EPISODE 949 – FRUIT OF GENEROSITY 4
Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah AnsahCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
FRUIT OF GENEROSITY 4
“I mention this not because I’m requesting a gift, but so that the fruit of your generosity may bring you an abundant reward”
Philippians 4:17 (TPT)
There are people who don’t understand the benefit of giving in the New Testament, and others assume giving has no benefits.
If you have followed our conversation so far, you will have clarity of heart concerning giving.
Your giving is not a help you give to God; it is God giving you the opportunity to demonstrate effective stewardship and a partaker of His Kingdom agenda.
From the previous episode, these are some benefits or profits of generosity:
– Your Generosity Leads to the Increase of Resources.
– The Love for God and His Kingdom is deepened In Your Heart.
This love for God and His Kingdom:
– Makes you live above yourself.
Giving makes you fully circumcise the self. You don’t become stingy. A stingy heart shrinks and soon becomes empty. However, a giving heart is happier and attracts many.
Another thing giving does to your heart is that it produces contentment in your heart.
You will not die or become a slave to anything you have been able to give. Giving trains your heart to value impact above acquisition. This is what makes you have mastery over things.
Anything you cannot give out has dominion over you.
Those who find it difficult to give esteem to their acquisition above the transformation of others.
Selflessness leads to contentment. Most people who are not content are selfish. They want everything to keep.
Paul the apostle said, “Godliness with Contentment is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6)
When you learn to share or give what you have, it crushes every sense of greediness and envy in you.
Anything you can submit to God doesn’t control your heart.
A rich man came to Jesus and asked, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.” (Here he was pointing him to His Divinity). Jesus continued by answering his question, saying, “But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
The rich man said to Jesus, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ ”
The young man said to Jesus, “All these things I have kept from my youth.
What do I still lack?”
Now the young was claiming righteousness by his self efforts. He was to turn to Jesus for Life instead of exercising confidence in his own works.
However, this is the main matter:
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.” (See Matthew 19:16-22)
This is interesting, the young man couldn’t obey even the first commandment:
“You shall have no other gods before Me.”
This commandment tells us to put God first. And the young rich man couldn’t put God first. He esteemed his possession, than eternal life.
Which litmus test did Jesus use?
GIVING!
Get this: giving proves the condition of the heart.
Remember Abraham, God gave him Isaac and still asked him to sacrifice him. What was the goal?
To prove the faith of Abraham.
Has God instructed you to give? Understand that He is giving you the opportunity to demonstrate how you ESTEEM HIM above your possession.
Selah.
Isaiah 37-39
2 YEARS PLAN
Ruth 6
Giving into the Lord’s assignment is not a demand instead a necessity
Thank you Lord Jesus
giving proves the condition of my heart.
I am giver
Gloreeey
I esteem God above my possessions
Thank you Lord Jesus for this enriching episodes on GIVING!!
Thank you Lord Jesus
For I esteem you above all my possession