapy, wait upon relieve Mat 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless (apistos unfaithful, untrustworthy, )and perverse (dee-as-tref'-o to distort, that is, misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt: - turn away) generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. Mat 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

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Mat 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: (if it is because of unbelief then it can happen because of your faith) for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Mat 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. The mustard seed is a very small seed but grows into the greatest of all herbs. So our faith must be growing and increasing. Prayer prosyookhay worship and supplication, honest humble petition Faith pistis belief, loyalty, reliance, constancy English word piston- A car piston compresses the air inside the cylinder to about 1/8th it's volume,that along with the gas injected into the cylinder and the spark given by the spark plug will create a controled explosion inside the cylinder that will move the piston which will turn the crankshaft which is connected to the flywheel which is connected to the torque converter that turns the transmission that's connected to the drive shaft which turns the axle that turns your wheels which makes your car move. If there is no movement in your life it could be that your pistons are messed up. Your faith may be low. Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Heb 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? Heb 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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Through faith Sara recived strength to conceive seed and had a baby when it was impossible Heb 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. Heb 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. Heb 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. Heb 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Heb 11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Heb 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Heb 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: Isa 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. One of the greatest titlesof God is that of jehovah jireh or the gOd tht provides and this was 1st shown to Abraham on the top of mount moriah when he obediently gave up and surrendered to God his dreams,