Expert: Rev. Frank Ricketts - 10/3/2007

Question
im doing a piece of course work on poverty and i was looking for scriptures to use

Answer
I pray that this helps you:

Psalm 34:5,6 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 37:18,19 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Psalm 102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

Psalm 145:14-17 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Proverbs 28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Job 5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mightyPsalm 69:33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Psalm 72:12-13  For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

Psalm 132:15  I will satisfy her poor with bread.

James 2:5  Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?.

Inspirational Quotes from Famous Persons  
Bill Cosby - You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.
P. J. O'Rourke  - You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Woody Allen -  Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations -  Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Kin Hubbard -  It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
Millicent Fenwick (1910-1992) US diplomat, congresswoman - I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.
Eric Butterworth - Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

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