Open Heavens 20th Wednesday September 2017 – GIVE FIRST
Memorise
l will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. Psalm 13:6
Open Heavens 20th September 2017 Bible Reading: 1 Chronicles 16:2-3 & Acts 20:35
ch 16:2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
Chronich 16:3 And he dealt to every one of israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
Act 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive
Open Heavens 20th September 2017 Message
Generous divine provision is a benefit of those in the sheepfold of the GreatShepherd. God prepares a table of abundance for His sheep (Psalm 23:5).
No wonder David, in Psalm 13:6, said:
“I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me This
If you carefully study the life of David, you will discover that the secret of his prosperity lay in the principles he lived by. One of such principles is demonstrated in today’s Bible reading: he believed giving to be the key to receiving. Can you imagine a man giving a loaf of bread to every citizen of a country? This was what David did, and he even gave much more!
We often wonder why most of us are not flowing in God’s abundance, even though God has resources to cater for more than we could ever need. One likely reason for this is that we dobnot strictly follow divine financial principles. Jesus, in Luke 6:38, said:
If you fail to sow, you would be deceiving yourself to expect a harvest. Many of us refuse to give, and yet we continue to pray, fast and do all other thing right. If you want to receive, first give. It is important to note that God will never owe anyone.
If you give, you will receive a harvest, no matter how long it takes, as long as the seed is not uprooted. However, the way the harvest comes and when it will come are issues that may not be too clear to you.
For instance, you may be expecting you harvest for a particular seed in the form of physical cash, not knowing that God has already given it to you as a harvest of peace in the time of trouble, or as protection when the enemy came calling Sometimes, you cannot tell how the harvest of a given seed will come, although if you key into the Holy Spirit, He can sometimes reveal to you
that a particular harvest you received was from a particular seed you sowed.
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Moreover, God who knows our needs should be given the freedom to determine when a how our harvests should come. Just make sure that a lifestyle of giving and sowing seeds is an indelible part of you. Do you give to God? Do you give to His servants? Do you give to the needy? How often do you give?
the spirit of giving
Open Heavens 20th September 2017 Action Point
Giving is an act. Giving is also a spirit. Pray that God will give you the spirit of giving
is to learn how to give this may be the source of your blessing,a sower does not go empty handed
Hi Keghtor,
Thanks for stopping by. Hope to have you here again
I have some questions: I understand the concept of giving, what about being a good steward of the resources He has put in our disposal? Is it right that a church give an annual fiscial report to its congregation? Does someone with big school loan which when considers puts ones at a negative asset still required to tithe? why does a local arm a church give to the parent church when the parent churse did not help the church for example in acquiring the physical building. I know the tithe is to be able to do God’s work, God does… Read more »
God please give me the grace to continue giving and never to withhold IJMN