Dear Friend,

You have been saying...

I just finished your article on Attitude--Your Key to Prosperity. I have been a giver for along time. I have given well above the norm, but I was not seeing any change in my finanical situation. I have been praying and asking the Father what I was doing wrong. After a message in my church this past Sunday, on MINDSETS, I started my own search on Changing My Mind Set when I came upon your web-site. THANK YOU!

This article has chanced my mind and attitude on how I am to give. I was giving out duty to the Word of God. I never had put much thought into being a JOYFUL Giver. I gave -- because it is RIGHT and the Word told me to give. I am now going to be giving with a JOYFUL Heart/Mindset. I am expecting to see changes in my life. -- Cherrie, via web.

Thank you, Peter (and Vivien)! What a way to start the day ... as I have been harassed so by my adversary lately ... I need to see my Father's love to me in Christ so much more, so that I'm not deceived through my flesh. I remain so thankful for all you've done for me, and all of God's people (that you don't even know now, but will know in that day!), by your example and teaching! Love in Christ (may he come soon!), C.B., Ohio

Great Newsletter Peter. Thanks for sending them and keeping us on your mind. I agree with the "more is better?" comments you made. it is an insult to our Father to act like He does not love us so we have got jump up and down and throw a fit in order to get His attention. Our Father is not a "dead beat" father, but a loving one. Thanks Peter. I plan to share this with our congregation. -- D.C., Maryland.

You are absolutely right! My heart hurts for those folks who think they cannot access God's power without certain prayer rituals. Even all by myself, my prayers in Christ are powerful and effective! -- G.J., Oregon.

I've been showered with blessings, too many to recount, since putting the check in the mail. Thank you, Peter, for steadfastly teaching the giving principle for so many years -- it's what keeps me from floundering in fear over the economic crises that are shattering lives all around me. As my son always says: "Life's so much easier on the 90%!" He gets it -- he's been raised on your teachings and prayers. -- B.H., California.

completely satisfied

The Bible works for those who believe it will. Every time you read a verse, and meditate on it, God will make some aspect of it come alive to you. This is why the Bible is described in Hebrews 4:12 as "living and active". And it is!

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
    "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
    "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst".

The verses are Matthew 5:6; John 4:13-14; John 6:35 (all KJV). Look them up in your Bible, read the context, read them in a modern translation. These verses thrill me because Jesus is teaching his disciples the totality of His gift of eternal life to all who believe. "Completely satisfied" is how the Amplified Bible renders Matthew 5:6. In my experience that is far more than any church I have attended has led me to believe. Usually I was told that salvation was God's greatest gift, but once I had that then what I needed was this, or that, or the other.

Yet Jesus said that when I received righteousness I would be completely satisfied; when I came to Him I would never hunger; when I believed on Him I would never thirst! I'd rather believe Jesus than the church! -- Peter Wade.

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