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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;     LIBERTY DOLLAR NEWS: November 2011 Vol. 13 No. 11 Thanks for the $upport… And more Dear Liberty Dollar Supporters! Table of Contents: 1. Legal Update 2. Thanks for the $upport… 3. Petition CBS &#8220;News&#8221; for Shafting Ron &#8230; <a href="http://robertcoss.com/blog/2011/12/16/my-m-liberty-dollar-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: bold;">LIBERTY</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: bold;"> DOLLAR NEWS:</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: bold;"><br />
November 2011 Vol. 13 No. 11</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Thanks for the $upport… And more<br />
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Dear </span></strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">Liberty</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;"> Dollar Supporters!</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Table of Contents:</span></span><br />
1. <a href="#1">Legal Update</a><br />
2. <a href="#2">Thanks for the $upport…</a><br />
3. <a href="#3">Petition CBS &#8220;News&#8221; for Shafting Ron Paul</a><br />
4. <a href="#4">Economic Problems in Europe… Soon to be Here</a><br />
5. <a href="#5">How Icelanders Bashed the Banksters</a><br />
6. <a href="#6">U.S. Headed Towards Utter Financial Collapse </a><br />
7. <a href="#7">Hyperinflation article by Steve Hanke</a><br />
8. <a>Is a New US Dollar Underway? </a><br />
9. <a>Interview: Terrorist or Hero? The &#8220;Rosa Parks of Monetary Liberty&#8221; </a><br />
10. <a href="#10">Thrive &#8211; The Movie!</a><br />
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<a name="1"></a>1. Legal Update</span></span></strong><br />
There is no doubt that my sentencing is critical to moving forward to recover your wrongfully seized property. So I wish I had some news. This &#8220;unique terrorist&#8221; is waiting for the sentencing hearing to be scheduled. Given the Holidays and the usual slow federal machinery, I don&#8217;t think I will be sentenced until January or February. The next Newsletter should have more info. Please keep your prayers and good wishes coming, as the sentencing may be worst than the trial. Please note the recent interview detailed in article #8 below for more info.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">2. Thanks for the $upport… One time donations now possible on line</span></span></strong><br />
Many thanks for your show of support for our common cause. Knowing that there is still a solid base of supporters, provides the moral courage to stand for what we both know and believe &#8211; that the government has no right to rip us off with a depreciating currency. Money must hold its value and anything less is theft.</p>
<p>A special thanks for those who answered my call for donations. As much as I greatly appreciate the moral support, the monetary support equally appreciated. The best part are the notes of support send with the checks mailed toEvansville. Thank you very much for your kind and supportive comments. I wish I had the time to reply to every one.</p>
<p>While only a small percentage of readers responded, as expected, every donation to repay the sentencing attorney loan is greatly appreciated and will greatly impact recovery of the seized property. If you did not send a few dollars please consider it. The only thing worse than the conviction is having everything confiscated.</p>
<p>The good news is that you can now make &#8220;one time donations&#8221; on line. While the <a href="http://www.GIVV.org">www.GIVV.org</a> site has not been changed, Jason has offered to edit any &#8220;monthly donation&#8221; to a one time donation. Simply go to <a href="http://www.givv.org">www.givv.org</a>, open an account, make a donation and email Jason <a href="mailto:jason@givv.org">jason@givv.org</a> with ONE TIME DONATION in the subject field. Jason will make sure you will be charged only once. Please let me know if you have any further problems, as I am very grateful for your support.</p>
<p>I also had several inquiries regarding accepting PayPal. Unfortunately, after PayPal seized $37,000 in customer orders and would not return the money to the faithful Liberty Dollar supporters for months, there is no love or usage between Liberty Dollar and PayPal.</p>
<p>Quite the opposite and much to my pleasant surprise, quite a few people chose to send cash or a check made out to BERNARD. Many thanks for your show of support. And as privacy is soo important, I received a few anonymous cash donations. Many thanks to everyone. I love you too:)!</p>
<p>So if you wish to send a check:<br />
Please make it payable to BERNARD and mail to:<br />
Bernard von NotHaus<br />
527 N. Green River Road<br />
Suite 158<br />
Evansville. IN 47715</p>
<p>Thanks for your show of support. A successful sentencing is critical to keeping the Liberty Dollar cause alive and getting your wrongfully seized property returned. Thanks again!</p>
<p><a name="3"></a><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">3. Petition CBS &#8220;News&#8221; for Shafting Ron Paul</span></span></strong><br />
On November 12, 2011, the CBS &#8220;News&#8221; Network gave Ron Paul a MERE 90 SECONDS speaking time out of an hour GOP/Foreign Policy debate in Spartanburg, SC. This is an obvious attempt to marginalize the message of Ron Paul and points to CBS&#8217;s incompetence as a reliable news network for three reasons:</p>
<p>1. Ron Paul has received more military campaign contributions than any other Republican candidate therefore, it is only logical that he receive a substantial amount of airtime during a debate on foreign policy. This not only shows an outrageous bias against Ron Paul but outright disregard for the opinion of the brave individuals serving in our military.</p>
<p>2. Ron Paul has been consistently ranked in the top or won the majority of straw polls this primary cycle. This shows a lack of journalistic competency by CBS considering it is only proper to give coverage to a candidate who is clearly showing mainstream electability.</p>
<p>3. Ron Paul was one of the few veterans on stage for this foreign policy debate during Veteran&#8217;s Day weekend. It is disgraceful that he received so little airtime given the specific circumstances. Sign the petition. Help defeat the media blackout.</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/cbs-news-publicly-apologize-to-ron-paul">HERE</a> to sign the petition to CBS News to publicly apologize to Ron Paul.</p>
<p>Ron Paul interview with Bob Schieffer for CBS Face the Nation on November 20, 2011 was equally bad and stilted against Ron Paul. Chick <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms92g-Gxeho&amp;feature=related">HERE</a> to check it out.</p>
<p>Remember CBS in New York City ran the lying &#8220;newscast&#8221; for the government about the Liberty Dollar following BVNH&#8217;s inflammatory speech in front of the New York Federal Reserve Bank in 2006, just a month before the US Mint issued their warning that the &#8220;use&#8221; of Liberty Dollars were illegal. Maybe not just a coincidence?</p>
<p><a name="4"></a><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">4. Economic Problems in </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">Europe</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">… Soon to be Here!</span></span></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/11/22/credit-suisse-goes-for-broke-predicts-end-of-euro-bank-runs/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2Bpakalert%2B%28Pak%2BAlert%2BPress%29">Credit Suisse Goes For Broke: Predicts End Of Euro, Bank Runs</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/099262-2011-11-09-italy-sparks-market-bloodbath-financial-stocks-collapse.htm?From=News">Italy Sparks Market Bloodbath: Financial Stocks Collapse</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/099265-2011-11-09-a-financial-nightmare-for-italy-the-yield-curve-for-italian.htm?From=News">A Financial Nightmare For Italy: The Yield Curve For Italian Bonds Is Turning Upside Down</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/099264-2011-11-09-french-and-germans-explore-idea-of-smaller-euro-zone.htm?From=News">French and Germans explore idea of smaller euro zone</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/098902-2011-11-03-the-european-disaster-is-far-larger-than-greece.htm?From=News">The European Disaster Is Far Larger Than Greece<br />
</a><br />
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2810886/posts">How Protesters Become Terrorists</a></p>
<p><a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/this-is-how-protesters-are-dealt-with-in-america-pepper-spray-to-the-face-rubber-bullets-at-point-blank-range-and-brutally-dragging-women-by-their-hair">This Is How Protesters Are Dealt With In America: Pepper Spray To The Face, Rubber Bullets At Point Blank Range And Brutally Dragging Women By Their Hair</a><br />
<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientists-weaponize-deadly-bird-flu-consider-releasing-results-necessary-to-create-bioweapon.html"><br />
Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu, Consider Releasing Results Necessary to Create Bioweapon </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/11/22/if-chemtrails-and-haarp-didn%E2%80%99t-disturb-you-enough-wait-until-you-hear-about-morgellons/">If Chemtrails And HAARP Didn&#8217;t Disturb You Enough, Wait Until You Hear About Morgellons </a></p>
<p>Halliburton Charged With Selling Nuclear Technology To Iran <a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0giXvhEWMo">HERE</a> and <a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=cre67lMqvXI">HERE</a></p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203611404577043652396383484.html">Central bank gold purchases soar</a></p>
<p><a href="http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lloyds-of-london-abandons-european-banks/">Lloyd&#8217;s Abandons European Banks!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.usagold.com/video/20111101.html">The European Bail-Out and MF Global Bankrupt</a></p>
<p><a name="5"></a><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">5. How Icelanders Bashed the Banksters</span></span></strong><br />
While one European country after another fails or risks failing, bankrupting the people, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland&#8217; solution to become a model for other countries. Please read this extraordinary story of how Icelanders refused to be burdened with the private debt of the criminal banking system, threw out the banksters and wrote a new Constitution so it will never happen again! Please click <a href="http://truth-out.org/why-iceland-should-be-news-not/1322327303">HERE</a> for this truly amazing story of the people taking control and protecting their right not be conned by the government empowered banks.</p>
<p><a name="6"></a><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">6. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">U.S.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;"> Headed Towards Utter Financial Collapse</span></span></strong><br />
<a href="http://goldsilver.com/new/the-u-s-is-headed-toward-a-complete-and-utter-collapse-of-its-financial-system/">The U.S. is Headed Toward a Complete and Utter Collapse of its Financial System</a></p>
<p><a href="http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2011/11/gerald-celente-we-look-at-global.html">Gerald Celente : we look at a Global Meltdown </a></p>
<p><a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/20-signs-that-america-is-going-crazy">20 Signs That America Is Going Crazy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/22/pregnant-seattle-protester-miscarries-after-being-kicked-pepper-sprayed/">Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed </a></p>
<p><a href="http://realneo.us/content/50-best-bartering-sites-frugal-student">50 Best Bartering Sites For The Frugal </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2810414/posts">Report: Dozens of U.S. spies captured in Lebanon and Iran</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/11/23/hizbullah-busts-zionists%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98pizza-hut-spy-ring%E2%80%99/">Hizbullah busts Zionists&#8217; &#8216;Pizza Hut spy ring&#8217; </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=27806">The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11</a></p>
<p><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/17-quotes-about-the-coming-global-financial-collapse-that-will-make-your-hair-stand-up">17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Collapse That Will Make Your Hair Stand Up</a></p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/poorest-poor-us-hits-record-1-15-people-040233161.html">Poorest poor in US hits new record: 1 in 15 people</a></p>
<p>Unfortunately, America&#8217;s financial problems will be not solved via the Icelandic model. Our government&#8217;s handlers prefer the much more diabolical and perverse model of hyperinflation and overthrow of the sovereign American and our God given rights.<br />
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<a name="7"></a>7. Hyperinflation article by Steve Hanke</span></span></strong><br />
Dr. Steve Hanke, the distinguished professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University just issued his &#8220;definitive&#8221; article on Zimbabwe&#8217;s hyperinflation. If time permits, I encourage you to click HERE for Measurement of Zimbabwe&#8217;s Hyperinflation. (link to: <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj29n2/cj29n2-8.pdf">http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj29n2/cj29n2-8.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>Steve also wrote &#8220;Fed Up&#8221; &#8211; an amazingly well written paper on &#8220;the zero interest-rate trap,&#8221; distortions created by the Fed and hot money flows with supporting graphs. Click <a href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12652">HERE</a> for the paper.<br />
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<a name="8"></a>8. Is a New US Dollar Underway?</span></span></strong><br />
Bob Chapman thinks so according to an article in the Charleston Voice &#8211; &#8220;the editorial repository for unflinching Americanism.&#8221; Click <a href="http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-us-dollar-is-underway-reports-bob.html">HERE</a> for an interesting spin on what may lie ahead for America&#8217;s monetary system.<br />
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<a name="9"></a>9. Interview: Terrorist or Hero? The &#8220;</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">Rosa</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;"> Parks of Monetary Liberty&#8221;</span></span></strong><br />
Recently, I did an interview with Scott Ledd from Scuttledd who quickly identified me as the &#8220;Rosa Parks of Monetary Liberty.&#8221; Please click <a href="http://www.scuttledd.com/2011/11/terrorist-or-hero-an-interview-with-the-rosa-parks-of-monetary-liberty/">HERE</a> for a newsy interview about what happened between the trial and now.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">10. Thrive &#8211; The Movie!</span></span></strong><br />
Have you seen Thrive &#8211; The Movie? Foster and Kimberly Gamble had gifted truth seekers the keys to an amazing vehicle to stop humanity from failing. The Gambles have done an outstanding job of exposing and verifying the negative forces that many people allow to control their lives and asks &#8216;What on Earth will it Take&#8217; to stop the human misery. Thrive is a must see move asap. Available at <a href="http://thrivemovement.com/">http://thrivemovement.com/</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usagold.com/publications/newsletteroctnov11.html">Misery Index Drives Gold Demand<br />
</a><br />
Closing Remarks:<br />
As Sinclair Lewis said many years ago, &#8220;When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.&#8221;</p>
<p>Special thanks to Makana from Hawaii for: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3BYw4xjxE&amp;feature=related">Occupy: We Are The Many</a></p>
<p>Thank you for your continued support. For it is only by banding together and adopting a free and independent currency that provides us with &#8220;just weights and measures&#8221; will we be able to throw off the yoke of a manipulated monetary/tax system and generate a peaceful and prosperous society.</p>
<p>Thank you again for all your efforts to return America to value &#8211; one dollar at a time!</p>
<p>Bernard von NotHaus<br />
Monetary Architect/Editor<br />
<a href="mailto:Editor@LibertyDollar.org">Editor@LibertyDollar.org</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><strong>God will provide for those who seek what is eternal.</strong></div>
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<p>What did Jesus mean when He said we are to seek God’s kingdom first? It means our top priority in life should be to seek what is eternal. That was the priority for the apostle Paul. In <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Acts 20" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Acts 20</a> he was ready to leave for Jerusalem to defend the faith, not knowing if he might be put in prison or lose his life. The prospect of persecution did not deter him, for he said, “I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself” (v. 24). He was not concerned about how long he would live or worried about what he would eat or wear. Instead, he wanted to “finish [his] course, and the ministry which [he] received from the Lord Jesus” (v. 24).</p>
<p>Seeking the kingdom means you want Christ’s rule to be manifest in your life as righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Rom. 14:17" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Rom. 14:17</a>). So, when the lost see those spiritual qualities in your life instead of worry, they know the kingdom of God is there. That is an attractive testimony that the Lord can use to bring the lost to Himself. Seeking God’s kingdom means desiring to extend His kingdom.</p>
<p>Seeking the kingdom also means you long for Jesus to return in His millennial glory. We will be joint-heirs with Christ (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Rom. 8:1-7" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Rom. 8:1-7</a>), reign with Him forever (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Rev. 22:5" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Rev. 22:5</a>), live in a new heaven and earth throughout all eternity (21:1), and have all the majesty and riches of eternal Heaven (21:1—22:5). There’s no need to be preoccupied or worried about material things since the whole earth is going to be destroyed and the Lord is going to make a new one. Instead of seeking riches, “seek . . . His righteousness” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matt. 6:33" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matt. 6:33</a>). Pursue godliness and holiness, and “all these things shall be added to you” (v. 33). God will provide for those who live a righteous life.</p>
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According to <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:33" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:33</a>, are the priorities of your life in the right order? Confess and forsake any sin, and thank the Lord for the privilege of serving Him.</p>
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Read <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Psalm 34:9-10" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Psalm 34:9-10</a>. What is the promise to those who fear and seek the Lord?</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><strong>The believer is not to worry about his future.</strong></div>
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<p>British pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, “Although it is very right to think about the future, it is very wrong to be controlled by it.” He was right, because worry is a tremendous force that will endeavor to defeat you. It will try to destroy you today by making you upset and anxious. But if it loses today, it will take you into the future until it finds something to make you worry about. In <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:34" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:34</a> Jesus says that you have enough to deal with today. Take the resources of today for the needs of today, or you will lose the joy of today.</p>
<p>Lack of joy is a sin too. Many people lose their joy because of worry about tomorrow, and they miss the victory God gives them today. That is not fair to Him. God gives you a glorious and blissful day today; live in the light and fullness of the joy of that day, and use the resources God supplies. Don’t push yourself into the future and forfeit the joy of today over some tomorrow that may never happen. Learn this one little statement: fear is a liar. It will cause you to lose the joy of today. What’s more, God gives strength for only one day at a time. He doesn’t give you grace for tomorrow until tomorrow.</p>
<p>When the Bible says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Heb. 13:8" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Heb. 13:8</a>), it means He will be doing the same thing tomorrow that He was doing yesterday. If you have any questions about the future, look at the past. Did He sustain you then? He will sustain you in the future. Since there is no past, present, or future with Him, there is no need for you to worry.</p>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:</strong><br />
Praise God for being the same yesterday, today, and forever.</p>
<p><strong>For Further Study:</strong><br />
Read <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Lamentations 3:21-24" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Lamentations 3:21-24</a>. What never ceases and never fails (v. 22)? What does that say about God (v. 23)? What does that give you (v. 21)?</p>
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<p><strong>To worry is to be like an unbeliever.</strong></p>
<p>For us as believers, worry is needless because of God’s bounty, senseless because of God’s promise to provide, useless because of our inability to do anything, and faithless because by doing so we put ourselves in the same category as an unbeliever. In <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:32" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:32</a> the Greek term translated “Gentiles” can also be translated “pagans” or “heathen” and speaks of people without God and Christ. The Gentiles are consumed with seeking material gratification because they are ignorant of God’s supply and can’t claim His promise to provide. Instead of looking to God, they anxiously try to meet their needs on their own. But for a Christian to be preoccupied with material possessions and worry about the basics of life is a serious sin and uncharacteristic of his Christian faith.</p>
<p>The Christian faith says that God will supply all your needs and that you can trust Him (cf. <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Phil. 4:19" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Phil. 4:19</a>). To worry about your food or your physical welfare or your clothing is to have a worldly mind. What about you? Do you face life like a Christian or an unbeliever? When things are difficult or the future is insecure, how do you react? Does your Christian faith affect your view of life? You should place everything in your life in the context of your faith—every trial, every anticipation of the future, and every present reality. The Christian faith also says that “your heavenly Father knows” your needs (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matt. 6:32" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matt. 6:32</a>). If He knows your life and your needs, all you need to know is that He cares. And if He knows and cares, there’s no need for you to worry about anything. Your Heavenly Father has all the resources and love to provide for you.</p>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:</strong><br />
Praise your Father for knowing, caring, and providing for you.</p>
<p><strong>For Further Study:</strong><br />
Read and meditate on <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Psalm 145" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Psalm 145</a>. Notice especially what God does in verses 14-16.</p>
<p><span>From Strength for Today by John MacArthur Copyright © 1997.  Used by permission of Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, <a href="http://www.crossway.com">www.crossway.com</a>.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="description"><img src="http://www.gty.org/media/images/451128S.jpg" alt="" align="left" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" />“And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory did not clothe himself like one of these. But if God so arrays the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more do so for you, O men of little faith?” &#8211; <em><a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:28-30" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:28-30</a></em></p>
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<p>In <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6</a>, some of the people to whom Jesus spoke perhaps had little clothing, no more than one set of coverings for their bodies. To assure them that God would provide for their basic needs, Jesus asked them to observe “the lilies of the field” (v. 28). That is a general term for all the wild flowers that graced the rolling hills of Galilee. There were many, including the anemones, gladioli, irises, narcissus, lilies, and poppies.</p>
<p>The people were also to observe how the flowers grow. They grow easily, freely, gorgeously; they flourish effortlessly. And flowers don’t toil or spin. They don’t make fancy thread to adorn themselves but have a texture and form and design and substance and color that man with all his ingenuity cannot even touch. Even King Solomon could not make a garment as fine as the petal of a flower. It has a beauty that only God can give.</p>
<p>Despite their beauty, however, flowers do not last long. They are alive today but tomorrow are cast into an oven (v. 30). A woman in that part of the world used a clay oven primarily for baking. If she wanted to hurry the baking process, she would build a fire inside the oven as well as under it. Fuel for the inside fire was usually dried grass and flowers, which she would gather from nearby fields. Jesus’ point was this: If God lavishes such beauty on a flower that is here today and gone tomorrow, how much more will He clothe and care for you, one of His own children who will live forever.</p>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:</strong><br />
To attack anxiety, ask the Lord to help you “set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Col. 3:2" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Col. 3:2</a>).</p>
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According to <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="1 Peter 5:5" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">1 Peter 5:5</a>, how should you clothe yourself?</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><strong>You can worry yourself to death, but not to life.</strong></div>
<p>Dr. Charles Mayo of the renowned Mayo Clinic wrote, “Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands and the whole nervous system. I have never met a man or known a man to die of overwork, but I have known a lot who died of worry.” We live in a day when people worry about how long they will live. That’s a harmful practice because you can worry yourself to death, but not to life.</p>
<p>In <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:27" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:27</a> Jesus said that worry cannot “add a single cubit” to a person’s life span. A cubit was the distance from the elbow to the tips of the fingers—about eighteen inches. He was saying, “Which of you by worrying can lengthen your life?” Exercise and good health can help you function better while you’re living your span, but you can’t worry yourself into a longer life.</p>
<p>The quest for living longer is not new. In the early sixteenth century, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon set out to find the fountain of youth, a spring whose waters had the power to restore youth. Although no such fountain exists, there is something far better: a fountain of life. <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Proverbs 14:27" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Proverbs 14:27</a> says, “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.” By fearing the Lord you will experience life to the fullest and not worry. <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Proverbs 9:10-11" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Proverbs 9:10-11</a> says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For by me your days will be multiplied, and years of life will be added to you.” I believe the Lord has sovereignly determined each person’s life span—He has designed how long you will live. And He gives you the gift of life because He wants you to enjoy it to the fullest by fearing and obeying Him.</p>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:</strong><br />
Praise the Lord that you may enjoy life fully by fearing Him.</p>
<p><strong>For Further Study:</strong><br />
According to <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="John 10:10" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">John 10:10</a>, why did Jesus come?</p>
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<strong>If God provides for the birds, how much more will He provide for you.</strong></p>
<p>Ican imagine our Lord standing on a hillside in Galilee, looking down over the beautiful north end of the sea, the breeze rippling across the water, the sun bright in the sky. The people were all gathered at His feet. As He was speaking to them, some birds might have flown across the sky.</p>
<p>Our Lord gives life to every bird of the sky and also sustains each one. He doesn’t say to the birds, “I have given you life; now you figure out how to keep it.” And birds don’t get together and say, “We have to come up with a strategy to keep ourselves alive.” Birds have no self-consciousness, no cognitive processes, no ability to reason. But God has given them an instinct so that they have a divine capacity to find what is necessary to live. God doesn’t just create life—He also sustains it.</p>
<p>In <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:26" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:26</a> Jesus asked the people, “Are you not worth much more than [the birds]?” He was arguing from the lesser to the greater. No bird was ever created in the image of God or designed to be a joint-heir with Christ throughout eternity. Jesus was saying, “If God sustains the life of a bird (the lesser), don’t you think He will take care of you (the greater)?” God’s provision, of course, is no excuse for man’s laziness. A bird has to work for its food, and you have to work for yours. That’s because God has designed that man should eat bread by the sweat of his face (cf. <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Gen. 3:19" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Gen. 3:19</a>). If you don’t work, you don’t eat (cf. <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="2 Thess. 3:10" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">2 Thess. 3:10</a>). Just as God provides for the bird through its instinct, so God will provide for you through your effort.</p>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:</strong><br />
When you see the birds of the air, remind yourself of the Lord’s teaching, and thank Him for His faithfulness to you.</p>
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</strong>Read <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Psalm 104" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Psalm 104</a>, which tells of God’s care over all His creation.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="description"><img src="http://www.gty.org/media/images/451128S.jpg" alt="" align="left" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" />“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on.” &#8211; <em><a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:25" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:25</a></em></p>
<p><strong>God’s Word commands us not to worry.</strong></p>
<p>Astory I once read reminded me that worry is like fog. According to the article, dense fog covering seven city blocks a hundred feet deep is composed of less than one glass of water—divided into sixty billion droplets. In the right form, a few gallons of water can cripple a large city. Similarly, the object of a person’s worry is usually quite small compared to the way it can cripple his thinking or harm his life. Someone has said, “Worry is a thin stream of fear that trickles through the mind, which, if encouraged, will cut a channel so wide that all other thoughts will be drained out.”</p>
<p>All of us have to admit that worry is a part of life. The Bible commands us, however, not to worry. To break that command is sin. Worry is the equivalent of saying, “God, I know You mean well by what You say, but I’m just not sure you can pull it off.” Worry is the sin of distrusting the promises and providence of God; yet we do it all the time.</p>
<div>We don’t worry about anything as much as we worry about the basics of life. In that regard we are similar to the people whom Jesus addressed in <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Matthew 6:25-34" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Matthew 6:25-34</a>. They were worried about having sufficient food and clothing. I suppose if they were to try and legitimize their worry, they would say, “After all, we’re not worrying about extravagant things. We’re just worrying about our next meal, a glass of water, and something to wear.” But there is no reason for a believer to worry about the basics of life since Jesus says He will provide for him. You are neither to hoard material possessions as a hedge against the future (vv. 19-24) nor be anxious about your basic needs (vv. 2534). Instead of letting the fog of worry roll in, it’s time to let it lift.</div>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:<br />
</strong>“Rejoice in the Lord always. . . . Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Phil. 4:4, 6" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Phil. 4:4, 6</a>).</p>
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What counsel does <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="1 Peter 5:7" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">1 Peter 5:7</a> give?</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>You cannot pursue both God and riches.</strong></p>
<p>Ours is a society consumed with material things. Status, success, and importance are all too often measured by a person’s financial worth. Those with wealth flaunt it; those without wealth fake it. People often rack up huge debts in their desperate and futile pursuit of happiness through accumulating material things.</p>
<p>Sadly, that same materialistic mind-set permeates the church. Instead of offering an alternative, that of being distinct from the world, the church joins the world in its pursuit of riches. Most tragically of all, the saving message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is lost in the process.</p>
<p>It is not wrong to have possessions. Job, Abraham, and Solomon were among the wealthiest men of their day. But it is wrong to covet, to make the pursuit of material things the main goal of your life, to serve mammon instead of God. “Do not love the world,” wrote the apostle John, “nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="1 John 2:15" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">1 John 2:15</a>). James addressed these scathing words to those whose focus is on material things: “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="James 4:4" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">James 4:4</a>). Behind much of the pursuit of riches in the church is a lack of trust in God’s provision. Instead of finding security in His promise to supply all our needs (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Phil. 4:19" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Phil. 4:19</a>), we seek it in a house, a bank account, or a stock portfolio. God did not give us our money and possessions so we wouldn’t have to trust Him. He gave them to us to enjoy (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="1 Tim. 6:17" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">1 Tim. 6:17</a>) and to test the legitimacy of our spirituality (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Luke 16:11" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Luke 16:11</a>). Whether you are rich or poor, your attitude toward your possessions and how you handle them is a test of your spirituality. How are you doing?</p>
<p><strong>Suggestions for Prayer:</strong><br />
Pray with Agur, “Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is my portion, lest I be full and deny Thee and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or lest I be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God” (<a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Prov. 30:8-9" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Prov. 30:8-9</a>).</p>
<p><strong>For Further Study:</strong><br />
What do the following verses teach about our attitude toward wealth: <a class="NETBibleTagged" title="Psalms 49:5-9; 52:7; 62:10" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Psalms 49:5-9; 52:7; 62:10</a>?</p>
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