Think God's Thoughts

I awoke feeling weighed down by the cares of this world...seemingly impossible situations with no apparent way out. Gripped with fear, I began to pray in the Spirit and heard “My thoughts are not your thoughts…those are not My thoughts!”

I immediately went to Isaiah 55!

‘Seek the Lord while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Was Jesus Rich or Poor?

I’ve heard many things regarding the financial status of Jesus when He walked in the earth. 

Those who thought He was rich point to the guards gambling for His clothes—who would gamble for rags? Or the fact that He had a treasurer—would a poor man need someone to watch the money? Or the fact that many rich women supported His ministry, or that He and Joseph had a successful carpentry business before He began His ministry. 

Those who say He was poor say He had nowhere to lay His head—their literal translation of that phrase has Him sleeping on a park bench somewhere, covered in newspaper. Or those who say Mary’s offering for Him as a baby was a poor person’s offering—turtledoves instead of a lamb. 

But the reason I know He was rich was that a curse without cause cannot alight. [Proverbs 26:2] Wealth accompanies righteousness.

Because as many as are the promises of God, IN HIM they are yes [2 Corinthians 1:20] and there is no time limit, either back or forward, in that verse.