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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
Yes again not boasting but I rolled the carpet off my floor and sold it to a saint to pay the evangelist and the saint was glad to get it. Not complaining I have carpet today so God blessed me. My gift was to HIM he keeps good books. I am blessed much more than I am worth or deserve. I deserve a pup tent by a creek bed and to ride a bycycle. But somewhere along the line God has took a liking to me and has blessed me I KNOW it can change tomorrow but if it does He gave and He can take away. I have been bountifully blessed. I live in a beautiful home and drive a nice car but if God says leave tomorrow I am out of here I belong to HIM not things. My love affair is with the Giver not the gifts. Have I ever been unwise NO doubt but I happen to pastor saints that sometimes are not the brightest either in financial judgments. I have been abased and have abounded God was real in both places. We have lived in the church and did not complain. Soi why should I hang my head now?????? To me it would insult God and show unthankfulness for His goodness to me. I am blessed full and empty. He is exalted.
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And I heard of a woman I do not know personally that was a friend of my mother-in-law and she lost her teaching job after teaching over 30 years at a school...long story short the bankers were knocking on her door since she had not been able to pay her mortgage on her house and to top things off she had a lien already on the house and could not pay that either. So I wiped out the debt on the lien, then I paid off the remainder of her mortgage which was about five years left on the mortgage so that she can live free and clear from worry of her, her mother, her two sisters and her son (with no man in the house) being thrown out in the streets....this is ridiculous that I am even sharing this, but you act as if "saints" don't have their stories to tell too....so let's set aside the silly back-patting and move on with the discussion and not self-aggrandizement.
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