TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - September 15, 2025 - Proverbs 11:22-26 - The Blessings of a Generous Heart

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

In today’s Morning Manna, we reflect on Proverbs 11:22–26, where Solomon warns that beauty without discretion is as misplaced as a jewel in a swine’s snout. The desires of the righteous align with goodness, while the wicked reap only wrath. We also see God’s paradox: scattering generously brings increase, while hoarding leads to poverty. Finally, the blessing rests on those who share provision freely, while those who withhold what others need invite cursing. Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today!www.megafire.worldGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!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!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.com

Good morning, everybody. Welcome the morning, Manna for Monday. And we are delighted to have you here with us, wherever you are in the world and whatever time of the day it is and whatever method you're using to access this Bible study. We're just happy that you are here and that you are part of a global Bible study class that has been meeting for several years and it's been amazing the folks that have just stayed with us for years to be here five days a week for one hour to study the Word of God. All of us have changed. The Word is working in all of us in different ways. That's the beauty of the Word. The same word does different works in people it the word knows what needs to be done in each person and it finds its way into the nooks and crannies of our hearts and souls and it just does this thing which is to transform us into the image of christ so we are in the 11th chapter of the book of proverbs and today we're studying verses 22 through 26 tomorrow we will finish chapter 11 and then on Wednesday we will begin

our study of chapter 12 let's pray almighty god our father in heaven father we are grateful for this beautiful wonderful day and we give you thanksgiving and praise for your goodness we invite the holy spirit into this bible study to teach us your word that we would see jesus high and lifted up in the name of jesus christ our lord and savior amen amen if i could add to rick comments there about the word changing us individually it's also changing us as a community too in the apostles creed there's a word that talks about one catholic faith and was talking about catholic faith it's not capital c like roman catholic but little c catholic uh universal if you will but not quite universal it means the same thing being taught everywhere at the same time and that's what's

happening every day in Morning Manor. We're teaching hundreds, maybe even thousands of people around the world, the same thing at the same time. So not only is it transformed us individually, but also as a community, God is moving us along as well. And it's a beautiful thing to witness, especially now that we've been doing this for a couple of years, to see the changes, not only in individuals that are, you know, the names I see on the chat and how God is working their lives, but all of us as a group how God is changing us. And so it works both ways there. Now, we are continuing that study today in Proverbs chapter 11.

We're reading verses 22 through 26 today and saying hi to a global friends in Russia, Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Brazil, and across the U.S. and Canada today, welcome. Verse 22, Chapter 11, I like this verse, one of my favorite verses in the Bible. as a jewel of gold in a swine snout so is a fair woman which is without discretion the desire the righteous is only good but the expectation the wicked is wrath there is that scattereth and yet increaseth and there is that withholdeth more than his meat but it tendeth to poverty the liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himself in verse 26 he that withholdeth corn the people shall curse him but blessing shall be upon the head of him that

selleth it selleth it not give it away selleth it praise god that's right that's a good point doc we'll get to that a very good point first 22 as a jewel of gold and a swine snout So is a fair woman, which is without discretion. Very vivid picture. We all can get an image in our mind of a hog with a golden ring in its nose. Now, we used to put rings in hog's nose. Did you guys do that in Maryland? Oh, yes.

Oh, yes, sure. But they certainly weren't gold rings. No, no, they weren't. To be able to control them because the nose is the most sensitive part of the pig's body. And you could basically set a pig down to the ground just by pulling on that ring. And so there was that sense of control, if you will, slavery, if you will. And there's so that that picture's in this too. Well, Doc, I bet if I put a ring in your nose, I could pull you down to the ground also.

I mean, and that's a fashion trend today, too, putting rings in your nose. I know. And they not understand. Okay, I'm not even going to go there. I'm just not going to go there. When that started to become a trend, I wanted to say to young women, hey, my granddad used to do that to his hogs. Yeah. It's like, I don't say that, Rick.

But that's what came to my mind. Right. Why would you put a, oh, well, I'm going to keep my opinions to myself on this one, okay? So, I just think if you have a ring in your nose, you've leveled your, you've put yourself on the level of a pig. Okay. But that's your choice. So like a gold ring in a pig snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. So the image, this image is deliberately shocking.

Something precious and pure, a gold ring is placed on something that is unclean. The contrast, it doesn't make. sense why would you put a gold ring in the snout of a hog and the hog's snout is always in slop so the gold represents beauty value dignity and the swine you know sorry to all those pigs out there but pigs represent uncleanness and in this sense and context of this proverb it also represents greed and a lack of refinement you know the old saying you can put a lipstick on a pig but still pig oh you can put a gold ring in a pig snout but it's still pig So the picture here is misapplied beauty, wasted, out of place.

It just doesn't make sense. Something's wrong with the picture. That's what it's saying here. There's something wrong with this picture. It's like if you had a painting of a dirty, filthy pig standing in slop, and it was a beautiful gold ring in its nose, and you ask some children, Look at this picture and find, find what's wrong with this picture. What's wrong with this painting?

Kids would say, there's a golden ring in its nose. It's just showing, everybody knows it doesn't belong there. So is a fair woman, which is without discretion. Now, for the King James, the word fair, in this sense means beautiful physically beautiful of an attractive woman so an attractive woman which is without discretion discretion meaning lacking sound judgment lacking modesty lacking virtue lacking wisdom Last week, we studied what Proverbs 11 says about a godly woman,

that they are to be meek, a quiet, a peaceful spirit, a calm, peaceful spirit. And so here we're being told that an attractive, beautiful woman who does not have sound judgment in other words she doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut she doesn't know when to restrain her words she doesn't know the right time and the wrong time to speak she doesn't discern the time she doesn't she just doesn't have discernment about what's going on in the world around her she's not modest she's not virtuous She's attractive. She's physically attractive.

But she lacks discretion. Right. And the Bible says such a woman is like a gold ring. That's the beauty. You know, pig snout. That's the lack of discretion. Yeah. So beauty without wisdom, without godliness,

becomes absurd. That's what this picture is. It's absurd. A hog and a hog pen in slop wearing a gold ring. So external beauty cannot forever cover up inward foolishness, folly. So it's teaching us here that a woman's true honor lies in her discretion, her godliness, her virtue, not her appearance alone. You know, and the word discretion here means not only modesty, but the ability to act with wisdom and propriety. So this proverb is teaching us that outward beauty.

when misused brings shame rather than glory. So Doc, again, here's the contrast. Gold ring, filthy pig.

Yeah. The contrast is present in this verse. Yeah. And what's the purpose of a pig, Rick? What's the pig's purpose? they're not cracking physics formulas or anything like that their only purpose is one thing right bacon that that's the only that's the only purpose a pig has when you really get down to it

is to be harvested and the same way that's a fair woman a hog is nothing really when you get around to but an object and women without discretion just become objects and when you talk you know you know a lot of women today are frustrated because they say they're being treated like objects well you're allowing yourself to be treated like an object because you you live without discretion in your life all you have to do is watch television yeah i don't watch any reality tv shows or anything like that but just the trailers that pop up on social media and on television tells you the value that women place on themselves and that the media places on women, that they're objects. They're just, they have gold, they're just fair, but without

discretion. The world system, you know, I can't say in other countries because I don't live there, but I know here in America, for the last 50 years, the world system has been systematically devaluing women and removing the manhood of men yeah they've been making women shameful and they've been making men less than men impudent yeah and its own purpose it's a plan there are people in power with money and influence who have been orchestrating these trends why do break down a godly society to break up the family unit john gill said external beauty without inward grace is no more comely than a gold ring in the snout of a swine such a woman disgraces the beauty she possesses

amen william are not scotland free church beauty without discretion is not only worthless but grotesque it provokes ridicule as when men see a jewel hanging from the snout of a beast and robert horton congregational church of england the prime proverb is a satire on the world's estimate of beauty a fair face without virtue is a disgrace not an adornment and and he lived when he died in 1934 so it hasn't changed has it no born in 1855 in great britain he was the he was the chairman of the congregational churches of England Proverbs 1123 The desire of the righteous is only good but the expectation of the wicked is wrath

You got two words here desire and expectation The righteous desire The wicked expect Let's look at first at the desire of the righteous is only good. So righteous desires are bathed

in grace. They are in alignment with God's will. Their motives are not selfish, but directed towards God's glory and the good of others. The desire

the righteous is only good. and so these these good desires are the righteous spring from a heart that's been renewed a mind that's been renewed by the word of God by the Holy Spirit what do the righteous desire what do they long for righteousness truth peace eternal life they should desire the things that God desires No, I could read in Psalm 374, delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. We should be asking the Lord to put in our heart his desires. What does he desire of us? Not just what we desire, what we think we desire.

What does he desire of us? Give us, Lord, the desires of our heart. Put those desires in us. look at that promise delight to light to light yourself in the lord and he the lord shall give you the desires of your heart he places his desires in your heart and his desires become your desires and then when you pray for your desires he says done i'll do it it's on its way because we're praying in alignment with his will. So we align our desires with God's will

because then he delights to grant our desires. Maybe this, I don't go too far off the path here. I just, I noticed over the weekend, Doc, I wasn't aware of this. The proliferation of videos on social media predicting that, quote, the rapture is going to happen on September 23rd. Right. I mean, this is everywhere. I didn't know it.

I did not know this was happening. It's rapture season. It's definitely rapture season. You got Jewish feasts coming up. right you got blood moons and you got eclipses and you got everything else going on and so it's rapture season but here's what i was thinking this morning in my prayer time i was talking to the lord about this very early this morning and and i you know i said father i would be delighted oh my you know i know i know i know i know jesus isn't coming back on september 23rd because people are using

that date therefore it's not right right so there i already know you can go ahead and make plans for the 23rd what i was saying to the lord this morning was i would be delighted if if my savior came back next week i always do are you serious this is awesome we're going to get out of here we're going to go home we're going to be with you let's do it but here's here's the thing i noticed doc so many of the people who are posting these videos and definitely the people who are commenting are very anxious bordering on being afraid right and i'm like why are the secret rapture people why are they afraid of the rapture Yeah, what are they afraid of?

Well, doctor tells me that their desires are not to be with the Lord. That's what I'm going with this. Their desires are not to be with the Lord. Oh, Rick. Wow, wow, wow. Their desire is to stay in this world and talk about the rapture. but they really are not desiring the second coming of Christ yet because they have more things they desire to do in this life yeah you know if you if the secret rapture is really true

you ought to be you ought to be closing everything down right now yeah and just getting out in the street saying repent crisis coming next next week 23rd if you really believe that stuff yeah or do like they did in 1800 sit up on the roof and robes what you go to work today if you really believe it why did you go to work today why did you put your kids on the school bus if you knew the rapture was coming why you why do you have a bank account why do you have a mortgage why do you have all those things people in their lifestyles decry what they really believe the second coming of christ really is not their desire no so let's go to the second part of this verse but the expectation not the desire the expectation of the wicked is wrath yes see that's what they really fear

yes the wicked expect prosperity they expect pleasure they expect wealth and things whatever but their outcome is judgment the righteous desire the good things that god desires for them and they receive it. The wicked expect things that God has not put in his will for them. And they're disappointed because their outcome is judgment.

Instead of peace, they encounter wrath. Their hopes are not godly desires. They are ungodly, illusions that lead to disappointment and destruction. So here, Doc, you've got this contrast. Righteousness leads to good, wickedness to wrath.

Got two destinies. The righteous desire only good because their hearts are shaped by God's will. Their hearts are shaped, let me say it like this. hearts are shaped by the Holy Spirit to desire God's will. Amen. While the wicked expect blessings, but only find wrath. So as disciples of Christ, we are called to cultivate holy desires trusting in Jesus Christ, who alone delivers us from wrath and secures our eternal God.

good. John Gill, born 1697, the righteous desire nothing but what is good, and their expectations shall not be cut off. The wicked's expectation is wrath, disappointment, and destruction. Alexander McLaurin, born 1826, the heart's desire reveals the man. The righteous desire God and good, and they get their desire. the wicked desire the world and they get wrath instead so the righteous get what they desire but the world the wicked do not get what they expect they get something else

william are not born 1808 the expectation of the righteous is as sunshine breaking through the storm the expectation of the wicked is as a storm bursting after a gleam of false hope verse 24 there is that scattereth and yet increaseth and there is that withholdeth more than his meat but it tendeth to poverty great verse yeah lots in here I love this verse. World English Bible. I'm going to read several different translations. World English Bible, there is one who scatters and increases yet more.

There is one who withholds more than is appropriate but gains poverty. The English standard version, the ESV, one gives freely, yet grows all the richer. Another withholds what he should give. give and only suffers want amplified Bible there is the one who generously scatters abroad and yet increases all the more and there is the one who withholds what is justly due but it results only in one in poverty so the generous person gives more than they need to give And the other person, the stingy person doesn't even give the minimum of what they should give. Two extremes, the contrast again, one gives more than is expected, the other one won't even give the bare minimum.

The one who gives away more than is expected of them to do, they become richer. right the one who won't even give the bare minimum becomes poor that that verse alone should just spark an outpouring of giving to the word of God today this is one of the greatest verses in the Bible there is one that scatterth and yet increase it to scatter to scatter means to, it's a farming term, a gardening term. You scatter your seed. You generously cast the seed out. You're not dropping one seed here and walking and dropping a seed.

No, you're casting seed. Putting your hands down in the bucket of seed and you're scattering it. Throwing it out there. Throwing it out there. almost with joy but see the would be the most foolish farmer would pick out one seed and drop it right like what are you going to or say I better save the seed we got you know what I better hang on to this seed someone might steal it the birds might eat it up we we might need it up we might need seeds we might need seeds for food yes you do you the seed has to go in the ground to give you food right that's what this verse is telling you seed withheld never produces a harvest only loss only seed withheld never produces a harvest that seed can sit in a bucket for years and never produce anything to eat it has to be

giving away it has to be put into the ground that's the way it is with your offerings you're giving you have to let go you have to constantly send out gifts look it doesn't matter if they're small it's the frequency it's the it's the desire of the heart give what you can give i'm just constantly giving giving giving giving just become a giver get in a cycle a mindset of giving it's it's sewing and reeping sewing and reaping and reeking

yes there's no such thing as reaping and reaping and reaping there's stealing there's no such thing as keeping and reaping there's no such thing as keeping and reaping

I like that you can't keep and reap at the same time you have to sew in order to reap. If you're facing financial pressures right now, you need to increase your giving. You can give your way out of lack.

You can give your way out of poverty. You can give your way out of debt. How do I know I did it? Yes. I did it. And I keep doing it. And I continue to do it. keep doing it i'm not going back to lack oh once you get it down in your spirit you're not going back

there in my early days as a christian is a 20-some-year-old i say when i was 24 just short of 25 but those first couple years god took me through some very tough times of testing and I had to give he he kept showing me Rick I'm teaching you faith give like how do I give when I don't have anything to give I'll give you something I I have doc I have vivid memories of pulling cushions out of and chairs and gathering quarters and putting them in an envelope and sending them to a church that was preaching the gospel i was determined to break the spell of lack that was on my life i was determined i will break it with these gifts yes i remember one very very prosperous job was in my 20s

I was on working sales commission and the Lord just kept blessing me and blessing me and Doc I would the moment I got my my pay I bought money orders that's the very first thing I did the moment I cashed the check

I bought money orders. And I wrote out the names of ministries and churches. And I couldn't wait to get to the post office to mail them. That's the attitude you have to have. You're sowing and sowing and sowing and believing and expecting. In God's economy, giving leads not to loss, but to end. increase right it's inverted from the world the world says get all you can put it in a can and then sit on a can yeah god says give all you can reap all you can and give away what you

reaped but you got to get off your can and do it you got to get all you can to do it so the more you sow, the more God multiplies the blessings. And it's not just material, financial blessings. You're giving also produces spiritual blessings. What about health? What about good health? Is that a blessing? You better believe it. You go through life and not be sick. that is a blessing from heaven what is good health worth financially what's it worth well just get sick

and you can't work can't pay your bills and you'll come up with a dollar estimate very quickly I know people get worried about well what if I get sick and I can't work and well just give just give giving giving just solves so many problems why because you're you're you're you're imitating your father in heaven he's a giver he loves to look at his sons and daughters and say ah they're just acting like me they got the same generous spirit just like me i love it

i'm going to give him some more because i love watching them give that increase it comes through god's providential supply it comes through the goodwill of other people it comes through the holy spirit enriching your soul now i've also heard people make the argument well i'm holding right now because i'm waiting for good soil well have you asked the lord for good soil yes have you asked him to show it to you. You're withholding, you know, and saying, well, I'm waiting on good soil when the good soil might be right under your feet where you're at right now. And so open up your eyes and you may be surprised where the good soil is just immediately around you. So don't

use that as an excuse to withhold. The withholding leads to poverty. By withholding, you are losing. Every day you withhold your seed, you're losing. every day, like clockwork, every day. Why you're looking for good soil, there might be an elderly widow on your street or road who needs her grass mode. Yeah. There's some good soil.

That's right. Go cut her grass. Oh, that's a flimsy excuse. And there is that withholdeth more than his meat, but it tendeth to poverty. World English Bible says there is one who withholds more than is appropriate but gains poverty. This withholding more than is meat. Again, here's an old English word that we don't use, but it means the word meat here means appropriate.

right is somebody who withholds more than is appropriate to withhold yeah so they're hoarders they're stingy yes or listen sometimes people don't give not because they're stingy or selfish but because they're fearful and timid yes that's the biggest reason right there i don't want to lose fearfulness and timidity is a sign of lack of trusting God's provision. Yes. Because when you hold back and say, I'm going to keep this just in case things get rough, what you're saying is God is not able to take care of me. Right.

Now, does that mean that we don't prepare, that we don't think about the future and things like that? Of course not. But don't be so focused, so fearful. the future that you're not giving in the present that's right and besides doc in preparation you should be preparing to share with others right if if there are hard times it's not going to be just you that's right you could be the joseph that saves your neighborhood that's right you know i i've told you the story before but i remember my grandparents telling me through the great depression they were very very struggled they had five children in the 1930s in the

depression but i remember my grandparents telling me that the the family next door was more poor than they were and that they went through the whole entire depression feeding that family wow praise god i remember my granddad saying i didn't have food for myself and i would go outside and shoot sparrows and cook sparrows and eat it because we gave the food to our neighbors wow but you know what my granddad had a third grade education you know born in the 1890s third grade education but he never had a mortgage never had a car loan never had a personal loan never had a credit card but everything he had was paid for in cash he had a nice house he always had a nice car we always had plenty of food they had a third grade education

but they were givers he had a phd in giving yeah yeah phd and giving that's right they were generous souls i learned it from them i can tell you i learned it from them i can tell you i learned it from them i saw them give so people think selfishness they see it as self-preservation we he wouldn't call it selfishness no he's self-preservation that's a nice term they think that's wise but it's foolish because it will it will result in loss why because hoarding provokes god's displeasure yes he finds no pleasure in hoarding. Yes, and it reveals a lack of faith. That's what it really reveals. Someone asked me the other day, is hoarding a sin? And yes, I think hoarding is a sin. Horting, yes. It's a lack of faith

in what God can provide. Well, asked the rich man that was going to build more barns. Jesus said, you fool, your soul will be required of you tonight. Well, he was a hoarder. That man was a hoarder. What do we have in America now? Every place we go, at least here, every place you go, there are massive storage unit buildings. And building new ones all the time. Everywhere.

People have so much stuff, they don't have any place in their homes to put it, so they rent places to put their stuff. And it's a huge issue. industry oh yes so true poverty is not lacking money it's lacking generosity the root cause of poverty is the lack of generosity all right i know this might be i might be stepping on toes right now if you are suffering financial lack right now it is an indication that you have not been sowing into the kingdom

and you've not had faith in God to meet your needs now a way to deal with that is to confess it to God when this Bible study is over confess it to God and say beginning now I'm going to be a giver it's over you've changed your course And you don't even sound going to be. You say, I am a giver. I am a giver.

I am a giver. And if you don't have anything to give right now, ask God. He gives seed to the sower, asking for miracle money. Lord, I want to be a sower. Okay. I'll get you the seed. That's where God is on it. That's right.

You'll be walking down the road and there will be a $100 bill. Yep. You'll open up a closet and pull out an old pair of pants and there's a $20 bill. He will get seed to you. Yep. And when he does, you better sow that seed. Don't withhold it. Don't say, God, give me seed, and then go, well, it was just luck.

I left that money sitting there or I forgot about that. That doesn't count. That's not, you know, that's not God providing. Yes, it is. Because it didn't exist until you remembered it, right? So, doctor, the sewer increases and the hoarder decreases. That's right. It's inverted.

You would think that the hoarder would increase. You would think that the sewer would decrease. But the laws of God completely flips on its head the laws of the world. Adam Clark born 1762 God has so ordered it that the liberal man shall prosper and the miser shall be poor he that scatter shall increase he that hoard shall lose Charles Bridges born 1794 the sower's hand is never empty but the miser's hand that withholds from God and his poor tends to poverty the world's wisdom is the Christian's folly and the Christian's folly is the world's wisdom

Albert Barnes the paradox is one of God's laws we by giving we gain by keeping we lose the generous man's wealth increases while the miser waste his by hoarding

Alexander McLaren the selfish life is the empty life the generous life is the abundant life he who lives to give finds that God gives to him verse 25 the liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himself

the new American Standard Bible says A generous person will be prosperous and one who gives others plenty of water will himself be given plenty The Amplified Bible translation is The generous man is a source of blessing and shall be prosperous and enriched

and he who waters will himself be watered, reaping the generosity he has shown. So the liberal soul, okay, we're not talking about politically liberal. The liberal soul. It's overflowing, generous, open-handed, freely giving soul. See, modern liberals, are freely giving your taxpayer dollars.

This isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about the liberal soul that's giving out of the loving, generous heart out of themselves, not out of somebody else's pocket. Yeah, so, yeah, political liberals are generous with somebody else's money. Right. There's just something I've always wanted to say to liberals and progressives who are demand that more and more and more tax money is spent on poverty and other problems. Well, what, how much have you given out of your personal earnings?

How much have you done? You want to take it from somebody else, but you don't do what, you're not doing it yourself. Well, anyhow, they're liberal with somebody else's money. but the liberal generous open-handed freely giving soul shall be made fat it's not talking about impounds it's talking about enriched prosperous yes refreshed fatness here means good health abundance abundance divine favor just just good stuff happens to them. Just good things are

happening to them. They just have a prosperous life. And selfish people can't understand it. They keep hoarding, trying to get what the prosperous person has. They will not

do what the prosperous person does, which is to give. So the principle here is that generosity will be rewarded. Give a cup of water and you receive a cup of water. Be generous and you will be prosperous. Help others, you will be helped. It's a seed.

Seeds reproduce after their own kind. So we need. when you give money you will reap money it produces it's a what did you plant a money seed what will grow up money plant a seed of of kindness no money you will reap a harvest of kindness there will be people who will be kind to you if you if you see someone who is lonely isolated

show show hospitality show kindness that person give them some attention you're sewing into your own life What you sow will reproduce after its own kind. He that watereth shall be watered also himself. Hallelujah. So the word here watereth, it obviously does include physical water. What did Jesus say about, hey, anybody who gives a cup of water to a child? it's the same as giving a cup of water jesus but in this sense water watering something somebody

it means refreshing nourishing and that can be through kindness comfort giving just affection whatever it is you're watering another soul and therefore you shall be watered you shall be watered let me tell you something Satan will come after you I'm not how would you think that giving eliminates satanic attacks oh it actually brings it on

because he's going he desires to cut off your giving so the real the ultimate givers they live in this world where they're being attacked by the devil and being blessed by God and you have to you have to get over the woe is me and being attacked by the devil mentality if not it will just pull you down because the purpose of it is to cut you off yes to dam up to to stop the flow of the water coming out think think of a flowing spring coming up out of the ground you can't bottle all the water it just continues flowing you could be putting that water into buckets and containers and tanks and there's just more water it just keeps flowing it has an endless supply

when that is your life but that's your heart Satan will do everything he can to shove dirt anything he can to stop the flow of that water because it's enriching others and it's glorifying God

so we have to you have to understand you will be attacked you will be criticized you will be mocked there'll be things that come the enemy will come against you but the Lord will continue to bless you don't give up don't quit just understand what's taking place

that's why with ministries churches and ministries who does Satan really go after it's not so much the minister as it is the supporters of the minister right if he can attack your life

and jam up the flow of water coming out of your life. You have nothing to give to this ministry. So he'll attack your finances. He'll attack your marriage. He'll attack your job. He's doing everything he can to do what? To stop the flow of the water coming from your heart. Once you understand what the enemy is doing,

then you can pray correctly knowing that God will break that attack and will not allow it to continue here's the principle those who pour themselves out for the sake of others will themselves be replenished by Almighty God the refreshment

flows back to the giver. God sends us encouragement, joy, peace, prosperity. And here's the amazing thing. So often God repays our generosity through unexpected channels. Even when we're weak, his generosity will show up. If you water the life of another person, you cannot remain dry. God himself will water your life. Doc, I remember a season when I felt dry.

I thought, I mean, I was under such heavy. demonic pressure I was again a young Christian and I was managing a radio station Christian radio station and every day I was just there's so much spiritual oppression coming against me

and and one of the employees said to me one day I can't tell you the impact you've had on my life. I was thinking, I'm numb. I'm just walking around here, numb. I'm spiritually numb to what's taking place.

I can barely function because of the attacks. And he said to me, I can't explain the words, the impact you have had on my life. See, I was watering him and didn't even know it. But then God watered my life. see i was sowing water into his life and i didn't even know it right just giving giving of myself not even aware that it was watering his soul adam clark the bountiful man shall be rich in soul and often in substance he who refreshes the weary shall himself be refreshed by god

a man Charles Bridges the well that freely pours forth his waters is the well that is replenished so he who lives for others finds his own soul enlarged and enriched Alexander McLaren the surest way to enrich oneself is to scatter blessings The fountain that gives forth Is the fountain that flows fullest William are not A tree laden with fruit bends low

And in bending it drops its seed Which grows again So the liberal man is filled By the very act of giving I like that one Doc I got a picture now a tree that's so blessed it's just full of fruit it's so full of fruit the branches are bending down to the ground and fruit is just falling off and seeds going into the ground and

growing Robert Horton the paradox of grace in watering others we are ourselves watered the economy of God is reciprocity, not hoarding. In our last verse, verse 26, He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him. But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. This is a condemnation of exploitation, especially in times of crisis.

So, Doc, we often hear in times here in modern days that, you know, after a hurricane, after our flood or some natural disaster, there would be reports of gasoline stations, you know, jacking up the price of fuel or grocery stores, gouging the people. This has been going on since as long as men have been on the earth. There are people who say, hey, this crisis, I can make more money. And God condemns it. It is exploitation in a time of crisis. Withholding. It says, he that withholds corn. It's hoarding.

corn grain wheat barley whatever it is it's hoarding something people need and they're waiting that the hoarder is waiting for the scarcity to increase to drive up the prices and so those kind of people are taking they're taking advantage of people's hunger their need for physical necessities of life so that they can make a greater profit and God condemns it. And the word says it invites public hatred. You get two things, public hatred and divine judgment. But the blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. you pointed out at the beginning doc it didn't say give it away now isn't this we've been talking about giving

but here here the bible is telling us there are times when you sell because god's going to bless you in your selling yes you will be blessed in your selling so the generous seller is praise for meeting the needs rather than exploiting them there's nothing sinful about selling a product at a fair price so the blessing but blessing shall be upon the head of him that self that blessing comes from both people and god so unlike the hoarder who's trying to get the price to be increased, the fair business man or businesswoman says, I am going to sell it at its normal price.

Right. So what do we see here? There is righteousness in commerce. Your business affairs need to be done fairly in the eyes of God. so this verse first 26 is warning against greed in times of need to withhold food and water and clothing and supplies and fuel during a crisis during a famine whatever is the situation it means something in the economy has been disrupted

and a person is withholding what he or she has to sell hoping to get even more money and to withhold resources is to invite curses from people and the Lord. So this verse is teaching us that Christ's disciples are expected to conduct business with integrity. This is to do business. do business knowing that the Lord is watching do it right do it fairly I'll wrap up here with a couple quotes well doc

according to Charles Bridges back there in the early 1800s they had people trying to form monopolies he said the curse of God and man alike lights upon selfish monopolist but the liberal merchant selling his corn freely has blessing upon his head a crown of honor from both god and man Albert Barnes the picture is that of a time of scarcity

the hoarder is cursed by the hungry but the man who opens the store finds blessings in the prayers of the poor Alexander McLaren commerce may be a spirit of selfishness or of service the one wins curses the other blessings the market is as much a place of religion as the temple praise god i like i like that there's the real real religion is what you do with your money yes i never thought of i never thought of i never thought of monopolies is monopolists as being hoarders till just now. I never considered that before. Yeah, they're cornering the market. Yeah. If you're, if you have a monopoly, there's nobody to compete with you. Never thought about that before. The price is whatever you say it is.

Yeah, that's hoarding. Wow, that's a sin. Wow. McLaureen says the marketplace is just as much a place for your religion as the church. I can just see his eyes scanning that congregation in the 1800s in Manchester, England. He had some wealthy people in his church. He had a mega church at that time. I'm sure his eyes locked on to a few people. and then Robert Horton the proverb teaches that trade is a moral act

hoarding is cursed selling is blessed yes business done in fairness and mercy is as holy as prayer yes amen amen

good business is good religion that's some good stuff today all right that's it all right well what a way to start off the week here this is a great practical lesson today about dealing with finances about dealing with giving probably have learned a lesson or two about hoarding today that you might not have thought about before I just want to tell you I had some comments here on chat by the way we are alive every weekday morning from eight to nine you can join our live chat each day uh and so we get comments and questions along the way and we've had several people comment that they felt convicted by today's message not not in a negative way rick but in a positive way that

god is stirring them up once again to examine their giving again and so that's good it's good and so um you know that that's that's a great place to start and for some of us we have to we have to have to have the discipline of scheduling our giving I'm in that class of individuals that I have to schedule my giving otherwise I would not have a compassionate heart I really I'm weak in that particular area of my life about freely giving and so I have to program it into my life and that might be a solution for some of you for me it's a solution for some of you out there, Rick's one of these folks, just gives.

I mean, he just, he just loves to give. Me, I like, okay, I'll give, but, so God has to regulate it with me and schedule it with me. And so it works differently for different folks, different strokes for different folks, so. Yes. And, and Doc, I realize also at times I've given two. quickly and not waited on the Lord to tell me that person was worthy of help.

It does require I'd rather make that mistake than my mistake. Yeah. Look, this is a great opportunity today for the Morning Manna Bible class

to sew into this ministry faith and value I try not to say much about finances. I trust the Lord, but I will tell you we could use a boost. We could use a boost. And this is your opportunity. There is a donate button on the app.

Whatever method you're watching us, there's a way for you to donate. You can go to Faith and Values. There's still, the old True News account is still there. account is still there. It's still operating. We haven't taken it down yet. But the donate button is there. It still works. It goes to faith and values. And then, of course, here's the U.S. Postal Service. You can send a check or money order to us here. And this is a good opportunity for you to act right now, to do something now. And so into this ministry. I will say one more thing before we close. And this is not meant as for the purpose of fear,

but it is meant as awareness. Throughout the weekend, I'm not talking about all day long and all night, but throughout the weekend, I was seeking the Lord. As I was doing projects, as I was doing things. I was seeking the Lord for discernment about the immediate future where we're at right now. And when I say, I'm talking about like September of 2025 going into 26, 27, where are we right now? What should the church be prepared for? What should I be prepared for? What decisions do I need to make? And what should I share with the body of Christ? I just always think about the sons of Isacar. They understood the times and they knew what Israel should do.

Yes. Years ago, I used to interpret that scripture as, well, there was an old guy named Isacar. and if you had if you had a problem you couldn't figure out the answer somebody would say well you need to go down the road there

to the Isagar farm he's got six boys they're all smart the sons of Isacar he's got six boys ask them they'll tell you what to do they're smart now that's not what I meant

the tribe Iscar's tribe it was a tribe and he had 200 men who were called his sons not necessarily direct descendants but his sons he called them his sons 200 it's like a a council almost like a parliament like a school they ran the tribe they ran the tribe they were the tribal council and they knew they understood the time and they knew what the tribe should do. That's where the church should be right now.

There ought to be wise men and women discerning the times and sharing with the church what we need to do. So I'm just going to pass this on to you. This is not a thus sayeth the Lord. This is not a prediction. This is not a prophecy. This is this is just Rick sharing what I believe the Lord revealed to me over the weekend.

I believe this fall we're going to see some major world events. I'll give you two things. I think the war in Ukraine is going to worsen. The European globalists are determined to provoke Vladimir Putin into fighting all of Europe. They're determined. I believe they're going to send troops into Ukraine and Russia is going to kill them. so it was released recently a secret document of the French government telling all French hospitals to prepare for mass casualties

Doc we know where this is going yeah the French are preparing to go to war with Russia I don't think that's going to impact us, but yet, not yet. But it is going to impact Europe. And if you're in Europe, you need to be aware of this that the French government is telling French hospitals, prepare for mass casualties by March of 2026. Mass casualties. Mass casualties.

The other thing, I believe that Israel and Iran are going to go back to war. This is just a ceasefire. People have forgotten this is a ceasefire. From that war that was taking place months ago when Iran was bombing Tel Aviv, I mean, Netanyahu had to beg to stop it. The media doesn't want anybody to know. Israel couldn't stop Iran. So you're right, wait.

So anyhow, I think we're going to see Israel and Iran go back to war. And remember, it's Iran's turn to strike first. Go back and look, Israel hit Iran, Iran hit Israel. Israel hit Iran, Iran hit Israel, okay? It's Iran's turn to strike first. I do believe that this is going to flare up. And then Wade just mentioned Venezuela. Yes, we're going to have war.

We're going to have war in South America. Now on the service, they're telling us that this is about. drugs and I'm sure that is partially true but that drugs have been coming up from South America for decades that's right I'll tell you what it's about bricks yeah not bricks of not bricks of a pot bricks of bricks of gold bricks yeah we're talking the BRICS Alliance of Nations. Yeah, Venezuela is sitting on the one of the largest oil deposits on Earth. It's sitting on one of the largest gold deposits on Earth.

It's sitting on one of the largest rare earth deposits on Earth. And it's about drugs, all right. And the U.S. elite are not going to allow Maduro to join BRICS. and transfer wealth into the BRICS alliance. No way, that's right. And they're going to force what this war in Venezuela is going to be is to force China and Russia to come into the Western Hemisphere and fight for Venezuela.

So all this is happening right now. But there's more, there's more. The economy. is sputtering. You've got this thing on life support. I know everybody's, you know, the stock market's up and, you know, everything's great and inflation is down. I don't know, folks, just look at the jobs that are disappearing.

I'll give you two things. I think I'm going to put it in my newsletter today. Two things that came out in the past week just before the Charlie Kirk shooting. And the shooting took the attention. off these two things number one do you remember back in August early August President Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics said she had rigged the August jobs report that there were very few jobs created in August and he said she rigged the the numbers and he fired her okay there's more to that story

she had been rigging the reports for over a year oh maybe four years it's going back into the Biden administration she was a Biden appointee and so what they found is that they overstated by a million they

they said over a million new jobs had been created in the last year of the Biden administration in the first couple months of Trump administration and those jobs didn't they didn't exist in fact it was a loss there was a net loss

it was a loss so now it come into grips with the fact that the economy actually was losing jobs and then number two since January of this year

corporations have been announcing job eliminations, mainly because of AI. 5,000 here, 10,000 here, 20,000 there, 2,000 here. It's been going on since January. You know how many? About, I think the number is 892,000, almost a million jobs. There's going to be tremendous job losses in the coming six months. from AI.

Number three, real estate crisis. There is a real estate crash every 18 years. That would be exact 18.6 years. The last real estate crash was 2008. Add 18 years and you get to 2026. I got one more. So in my book, Megafar, I mentioned a farmer, Samuel Benner. And he lost a lot of money in 1873, the panic of 1873.

And instead of just sitting there licking his wounds, he went to work trying to figure out what caused that financial crash and how did he miss it? how did he not see it coming and about 50 years ago somebody discovered an old document called the binner chart and he wrote a book in the 1800 somewhere i want to say 18 i don't know if it was 1885 1890 he wrote a book um it was something called like the binner prophecies and he charted out the peaks and lows of the market until the year, I think, 2056. Yes, got it right here, right? There we go. Yes.

That's a reprint of the book. Benner's prophecies of futures, ups and downs, and prices. What years to make money on pig iron, iron, hogs, corn, and provisions printed in 1884. but he mapped this out to 2056 guess what according to the banner chart there's going to be a financial downturn in 2026 but there's something else doc i just learned this over the weekend i came across a video of a retired iowa university university climatologists. I know where you're going with this. I saw the video too.

Did you? Yeah. You sent over to me this weekend? Yeah. Right. And he talked about Binner. He was in this speech, he was talking to Iowa farmers. And so he showed the Binner chart.

Yeah, Doc, can you find the chart? I was looking right. Is there a picture of it in there? Okay. Anyhow, this is, I did not know this before I wrote Megafar. Benner also studied tree rings. Yeah. He studied tree rings.

And he, he could chart the years of drought. So it's a Benner, B-E-N-N-E-R, Samuel B-N-N-E-R, Samuel Binner. so he studied tree rings and he was able to chart when there would be droughts so according to the binner chart a drought on the scale of what was called the dirty thirties the dustbow of the great depression and if you don't know if you don't really know about the dust bowl you should watch videos it was horrendous

it lasted for nearly 10 years according to the Benner's charts back in the 1800s another dustbow should start in the year 2025 so

I searched to see if there were any dust storms this year. And I found an article that said, oh, I've got to back this up. He said that the dust storms would come every 89 years. So you take the dustbow of 1936 and you add 89 years, you get to 2025. I searched and I found an article that said, this is just a couple months ago. Chicago hit by worst dust storm in 90 years. Yeah, I just put the link in our live chat right now.

And so Chicago's first dust storm in over 90 years in the independent. So guess what? Not only do we have war, not only do we have a financial, financial crash. Not only do we have housing crash coming, but we also have a dust bowl drought. And you know what the dust bowl drought did? It created food shortages because the dust bowl was in the Midwest. It stretched down into Texas. Cattle. Cattle died because they were, they suffocated breathing to dust. Oh, my.

I'm telling you, my friends, Jesus Christ is your only hope. And he is your supply. He is your supply. Put your faith and your trust in Jesus. Christ and do it his way and his way is giving giving giving that's his way that's his economy give he will bless you he'll keep you going glenn god put it on my heart to build a 20 by 20 green house yes yes do it also doc i i read that the earthquake that was in russia several weeks ago i i got to figure this out how this works that that massive earthquake that was in russia several weeks ago will produce

The coldest winter in the northeast United States, probably for 50 years. It would be going back to the, what, 1970s? Really? Yes. And I remember how cold it was. I remember the Potomac River freezing solid. I mean, it was solid. That's where I grew up near the Potomac.

McRiver. Okay. So the farmer's almanac says that the northeast is going to have a terrible winter. Cold and snowy. The rest of the country is going to have a mild winter. But Florida is going to have

a wet and cold winter. I want to say cold. Not freezing, but cold and damp. Rainy, cold rain. That's farmer's almanac. But actually, the rest of the country is going to have a fairly mild winter.

But the northeast is going to have a very cold, snowy. Yeah, Mary, Chesapeake Bay. Yes, that's right. The 78 blizzard, right? Okay. And, by the way, dust storms and dust molds and things like that are not because of global warming, but because of global cooling. Yes.

Yes. And that's the other thing. I have been saying for a long time that we're switching, the planet is switching over to a global cooling cycle, and I am convinced it's here. We're in it now. And that's on cycles too. That's nothing unusual.

I think the powers that be know that. Yes. So that's my weather report. And that's not being prophetic. folks. That's just looking at, Jesus said, you look to the sky to see if it's going to rain. How do you know that? You look, you see the evidence, you see the signs that tell you it's going to rain. So even Jesus observed that there are things that we can observe in the world around us. That's not being predictive or prophetic. It's just saying these things have happened

before. There's cycles. There's things that go on. you know cycles in in government cycles in weather cycles in sunspots and everything else in ocean currents there are cycles all these things and some of these cycles overlap and interact but if you're looking for an easy to read understanding on this you need mega fire this is it so rick has been taking all these years where he's been looking at cycles studying cycles and put it into a very easy-to-read format, okay? You need to get this. Megafire.world.

That's megafire. Dot world to get your copy today. Yes, megafar. world. Carrie Bassett, she and her family moved from Fort Worth to PA. She better get it in warm clothes, but you know what? You might be better. If this is another dust bowl, you'd be better.

in PA, Pennsylvania, because Texas was hit hard. I watched the video last night. It was recorded decades ago. It was an old Texas rancher. And he told the story as a boy. His dad was a successful rancher, and he lost everything during the Dust Bowl. Okay. So, look, Doc was talking about cycles and the overlap.

That's what's happening. In the 30s, you had a dust bowl, a financial collapse, and then it led to war. So you had all those cycles together, dust bowl cycle, financial cycle, war cycle. That's what I'm trying to get across to people in this book, Megafar. When these things come together like this. the the impact is monumental and the children of is a car discern the times and know what israel should do okay right you know people don't like the people don't like well uh you might have to pack up and move but let me tell you ask the people in oklahoma in 1936 if they had to

pack up and leave. Yeah. God's people move from their promised land to Egypt because of a famine. The people in Oklahoma didn't sell their farms. They abandoned their farms. Right. They abandoned. They never got them back. They just abandoned their homes and their farms to survive. He couldn't live in the dust storms. Stories I heard was just horrifying. I have never ever deliberately studied the dust storm. And I saw some historical videos that really just shocked me. And I'm really, okay, that's what's starting.

Samuel Benner said in 2025, it's going to be a famine dust storm. based on tree rings well anyhow get the book megafar dot world and buy an extra copy give it to somebody and let's see who who mentioned somewhere up here somebody mentioned the uh oh yeah michael the cascadian subduction zone that's another one which is uh an earthquake fault in the off the coast of Oregon and Washington right so you got that you got the San Andreas fault you got Yellowstone you got the Madrid area Southern Missouri any one of these it could have be a life a globe altering event that have that have happened before and not not in ancient history we're talking about recent history

recent as you know as you can compare history but these things do happen and you need to be thinking what if not in a fearful way but in a way that says I'm prepared I'm prepared to at least survive somewhat, but not just survive, thrive. Thrive in the midst of the storm that's going on around us. You know, there are people, not a lot, but there are people in their mid to late 90s who survived as a child survived the Dust Bowl. It would be interesting to find them and interview them talk to them what was it like okay everybody jesus is coming okay just keep this this is he is our hope amen prepare god's people for the coming of the lord that's what we're doing we're not preparing you for

another election we're preparing you we're preparing the elect for the coming of the lord when we're not preparing for the Antichrist we're preparing for the Christ Right Amen All the ante he wants to be He's a loser And we will get through it

Not going to be a picnic We're going to get through it The Lord will take us through it Okay But it's time we put on our big boy pants And act like mature Christians And start telling people To get their lives straightened out

and get ready for the coming of the Lord. Praise God. Okay, we got to go. See you. All right. See you tomorrow on Morning Manor.