I Am Trained For Both: To Be Hungry Or Satisfied, To Have Much Or Little!

"I rejoice in the LORD because of your concern for me.  You were indeed concerned for me before, but you had no opportunity to show it.  I do not say this because of being in want; I have learned to manage with what I have.  I know what it is to be in want and what it is to have plenty.  I am trained for both: to be hungry or satisfied, to have much or little.  I can do all things in HIM who strengthens me.

However, you did right in sharing my trials.  You Philippians, remember that, in the beginning, when we first preached the gospel, after I left Macedonia, you, alone, opened for me a debit and credit account, and when I was in Thessalonica, twice you sent me what I needed.

It is not your gift that I value, but rather, the interest increasing in your own account.  Now, I have enough, and more than enough, with everything Epaphroditus brought me, on your behalf, and which I received as 'fragrant offerings pleasing to GOD.'" - Philippians 4:10-19 

(Paul thanks the Church of Philippi for their help.  He, who is so jealous of his independence and anxious not to seem to take advantage of others under the pretext of religion, accepts what his real friends give him.)

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