#2 The Gift of Giving I’m thankful we are a church who live for others, more than ourselves. We’ve seen amazing testimonies over the years of people giving generously and God moving powerfully, providing for our needs. God is always faithful - Amen. So if God is all powerful, l does He really need us to give? The answer is yes, because He uses natural ways (as well as supernatural ways) to build His church and get the gospel out there to everyone in need. We are all called to give. 2 Cor 8:7 But you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you --see that you also excel in this grace of giving. Acts 20:35 We must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive’. Matt 10:8 Freely you have received; freely give. You can tell here that it is God’s heart that we all excel in living a generous life helping – others for the sake of the gospel, so again yes, we are all called to give. – However, God also provides for ministry is by equipping certain people with the gift of giving. Some people have a God given capacity to generate more finances than others. Not only that, they have an amazing grace on their lives to give away a lot of finances. The Bible speaks of this in… Rom 12:6-8 NLT In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you…If it is giving, give generously. may be those among us with a spiritual gift of giving. You are good with money. You are able to manage it well. You are able to generate it easily. You feel empowered to give and love giving financially into ministries there is an ease, a grace on your life to do so. You – may even have access to other people’s wealth and your job is to help them donate it. Let me encourage you, God has given you this gift to help others, to testify of the gospel, to resource churches and other ministries. I pray you steward it well and increase your capacity to earn wealth and give to causes that honour God, because the gift of giving enables ministry.
#2 The Gift of Giving I’m thankful we are a church who live for others, more than ourselves. We’ve seen amazing testimonies over the years of people giving generously and God moving powerfully, providing for our needs. God is always faithful - Amen. So if God is all powerful, l does He really need us to give? The answer is yes, because He uses natural ways (as well as supernatural ways) to build His church and get the gospel out there to everyone in need. We are all called to give. 2 Cor 8:7 But you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you --see that you also excel in this grace of giving. Acts 20:35 We must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive’. Matt 10:8 Freely you have received; freely give. You can tell here that it is God’s heart that we all excel in living a generous life – helping others for the sake of the gospel, so again – yes, we are all called to give. However, God also provides for ministry is by equipping certain people with the gift of giving. Some people have a God given capacity to generate more finances than others. Not only that, they have an amazing grace on their lives to give away a lot of finances. The Bible speaks of this in… Rom 12:6-8 NLT In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you…If it is giving, give generously. may be those among us with a spiritual gift of giving. You are good with money. You are able to manage it well. You are able to generate it easily. You feel empowered to give and love giving financially into ministries – there is an ease, a grace on your life to do so. You may even have access to other people’s wealth and your job is to help them donate it. Let me encourage you, God has given you this gift to help others, to testify of the gospel, to resource churches and other ministries. I pray you steward it well and increase your capacity to earn wealth and give to causes that honour God, because the gift of giving enables ministry.