Recently, during our Generosity series, I challenged our church to pray a dangerous prayer, “Lord make me generous”. There’s something about our old human nature coupled with the pressures of the world that afflicts us with amnesia when it comes to the importance of living generously.
Generosity should be our most basic reflex as followers of Jesus, one that reflects the heart of God and prepares the way for His purposes.
It’s been said that you’re never more like Jesus, than when you are generous toward others. If you think about it, Jesus’ redemptive work unlocked God’s limitless goodness, favor and blessing, making it available to every person on the planet, simply for the asking.
A redemptive supply and resource God not only intends to get to you, but through you to the lives of those around you. God intends for us to be “gateways” of His abundance to people we meet everyday.
To NOT live close-fisted, but with an open heart and hand, generous with our time, talent, creativity, forgiveness, encouraging words and even our finances.
The beautiful thing about this is that from a personal perspective, you are never more blessed or empowered to increase and succeed, than when you give.
Scripture teaches that the world of the generous, gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller (Proverbs 11:24-25 Msg).
