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Take heed less what you now think to be pure gold turns out to be brass metal

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NOBODY LIKES TO BE POOR

AND YET, SOME OF US ARE POOR. But poverty was not part of God’s plan for you and me from the beginning.

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

To claim this promise, WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

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Malachi 2:13-16

New International Version

Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears.You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.You ask,“Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth.You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.

Has not the one God made you?You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.So be on your guard,and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”says the Lord Almighty.

So be on your guard,and do not be unfaithful.

If, as recent research has shown, clothes and appearance are most powerful nonverbal communicators not only of our socioeconomic status but also of our moral values, as Christians we should ponder: How can we best show our Christian values to others through outward appearance? What principles of dress and adornment should we follow to ensure that our outward appearance will give a visible and silent testimony of our relationship with Christ?

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

In a marvelous manner God wrought in behalf of His penitent people; and a counter-decree issued by the king, allowing them to fight for their lives, was rapidly communicated to every part of the realm by mounted couriers who were “hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment.” “And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.” Esther 8:14, 17.—RH, January 23, 1908. DG 47.1

Esther 8:1,2 -

On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Esther 7:3,4 - Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Esther 5:2 - And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

Esther 4:16 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.