PROVERBS 11:1 AMP
“A false balance and dishonest business practices are extremely offensive to the Lord, But an accurate scale is His delight.
GOLD NUGGETS
Let’s attempt establish a basic structure for generosity
1. Decide that nothing you possess is your own but that everything you have belongs to God. You are now ready to manage God’s possessions as He likes. This will give you a sense of accountability to God. You get your life orders not from a whim, self-impulse or whatever takes your fancy, but from the One who saved you and redeemed you.
2. Go over your life and see what belongs to your needs and what merely belongs to your wants. Your needs are important – God has promised to supply them – but not your wants. You need as much as will make you fit spiritually, physically and mentally – for the purposes of God while you are here on the earth. Beyond that, what you have belongs to the needs of others. How do you decide what belongs to your needs? No one can decide it for you.
Go over your life item by item and ask God for directions. Your family should figure prominently in your concerns, but you must check everything with the Lord.
3. Make it a principal principle that you will be generous to people, not for the good feelings that generosity brings, but because you are determined to bless them in some way. You must never be generous in order to get a blessing – you must be generous to be a blessing.
SHALOM: God’s all encompassing blessings to you
