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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due! When you worry, you are basically telling God that you don’t trust Him to meet your needs. You’re saying that you don’t believe He has your best interest in mind or a perfectly-designed plan for your future. You just don’t trust God because your ideas are far greater. That’s what you’re choosing when you choose fear or worry over faith.

As the entire world continues to hold its breath, the horror of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to unfold. This unprovoked attack has left wives without their husbands and children without their fathers, as they throw their most vital possessions into a small backpack and begin the dangerous trek to the Polish border.

It has been 44 years since I made my first trip to Israel, and I can say with great certainty that there has never been a time in all these years that I have seen a greater need to support Israel and Judaism. Anti-Semitism is on the rise globally. Here in the United States, Jews are being attacked in synagogues. Neo-Nazi rallies are taking place. Anti-Semitic flyers are being circulated around neighborhoods in big cities. Jewish children are being accosted in their neighborhoods. As Christians, we must stand up to such atrocities. We must not be silent.

A group of Christians sits around a fireplace in a spacious living room. They are “sharing” their testimonies,” talking about their own individual spiritual journeys. The bearded man talks about a drug addiction that eventually cost him his family and business. Hitting “rock bottom” he met Christ at a rescue mission. A quiet woman in a business suit tearfully tells of an abusive past, and how she seriously contemplated suicide. Then she met Christ through a college campus ministry. Her life has never been the same. An older gentleman relates how he picked up a Gideon Bible in his motel room one lonely night in the middle of an even lonelier sales trip.

For many the account of Noah and the ark is merely a quaint children’s story about an odd man who built an enormous boat. Upon the ark’s completion, representatives from every species of the animal kingdom were drawn to Noah, and two-by-two he escorted them onto his untested vessel. The rain started, and this floating menagerie survived a great flood. After all was said and done, the happy cast of characters got to enjoy a spectacular rainbow before going their separate ways. In short, the story is often seen as a little more than a delightful decorating scheme – cute pictures of Noah and the ark, place mats, and the ark-shaped cookie jars. Tragically, the timeless truths of this story often get lost among the trinkets that decorate our homes.

When you understand what the Bible has to say about where financial resources come from, you receive the key to unlocking God’s storehouses For us to understand Kingdom Economics and business finance principles, we must first recognize the source of it all.

A busy design obscures a hidden picture, confounding the most careful observer. But if you stare intently at the picture, without concentrating solely on the surface colors, a 3-D picture or scene comes into view. The hidden picture is always there just under the surface, but it remains lost in the clutter of the more obvious designs until you are patient enough to seek it.

In 1957, a bill passed declaring that this well-known motto should appear on all U.S. currency as an acknowledgement that we are a nation founded in reverence to God’s divine law. Since that time, these four simple words have been stamped on our currency and in our hearts.

In the New Testament, Peter encourages Believers to humble themselves under the mighty hand of God. It’s his way of telling them not to forget where they came from…and how they got where they were. Don’t forget that it was God who brought you through trouble into triumph. It was God who carried you in the midst of adversity to your shining moment of ultimate success.