The Why Behind Your Giving!
Proverbs 11:24
Proverbs 11:24
The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.
1. You Give to Make God the Priority in Your Finances
Proverbs 3:9 NIV
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops
Matthew 6:21 NIV
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Proverbs 3:9 NIV
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops
Kabad: to be weighty
- We care about what God cares about
- We do what God says
Proverbs 3:9 NIV
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops;
Malachi 3:10 NIV
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
“Tithing is just like training wheels. You pay what belongs to God, and then you go into giving. We would start giving, and God would start to bless."
- David Greene
When we put God First it brings peace, order, and blessing to everything else.
"If a person gets their attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area of their life."
- Rev. Billy Graham
2. You Give to Position Yourself for God's Supernatural Blessing
Proverbs 3:10 NIV
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing and your vats will brim over with new wine.
2 Corinthians 9:6 NIV
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously....
2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV
And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work...
2 Corinthians 9:10-11 NIV
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion
Luke 6:38 NIV
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Malachi 3:10-12 NIV
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.
Proverbs 11:24
The world of the generous gets larger and larger...
3. You Give to Fulfill God's Purpose
Proverbs 11:24
The world of the generous gets larger and larger...
At James River Kids Camps:
267 - Kids made decisions to follow Christ.
527 - Said they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
361 - said God healed them
Luke 16:9 NIV
“Use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”
