A friend of mine was telling me about the chapter in the book, Jesus Has Left The Building, about how the author looked up his income at www.globalrichlist.com and found that he was in the top 6% of the richest people in the world. I was amazed at his testimony and how the Lord had convicted him through scripture that the rich are to be giving to the poor. I think I fall into the same category as most Americans, we don't drive Hummers and have million dollar homes and yet compared to the ENTIRE world population we are VERY VERY rich! I encourage you to checkout where YOU fall into the world's richest people. I think you will be amazed and (a bit ashamed). According to our (humble) income we are even richer than the author of this book and rank in the top .98% of the richest people on earth! We are the 59,029,289 richest people on earth!

I went immediately to WorldVision and sponsored a family for just $40 a month. Yep, that's all it takes to sponsor an entire family!!!

God has already been speaking to me about ways to cut back on expenses and knowing that I am supporting a family for such a small amount of money it just blows me away! (And we think we struggle to meet bills-yikes! We are so blessed we don't even know it!) I encourage you to read Jesus Has Left The Building and let Paul Vieira's words draw you into what God is doing in the world, particularly with the western church. Open your heart to treasure what God treasures and not what the western world treasures! God likes to shake things up, He has in the past, as the author explains the story behind the ark of the covenant and the ways God worked once and changed. He's moving in new ways today! God wants to get out of your "box" and into your life! Paul Vieira writes, in chapter six, that God wants to set up a tent in your back yard! (He makes house calls too!)