Friday, March 15, 2013

Thinking about the Lottery.

 IF you won the lottery, what would you do with your money? I know most people would say, give to the Church, help their relatives, pay your bills, help poor people out, fix up their house, get a better car. That's all good. Most lottery winners are broke in less than a decade anyway. SO, if you did what would you do? Like the Hills of Dearborn? Guess what, I have lived and worked in VERY POOR countries. Winning the lottery big for them is equivalent to our receiving $2000 scot free. Yet we get that per month without much hassle. Do we do what we say we would do with our "Winnings"? Are you supporting your fellowship, helping your relatives, helping poor people, keeping your house (no matter how humble) up, paying your bills, keeping your car in decent repair? IF you are not faithful in little God won't trust you in being faithful in much. The secret to God's outpouring of provision and protection is wrapped up in your core generosity. We think we are testing God when we give, but he is actually testing us when he gives us. Passing the test makes all the difference.
 
From Mike Huckabee
 
Good morning America! Let's start today together with a great story of community and faith.

You always hear of lottery winners who go wild and end up broke. But that won’t happen to today’s Huck’s Heroes, Mark and Cindy Hill of Dearborn, Missouri. They held one of two winning tickets for the biggest Powerball jackpot ever, worth over $136 million after taxes. So are they buying gold-plated limos and bathing in champagne? Actually, they’re sharing it with their neighbors. Dearborn has fewer than 500 residents. But thanks to the Hills, it’s about to have a new fire station, a ball field, a scholarship fund for high school students, and a big down payment on a new sewage treatment plant. Cindy said for some reason, God put all that money in their hands, and she thinks it was to make sure it went to the right things. Say, maybe this is God’s way to telling us to put the Hills in charge of the federal budget.

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