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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Isaiah 58:6-7 Its time

Remove the chains of prisoners who are chained unjustly. Free those who are abused! Share your food with everyone who is hungry; share your home with the poor and homeless. Give clothes to those in need. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, hmm have you feed your enemy or cloth those that hated you?  I have, trust when I say it was not by my spirit that I did this, but it was my Holly Spirit cause left up to my flesh it will take care of itself first.  But we are called to be Christ like.




Christ said fox have holes, birds have nest but the son of man has not even a rock to lay his head upon.  He put the need of others first, what about you???  Have you step outside of your comfort zone to see who around you needs help.  Are you trepidated that you do not have the tools to do out reach?  No one is speaking of out reach I speaking of reaching down to help another up, one who may have fallen down or one who feels he or she can not stand anymore because  they were abused by love one's, because they lost their job and family.  Did you know that most of us are one pay check away from being homeless?  I worry daily for my children with that knowledge in the forefront of my mind. That I must trust the Lord to provide and protect my children and lovely wife.  Tell when God blesses you does he not do it through other people?  If He does not do it that manner with you I would like to hear how he does it for you. Cause for me and my wife God uses people to bless us.


  Did you know this:


  • Fact: some 24,000 people die each and every day from world hunger; that works out to one person every 3.6 seconds; 75% of them are children.
  • Fact: there are 800 million hungry people in the world.
  • Fact: in the United States, 12 million children live in households where people have to skip meals or eat less to make ends meet. That means one in ten households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger.
  • Fact: the main cause of hunger is not a lack of food. Already in 1986 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that there was enough food being produced to supply every person in the world with more than they needed to enjoy a healthy life. Grain production alone supplied enough to enable people to consume 3600 calories a day, 1100 more than the recommended daily requirement. Yet people still die from hunger. Even more startling is the fact that countries we consider "hungry" often have enough food to feed their own populations. For example, India ranks near the top in agricultural exports among the developing countries. In Brazil, the second largest food exporter in the world, 86 million Brazilians are undernourished. Obviously, a shortage of food is not the main cause of hunger.
  • Fact: the main cause of hunger is not laziness. Women in the developing world work an average of twelve to sixteen hours a day trying to survive. For their hard work, they earn practically nothing. A Filipino laborer on a plantation earns $1.50 per day for working from sunrise to sunset.
  • Fact: the main cause of hunger is not overpopulation. It is true that the countries that suffer from hunger also have a rapidly growing population. But the reason they have more babies is to fight poverty. Children who work represent the labor and income the poor need to survive, especially in old age. 




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