God Loves A Man Who Gives Because He Wants To Give. God Can Give You All You Need. He Will Give You More Than Enough.

Today’s "Life Journal" Daily Bible Reading can be found on Line. Click Here!
2 Corinthians 7; 2 Corinthians 8; 2 Corinthians 9; 2 Corinthians 10

God Loves A Man Who Gives Because He Wants To Give. 

God Can Give You All You Need. 

He Will Give You More Than Enough.

Scripture

2 Corinthians 9

⁶ Remember, the man who plants only a few seeds will not have much grain to gather. The man who plants many seeds will have much grain to gather. ⁷ Each man should give as he has decided in his heart. He should not give, wishing he could keep it. Or he should not give if he feels he has to give. God loves a man who gives because he wants to give. ⁸ God can give you all you need. He will give you more than enough. You will have everything you need for yourselves. And you will have enough left over to give when there is a need.

Observation

Christmas! It is a time to GIVE!

Problem is you and I may give a lot during this time of year and if we aren’t careful we will miss out on giving where we will get the greatest return.

Grandparents (I is one J) can lavish lots of gifts and lots of toys on their grandchildren many of which will break within the first 24 hours of use or abuse. We grandparents can spend lots of money on our kids and on our grandkids and on each other – on grandma or grandpa, but is it the best place to spend or use our “Christmas” money?

 Now I am not saying that you don’t buy your spouse a nice present, or buy your kids something good, or even those precious grandchildren a very special gift, but what I am getting ready to suggest is something far better!

This year, why don’t you and your spouse talk about giving your largest gift, your most special gift to the “The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering”? If your church doesn’t have one – no problem we will let you give through our church J! The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is an offering named after a missionary named Lottie Moon who died for the cause of Christ in China in the early 1900’s. 

It provides more than half of all the support for our 5,000+ missionaries around the world.

Our kids know (unless they have forgotten) that our biggest Christmas gift is to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering. Kathy and I decided a long time along that we would rather give to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering than to buy each other stuff at Christmas. It also means that we have less to spend on our kids and grandkids at Christmas. 

Sorry kids. Sorry grandkids. Jesus comes first! Not a bad thing to teach your kids, your grandkids and to remind each other!

You can’t out give God. What we give to the “Lottie Moon Christmas Offering” will be returned back to us many times over. You can’t out give God. Remember God always gives us more than we need so that we can give to help others in need.

He also gives us more than we need so we can give to help support our missionaries around the world!

Application

I will pray with Kathy and we will decide how much to give to the “Lottie Moon Christmas Offering”. How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, put on our hearts how much to give this year! We know that You love cheerful givers. I pray for those that might read this blog today. I pray that they also will be led to give sacrificially this Christmas Season! You are such a Generous God. Help us to be more like You. 

Today’s "Life Journal" Daily Bible Reading can be found on Line. Click Here!