Matthew 6:19-34 NIV

(19) “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

(20) But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

(21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

(22) “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

(23) But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

(24) “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

(25) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

(26) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

(27) Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

(28) “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin.

(29) Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these.

(30) If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

(31) So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

(32) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

(33) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

(34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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“Very often the richest blessings are only a decision away from you!�

Tom Goetze

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“If the Holy Spirit is a power, we’ll want to get hold of it.

If the Holy Spirit is a person, we’ll want Him to get hold of us.

If the Holy Spirit is a power, we’ll want it to accomplish our will and whim.

If the Holy Spirit is a divine person, we’ll want to surrender more to Him in awe and wonder.

If the Holy Spirit is a power, we’ll be proud we have it and feel superior to those who do not.

If the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, we’ll be humbled that in His great love the very Third Person of the Trinity has chosen to dwell within us.�

R.A. Torrey, The Best of R.A. Torry. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1990), 23 - 24

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Paul wrote:

Philippians 3:17-21 (Amplified Bible)

(17) Brethren, together follow my example and observe those who live after the pattern we have set for you.

(18) For there are many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, who walk (live) as enemies of the cross of Christ (the Anointed One).

(19) They are doomed and their fate is eternal misery (perdition); their god is their stomach (their appetites, their sensuality) and they glory in their shame, siding with earthly things and being of their party.

(20) But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] Savior,

(21) Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.

With these words I send you my Christmas greetings and wish you my dear readers a Christmas time which will be greatly touched by God. Be cheerful and thankful for the great present which our great heavenly Daddy gave to us over 2000 years ago. He send His son on this earth.

Also for the year 2007 I with you lots of blessing and that you see and feel the beginning of a new season / time. Let us go forward together with God and each other and let us get changed more and more from Glory to Glory!

MY MOTTO FOR 2007: “[…] YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN[…]� - that is what I will meditate upon, that is what I will live in, what I will test and try and what I will indeed see happen!

Connected in Christ

Tom

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