TSK · Philippians 4:19

Then he blessed Joseph and said,“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked– the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

In my distress I called to the LORD; I called to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.

When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the LORD and pronounced blessings on his people Israel.

You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

For the LORD God is our sovereign protector. The LORD bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.

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

My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king.”

“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.

Jesus replied,“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them,‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!

And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

Leading and Living in God’s Flock So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you: