Your giving will be a great help and encouragement to others.

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

2 Corinthians 9:12-14 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.

Acts 4:34-37 There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need. Joseph…whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means Son of Encouragement), sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet.

Proverbs 19:4,6 Wealth brings many friends. Everyone is the friend of a man who gives gifts.

Matthew 5:14-16 You are the light of the world…let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

There is no advantage in being the

richest person in the cemetery.

A wealthy Christian man who lost everything in a financial downturn was asked if he ever regretted all the giving he had done to the Lord’s work.  He replied, “What I gave, I still have. What I kept, I lost.”

Getting God’s Help Out Of A Financial Mess

My friend George and his wife didn’t think they could trust God when it came to their giving and finances. So, they relied on their own financial wisdom and within a few years found themselves in tens of thousands of dollars in debt they couldn’t pay. They asked me to meet with them to find a way out of the mess they had created. I shared with them, “You've made such a mess of your finances that it is going to take all the help of heaven to get you out of this mess.” I explained that the only way I knew to heaven’s help in their finances was to start giving at least 10% of their income to the LORD’s work whenever they got paid. They agreed this was the right direction to go and in the coming weeks, months, and years, the LORD helped them get out of the financial mess they'd created for themselves.

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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