Dear Youngman:

Wanted to mention a few of my sending scriptures for receiving usury
through the bank.  These came as a result of a bookkeeping teaching I did
with my daughter.


Matthew 25:27   Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with
usury.

  Luke 19:23   Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that
at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

Luke 16:11   If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous
mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

In Luke 16, we are commanded to make friends with the unrighteous mammon. 
The way a person deals with money says a lot about them.  Faithful
stewardship allows one to provide for their own and the church.  It put
them in a position to help the helpless, feed the hungry, clothe the
naked, house the destitute, aid the widow, and care for the sick and
fatherless.

In some regions, perhaps even today, there is a man who walks the
mountainous trail to take the gospel to unreached people groups.  His pay
for the day is a single egg and a word of thanks--I have a little book
about such a man named Brother Titus.  He is a blind man.  A remarkable
man.  I purchased the book from Way of Life Literature (David Cloud) some
years ago.  Maybe one day you will be like him.  But for it to be real,
God has to do it.  Right now may be initial stirrings for you, I don't
know.   For me, I've desired for over a decade a homestead that would
serve as an open sanctuary available to those whom the Lord might send. 
If you had no where to live, would you like to live at such a place?  Or
would you prefer that I give you $50 for groceries and do the same to 10
other homeless people each month?  

I don't know if I'll get my desire or
not but I have a daughter to think of.  I never want her to work in this
society.  I have not trained her for success in this area.  I have totally
committed her to God's word and to judge and test all things against the
scriptures.  How could she be a cashier at a grocery store ringing up
those magazines?  Working for a computer giant selling the hardware,
software, and services to set up the infrastructure of the beast? 
Practice pharmaceutical medicine?  etc.  She is not prepared to work here
and I have known this.  I've stretched out on God's word knowing that it
will move Hannah toward God and away from the world.

But I have no money and I live in Lodebar like Mephibosheth. 
Lodebar...isn't it a beautiful name for a place that is not your own?  I
do enjoy my Lodebar but it is the illusion of prosperity.  There has been
enough blessing to ensure that Hannah would never have to work--I could have my
sanctuary and no debt--but sometimes a man will eat his own flesh because
the eye is never satisfied.

I may be trapped, but I can warn you and Hannah and I can fulfill what I am
called to do.  In the area of my call, before me is an open door.  I am
trapped, but I am free.  Even being trapped places constraints on me where
I can produce just like Israel being trapped in Israel kept them together
and brought forth a nation.  Limiting factors even begin to feel good once
you settle down and operate within your bounds.

Mephibosheth