DAY TWENTY THREE | The Generous Heart

WELCOME TO DAY TWENTY THREE | THE GENEROUS HEART

EXODUS. 35:29 – The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring material for all kinds of work which the LORD, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.

Freewill offerings from all the men and women whose hearts were willing! Giving can be such a challenge.

In any progressive congregation of believers you will always be given the opportunity to give to many different causes. To missions, building new facilities, visiting speakers, special projects etc. God’s people gave willingly FOR ALL KINDS OF WORK. It seems remarkable that people who for 400 years had been enslaved in Egypt and who had escaped with bounty, should now so willingly give it up.

I am sure they felt it was their inheritance to help them get established in the new land. And yet they had WILLING HEARTS to serve the purposes of God. I wonder whether they knew that the land they were to possess was already loaded with every good thing. How could they know that, unless they believed in the goodness of God?

There are a number of liberating factors to be seen in this account.

1. They knew it was God who had brought them thus far.
2. They knew God’s house should be built first.
3. They believed in Godly leadership to reveal God’s plan.
4. They continued giving until the work was complete.
5. They knew that miracles are linked to a generous heart.

Today take control of your heart and your future. Command your heart to be willing to give generously. Look for opportunities to be generous in all kinds of work and you will see God’s miracles at work in your life.

PRACTICAL

1. identify the opportunities you have to give generously to a noble cause.

2. Reorganise your finances to allow for generosity.

3. Start today – no matter how small the amount – to be a person with a generous heart,

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