GOD IS NO PAUPER
“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.” (Psalm 37:25). During my first year of Christianity, I felt inspired to write a small tract entitled God Is No Pauper . It was a simple treatise on trusting the Lord for His provision of our daily needs and the needs of the ministry. It exposed the notion of having to appeal to man to supply one's needs rather than trusting in the promises of God. One section of that message is as follows: "If the earth and all the fullness thereof is the Lord’s, then surely He is capable of carrying out His work without His saints having to beg and yahoo for funds to support that work. Neither is it easy to imagine God’s holy apostles and prophets “passing the plate” to procure wages to support the work that God had given them to do. Why, therefore, should it be any different for any of His other ministers? "The apostle Paul worked with his hands as a tentmaker to support him