In building projects a large public gift and a group of leadership gifts can glorify God and result in great generosity and rejoicing.

Read the following verses.  Think and pray about the verse that applies the most to your life.

1 Chronicles 29:1-9 Then King David turned to the entire assembly…The work ahead of (Solomon) is enormous, for the Temple he will build is not just another building--it is for the LORD God himself! Using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, and wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stone and marble. And now because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple. I am donating…gold…and silver…Now then, who will follow my example? Who is willing to give offerings to the LORD today?” Then the (leaders)…all gave willingly…they gave…gold…gold coins…silver…bronze…iron…and precious stones…The people rejoiced over the offerings, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD, and King David was filled with joy.

Where God guides, He provides.

What God orders, He pays for.

God’s work, done in God’s way, never lacks God’s supply.

In successful God-honoring building projects, it takes a few extravagantly generous gifts, combined with dedicated leadership gifts to make the project one of great rejoicing.

Christian School Refund Check

When my friend Bob first started giving 10% of his paychecks to the LORD, he was really scared to do this. One Sunday, Bob came to church with his check already written out. He saw me and said, “Brian, you better start praying. By giving this check today, I have no idea how my family is going to make it this week." I began praying and on Thursday night Bob called to let me know how God provided. On Wednesday, he got a letter from his children’s Christian school, saying a recent audit showed that 3 years earlier he had overpaid tuition by $138, and the refund check was enclosed. I jokingly told Bob that this was truly a bona-fide answer-to-prayer financial miracle since no Christian school in the history of the world had ever sent any parents a refund check!

This is a true story in a series of radio spots by Brian Kluth of www.GiveWithJoy.org and www.kluth.org

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