As we embrace the reality of our debt being paid by Jesus, we need to also consider what Jesus told us about how we are to forgive others.

When Jesus takes longer than we think he should to solve our problems or help us, does that trip us up?

As Paul said in Philippians, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” We are not to simply be strong on our own.

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb…I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

It is a specific kind of bread that we are to avoid consuming. No, it’s not white bread, or wheat bread, or sourdough that we are to avoid. Psalm 127 is clear that there is no benefit to eating “the bread of anxious toil.”

As we continue reading from 2 Corinthians 9, we discover that as we are generous with our resources, then God makes sure that our needs will be met as well. We will have more than enough!

Nehemiah took all those steps, and it wasn't easy. He had opposition. Not everyone got into his plan. But he never lost faith.

There is nothing we can buy that will last forever.