I hope you all are still fighting the good fight and doing all you can for others in worst need than we. The problem today, is that there is way more needy and less and less of us being able to help. Regardless, we must do our best and if we do, God will bless us and our aid to others. I have never read a story in the Bible about someone doing all they could but it wasn't good enough and the effort wasn't pleasing to God. No, only when we are able but don't or don't help as much as we could, has God ever gotten angry. Additionally, He never said that we had to help until it put our family in the poor house either! God knows what we have and what we do for others because it all starts with Him in the first place.

We have been complaining around the office here that there are so many in need and due to the fact that we can't do anymore! However, we continued to complain until someone sets us straight and reminded us, mainly me, of the points above and that is why I am writing about this to you.

Now just in case some of you have been so very busy that you haven't noticed all the need around us, as well as for those of you who are so very blessed by God our Father and are still employed, have a roof over your family's head every night after a nice hot meal; we wish to remind you that nearly ten percent of the entire population of the United States can't say the very same any longer! In some regions we are talking nearly entire towns and small cities in the same needy condition. Last time things were this bleak 'they' called it 'The Great Depression'! As to how, when and where this is all going to stop, nobody knows. That is why I keep reminding you folks to first, offer whatever physical help you can and then offer them spiritual assistance and prayers as well. I can almost hear some voices out there saying, 'that nice, flowery, Biblical words of comfort don't feed the people or put a roof over their heads'! Yes, that it is true, however the other side of that statements is that when 'things' are so very bad for another we most times almost feel weird offering words of comfort from the Bible along with our physical assistance. As to the prayers for the many in need, unfortunately I too forget or end up adding a quick blurb to my regular prayers. I should know better and I really think that the times are so bad and in more need than for just a quick blurb! I seriously believe that we need a 'Day of Prayer' across our nation! Will we have one, most likely not, and that is why we need to pray more and more often for an end to all of this mess.

Now as to who or how much assistance one should or could give another; I cling to the words of the unforgetable Sergeant-of-the-guard, Schultz from Hogan's Heroe's the 1960's sicom, 'I know nothing'! It is between you and God. No one should tell you what and/or how you should be of service to others. All I ever recommended is to be of service somehow, and in some way. If physical cash is tight, as with most of us, then offer food supplies. We have a 'in service-charity' e-book in the works, however it won't be of any assistance this troubled time around, prayfully so! However, from the upcoming e-book we will detail the making of a 'ton' of hot soup and bread, and this is relatively inexpensive, however it can help so many people!

Some of the Churches in different regions have begun to open the doors to their 'Worship Halls' for people to get in out of the elements, and only if a few members would make a bunch of hot soup and bread to hand out. Do you realize just how cheap it is to hand someone a bowl of soup and a couple of slices of bread? Almost pennies per person! Now again from the upcoming e-book, and for those who don't have the time or don't know how to go about and make soup and bread, we have this solution for you. Go to your local big grocery store or to one of those warehouse grocery stores and talk to the store manager. Quickly fill them in on what you are trying to do and just how they could help you to help another. You won't believe with a little help from the store, just how many people you will be able to help. The bigger stores will first instruct their bakeries to begin making basic french or italian loafs of bread. Secondly, they will ask you if you have a way to transport all this assistance, if so they will sell you those 'cup a noodles' soup with ramen noodles in either beef or chicken for twenty-five cents to thirty-cents per person per cup of soup! All you will need to have is a way to boil a lot of water and ladle it into the cups of dry soup. Then when you ask about the cost of the bread, if you have means to transport all of this, most will say you can either have however many loaf you need for either FREE or for less than forty-cents a large loaf! They will do this as their means of helping the community. If however you need them to deliver all of it to a church or wherever they will do the transporting and delivery for free and just charge a small amount for the bread.

Okay so you can now offer a needy/cold person either hot beef or chicken soup with a couple of slices of fresh bread for less than seven-five cents a person! We can not and will not allow another to go hungry and sleeping out in the cold! We have so many means of helping people today that were never available before, and it won't take a lot of cash to do so. Either way, homemade or store bought hot soup and bread to a cold needy person is a truly big help in their eyes!

Lastly, I want to take a moment and tell you about words of comfort for those in need as well as the physical help. You could go to the stores and work out a deal on a bunch of cards with inspiration, You could then hand them out to the people as they come for your soup and bread. This would be nice and it could cheer up a few people. Howver to truly help people you need the power of the Creator! Ask yourselve how God comforts you when you are down. God comforts, us with means to a Bible, with His living, breathing words on the pages of the Bible. First the words of comfort within the Bible are not just 'flowery words' of nothing, they truly are the Creator of the universe's living breathing words upon those pages! There is a big difference between God's living words and man's words. There is nothing wrong with either, in their proper place and time, I am simply pointing out the difference and which have real power! God's words not only tell you ABOUT COMFORT, IT ACTUALLY 'WORKS' COMFORT WITHIN YOU BECAUSE THEY ARE LIVING AND BREATHING WORDS OF THE CREATOR! See this is the difference between between the very instructions on the outside of a bottle of perscription medicine that tell you how you can get better, compared to the actual medicine inside the bottle you are holding! Can you now see the difference and the reason I say to not forget this one simple step in our assistance of others? Now I am no great prophet who came up with this difference on my own. No, the living, breathing word of God reminded me, specifically, in 1 Thessalonians 2:13. "And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the WORD of God's message you accepted it not as the words of men, but for what it really is, THE WORD OF GOD, which also PERFORMS its work in you who believe" NASB emphases added by us. Now I hope you truly can see the difference and will use the most powerful words of the Creator of the universe upon another in need of His assistance immediately!

Yes it is very true that God's words can't fill a belly, or provide a roof over a families head. God is hoping and counting on you and me to somehow, and in someway provide those 'things'; as He begins to work deep within those in need to turn their lives around completely! Talk about a thorough helping of help! I hope and I pray that this letter to you first, offers to you all that is needed to make your live complete and balanced. Secondly, I hope it gives you the idea needed to begin the long string of ideas that will not only provide complete assistance temporarily but also completely in fixing whatever is broken and needs to get us back to the 'good times' with a much better understanding of how things really work for those 'Who Love The Lord'! God bless and thank you for all you will do to help others, and I give you a 'thank you' for the one's that should of come from the one's in need but didn't and won't, because of false human pride.

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Roy Twogood Jr is Managing Director of OLIN e-Publishing Company and OLINeBooks, Denver Colorado- http://olin.tk . Please feel free to re-post this article in effort to assist even more. We also would love to hear from you some the the creative and 'cheap' ways you were able to help others. Like I said, we do have an e-book in the works and who knows, maybe your method will get in it and encourage others to do likewise! If you will allow us to re-post and re-print it, it will be of assistance to one more - US! Naturally if you don't want your methods made known we will of course follow your wishes as well. Thanks and God bless!

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