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Don’t keep hoarding for yourselves earthly treasures that can be stolen by thieves. Material wealth eventually rusts, decays, and loses its value. Instead, stockpile heavenly treasures for yourselves that cannot be stolen and will never rust, decay, or lose their value. For your heart will always pursue what you esteem as your treasure.

Matthew 6:19-21 TPT

I’m really good at storing up earthly treasures.

The verses above from Matthew 6 are almost always considered to be about riches and power. But material is defined by Google as “physical objects rather than the mind or spirit”

The material earthly treasure I’ve been coveting is definitely physical.

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In 2019, the CDC put together a National Health Interview Survey, and they found that over 20% of adults suffered from chronic pain. If you look at just the women, it was almost 22%. That means one out of every five people have experienced chronic pain.

But chronic pain isn’t the only kind of pain. Whether you have had a headache, back pain, sunburn, toothache, or kidney stones you know how distracting pain can be. All pain hurts, not just chronic pain.

Chronic Pain & Faith

When you’re in pain, it’s hard to focus. Reading, praying, thinking; anything that requires brainpower is difficult to say the least. And the longer the pain lasts, the more our faith to suffer. If reading is hard, that means reading our Bibles becomes a challenge. Sitting down to pray can feel hopeless when pain consumes our thoughts. And that’s what pain does. It consumes us. Or it can feel that way.

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We were singing Living Hope when it hit me. 

I have been suffering from massive migraines for over two years. Chronic migraines. Status migrainous if you want to get technical.

My head hurts all the time, and lately, it’s just been too much. I haven’t been up to doing anything, and that included going to church.

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