Giving Archives - My Manna https://mymanna.org/tag/giving/ Daily Devotionals for Comfort and Counsel from the Bible Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/mymanna.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-My-Manna-512-x-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Giving Archives - My Manna https://mymanna.org/tag/giving/ 32 32 189112494 Seek to Excel https://mymanna.org/seek-to-excel-2/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:00:02 +0000 http://mymanna.net/?p=2231 “But just as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us–see that you also excel in this grace of giving.” 2 Corinthians 8:7.   A layman once made a covenant with his pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year.   They were both young and neither of them had much money.   But things changed.   The layman tithed one thousand dollars the year he earned ten...

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]]> Bible 6“But just as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us–see that you also excel in this grace of giving.” 2 Corinthians 8:7.
 
A layman once made a covenant with his pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year.
 
They were both young and neither of them had much money.
 
But things changed.
 
The layman tithed one thousand dollars the year he earned ten thousand,
– ten thousand dollars the year he earned one-hundred thousand,
– and one- hundred thousand dollars the year he earned one million.
 
But the year he earned six million dollars-
– he just could not bring himself to write out that check for six-hundred thousand dollars to the Church.
 
He telephoned the minister, long since having moved to another church, and asked to see him.
 
Walking into the pastor’s office the man begged to be let out of the covenant, saying-
“This tithing business has to stop. It was fine when my tithe was one thousand dollars, but I just cannot afford six-hundred thousand dollars. You’ve got to do something, Reverend!”
 
The pastor knelt on the floor and prayed silently for a long time.
 
Eventually the man said, “What are you doing? Are you praying that God will let me out of the covenant to tithe?”
 
“No,” said the minister. “I am praying for God to reduce your income back to the level where one thousand dollars will be your tithe!”
No one excels more in giving than the Lord.

Today in prayer, praise Jesus for all that He has blessed you with and seek to excel in giving to the Lord.
What I kept, I lost;
What I spent, I had; 
What I gave, I have!
 
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.” Psalm 37:25-26.

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]]> 2231 Seek to Excel https://mymanna.org/seek-to-excel/ Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:30:37 +0000 http://mymanna.net/?p=2090 “But just as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us–see that you also excel in this grace of giving” (2 Corinthians 8:7).   A layman once made a covenant with his pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year.   They were both young and neither of them had much money.   But things changed.   The layman tithed one thousand dollars the year he earned ten...

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]]> vineyard 1“But just as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us–see that you also excel in this grace of giving” (2 Corinthians 8:7).
 
A layman once made a covenant with his pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year.
 
They were both young and neither of them had much money.
 
But things changed.
 
The layman tithed one thousand dollars the year he earned ten thousand,
– ten thousand dollars the year he earned one-hundred thousand,
– and one- hundred thousand dollars the year he earned one million.
 
But the year he earned six million dollars-
– he just could not bring himself to write out that check for six-hundred thousand dollars to the Church.
 
He telephoned the minister, long since having moved to another church, and asked to see him.
 
Walking into the pastor’s office the man begged to be let out of the covenant, saying-
“This tithing business has to stop. It was fine when my tithe was one thousand dollars, but I just cannot afford six-hundred thousand dollars. You’ve got to do something, Reverend!”
 
The pastor knelt on the floor and prayed silently for a long time.
 
Eventually the man said, “What are you doing? Are you praying that God will let me out of the covenant to tithe?”
 
“No,” said the minister. “I am praying for God to reduce your income back to the level where one thousand dollars will be your tithe!”
No one excels more in giving than the Lord.

Today in prayer, praise Jesus for all that He has blessed you with and seek to excel in giving to the Lord.
What I kept, I lost;
What I spent, I had; 
What I gave, I have!
 
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed” (Psalm 37:25-26).

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]]> 2090 Give and you will live! https://mymanna.org/give-and-you-will-live/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:00:24 +0000 http://mymannaonline.com/?p=1554 Wednesday, 20 January 2016 “By this we know love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:16-18)....

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“By this we know love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:16-18).
There are two landlocked seas in Israel!
One is alive.
And one is dead.
The sea full of life is the Kinneret, better known as the Sea of Galilee.
The dead sea is…you guessed it, the Dead Sea.
Now the Kinneret is constantly emptying as it flows through the Jordan River valley…. into the Dead Sea.
But the Dead Sea does not empty its water at all.
Instead, the Dead Sea is continually shrinking-
– because the intense heat at this lowest place on Earth actually evaporates more water than is flowing in.
Do you see a parable here?
The Sea that is alive is the one that gives.
The more of your self, of your life, of your love that you pour out, the more alive, filled up, and refreshed you will become.
The Lord Jesus exemplified this to the greatest extent ever-
– by giving all He was and all He had,
– even to those who hated Him and were His bitter enemies.
And the love that He gave was returned to Him by His Father in the resurrection-
– and by all the multitude of His redeemed people throughout all ages and into eternity.
Could it possibly be any different for those of us who live lives of giving and loving?
No!
We will continue to be filled by the Lord’s infinite abundance no matter how much we pour ourselves out.
Of course, if we hold back, keeping all we have to ourselves, we will begin to evaporate and die…
Give and you will live!
Love, and you will be filled with God’s love.
Hold back, and even that which you have will vanish away.
A friend of mine shares this limerick:
“There once was a sea that was dead
It was, ’cause it only got fed
And never gave up
Not one single cup
Now that’s something to keep in your head!”
Let’s be givers.
Let’s be lovers.
Empty ourselves into His Kingdom, into His work, and be constantly refilled with His love, power and peace.
With so much work to be done-
I’m choosing the Sea of Life!
(PR)

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]]> 1554 The point of return https://mymanna.org/the-point-of-return/ Wed, 06 May 2015 16:00:11 +0000 http://mymannaonline.com/?p=953 You can say all you want about getting right with God- – but if you don’t get right with God in your finances, – you are not right with God. The kind of repentance- – that does not reach the bank account – has never reached the heart. In Malachi 3:7, God says: “Return unto me, and I will return unto you.” And the people said, “Wherein shall we return?” God’s answer in verse 8 reveals that they were to...

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]]> You can say all you want about getting right with God-
– but if you don’t get right with God in your finances,
– you are not right with God.
The kind of repentance-
– that does not reach the bank account
– has never reached the heart.
In Malachi 3:7, God says:
“Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
And the people said, “Wherein shall we return?”
God’s answer in verse 8 reveals that they were to return-
– in tithes and offerings.
The point of return is-
– the point of departure.
If you’re going to come back to God and if you’re going to renew your fellowship-
– you’re going to have to begin with the tithe.
It’s time to put the good book to the checkbook!
How are you doing in the area of your tithes and offerings to the Lord?
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Malachi 3:10).
(PR)

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