Monday

I can tell you I have a prayer ministry and pray for all of you, daily, reached and unreached.  I even send up a special prayer for the sweet encourager who sends me cards.  I can tell you I do Bible study and devotionals every day, and will have read about half the Bible by the end of the year.  The goal I read it through once a year, sometimes that doesn't work out, but I do that every day.  In fact, my devotionals are falling apart. If you want to send me one check my wish list, I have a couple of hardbacks which will hopefully be more robust than my poor paperbacks.  

I can tell you I hand out Bibles and Bible promise books as directed by the Holy Spirit.  In fact, I am happy to discuss all of that because I am doing what I have been essentially ORDERED to do by the Bible.  

The Bible says to do good works (charity).  Jesus also says not to talk about them: 

Matthew 6 New King James Version (NKJV)

Do Good to Please God

6 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.

So, really ORDERED not to say anything, but I will, a little.  I have two charity deductions that go out every month.  The first one keeps going through no matter what I do to my card, which is great.  No typing in new numbers all the time, when I get a new card or the old one expires.  

The second one, World Missionary Press.  I like them because they can make 25 booklets for a dollar, so that $5-10 can go quite a ways.  But my old card expired.  

I wasn't in a hurry to renew it, to be honest, I had a lot of financial and other pressures.  Ron had just been diagnosed with epilepsy.  Lots of stress  Plenty of excuses.  

But I finally got on the ball and redid it today.  It was easy.  And now I can just put that line item in my first of the month budget.  Without divulging much I will say it was a bit much at the end of the month.  Although I only have 2 payments left to the HOA and then that's $85 in my pocket again.  

And I want to be clear I am not coughing up large sums, but again, Jesus said the two mites was "more" from the widow because it cost her more.  And the charities I help can really take a small amount of money and turn it into something eternal.

So I feel good about that and that's why I put the links on my page.  I will say both do send progress reports and ask for MORE money aside from what I'm already giving but my Dad always had a slogan 'If you don't ask, the answer's ALWAYS no".  

That's all I can really discuss.  Ron does something too which gets him serious respect from me.  And I think God values a lower income person doing a small amount.  

I would just hate to get up before The Throne on Judgment Day and say I did NOTHING.  That would be awful.  But, some will.  

I don't judge others that is God's job.  But I will clean my own house and guide my husband if I feel it's merited.  Anything more than that, no.  

I do find it funny I am still on the mailing list for the Bible publisher.  I have a decent amount of Bibles in the garage (taped closed so dirt won't get in and ruin them), so I don't need more.  I just got a catalog which I saved, you never know.  

And I got another sweet card AND a bookmark, I find that funny because I needed one and hadn't mentioned it at all.  

Funny how that works.