April 30th, 2026
by John Thweatt
by John Thweatt
My focus this Finally, Jesus gives us two practical signs. This will show you if it is too important to you. The first sign is that you run after it. (verse 30) When you run after something you are driven to over work and to over think about it. You run yourself into the ground for it.
Secondly, you store up…you don’t give it away. This isn’t to say we are not supposed to save, but the people of that day didn’t have banks, investments…they had possessions. Their homes, fields, possessions was where you found their capital. Jesus called them to give their income—to dip into their investments, their savings, lowering their net worth to others. If you can’t you have the sickness. It is easy to give what is in your pocket and what can be spared, but it is another story all together to take away from your future or the future of your children to meet a need of a brother or sister..
What we find is this—we tend to automatically underestimate the amount of money sickness in our life because we focus on the excess of others rather than the signs that point to ourselves, but let me close tomorrow with the way we,
Acquire Money Wellness.
Secondly, you store up…you don’t give it away. This isn’t to say we are not supposed to save, but the people of that day didn’t have banks, investments…they had possessions. Their homes, fields, possessions was where you found their capital. Jesus called them to give their income—to dip into their investments, their savings, lowering their net worth to others. If you can’t you have the sickness. It is easy to give what is in your pocket and what can be spared, but it is another story all together to take away from your future or the future of your children to meet a need of a brother or sister..
What we find is this—we tend to automatically underestimate the amount of money sickness in our life because we focus on the excess of others rather than the signs that point to ourselves, but let me close tomorrow with the way we,
Acquire Money Wellness.
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