"Ask not what GOD can do for YOU but what YOU can do for GOD."

In other words, instead of ASKING God for something all of the time perhaps it's time for you to start GIVING something.

But I'm only poor and I have little or no money to give you might ask! A very honest and understandable question. We seem to have this pre-occupation with money and that everything will be alright if only we had enough money. There is an often mis-quoted phrase from THE BIBLE that states "money is the root of all evil" when the correct phrase is "for the love of money is the root of all evil." Money alone will not cure the world's problems!

You GIVE according to your means and abilities. However much, however little. It doesn't always have to be money of course. It can be your time serving others in whatever capacity you can.

The Book of Genesis

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Chapter 48



1: And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

2: And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat uponthe bed.

3: And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4: And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will makeof thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

5: And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reubenand Simeon, they shall be mine.

6: And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

7: And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.

8: And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
9: And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bringthem, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

10: Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, andembraced them.

11: And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.

12: And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

13: And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

14: And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding hishands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

15: And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

16: The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

17: And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

18: And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

19: And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

20: And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21: And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bringyou again unto the land of your fathers.

22: Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Genesis 49

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