Psalm 69:28-36 KJV
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

David was a King, and yet what he praised God for and spoke to God might make one wonder is David exalting himself, in no way is David exalting himself. We must stop and understand something David recognized came from God alone and that was salvation. God's ability to keep him poor in spirit/humble in heart before the Lord. Our own humbleness before God must come from God's ability to put us in a place we are humbled by Him alone.

A man wandering the streets is approach by two children, their age 8 and 9. He was a stranger to them, but they were in need of five dollars, and to beg it took everything in them to do. The money was for their dad just across the street sitting on the sidewalk, because his shoes were to worn out and had rubbed blisters on his feet. The pain was so great, that he sat down unable to go another step. His two sons start asking people for money to help there dad. They knew not they were not to be begging in that town, nor that their dad was not suppose to be loitering on the sidewalk. All the two children knew is their dad needed help. Their own shoes still wearable but not necessarily good shoes. The man had no money on him. The next day the man was again sitting on the sidewalk, but this time, he had wrapped and tied newspaper to his shoe, his sole was total gone. He had gone to work sweeping a store keeper front walk only to have to wait a week to get paid. The store keeper refuse to front him the money, why because afraid he would not get a weeks worth of work out of the man. Yet the man showed up everyday. The man would stop in a public rest room and clean himself up every day, along with his two boys. They slept on the street hidden by some junk in an alley. On the final day the man is paid. He buys food for his boys, and some glue along with something he thought he could repair the shoes with, so they last a little longer, til he could find an apartment to rent. The apartment he found was small, but appears clean enough. The man with no cash watches as the man with bad shoes works a second week at the store keepers business. Boys sitting on the floor of the apartment waiting for their dad each night to come home. When he returns, on the last day of the second week of working, he has not only food, but a brand new pair of shoes. The man with no cash, could not watch this family suffer one more week. He new the new shoes would carry the man a few months maybe a year or more, if he bought them. He was humbled by the man's journey. The shop keeper kept him working. Why did he not just go to the mission for shoes down the street. He had an odd size foot and they had nothing he could wear. The journey of watching in ignorance and humility will get you everytime. We all struggle and we all are poor about something in life. However it takes us to be poor in Spirit to see the kingdom of God.

What does it mean to be poor in Spirit? David the king perhaps understand Jesus words the most in Matthew 5. For when he gave thanksgiving to God he mention his own condition of the need of salvation, something he could not provide for his own soul. It was something he was going to have to rely on God to do for him. The man that was working as much as he could barely was making ends meet let alone able to pay for his own shoes that were an unusual size. If he had a regular size for a man, he been fine, but these shoes had to be specially made. The man with no cash own a shoe factory, and taken a bunch of shoes to the mission, with no clue why the man still had no shoes. Life of ignorance is no reason not to have salvation when it given so freely to us as human beings. To be poor in spirit is to recognize our own ability to save ourselves. Our need of salvation must come from God, just like the man in need of shoes he need a benefactor, we are need of benefactor and his name is Jesus.

Can we be thankful for the salvation only Christ can bring, because when we recognize our own inability to provide that one gift for ourselves, we become poor in spirit. We become poor and humble by the gift of salvation. Thanksgiving for salvation should ring out in our hearts, but does it. King David surely could thank God for his salvation, because even as king he knew he could not buy salvation for himself or provide it for himself. What could David not buy, it was salvation for his soul. God is building a city for his kings and queens in his new kingdom, where there will be a new heaven and a new earth. A new tribe of Judah, a knew kingly rule. We see kingdoms come and go in the world, and we see rise of powers, only to see change take place within good kingdoms. Yet God's kingdom will never be destroyed. His kingdom will be eternal. World is in need of salvation to enter into the kingdom of God. Not everyone name is written in the Lamb's book of life. Is your name written down, do you know your saved, then rejoice because you know your name is written down. Your name not only written down but you will have the power not of this world, but in the world to come as kings, and queens, as children of God. The power God provides for his people is through prayer by His Spirit in our life.

Where are you today, in need of salvation then receive God's greatest gift today by asking Jesus into your heart, and repent of your sin. There is a prayer in the how to be saved page click the button at the bottom or top of the page. This well walk you through the basics. Your day of salvation is today not next week, today. Who can stand in his presence on the day of judgement, without Christ to intercede on your behalf. You need a benefactor to save your soul. God's benefactor has always been his Word, His Benefactor has always been the Savior the Messiah. Jesus is our benefactor, willing to come as humble servant but he be chief our hearts and souls.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for salvation, and enabling us to see our need of your salvation through Christ Jesus. Our road to the countdown to Thanksgiving has begun, but it continues. Lord just remind us of the simple things you provide as free gift and teaches us humility. Thank you for the Benefactor whose name is Jesus. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Matthew 5:3 KJV
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 22:25-30 KJV
25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.