Proverbs 2:11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
The choices I make will determine the person I become.
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Giving
Choose to live a generous life.
The value of life isn’t determined by how much I achieve or accumulate but by how much of my life I give away.
We live to give.
Proverbs 11:24 MSG The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.
Proverbs 11:25 A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work, we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Love Driven Faith
You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving.
Revelation 1:2a, 4 Who testifies to everything he saw. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne.
Choose to give joyfully.
2 Corinthians 9:7b God loves a cheerful giver.
Hilarious Giver
Choose to give selflessly.
If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy. -Jon Bonnell
2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
Choose to give willingly.
“Isn’t tithing an Old Testament law?”
Luke 11:42 NLT “What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.
Choose to give intentionally. 10-10-80 Plan
2 Corinthians 9:7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us, your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
Malachi 3:10 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.
Intentionally give my time. Intentionally give my talent. Intentionally give my touch. Intentionally give my treasure.
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us, your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
Psalms 116:12 What shall I return to the LORD for all his goodness to me?
Exodus 13:14-15 MSG When the time comes and your son asks you, “What does this mean?” you tell him, “GOD brought us out of Egypt, out of a house of slavery, with a powerful hand. When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, GOD killed every firstborn in Egypt, the firstborn of both humans and animals. That’s why I make a sacrifice for every first male birth from the womb to GOD and redeem every firstborn son.”
1 Samuel 12:24 But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.