Sunday 13 February 2011

How does God want us to give in everyday life and in church?

Every day life
'Give generously, for your gifts will return to you later. Divide your gifts among many, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead. When the clouds are heavy, the rains come down, When a tree falls, whether south or north there it lies. If you wait for perfect conditions you will never get anything done. God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's womb. Be sure to stay busy and plant a variety of crops, for you never know which will grow -perhaps all will.'

Let use start to give to God by giving to others even if we don't have as much as we want. Time, money, advice, a shoulder to lean on, forgiveness, gifts, a smile, you name it. God delights in this! This is how He wants His children to be!

The Church
LOOK at the Lord Almighty says!
"Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, 'What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?' "You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me...Bring all the tithes and offerings into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do." says the Lord Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great that you will not have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you! Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them off from insects and disease."

LOOK at what the Lord Almighty says again
psalm 50:12 "...for all the world is mine and everything in it."

God owns everything including you're time, money, possessions, everything. If this is true then it is disobedient not to give to the Lord. Let us start to give our tithes and offerings to God for the honour of His name and for Him to prove himself to us. He says "Try it! Let me prove it to you!"

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
Malachi 3:8-11