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Forgotten Virtues - Generosity
Forgotten Virtues - Generosity (Part 2)
Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley
Originally Recorded 29 Nov 2015
Main Text///
2 Corinthians 9:11-12 NIV
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. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
Thoughts/
God wants to pour into you so that you can be generous.
God has given us two hands—one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. -Billy Graham
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. -Augustine of Hippo
Thoughts//
God wants us to be generous on every occasion and in many ways.
Only giving even the smallest amount you purpose to give of your income, and give this regularly; and as God is pleased to increase your light and grace, and is pleased to prosper you more, so give more. If you neglect in habitual giving, a regular giving, a giving principle based upon Scriptural grounds, and leave it only to feeling and impulse, or particular arousing circumstances, you will certainly be a loser. -George Mueller
Thoughts///
Our Generosity supplies others needs.
Our Generosity turns into Thanksgiving and praise to God.
Big Idea///
When we operate in a spirit of generosity it positions our heart away from greed?
Where do we take it?
Understand that everything you have belongs to God.- Choose to begin to put God first in your finances.- Start now. (in this season that is most difficult.)- Teach your children. Bring them into the process.-
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. -C. S. Lewis
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Forgotten Virtues - Generosity (Part 2)
Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley
Originally Recorded 29 Nov 2015
Main Text///
2 Corinthians 9:11-12 NIV
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. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
Thoughts/
God wants to pour into you so that you can be generous.
God has given us two hands—one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. -Billy Graham
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. -Augustine of Hippo
Thoughts//
God wants us to be generous on every occasion and in many ways.
Only giving even the smallest amount you purpose to give of your income, and give this regularly; and as God is pleased to increase your light and grace, and is pleased to prosper you more, so give more. If you neglect in habitual giving, a regular giving, a giving principle based upon Scriptural grounds, and leave it only to feeling and impulse, or particular arousing circumstances, you will certainly be a loser. -George Mueller
Thoughts///
Our Generosity supplies others needs.
Our Generosity turns into Thanksgiving and praise to God.
Big Idea///
When we operate in a spirit of generosity it positions our heart away from greed?
Where do we take it?
Understand that everything you have belongs to God.- Choose to begin to put God first in your finances.- Start now. (in this season that is most difficult.)- Teach your children. Bring them into the process.-
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. -C. S. Lewis