TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - June 18, 2025 - Proverbs 4:1-6 - Hear the Instruction of a Father

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

In this deeply reflective Morning Manna session, we begin our journey through Proverbs chapter 4, where wisdom is portrayed as the voice of a loving father calling his children to listen, internalize, and live by God’s instruction. The message emphasizes the importance of active listening, honoring divine teaching, and developing a heart of understanding. From “hear ye children” to “forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee,” each verse is unpacked with practical and spiritual insights that apply to every believer seeking abundant life through godly wisdom.Rick and Doc dive into the layered meaning of each phrase, illustrating how wisdom isn’t just acquired passively but must be intentionally pursued, cherished, and obeyed. The fatherly language reflects both authority and compassion, challenging listeners to value God’s Word like treasured instruction from a parent—and to love wisdom enough to be kept by it.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 6/18/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

Good morning everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. We're delighted that you are here to study the Word of God with us. And we would love you to be with us at the online class that gathers at 8 a.m. Eastern Time at faithandvalues.com. This Bible study is a ministry of faith and values fellowship in vero beach florida and um part of that uh ministry to you is on fridays we we conduct the lord's supper so we encourage you to be back here on friday to receive a holy communion uh we are a church We are a church and we are here to minister to you. Today we begin chapter 4 in the book of Proverbs and we're going to study verses 1 through 6. I'm going to pray, invite the Holy Spirit to take charge, Doc's going to read the word

and then we're going to jump into these scriptures. Almighty God, our precious heavenly Father, Father, we bless you, we praise you, we glorify you, we thank you for being our Father. Father, your sons and daughters from many nations are gathered online right now in this virtual church Bible study class. We are in one accord. We are here in unity and harmony in the spirit. Your Holy Spirit to learn about your son Jesus Christ and his kingdom and your principles that govern the kingdom. And so Father, we're learning about the book of Proverbs

and the theme is wisdom and understanding. So open up our hearts and minds to receive divine illumination from heaven about wisdom and understanding in the name of Jesus. Amen Amen, and we are starting Proverbs chapter 4 today and we appreciate you being here. We've got Brothers and sisters in Christ are hailing in from Russia from Switzerland from the Philippines South Korea Brazil Just all over the world and of course all across the US and Canada.

Open up your Bibles please. I'm reading from the King James. I'll be reading chapter 4 verses 1 through 6 this morning. And verse 1, hear ye children the instruction of the Father and attend to no understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also and said under me, let thine heart retain my words, keep my commandments and live. Get wisdom and get understanding, forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee,

love her and she shall keep thee. Praise the Lord. So much packed into six verses. If you're new, my teaching method is to divide each verse into three segments, study each segment separately, and then put it all together. So we start with Proverbs 4 verse 1, hear ye children the instruction of a father, and attend to no understanding." Pay attention and no understanding.

You're not going to know it unless you pay attention. So segment one is, hear ye children, or listen, sons and daughters I mean we wouldn't say today to a group of of our children here ye children we'd say listen up or hey son daughter come over here listen up to me I guess something really important to say to you so it's a call to attentive listening. Hey, I'm not just talking. I have got something to say. Listen to me.

Stop what you're doing. Put your phone down. Get your eyes off the TV. Listen to what I'm saying. It's urging students, students of the Word, children of God, to open their hearts to wisdom. And it says you trust that it begins with a willingness to receive godly teaching. Wisdom, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. But to be taught,

it begins with a, after you have the fear of God, the next step is the willingness to hear and receive divine teaching. Yes, there's got to be an active component on your part. You just don't absorb it by osmosis, but rather it's something that you seek out, something that you are having, you're making a choice not only just to receive the auditory signal it's more than just that it's hearing with the purpose of intently listening so it's more than just hearing it's i'm trying to think of the right way to describe it it's active listening yes Yes, and notice here it doesn't say, hear you son, hear you daughter. It says, hear you children.

This is a broad call to all who claim to be in the family of God. Amen. Sometimes these messages are personal. And the scripture will say you, but this one says ye. This means everybody who is in the family of God, listen up. Listen to hear requires active engagement. It requires you to focus intently, to absorb divine instruction and illumination,

and to do so with respect and eagerness. Any of you in the class, if you're a teacher or were a teacher, retired teacher, you know when you look at a class who's paying attention and who's not. Right. Well, God does too. The Holy Spirit knows who's listening and who isn't. And he's got people in His kingdom who don't listen. Unfortunately, yes.

I mean, parents have children. Sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't. And when they don't listen, what happens? There's going to be correction So listening hearing God when he speaks is Paramount importance to any man or woman who claims to be a Christian Jesus said to those who have ears to hear. In other words, hey, you know those things you got stuck on your head, what are you using them for?

Why do you think I put them there? To hold up your glasses? That's what my dad used to say. Hey, what are your ears for? Just to hold up your glasses? Your dad was funny. I like to have met him. He was a card. So, the second part is the instruction of a father. the instruction of a father. First part is, hey children, sons and daughters, here listen to what? The instruction of a father. This segment of verse 1 emphasizes the authority behind the divine teaching. There's authority but also divine care. The Father is seeking to impart divine, godly instruction to his sons and daughters.

And that comes from the Father's love for the sons and daughters. So the instruction of a father portrays wisdom as parental guidance. guidance and it's teaching us that God's truth like a wise human father's counsel aims to protect us and and direct us instruction listen to the instruction of a father Listen to the instruction of a father. Not suggestions, not ideas, but disciplined teaching. Instructions are not open for debate. It's not a question and answer period. When the teacher teaches, the teacher is instructing.

And the students, if they're wise, are receiving the teacher's instruction. This is a wise father representing wisdom. Let's say wisdom being portrayed as a wise father, gathering children together and saying, listen to my instructions. Not saying listen to, I've got some good ideas here, you might wanna try them. That's not, it's not what he's saying. Instructions require, signifies a divine,

I mean, excuse me, a defined set of teachings. Yes. Again, Father evokes an image of trust, authority, prompting students to honor divine guidance, to make sure that their lives are in accordance with God's divine plan. Then the third segment of verse 1, and attend to no understanding. Pay attention and no understanding.

To no understanding. Think about that. To no understanding. To know understanding. Think about that. To know understanding. It seems like you're saying the same thing twice, doesn't it? It does. There's understanding and then I was thinking of a pastor. I don't know if he's still around. I need to find out. I haven't talked to him in several years. He's up in his years. He's a good man. But when he'd be talking to me, Doc, it was always, Rick, are you following me? Are you following me? Yes, Pastor, I'm following you. That was his favorite line, you know, are you following me?

In other words, I'm giving you some information. Are you paying attention? Are you getting this? Tell me if you're getting it. If you're not getting it, I got to go back and start over. No, don't do that. I'm following you. I get it.

This conversation has been an hour already. I'm following you. Okay. Oh my. But suffice it to say there's an understanding. You hear what's being said, but do you know it? Do you understand it? Are you grasping it? Or is this going over your head or out your ears? This says pay attention and know understanding.

So it's emphasizing a serious pursuit of deep insight. Understanding is deep insight. You've got wisdom and you have understanding. Understanding is Having knowledge of the practical way to implement wisdom. If you have wisdom and don't know what to do with it, it's of little use. You have to have understanding. Got this tool. It's got a lot of power in it. But if you don't have understanding of the tool, it's useless or it could be dangerous. Yes.

I mean, you wouldn't give a chainsaw to a child. So you have to know, have to understand how that chainsaw works You must attend to know. Attend means concentrated effort. Now we don't say mostly in our vernacular, we don't say attend. We go, hey, tend to to this right tend to cleaning up your room tend to picking up your toys get to that get that done okay pay attention right become actively involved that uh that word attend there r Rick, is the Hebrew word kashav. And what it means is to lean back or lean into. And so have you ever noticed someone

when they're really intently listening, they move in or turn their ear to it? That's what this is saying here. It's just, don't just absorb the words. Lean into it. Listen carefully to internalize wisdom and then have understanding to know what to do with that wisdom you've internalized. Verse 2, Proverbs 4, 2,

For I gave you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I give you. You've got two people involved here, I and you. We have to figure out who's I and who's you. Well, I is God and it's wisdom speaking. It's God speaking through wisdom.

Wisdom saying for I and Give you you or you and that's an easy one This is personalized now Is it there's a a personalized gift from wisdom See the call was to everybody if you're're in the family, the whole house, come and listen. Attend, attend to my words, listen. And if from among all of you who've gathered, if you have attended to my words and received them, then I will give you.

And I will give you, and I will give you. Now that implies members of the family who didn't listen don't get included in you. That's right. You see why it's important to understand these terms? It began with a general call to the whole family. Come, Papa's going to talk. Sit down. I've got something important to teach you. And then we get the instructions, you know, listen to my, it says,

attend to no understanding. Hear ye children, the instructions of a father. And what's that instruction? I give you good doctrine. Forsake ye not my law. The gift for paying attention is good doctrine. Right. The instruction is you must pay attention, attend to no understanding, and when you do this, I, Papa, speaking as wisdom, will give you, son or daughter, good doctrine. Not just average doctrine. Good doctrine. This is good stuff.

This is good doctrine. So segment one for for I give you. It speaks of the of wisdom's generosity. You can't separate wisdom from the Holy Spirit. This is the Holy Spirit saying, I, the Holy Spirit, will give you a generous dose of wisdom. I will give you a generous dose of good doctrine. Receive the Father's truth with gratitude. Yes. He's freely offering it to you for your benefit. No charge. The only thing he asks is you pay attention. Yes. And attend to his words with your ears. Listen, for I give you, that's an act of bestowing a gift on somebody. Look, you know, if you're in a college class and a senior aged professor who has great respect says to the class,

if you listen to me, I'll change your life. I will teach you things in this class that you will carry for the rest of your life. Get that picture. A father is saying, I give you. Give is a gracious offering. Give is free. This isn't I sell you, I offer to you, I make a proposition to you, I make a deal with you, I'll trade with you. No, I give you good doctrine. And the only one who is able to give good doctrine is the one who produce good doctrine. Right. You can't give away something that you don't own.

So the good doctrine belongs to the Holy Spirit. And really, there's no distinguishing between good doctrine and the Holy Spirit. God is His Word. His Word is God. What's one of the responsibilities, one of the duties of the Holy Spirit? In instructing us... Guide us in all truth. Guide us in all truth. of the Holy Spirit instructing us. Guide us in all truth. Guide us in all truth. Good doctrine, sound teaching.

That's a segment two of this verse. I will give you good doctrine. This speaks of the quality, the level, the reliability of the instructions. They come from heaven and they come from heaven, they come from God. The word good or sound is there simply to imply the integrity, the value of what you're going to receive. The superiority of the gift. Doctrine is the same as teaching. It means structured guidance. Forsake, e, not my law. That's the third part of this verse. Don't forsake my law. Now, this is a call to

steadfast commitment to obey the Father's commandments. It warns against abandoning divine instructions. Don't forget it. Don't let it slip away. You've got to work at this. You've got to remember the time, but forsake speaks of a deliberate memory loss. You choose to forget God's law at any time, but there's a passive memory loss and an active memory loss. Passive is you're just not reviewing the instructions often enough to keep it in your heart, in your mind. But active memory loss is you have chosen. I don't want to remember that anymore. You know, you're flushing it out of your brain.

You're forsaking it, abandoning it. You're forsaking it, abandoning it. And God knows the difference. He knows the difference in the attitude of each person. His law obviously means His commandments. Verse 3, For I was my father's son, tender tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. This is an interesting one. For I was my father's son. There's a description of a family. It establishes the speaker's identity that wisdom is passed down through a Father's loving teaching. Yes. The term son is just to represent a cherished role, a cherished, beloved member of the family. It's to encourage us to see ourselves, male or female, as beloved children, recipients of this great gift, which is wisdom and understanding.

Second segment, so it's, for I was my father's son, tender. Let's just focus on tender. This speaks of vulnerability. The vulnerability of youth, of childhood, of young age. Yes. Just the, they're teachable. They're impressionable. I think of my grandkids in the Philippines, Rick, especially Josh. Josh,

he's five years old. He is smart as a whip. I'm not just saying that because I'm a proud grandparent. I mean, he really is smart. He picks up things very, very quickly. He's just so teachable. And he's just so teachable. I mean, he just is like a sponge. He wants to learn. And that's the attitude that we need to be having here. We need to be tender. We need to be teachable. We need to be soaking up whatever the Lord is teaching us,

soaking that up like a sponge. So those two things go together. Your grandson is hungry for information, knowledge, and he's smart. Go together. He's always acquiring more information. He's always acquiring more understanding. He's just a little boy trying to figure out his world. I got dropped off on this planet a couple years ago, and I am trying to figure out his world. I got dropped off on this planet a couple years ago,

and I am trying to figure this all out. And he's eager to learn and process it. That little brain is just working all the time to understand life around him. He'll grow up to be somebody important, Doc. Right. So Solomon here, he's expressing his own path here to wisdom. He said, for I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. A child that's tender-hearted is sensitive, open. Their heart is open to receive a father or mother's instructions They have a sensitive tender heart Now a Hard heart of a child think about a child that's hardened Something happened and they've closed up and they got a hard heart. They're not listening. They're

not open. They're not sensitive. They hurt cats. Tender children don't hurt cats. Kinderchildren don't hurt cats. Segment three, and only beloved in the sight of my mother. So this is speaking of the cherished position, the status of the student. It's trusting that wisdom's teaching flows from love and care. Why does it talk about the mother now? Because from father now to mother. A mother you think of tender-hearted affection. Beloved, the only one and only beloved in the sight of my mother. Beloved, the only one means special favor, mom's favorite.

Isn't that what it's saying? And the only one and only beloved in the sight of my mother. And keep in mind who were his parents? Who were Solomon's parents? David and Bathsheba. who were Solomon's parents? David and Bathsheba. And yet he gained wisdom from them. From them both. Yes, Proverbs 4.4. Watch the time here. He taught me also and said unto me, let thine heart retain my words, keep my commandments and live. Segment one is he taught me also and said unto me. So there's a personal transmission of wisdom. He taught me and he said to me. Not to everybody, to me, not to everybody, to me. He taught me personal and said to me personal. This says wisdom will teach you. Wisdom will speak to you personally. Personally, for the matters that you need wisdom.

Doc has matters that he needs help from the Holy Spirit that I don't have and I have matters that need help that he doesn't have. We both need wisdom, but the Holy Spirit will speak to us personally in relation to the things that we need. Amen. He taught me also and said unto me, you see a Father's active instruction. The father is actively teaching and speaking to the child. Taught means deliberate education. It's not that, hey I learned from my father just by watching him. Well there is education that you can gain that way. But this says taught. That means the father had a plan of instruction. And that can be both classroom

or on-site field education. but the father was in control. The father had a plan. Yes. The father taught the students. In other words, if you're teaching a child how to handle horses, you've got a plan. how to handle horses. You've got a plan.

You know, you just don't go put a five-year-old on top of a giant horse and say, hey kid, go for it. Hang on. Hang on. Now doc, my dad would have done that to me. You know? He put me on the backs of cows. Steer running through the field, I'm hanging on, you know?

You didn't like it and neither did the cow. Yeah, but my dad was getting great enjoyment watching it, OK? It's amazing we survived our childhoods, right? I know. It really is. But a wise parent who has livestock would say, I'm going to have a plan to teach my children how to be around

these animals, how to care for them, how to train them, how to enjoy them, how to beware of the dangers. You have a plan. That's instruction. It's deliberate education. And then we have, he said unto me, again, there's a personal exchange from one person to another, a transfer of information from the teacher to the student Individual not group individual

Sigma to let thine heart retain my words It's talking about the internalizing wisdom. Hey kid, I'm going to teach you some wisdom here. I'm going to teach you something. Get this down inside your head and get it in your heart. It's got to go beyond your head. It's got to get into your heart. Hold fast to what I'm about to teach you. It will shape your life. You have to internalize this good doctrine I'm giving you. Can't be just head knowledge,

it's got to be in the heart. See in a tough time, in a surprise moment, you're going to go with what's in your heart, not what's in your head. Yes. That's why you have to get God's wisdom in your heart. Yes. Because there'll be a moment, something that happens by surprise, suddenly. And you have to make a quick decision and action. It has to come from your heart.

Yes. You won't, in the moment, think. It's got to be what's been trained in you. And that's what that retaining means. It means, in the Hebrew, it's to grasp firmly, to hold on to, and not let go. I have seen people with a lot of education and training, and I'm speaking, I'm very respectful of their education and training, but in an emergency, it didn't do them any good at all. But in an emergency, it didn't do them any good at all.

They went with what was in their heart. And they lost sight of everything that they knew. They acted out of emotions. So the heart is the core of your being. So the heart is the core of your being. It governs your thoughts, your desires, your decisions, your actions, your heart. So this is saying, let your heart keep my words. It's your heart that's the core of your being that governs your thinking, your speaking, your desires, your actions, the decisions that you make. The most important thing in us is our heart.

in us is our heart. That's why we always, oh my, you know, you tell the Lord, Lord, just show me things in my heart that you don't like and then hold on. Oh, things that you may not even know is there. Yes. But once that heavenly flashlight comes on, there it is. Hey, there's a rat in the corner. How long has he been here? Decades. Get him out. Get that thing out of here.

Well, you ask the Lord, show me, is there anything in my heart that you don't like? And the Holy Spirit will point in the corner, yeah there's a big old rat, look at that thing. You have to be strong enough, you got to be prepared for it, but if you know your father loves you, you'll say, okay, help me get that rat out of here. Yes. I didn't know that there were rodent droppings in my heart. I've never said that before, Doc. Rodent droppings in your heart.

That's a new one. If you find droppings, you know a rat's been there. That's right. That's right. My words, God's words, divine authority. Segment three, keep my commandments and live. Oh, hey, wait a minute. Keep my commandments and live? How many want to live? Yeah, put your hand up. I want to live. I desire to live. And not just lie, not just exist, but to live. That word

is chaya, and that means an overflowing life, an abundant life. And Jesus said, I came to give life and life more abundantly. Amen. That's what this is saying here. Wisdom leads to an abundant life. So there is life-giving power in obedience. Life-giving power. Obedience is linked to vitality in life. As Doc said, you're not just alive, you're super alive, you're abundantly alive. Keep my commandments. Diligent adherence to the commandments, active obedience. Are you serious about it? Why? You desire to live. Verse five, get wisdom, get understanding, forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. Segment one, get wisdom, get understanding, pursue that divine truth truth get it get you some yes for those of you who are not southerners and you're outside of the south and you're

outside of America that you may not know what we just said but that's a that's a saying here get you you some. Yes. In other words, it's available to you. Come on, come and get it. Yes. Well, God is saying to all of us who claim to be his sons and daughters, wisdom is here for your taking. Come and get it. And while you're getting wisdom, grab yourself some understanding. it and while you're getting wisdom grab yourself some understanding because both of them are proactive effort. It doesn't say, hey, I'm throwing wisdom at you. I'm throwing understanding at you. No, you come and get it. Yes. I'm giving it. It's for free. But you got to get up off your rump and come get it. Right. A lot of people, you know, little quote, James 1 five, you know, or it says, if anyone lacks

wisdom, let him ask of God. And people like to ask, but then you turn around here and problems say, get it. In other words, you ask God, but he's provided it he has provided it It's it's there it's available it's free it's abundant But he's not bringing an over and buttering your bread You know It's like okay dinners on the table. Come and get it. What happened when you stayed outside and continued playing after mom said dinner's

on the table? You might just go in and find out she's already put the leftovers away and send a refrigerator. That's right. Well mom, where's the dinner? I told you come get it. We have dinner every night son. You can come back tomorrow night and get some. It's not mom's responsibility to go out in in the yard and put a spoon in your mouth. responsibility to go out in the yard and put a spoon in your mouth. Come and get it. I made it. It's on the table. It's fresh. It's hot. You can have all you want. Come and get it. But if you don't show, forget it not. Don't

neglect. I see the other, the other time earlier we said don't forsake. Now this is don't forget. So I was saying earlier like a passive and an active. So forgetting is kind of the passive way of neglecting the word. Forsaking is you've made a decision to forget it. This is hate. Don't be lazy and forget what I've taught you. Amen. Keep it in your mind. discern and understanding the value of what I've taught you. So when you understand the value you work at preserving it. Have you ever given a gift to a child, an expensive gift? Six months or a year later you visit that home and you realize they didn't work. They didn't value the gift I gave them You know you see you know, maybe it's

Laying out in the yard rusted up and you go. Well, obviously they didn't appreciate it They didn't value the gift. There's no value to it. I bought them one of the best bikes I could buy them and look at it's all rusted up. See there was no value. So we have to we have to appreciate the value of the good doctrine. Amen. Neither decline from the words of my mouth, active adherence to divine instruction, the words of God, don't deviate from decline, don't deviate, don't deviate from the words of my mouth. Don't turn away. Well, yeah, deviate would say straying, right? Moving away, straying. Don't wander away.

Proverbs 6, 4, 6, forsake her not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep thee let's focus on forsake her not and she shall preserve thee this was talking about the necessity of steadfast loyalty to wisdom cling to God's truth Cling to God's truth. Trusting that it will preserve you, keep you safe, keep you secure. Forsake, now we're back to that word again, forsake or not. That implies active, deliberate abandonment. You don't forsake somebody or something by accident. Right. That's a choice that you're making.

It's a choice. You made a choice to forsake. Do not make a choice to forget what I taught you. It's hard to imagine someone actually doing that. You know, God probably says the same thing every day. I mean, if you've learned this and you've seen the results of it, at what point in your mind and your spiritual life would you choose not to do it? I guess you can be deceived and you can be drawn away. The Bible says we are drawn away by our own lust.

So the idea here is this is an active component here, that there are people who choose to forsake wisdom, to say, No. And I think, Doc, you can have, there's a lot of demonicpped in the warfare that their minds are clouded with just trying to stay alive mentally, emotionally, you know, to deal with the demonic warfare that they forget, oh, the Word of God says this, right? So forsake her not and she shall preserve thee. There is a promise for protection. Love her. That there be passionate devotion to wisdom, that there be an emotional bond with wisdom, a deep affection. You love wisdom and you zealously pursue it. And in the last segment of verse 6,

And she shall keep thee. So this is the promise of ongoing protection. She shall keep thee. Yes. She's ongoing, perpetual. Right. So in the first part you had preservation. Now you have the keeping. So wisdom is protective. Wisdom sets up a guard. If you love her, wisdom will be that guard, the watchtower, if you

will, of your decisions in your life. That's why if you have more wisdom, you have more opportunity to guard the decisions of your life. That's why the Word of God is so important. That's why these daily Bible studies are so critical for so many people. You're gaining wisdom. The Word of God is wisdom. You're gaining that. With that, you're able to make better decisions,

not just as it relates to your spiritual life, but as a parent, as an employee, as a boss, whatever it might be. Wisdom helps protect you from bad decisions. She shall keep. That assures us of wisdom's active role in our life when you're awake when you're asleep She shall keep Go to sleep tonight saying Holy Spirit. I thank you that you're keeping me

Enjoy being kept Who keeps people? Loving parents. A loving father will keep you. It speaks of vigilant guardianship, spiritual, mental, physical protection, well-being. A promise. It's a promise from God. Okay, that's it for today. We're over our time. Let's wrap it up, Doc,

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The app still works, the True News app, whatever way. And then there's a post office that still works too. P.O. Box 399, Vero Beach, Florida, 32960. And please give an offering to God. Not asking for a donation. I'm not asking you to toss a quarter in the offering plate. Yeah, this isn't the United Way. No.

I don't want you to, I'm not asking you to put a dollar in the kettle. I'm asking you to bring your best as an offering to God. Bring your best. If you're here learning then you know what that means. And our desire is for you to learn to trust God more every day. And trusting Him with your finances is part of it. If you don't have money to give, then ask the Lord for money to give. I call it miracle money. Just tell the Lord if you give me money to give to faith and values for support of morning manna, if you give me that money I'll give it. If you desire, if it's up between you and the Lord, if you say you give me miracle

money I'll give 50% of it.'s between you and God the only thing is the only thing that's important is that you keep your end of the vow right I'm telling you God will keep his end you make that vow to God get ready for the miracle money it's coming he'll come through he'll come through. He'll come through. But don't renege and change the terms after it appears. Amen. Once you speak it out your mouth, whether you say I'm going to give 100% or 75% or 50% whatever you say, that's between you and God. But once that miracle money shows up, you honor your vow. And you'll start the miraculous flow of more miracle money in your life. Amen. It won't be the last one. There'll be more. That's all I've got to say. All right.

Love you guys. Love you very much. We'll see you on the Thursday edition of Morning Manor.