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“Jolly Old St Nicholas Goes to Bethlehem”

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• Proverbs’ One Prayer
  • Proverbs 30:8—“O Lord, give me neither nor ,  but give me only my .”
  • A Christmas prayer asking God to keep me in because (v 9):
    • The great danger in wealth is that it tends to make us feel of God. (Psalm 73:12; Job 21:13-15)
    • The great danger in poverty is that it tends to make us feel   by God. (Isaiah 8:21)
    • “O God—give me neither poverty nor riches—but give me only my daily bread.”

• Joshua Becker, The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own” (Loc 199-213):
  • www.becomingminimalist.com
  • In the US we now consume as many material goods as we did 50 years ago.
  • Over the same period the size of the average American home has nearly tripled and today contains about items.
  • On average our homes contain more than people.
  • The US Department of Energy reports that due to clutter, % of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park cars inside, and another % have room for only one vehicle.
  • One out of 10 American households rents off-site —the fastest growing segment of the commercial real estate industry over the past four decades.
  • The average household’s credit card debt stands at over $, while the average mortgage debt is over $.  
  • Will Rogers: “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”
     
• “My daily bread”:
  • Born in a village whose name meant “House of ”(Beth-lehem).
  • A fitting birthplace for Him who one day would teach us to pray: “Our Father who is in Heaven, give us this day our daily .” (Matthew 6:11)
  • A fitting prayer from Him who one day would declare: “I am the of Life—whoever comes to Me will never go hungry.” (John 6:35)
     
• God’s One Promise
  • 2 Corinthians 1:20—YES! and AMEN!
    • Psalm 33:6, 9
    • Isaiah 55:11
    • John 6:63
  • Jesus: “Give and it will be given to you—pressed down, shaken together and running over!” (Luke 6:38)
    • AMEN!
    • Joshua Becker, The More of Less: “It’s true that the less we , the more we can . But what if the inverse is also true? What if the more we give away, the less we need? In other words, what if   leads to contentment?”
  • God: “Bring the whole tithe into My storehouse and test Me and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” (Malachi 3:10)
    • AMEN!
    • Tweet: “The antidote 2 Black Friday is 4 words long. Memorize them—you’ll have no problem driving past a shopping mall 2day: “I don’t need it.” (@DwightKNelson)

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