for
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
This is one of
those subjects that is hard to share and maybe even hard to hear. I mean you talk to people who have been to
churches where all they talk about is money.
I have heard people say that tried one church and another, and while
they were there they were asked for their money.
Let me address
this issue. We ought to be people who
are generous. The one thing that God
told us to test him in is through our giving.
Too often the church is the place where we give people a pass on not
giving. That is just not fair. All of us are called to be faithful and to
follow what God leads us to do.
Give. Bring your tithe in to the storehouse. And be generous!
Proverbs
11:25 NLT
The generous will
prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
When we are
generous, we help others and get help.
The sweet word form this last verse is refresh. Our giving and our generous giving is used by
God to refresh us and others. That is a
big deal.
Proverbs 11:25 NASB
The generous man will be
prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered.
By giving we
plant seeds. By giving we water
seeds. By giving we literally become
part of what God is doing in places we cannot go on our own.
Deuteronomy
15:8 NASB
but
you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in
whatever he lacks.
Are you
giving? I did not ask if you write
checks for 10% of your income. I did ask
if you simply are giving. The Bible says
when we are not giving of the blessings that God has given us that we are
robbing from God. Again, that is a big
deal.
This coming
Sunday we will be challenging our church to take a “90 day giving challenge”
where people begin to give, and if at the end of 3 months if they believe God
hasn’t worked in their lives, we will return all the money that they have
given. Maybe you need to join us in this
challenge. What do you think?
Church
family. Please give and give
faithfully. You can mail your offering
to the church (PO Box 388, Collinsville, VA 24077), bring your offering to
church on Sunday or any day we are open, or you can give online at this link: https://tcf.ccbchurch.com/goto/giving
Be faithful and do what God places on your heart!
Maybe you are
not part of our church but you would like to help us further the work of God
and what He has called us to. Give the
same ways I mentioned above. This would
help us and allow you to be refreshing and watering others.
2
Corinthians 9:7 NASB
Each
one must do just as he
has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
From last
Sunday’s sermon comes the following verse.
Each person did what God called them to do. We should do the same. But that is your call. Won’t you join me and others in the 90 day
giving challenge?
Exodus 35:29
NLT
So the people of Israel—every man and woman who was eager to
help in the work the Lord had
given them through Moses—brought their gifts and gave them freely to the Lord.
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