This Week's Topic: Finding Financial Freedom

Premise

The only way to financial peace is straight through a giving and generous heart.

You Reap What You Sow

"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver . . .

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God."
2 Corinthians 9:6-11 (NIV)

"Made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion"

Wow! I am made rich so that I can give it away! And then God honors my giving away by giving me more, so that I can give even more away!!!

John Wesley, credited as founder of Methodism, decided as a young man to “cap” his standard of living and then as more money came in he’d give it away. No increase in material comfort, but a great increase in giving. That impresses me as a behavior that would please God.

99% of us have not done this, but we could.

Am I laying a guilt trip on you? Hope not, because if I am, I’m violating the very scripture I am citing.

Give what your heart has decided to give. Then what you sow, you will reap. Then what you reap is meant for sowing. It’s kind of like, “give to get to give to get to give . . . . “, with the last word always being “give”.

Prayer

“Lord, help me think more of what and to whom I can give than what I can next acquire. Amen"