| Dear fellow believers:
Yeshua stated the following:
"Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life? [Ps. 39:5-7.] And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.
Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. [I Kings 10:4-7.] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?
"Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear? For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble." (Matthew 6:25-34 Amplified Bible - AMP)
I remember when I was persecuted in Chicago, IL (I grew up in Chicago and lived in the "windy city" for 28 years) back in the late 1980's because of keeping the Shabbat and holy days of Yah. Because of this persecution, I was forced to relocate to Gary, Indiana at age 20 with no secure financial resources. What contributed mightily toward enduring the persecution and difficulties was reading and studying Matthew 6:25-34.
- I know from personal experience that if you put Yah first in your life, then He will make sure you have enough food and clothes; other necessities to survive. Between 1986 and 1989, I lived at several different insecure locations because of keeping the Shabbat and holy days of Yah. I learned the meaning of "taking up your cross." (Matthew 10:38)
Well, Yah has blessed me as He promised and He will do the same for anyone that will obey Him and forsake the wickedness of this world.
"Peter started to say to Him, Behold, we have yielded up and abandoned everything [once and for all and joined You as Your disciples, siding with Your party] and accompanied You [walking the same road that You walk]. Jesus said, Truly I tell you, there is no one who has given up and left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for My sake and for the Gospel's
Who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life." (Mark 10:28-30 AMP)
Truly, the Apostle Paul was right when he stated the following under the inspiration of Almighty Yah:
"The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God. And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory. [But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!" (Romans 8:16-18)
Whenever any of us are going through suffering for the Gospel's sake, we should remember that it will lead to a GLORIOUS & SPECTACULAR future.
Shalom.
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