OUR CHRISTIAN LIVING 2022, Week of September 19-25, “Facing Money With Confidence,” Video, “Let's Build a House That Holds. Let us be “content with the present things”, Analysis and Answers.

OUR CHRISTIAN LIVING September 19-25, 2022, “Facing Money With Confidence,” Video, “Let's Build a House That Holds. Let us be “content with the present things”, Analysis and Answers.

“Approach economic problems with confidence” (15 mins.): Discussion with the audience. Play the video Let's build a house that lasts. Let us be "content with the present things.

What challenges did these families face?

As our brother tells us, the most difficult tests he has faced are illnesses, in addition to not having enough money to treat those illnesses. 

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Another challenge is to gather the necessary money week by week to feed his family, because as our brother tells us, he does not have a permanent job to solve these challenges.

The biggest challenge for him and his family has been the illnesses and him not having enough money to give them timely treatment, since they live very tight, that's why week after week he has to raise the money to feed everything, well led him to think that he had to move out of the country.

Speaking of the brother from the Philippines, it is said that this brother found it difficult to make ends meet because he did not have a stable job and he was too worried that his children would not have enough food or other necessary things.

What is most important in life?

For our brother, despite having to face these challenges, he is aware that the most important thing in our lives is our love for Jehovah and therefore our spirituality and he knows that well because he remembers in the text of Philippians: 1,10, where he says that We must make sure of the most important things first.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

The most important thing in life is spirituality, not material things, because we can have them in this world, but all that will disappear. Also, as one of the brothers says, something very important is to keep the family united and happy despite the shortcomings. and that can only be achieved if we serve Jehovah fully.

How can we help those who have financial problems?

In the video we see how our brothers as a family despite the problems that happen, they help their brothers with what they have because they know that there is more happiness in giving than in receiving. 

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

This teaches us all as a congregation not to focus on our problems, there are brothers who may be having a worse time than us in their economic situation, so if we know that let us encourage ourselves to give of what we have, be it a little or a lot if we give from the heart , we will feel great happiness within us, and the best of all is that not only we will be happy but also our brothers whom we help. Without receiving anything in return, it is true what the Bible tells us, there is more happiness in giving than in receiving.

Well, from the little we have we can give to others perhaps by giving them money or by buying some food ourselves and taking it with us.