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A CHEERFUL GIVER

INTRODUCTION:

SOME OF US GIVE JUST TO BE RECOGNIZE BY WHAT WE GIVE.

THEN SOME ONLY GIVE WHEN THEY ARE ENCOURAGE TO GIVE.

THEN THEIR ARE OTHER’S WHO JUST WON’T GIVE AT ALL.

BUT WHAT WE DO FOR THE LORD SHOULD BE WHOLE HEARTILY UNTO HIM.

SO HOW DO A CHEERFUL GIVER GIVE?

GIVES WITH A WILLING MIND.

GIVES WITH A READY MIND.

GIVES ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSETH IN HIS HEART.

PAUL MESSAGE TO THE CORINTHIANS CHURCH WAS TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO GIVE TOWARDS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, SO THAT LIVES CAN BE TOUCH BY GOD’S WORD.

A. GIVES WITH WILLING MIND.

2 Corinthians 8:12 “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.”

ACCORDING TO PAUL EVERYBODY MINDS ARE NOT WILLING TO GIVE TOWARDS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

SO MY QUESTION IS DOES YOUR GIVING HINDER OR ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

PAUL SAID WE MUST GIVE ACCORDING TO WHAT WE HAVE AND NOT ACCORDING TO THAT HE HATH NOT.

THE PROBLEM IS SOME US HAVE THE MEANS TO GIVE, BUT HAVE NOT MANAGED OUR RESOURCES TO THE POINT OF GIVING WHAT WE HAVE.

SO WHAT HAPPEN YOU BEGAN TO GIVE WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE.

EVERYBODY IS NOT IN THE SAME PLACE ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY HATH. YOU MIGHT NOT AT THIS TIME ABLE TO GIVE A TENTH, BUT THIS SHOULD NOT STOP YOU TOWARDS SOWING 5% IN GOOD FAITH UNTIL YOU REACH THE 10%.

FOR US WHO DO HATH, I BELIEVE GOD IS CALLING US TO GO ABOVE THE TENTH.

THE REASON IS MOST OF US ARE TITHING OFF OUR NET AND NOT OUR GROSS AND WE REALLY NOT GIVING TO WHAT WE HATH, BUT WHAT WE HAVE NOT.

I BELIEVE WHEN GOD HAS REALLY BLESSED US FINANCIALLY, THEIR IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT WE SOW IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

MANY OF US ARE LIKE THE RICH MAN WHO WAS NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING HE HAD TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD.

WHAT GRIEVE THE RICH MAN WAS HE ALLOWED THING TO HAVE HIM INSTEAD OF HE HAVING THINGS.

DON’T YOU KNOW WHATEVER GOD REQUIRE OF YOU, HE HAS THE ABILITY TO REPLACE IT TEN FOLD.

GOD JUDGES YOU ACCORDING TO WHAT YOU HAVE, NOT WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE.

Acts 11:29 “Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:”

Deuteronomy 16:17 “every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.”

B. GIVES WITH A READY MIND.

2 Corinthians 8:19 “and not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:”

A READY MIND INDICATES THAT NO ONE HAS TO FORCE YOU TO GIVE, BUT YOUR GIVING IS FROM A GENEROUS SPIRIT.

WHATEVER WE DO FOR THE LORD SHOULD BE FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.

A READY MIND SHOULD COME FROM A SOUL THAT IS EAGER TO ADVANCE THE GOSPEL.

A READY MIND IS EAGER TO GIVE TO A CAUSE THAT WILL BLESS OTHER’S LIVES.

IT’S A TRAGIC THING WHEN THE CHURCH LACK RESOURCES TO REACH WORLD WHO DO NOT HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE , STOP COMPLAINING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

WE CANNOT REACH THE WORLD WITHOUT THE GIVING OF THE BELIEVERS.

WE HAVE BECOME SO SELFISH IN OUR GIVING THAT WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP IT TO OURSELVES. GOD GAVE HIS BEST TITHES WHEN HE OFFERED HIS SON CHRIST JESUS.

THE PROBLEM WITH THE CHURCH TODAY IS WE KEEPING EVERYTHING IN THE IN HOUSE AND NOT SENDING ANYTHING OUT.

GOD EXPECT US TO GIVE ACCORDING TO WHAT WE HATH AND NOT WHAT WE DON’T HATH.

WE AS A CHURCH HATH AND WE ARE ABLE TO REACH THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT OR LACK THE RESOURCES TO GET.

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THOSE WHO HATH, BUT THOSE WHO HATH NOTHING.

YOUR GIVING PROMOTE OTHER’S TO GIVE.

2 Corinthians 9:2 “for I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.”

C. GIVES ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSETH IN HIS HEART.

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”

WHAT EVER YOU HAVE IN YOUR HEART THAT’S WHAT YOU WILL GIVE.

JUST MAKE SURE THE MOTIVE BEHIND YOUR GIVING IS IS COMING FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT DWELLS WITHIN YOU.

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL MAKE SURE YOUR HEART IS GIVING FROM A SINCERE PLACE.

HOW MANY TIMES THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TOLD YOU TO BLESS SOMEONE FINANCIALLY AND YOU ALLOWED A VOICE YOU DID NOT RECOGNIZE TO TALK YOU OUT OF IT. NOTHING BUT THE DEVIL.

WHEN YOU GIVING FROM WHAT YOU PURPOSETH IN YOUR HEART, YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE UNDER ANY OBLIGATIONS TO GIVE.

IF YOU HAVE TO GIVE UNDER OBLIGATION, WHAT WILL HAPPEN, YOU WILL GIVE GRUDGINGLY, OR OF NECESSITY.

GOD DON’T WANT ANYTHING FROM YOU, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF. THAT GRUDGINGLY GIVING.

GOD DON’T WANT YOU TO GIVE UNLESS YOU ARE GIVING WILLINGLY OR GLADLY.

GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER. A CHEERFUL GIVER IS ONE WHO IS EXCITED TO GIVE, PREPARED TO GIVE AND OVERFLOWING WITH GENEROSITY TO GIVE.

DON’T LET YOUR GIVING BE IN VAIN, BUT LET YOUR GIVING COME FROM A PLACE OF LOVE THAT WILL GLORIFY GOD.

1 Corinthians 13:3 “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

QUESTION HOW DO YOU GIVE?