What Are The Benefits
What are the benefits of Giving?
II Corinthians 8:7
This morning I would like to speak a message that I believe the Lord has placed upon my heart.
What Are The Benefits Of Giving?
2 Corinthians 8:7
The title of the message is “What are the benefits of giving?”
Today we see God doing a lot of things within our Church from:
Lives being changed, souls being saved, Churches being launched out and families being restored…
There are great things taking place within our Church. and all this is being made possible through your giving!!!
God is going great things here in our Church, but we can’t get comfortable because there are more things that God wants to do.
How is this going to be made possible, through the giving of Gods people!!!
If we are going to accomplish what God has called us to do, then it is going to take a Church with a giving mentality. That is very important.
I wanted to encourage the Church this morning with this message about – there are benefits in giving to God.
1 – Giving draws us closer to God
How does giving draw us closer to God?
Well the Bible says “Where your treasure is there your heart will be also”
Wherever we put our money, that is where our heart is. If our money is in investments that are where our heart is, if our money is in our house that is where our heart is, if our money is in our career then that is where your heart is and if my money is in the house of the Lord then that is where my heart is.
See Money is like a magnet – where ever we put it, it tends to pull our hearts.
When I give money to God it’s like a magnet it pulls us closer to God.
So that means if my treasure or my finances is going to God, then my heart is getting closer to Him.
Every time we give – it draws us closer to God.
Giving is the nature and characteristic of God.
The Bible says in John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son. God gave His best because He loves you and me.
When we give we become more like God, God gave His best.
Giving also draws us closer to God because giving is an act of Worship and when you and I Worship God, it draws us closer to God.
Isn’t that true?
Have you ever come to a service and you feel a little down or you feel a little discouraged, or you feel a little far from God, but then you begin to sing and Worship Him and put your focus on Him the next thing you know you are feeling a little better.
Why because Worship draws us closer to God and just like singing is an act of worship, so is giving.
That is why we set aside a time to give unto the Lord – So we can worship God with our giving.
Just like we sing, we praise, we dance, we clap, and we sing worship songs. We also set aside a time to give, because Giving is an act of Worship.
In conclusion; giving to God open up more avenues for spiritual and financial blessings.
The power of prayer should never be underestimated because it draws on the glory and might of the infinitely powerful God of the universe! Daniel 4:35 proclaims.
In conclusion; God answers prayers.