I really enjoyed reading back through 2 Corinthians 8 and encourage you all to do so. While going back through it this weekend I felt a lot of conviction. So often I will go and spend $10 to $25 at dinner with friends, yet I am slow to give to people who are in need. Personally, I feel that often I can only give small amounts and therefore convice myself that it wouldn't really help someone or make a difference. Boy is that wrong! While doing support raising for my mission trip I was truly touched and moved by the people that gave, and it didn't matter whether it was $10 or $300. It was the heart behind the support...the generosity...the love shown.
I loved when Wes talked about people having a savings account for emergencies. There are people all around us, in Haiti, and around the world that are in an emergency situation, just because it isn't YOUR emergency doesn't mean it isn't any less of an emergency.
God has been so good to me in these situations where when I really needed some help, somehow someway it's always worked out. There have been tough times, but he has ALWAYS provided, and ofen in the most unexpected ways. My question to you is do you look at your finances as yours or His? Could you skip one meal out and eat at home to help support someone's mission trip or the people in Haiti etc? Or maybe not by that over priced shirt or pair of jeans? This is me also talking to myself too :)
2 Corinthians 8:7 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 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for YOUR sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 9:12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God
Praying for you all~
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