TSK · Mark 10:30

Amaziah asked the prophet:“But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet replied,“The LORD is capable of giving you more than that.”

Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;

“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.

But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Parables on the Kingdom of Heaven“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,

Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!