Worshipping Together

John 3:16 CSB

16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Believe is used 272 Times

Pray is used 371 Times

Love is used over 500 Times

Give over 1000 Times

1. Giving Makes Me More Like God

John 3:16 CSB

16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

You can give without loving but it’s impossible to love without giving.

2. Giving Draws Me Closer To God

Matthew 6:21 CSB

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

3. Giving Is The Antidote To Materialism

Our culture teaches us to live get stuff

Accumulation Culture

1 Timothy 6:17–19 CSB

17 Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy. 18 Instruct them to do what is good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and willing to share, 19 storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of what is truly life.

4. Giving Strengthens My Faith

Malachi 3:10 CSB

10 Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

I dare you to trust me

Only place in the bible where God say’s “Prove me wrong”

Jesus talked more about giving than he did Heaven or Hell

Proverbs 3:5–6 CSB

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight.

5. Giving Is An Investment Into Eternity

Hurst Don’t pull Brinks Trucks

1 Timothy 6:18–19 CSB

18 Instruct them to do what is good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and willing to share, 19 storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of what is truly life.

6. Giving Blesses Me In Return

Proverbs 11:25 CSB

25 A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.

Acts 20:35 CSB

35 In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by laboring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Heart of Giving

God Wants Us To Give Willing

2 Corinthians 8:12 CSB

12 For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

2 Corinthians 9:7 CSB

7 Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.

Give Thankfully

Psalm 116:12 CSB

12 How can I repay the Lord for all the good he has done for me?

1 Chronicles 29:14 CSB

14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your own hand.

Give Joyfully

2 Corinthians 9:7 (CSB)

7 Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.

Give Expectantly

2 Corinthians 9:6 CSB

6 The point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

2 Corinthians 8:7 NIV

7 But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.