The Giver and the Gift | Pastor Sandra

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My message today is called the Giver and the Gift.

Okay, all right, like Jack and the bean stalks on that,

but no, it's just the Giver and the Giver. I

give you pineapple because Chinese New Year wang lii one

lie online online. Okay, So alright, the Giver and the Gift.

I try my best to share this and you know

that you not only have fun hearing it, but also

receive what the word of God is encouraging us and

reminding us this morning.

Amen, Okay, I have a question for you.

This is my question. Don't shoot me, okay, don't school me.

All right? On a scale to one from one to ten,

how would you rate your joy of giving? Can don't

answer me? Just think about it? On the scale of

one to ten? All right? What is your How would

you rate your joy of giving? Are you here when

you give? How joyful? Like? Can I move the zebra up?

Or can I move the zebra down? Some? When they pay?

Give your offering to the LOMSI villain must learning. I

is learning. I must learning, all right? So can the zebra?

Go up or the zebra go down? Honest scale one

to ten. I mean, there's a question you can answer yourself.

How much joy do you have when it comes to giving,

all right, whether any form of giving, giving praise to

people like hey can you look great today? Are like

oh hey you know Christina, wow, really gorgeous? How how

how how is.

Your joy rating? How do you give to the Lord?

Also you're offering or your gifts whatever, How do you

give in any form your gifts? How do you rate

your joy? Are you very happy when you give? Or

you're very said you have to party my money, you

have to buy the give okay, So when you're zebra

go down, go up? There's a question some people were

very happy to give or no very happy or anything.

Praise was so very good, gifts are so very good

when give lots of hahaha, give u they say in Africa,

I don't know. In Nigeria, the churches, uh, one of

my friends was ministering them and then there was offering time.

So if they were to rate the joy of giving,

they dance out and give the gift very happy, you know,

very cheerful. What does does does come out give you?

Does does go back. So he said, oh wow, they're

offering time is so fun. So rate yourself. How do

you feel you cry when you give crack? You so

thankful Jesus, you bless me?

Or you cry your bad money? All right?

So I don't know. I think I think only you

will know. When is your joy level? Okay, joy level?

All right?

In giving good?

To ask ourselves this question because I want to give

us four points today and we'll just chat about it

and share about it, encourage us. When I was about

when I was about sixteen or seventeen, I just become

a Christian and I was in I joined the church

and my sell group leader was asking all of us,

so would you rather be a rich person or would

you just be not a rich person? And then I

think my naive self or I just became a girl,

so young believer, and I said to him, I said,

I neither want to be rich, and neither do I

want to be not rich. I want because I'm in

Jesus sixteen years old, I can have everything in him,

so that if I needed money, I would just have

to ask the Lord. If I didn't have something, I

would just have to ask the lot. And if he

promised that you know, he will meet every need.

He will.

You know. He says that whatever we ask of the lot,

he will do it for us because he wants our

joy to be full. I think it's in John chapter fifteen.

So I said my answer that I don't know whether

he shook his head or he's like, well done.

I don't know.

I am now in my fifties, and I'm thinking he

said a good answer. I think it's a good answer.

We don't have to be here or there. God will

give you if you're here, great, if we're here, wherever

we're at.

I think more importantly is who's your source? Amen? He

and we just read some twenty three.

The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want Wow,

there's never going to be a lack, but we need

to do the hot miles sometimes to go through that

to understand what it is to trust the Lord. And

I think I shared with you before when I first

married Kenneth Chin and after all the vowels, you know,

for Richard, for Bura, and I looked at like, I

don't know what I'm going to have. Cannot tell mother

how much he's earning five hundred dollars eight hundred ringate

from the church. He's full time. And then I like,

I want to pay a shoe no shoe breaking already,

you know, cannot buy because I worked and all the

salary went into I worked as a teacher then, and

then I gave up my corporate work for as a teacher.

He did not have a salary. He was living by faith.

I'd never seen there. What teaching is it? Lived by faith? Brother,

I'm so new. I won't take a serun anyway. It

was no salary because we're running out, you know, a

ya on our own. And but God met him. He

read so many facebooks. He his hero was George Mueller,

and he said, you know, when you pray, God will

provide whoa And.

I saw that.

And for thirty years that were married, I never asked

him how he gets his money. I hope he didn't

rob anybody. Love. I just hope he didn't I steal somewhere.

But for thirty years we never argue about money because

money is not the main topic Jesus is. So if

he doesn't have sometimes I offer you want me to

help you, like I really read here, you know, But

being the man in the house, he always wants to

pay the bills, so you payer, I take care of

certain bills, and he'll always take care of me and

make sure we have whatever. And he asked a lot,

and for thirty years I've seen that of him. But

we had to do the hart miles, as I said,

and from the past sharing to learn to trust a lot,

from trusting a love for patrol, from trusting the lot

for pairshoe, from trusting the lot to fly. You know

that we needed etiquettes to fly to see my grandmother.

But that was my husband's faith, which.

I don't bug.

For a while, I borrowed his faith for a while,

and then later I developed my own faith to live

by faith.

And that's in the world of God.

The just shall live by faith in Romans chapter one,

and that's taken from the Old Testament.

The Josh shall.

Live by faith and our church and never thought taught

us that missionaries used to teach us that we're talking

about that This man, Kenna Chaine lives it every day.

I really don't know how, but God provides somehow it

comes and and he will tell me. He doesn't tell

me how he gets the funds. I hear it from

the here the message you and you hear it. I

hate for the first time. So he's he is a

very quiet person at home. He doesn't, you know, tell

me this.

He talks.

We talk, but his faith journey, sometimes he really walks

it and then I hear it.

Sometimes he shares.

Sometimes I find out cute and I'm like, oh, Or

if you're thinking about something and we're walking somewhere together,

shopping or walking the park or something, all I'm talking awaiting.

He's listening to me.

Actually he's talking to Jesus God. Damnn, I hear the message, right.

I know he was not listening to me. He was

talking to Jesus, Jesus, you know, and telling Jesus what

his needs were. And the Lord meets him at every need,

whether it's a he really walks my faith, you know,

believing for every provision when he when he's when we

say he's a county is almost three dollars forty two cents,

it's true, and it's true, and it's true.

If I have a.

Country forty two I cry. Okay, and it happened to

me once and once. I'm very careful, but I grew up.

Our family was well, okay, we just lost everything, so

everything is you know, we work very hard. So in

street doors forty two cents, I don't know what to do.

Three forty two cents. You pray. You don't show me

his face. You pray like, oh how, But the Lord

takes us to the lessons of trusting him. And I

have to say, not just because I'm a full time worker.

We've left all things and is just the work for

the church. But he's working for the Lord. The Lord

does meet every need. And God has bless us to

other people. God actually uses people, his children to bless us.

And God uses me to bless other people, whether I

give in financial or give a form of gize, whether

I'm there for that person, whether we're driving all the way.

We give this.

God uses each other. When we say pray that the

Lord provides friends. I always pray the Lord provide from

the sky. Please don't need to ask any auntie, uncle,

brother's sister. But the Lord, we'll touch a man and

a woman's heart. He still uses a man and a

woman to help us.

I don't know how.

But then they say, hey, we've just banged this in

for you, or we heard from the Lord to give

you this just like how we bought our house. No,

I had no part in this house thing for me.

He's okay, it can run forever. Okay, my husband and

I say, we can rent forever. It's all right once,

it's all right. But God said, no, we want you

to have a house. And some Auntie, you know, ittio

Auntie prays and remembers past the chin and says, pass

the chin. Here's the ninety thousand for down payment, exact

amount to put the down payment for the house. So

people go at your house, are you are you taking

money her church? No, came from this etheo Auntie who

just prayed, and the Lord said, give us the chin,

and she gives Puss the chin. And of course he

cries one hundred times a thousand times because we would

never be able to purchase any house with what we have.

But God knows what he wants you to have for

testimony and to glorify his name. And again I think

Bassa shared his message on the renovations. I didn't even

know where the money came from. I don't want to

ask waste my time. So just like whatever Jesus help you,

I'm like a very simple Anything goes. And then God

provides and comes to suppos it constantly experiences this grace

of God. But he also gives. Even when he doesn't have,

he still gives what he has.

Very generous. I have to say, he's very generous. He

doesn't have. I supposed to provide.

For my parents, but he constantly gives mine. My dad

was a life pocket money. He never tells me, so

I'll give my parents. But he also thought something, you

don't have any money.

But every time blessed he gives, come, he goes, it comes, goes.

I don't say that the giver is you and us,

and the gift is from us, from the Lord who

gives to us to give.

So he goes this way and the word of God

tells us.

According to Paul, we all share in each other's giving

and receiving. That's the economy of God's kingdom. So even

when we pray, we all got too much pray something

to say, oh yeah, go drop fall down from the sky.

Now he uses, I mean, it could be a monkey

checking the tree down. But you know, seldom it's a monkey.

But it could be someone coming and just putting an

envelope under your door, or you put it into your

hand God uses people. Oh God, God has done that.

So my this is not just for full time workers.

This is for all of us and God. According to

Deuterondo Mey chapter six, he does give you power to

make wealth. He does. There are people in this room

who just have God's anointing to do well in your business.

You see it, and you just do well because there's

anointing on that.

Some I can't do business. I ran a cafe.

We lost money because we give the students free for everything.

I take them out to my husband. You cannot do business.

You cannot.

You're too kind.

You're too kind.

You cannot. You cannot because there has a mind of

a passing.

He's egg, He's everything for free, charge everything all my

shepherd's buy all for cheap. You know. My get a

cup editing machting the student and I pay you what.

But but some people just have that calling to make wealth.

Take it. Guess God's annointing on you. Others will have

other other kinds of ability.

Amen. So it's for all of us.

Really live by faith, so that the giver experiences the

grace of God. That you may give a gift that

is also by the grace of God.

Amen.

We cannot live our Christian life without experiencing this part

of our walk with Jesus. Can God touch your money?

And you have to answer that question, I you and

all believers of Christ. Can God touch your money, your finances?

I don't have, I don't give, I don't know. You

have to read God's word. And we've heard so many

times scriptures have said the widow last week eating puzzles,

which week pass the which there was no more flower

and no more oil, and she said, or make my

last way, and then I'm going to die. But yet

Elijah or Elijah said, can you please make me a

guay first and let me eat what the terrible men?

But she made it and then her flower bien never

went dry in the time of the drought.

And after that, yeah, set fish. She was back into business.

Right. So living my face really is for all of

us being just the call ones of the Lord to

having the ability to participate in being the giver and

also the one who has the gift to give.

Amen.

So my first point for us is every time you give,

it is an act of faith.

Amen.

Every time you give, I'm learning over and over again,

every time I want to give something, it could be

any kind of any form of giving has to be

done by faith. Why because I said it the other

week before, and I preach without faith. It is impossible

too please God. You can't. You can't please God. There

are some things, there's just this one thing. You want

to please God. You gotta do anything by faith. Even

if I want to preach today, I have to do

it by faith. I cannot take it for granted that

I got it. I don't. I'm studying.

I have to do it by faith. I have to

because I want to please Him.

For he who comes to God he Brews eleven six,

he comes to God mass believe in these two things.

Number one that he is and not that he was.

He is, And number two, he is a rewarder of

them who diligently seek him. God rewards you when you

believe that he is, And if you diligently seek him,

he is your reward. Two things that you experience. And

he says, I am pleased when you come by faith.

And anything done in our own strength will not be faith.

Anything done by faith. So what a reminder in man

church for all of us by faith? Want to lead

worship by faith? I want to study by faith. Want

to make a kick every time I make a kid

because I bake it and don't bake it, and forgot

how even this Chinese be here. Once n I'll make

my bigon grable. But every year I learn it all

over again. Why because January in the next January, I

forgot the taste. And yet, oh my goodness, this family

that has been coming from fifteen years, the children have

grown out, gotten married.

They all want to come back to my house.

So I have to cook it. I cook something else Laksa, No,

cannot why I want that one? So you know it

takes faith to do something that will please God. I'm

learning again and again that you want to please God,

we have to act out of faith.

Amen.

You know it took a big step of the faith,

the faith that God had. In next night, our God

gave us unconditionally his son Ah to bridge the gap

between him and fallen man. It cost him his life.

None of us have given our lives for anything for

the Lord.

Nothing.

We've given strength, but we've not shed blood. But God

has shed blood. He gave us the first one to

show us generosity and just to give was his only son.

All of you who have children. You know that you

only have one son, and you want to let go

of your one son, one daughter, one.

Child that you have is very hard.

Even though that child can give you a heartache, it

is still your child. You will not give up your child.

But God had to give up his son so that

only the perfect son could complete the race for us

that you and I today, as we partic of communion,

we have this assurance that we are reconciled to the Lord,

and we stand forgiven before the Lord and before one

another as we partake to forgive one another as God

has forgiven us. Amen, hallelujah. Are you grateful for that?

Amen?

Was too quiet here? Oh yeah, I cannot look quiet

and it makes some noise like fireworks.

Boom boom boom. All right. Our God gave us so

unconditionally loved us, do you know? And Jesus came.

He had to take a chance. He doesn't know whether

man will accept him. He doesn't know if Grace will

accept him. He doesn't know if common will accept him.

He doesn't know you know that any of us would

accept himTo He didn't know, but he believed in you.

I was not a believer always I rejected Christ. He

took a chance on me. You know, if Stephen would

receive you don't know, Grace would belim Clarisa, would you

receive him? But he took a chance. He said, no,

I love the world that I would give my only son.

And in that, while we were yet sinners Romans eight five,

he died for us.

He gave. So this DNA is eat us.

Amen.

We are made in God's image.

We have the DNA of God. That's God's heart. He gives.

He gives.

Really, so we have that DNA. We're made in the

image of God. And God's heart towards each of us

is He's.

So generous with us.

He loves us unconditionally, He's patient, conditionally. Every day I

get out here, I say, Jesus, I am so grateful

that you are merciful to me. I'm so grateful that

you love me even when I failed you, or when

I'm so naughty and I'm so bad, and yet you're

patiently saying to me, come, I'm your God. I will

transform your life. Yes, Lord, but I failed yesterday. I'm

so grateful to his generous heart that is our DNA.

And then that's why all of you have that generosity

in your heart.

Just said.

Sometimes we experience different things that by people who have

hurt you or disappointed that makes you then shrink back.

But when we deal with God in all things, we

want to please him.

Amen.

So this is the first point of every act of

giving that you do. Let it be an act of faith.

Don't let it be just out of fear, out of disappointment.

Therefore don't or therefore yes, I'll do it. No I won't,

But I want to please God. Amen, believing that He rewards,

Believing that He is and present with us in all

that we do. Because friends, God has given you the

jobs that He's given you, the abilities, the creativity to

make wealth, to earn, to be able to have. And

this is your blood and sweat.

Don't comment when you work. He's blood and swet.

I know blood and sweat. Oh, Clari's so blood and sweet.

So God knows this is your life when you give.

It's your life. We work, we give our lives, we

sweat for it, we work hard, we go not I

sleep from boss everything.

It's then we bring home this.

We have to do it by faith. Otherwise left right center,

you get disappointed and we want to say Lord, I

want to please you, Amen. And so we capture God's

heart who gave us first that we have his dna.

Amen.

And so we want to know how God loves, and

so we want to love back the same way as

we learn in our faith steps. Amen. So number one,

it's always when you give the giver, it's always an

act of faith. Your gift will be a faith gift

at all times.

Amen.

Number two, you know, all of the things that God

hopes to develop and wants to be with us is

our intimacy with God. Wow. To grow close to God.

To intimacy means he's He's not just a God that

is far off and you're waiting for him to hit

you on the head because you didn't do it.

That is not our God.

That is our teacher, but not God. That maybe your mother,

but not God. My mom's like, you didn't do that.

So we got this.

You know, God is gonna hit me, not our father God.

He wants to draw us cords of loving kindness, to

know his kindness and his generous heart. So when we

are given the opportunity to learn about you know, giving

as God has given to us, it brings us a

place of drawing.

Close to come close to God's heart.

And so we have this.

I've chosen this verse.

Second Corinthians, Chapter eight, verse one to seven. Second Corinthians,

Chapter eight, Verse one to seven. What does it mean

by what you mean by intimacy with God? And I

drew that out of this scripture because it brings us

to this place of a relationship with Him.

Amen.

So I'm gonna read this for you now, Second Corinthians.

This is the church in Corinth. Corinth is a city,

a busy.

Business.

It's busy, it's a port city. Businesses are happening, everything

is booming. And Paul was speaking to the church that

was planted in Corinth. I'm trying to recall whether he planted.

Anyone knows he planted Corinth or not, or someone else planted.

But he was. He always came because church planting was

part of what he did, right, So he would preach.

And the Church of Corinth, one of the earlier churches,

was going through some funny stuff. Yeah, as God was transforming,

then they were behaving funny, and so Paul had to

write these letters to encourage them, to teach them, and

then he was reminding them. In chapter eight because he

wanted to remind them about their gift. And he brought

the story actually of how the Macedonian church was helping

who was a much poorer church, not a busy city,

was really out back.

So anyway, let's read this. If you have your bibles.

Turned to Second Corinthians, chapter eight and verse one, and

we'll read that all the way verse six or seven. Okay,

here we go, So Paul writes to the church in Kornaces. Moreover,

brethren and sister, and okay, we make known to you

the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia,

and that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance

of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in.

The richest of their liberality. Reading from the NKJV.

For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes,

and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, imploring us

with much urgency that we should receive the gift and

the fellowship of the ministring.

To the saints.

And not only as we had hope, but they first

gave themselves to the Lord and then to us by

the will of God verse five. And not only as

we had hope, but they read it first gave themselves

to the Lord and then to us by the will

of God. So we urged Titus as he had begun,

so he would also complete this grace in you as well.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, in speech,

in knowledge, in all diligence, in your love for us,

see that you also abound in disgrace.

Also.

What is disgrace is the grace of generosity, or the

grace of giving. So I wonna this is the NKJBB

hard to understand.

I want to read you from JB. Phillips.

All right, So JB. Phillips is a pair of phrase.

It's very old book.

JV. Phillips. Pick it up the dirt, all right, all right,

So this is what reads in JB.

Phillips. He says, ever got the right one, got the

right one?

Yes. Now, my brothers, we must tell you about the

grace that God has given to the Macedonian churches. Somehow,

in most difficult circumstances, their joy and the fact of

being down to their last penny themselves produce a magnificent

concern for other people. I can guarantee that they will

that they were willing to give to the limit of

their means, yes, and beyond their means, without the lighters

urging for from me or anyone else.

It means nobody had to force them.

In fact, they simply begged us to accept their gifts

and so let them share the honor of supporting their

brothers in Christ. Now, nor was their gift, as I

must confess, I had expected a mere cash payment. Instead,

they made a complete dedication of themselves, first to the

Lord and then to us as God's appointed ministers. So

now this has made us us Titus, who has already

done so much among you, to complete his task by

arranging for you too to share at this work of generosity.

Already you are well to the fore in every good quality.

You have faith.

You can express that faith in words. You have knowledge, enthusiasm,

and your love for us. Would you not add generosity

to your virtues?

All right? And this is a slightly paraphrased by JB.

Phillips. And this was this is where I bring in

the intimacy with God. Paul was reminding the church in

Korinth that if you read the whole thing, a year ago,

they promised that they want to give a gift to

help the persecuted church in Jerusalem, and then I think

they forgot along the way. And then Paul was reminded

when the Macedonian churches now Macedonia themselves were going through

tremendous persecution. They were not rich. But when Paul went,

they said, Paul, please take our gift for the brothers

in Jerusalem. We hear that they are they are lack,

they are in persecution. And when Paul had that, he

shared this testimony with the Krinth Church to remind them, Hey,

that one year ago you.

Wanted to take this gift.

But I think along the way things got funny in

the church and they Forgod. So Paul was just reminding by,

like what Paul is writing here to the church in Corin,

what is drawing me out to the point of intimacy

with God? Is this? Is that very verse five in

the next light is that they first gave themselves to

the Lord and then to the apostles to say, hey,

we want to give you this.

Funds.

So intimacy with God is this. They first gave themselves

to the Lord in all that we do. Do you

think God actually is talking about just your money? No?

I think we are most of us will know He's

never about the money. He's about the heart. They gave themselves.

They didn't give them money to the Lord. They gave themselves.

They drew near to go God. They leaned on the Lord.

They committed themselves to the Lord, and then they heard

from the Lord. And then they gave out of their leg.

Out of their leg. But why because they grew close

to the Lord, they constantly had to ask the Lord.

They draw near to Jesus even to hear.

So it wasn't compelled by someone. It's my policy.

I couldn't have forced you. But you were crying, you know,

to give the money. And I've seen people are millionaires.

At least one I know was when he came to

a minister of God right here in Malaysia and said,

we want to give you this money to do the ministry.

And the pastor said, I'm not taking your money.

God said no. And he cried.

He said, why don't God accept my money? He said,

I don't know. God said not to take your money.

The person cried, so not every time you offered me

take love. I don't know why I didn't take the money.

I don't know. I heard the testimony, like you cried

say no, please take kids for the work of the Lord. No,

the Lord said not to take your money. You better

ask the Lord. So they are crying, you know, please

take our money to the church in Jerusalem. Please fall.

And Paul's like, but you are in lag don't you

don't have enough? No, we gave ourselves first to the Lord,

and the Lord has moved us to give this gift.

Your intimacy, yours and mine. We all build a closeness

with the Lord, a walk of love with the Lord. Intimacy. Amen,

the word intimate, guys, you know it's intimate. Some God

in tim the Alumbasa, Indonesia in dim right, so close,

we're so deep.

We know we're fool.

We are soffused with the Lord that we hear from

the Lord. We're not. God wasn't asking for their money.

God was asking for their hearts. So that when we Lord,

I give you my heart, then anything else you can touch. Lord?

Is it my job? Is it? My child? Is it?

My business?

Is it? You know?

My relationship?

Is it? This? Is it?

Whatever my funds?

How so I want to say number one, we have

take an act of faith every time it comes to

anything in our lives. But Even so, with our giving

as the giver by act of faith, whatever we want

to do by faith. Number two, this ability to wanting

to give has to be done out of an intimate

relationship we've got. And God draws us to him when

we have a need, draw near to the Lord. Ask

him first, Ask the Lord first. And you might say,

but how if I don't hear from the Lord?

Friends?

The Bible tells us in John chapter ten, my sheep

hear my voice. Do we have sheep in the house?

Are you got sheep? Then you have to hear God's war.

Please don't dell me. You hear the demon's voice, because

who are you hanging out with? You are God's sheep.

You have to hear the shepherd's voice. Oh but you

can't recognize it. Get used to it. No it's not

mad blah blah blah blah ba.

But no, no, no, no, no.

God's voice like the shepherd. He calls to you, and

he speaks to our hearts. But he speaks to you

and me in different ways. I get pictures, God drops

names in my heart. I just had a text two

days ago. I said about this brother who has gone

off to do a different ministry.

I said, where is Jeff? I've not heard from him.

Every year he will ask me can we come for anniversary?

And I say, please come. You're part of EGS, but

you had to do another ministry no sound, and I'm

going to text him. I'm just gonna text h me

yesterday to say how you doing. His wife just texted

me and said, Jeff, he's in hospital emergency. His oxygen

level is dropping. She said, please pray. I said, what

happened to Jeff? I just had too many bad news

this whole week. I have four three four funerals to handle.

But that's how God drops. He gives me names. He

speaks to me. I don't know what it is.

I will call that person, going to say why you're

calling me?

Buster? Oh?

When I say can I meet you? Why are you

meeting me?

Past? What did I do?

I do something wrong?

Hello? I meet you, Not that you do something wrong.

I just want a fellowship with you. Hah. So I say,

your person a fellowship with you? So you're so scared?

What what? Hello? Don't alienate me? So God speaks to

you in different ways son that God says give give

how much? And say give you just brain you give,

how generous you want to give? So God speaks to you,

he says, my sheep hear my voice. I trust that

there are sheep in this room, not goats. Who keeps saying,

So I trust, I entrust you, and I want to

encourage you, the sheep of God hear his voice. Build

the intimacy relationship with the Lord.

Amen.

So therefore I ask you a question. You can answer

this on your own.

What does it mean to you? Okay?

What does it mean to give yourself first to the Lord?

What does it mean? I can't answer that question for you.

You have to answer this question. What does it mean

to you? And are you going to take action for this?

Or when you have done, what did you do?

What does it mean to you? Right to give yourself

first to the Lord. So you have to think, when

I give myself first to the Lord? What do I do? Right?

Another question?

When is it easier to give yourself to the Lord

during good times when you have plenty or during times

of less than plenty. When is it easier to give

yourself to the Lord? Think about it. I don't have

the answer for you because it's you. What does it

mean to give yourself first?

To the Lord. What do you what are the actions?

How do you show that you give yourself first to

the Lord? What is that that you do.

For me? If I want to give myself first and

I've consecrated my life to the Lord already, I can't

do my life anything I want, I don't. And I'm

still a work in progress because sometimes stay wrong thing.

But I have to give myself first the Lot.

My mornings, I do my best to wake up.

I must sleep early, how and the first thing is

to be with Jesus first and then only do other things.

But some days the work is crying out.

I'm like Jesus, sorry, fifteen minutes okay, But because of

God we cannot see.

We don't think in matters. But he is a god

that sees.

He does see. Even if it's your fifteen minute, an

hour and always minimum for us past it takes two

hours or more. I'm just saying, what does it mean

for you to give yourself first to the Lord?

What does it look like? Is it putting us like time?

Is it your money? Is it your business? How do

you know some people got business? They always say, can

we dedicate our business to the Lot so that he's

my business partner, and they dedicate their business so that

whatever happens to that business, the Lord is my partner.

He will tell me how I should run that business,

how should I give the profits away or invest whatever?

And when is it easier to give yourself to the Lord.

When is it during the times of plenty or during

times of less? You know, Like I said to my

CG leader, I don't really think I need to be rich.

I just need to be with Jesus that if I

have a need, I need to ask. I need to

be patient that he will answer, because he's my daddy. God,

my God is not just a god of fire. I'm

afraid he's my dad. He's my dad, my father in heaven.

He has to come through for me.

Amen. He just has to.

He just has to. I have.

We have a church member.

She lost her dad, she lost her mom, and she

told me past time and often.

Now, okay, are you will care for you? She said,

because I'm an often God has to take care of me.

And she.

She said, God, there, okay, I believe you.

And I have to say a single woman she has

gone off to the UK. She's a nurse there and

now she's going to get married. God provided her life partner.

How he ran about it, not in my agreement love,

but never mind, God provided for her.

So she had a faith that God will take care

of me.

I'm an orphan, and the Bible says look after the

widows and the often whom it's nobody else. She don't

have brother's sister, not many auntie uncles. We helped turned

the time of need as a church. But now she's

on her own. How she said, God has to take

care of me, and he did. She's not in lack,

she is blessed. And she tells me what happens to her.

She's not here, she's away.

But that's our God.

Right.

Your intimacy of faith? You believe?

What do you? How do you? What does it look

like when you walk with Jesus, guys, brothers, sisters?

How it's not a theme? Guy? You know it's a theme?

Young?

Yes?

So hunger? How? No?

Why walk with him? Amen?

I I speak that not.

Because I have all experienced.

I'm still experiencing God's goodness, God's teaching, God's leading. So

I also need to grow in my intimacy with God.

Every time you lean on him, you grow a little

closer to the Lord. Amen, How does God speak?

I want to assure you if you are God sheep,

he speaks to you. Are you listening? That's all all right.

Just make sure you're in the right pasture, eating the

right place. Don't go somewhere else. Then you can on

your way way. I can you your wrong pasture. Eat here.

God's leading you here, not doing everywhere else. He leads

us by the green pastures. Make you lie down in

still waters. He's a good shepherd.

Amen.

So Number one, every act we do, act of faith,

take it by faith. Number two, we build intimacy, it grow.

God wants to grow. God wants us to come close

to him, to know him so close. It's like an

act of marriage when husband and wife come together. That's intimate.

God's relationship with us is how close He's in our

face all the time. All the time, he's in your face.

Even you didn't brush your teeth, he will love you.

I cannot take my husband in my face, like please

brush your teeth, get out. But but God takes us

as we are Jesus, take me as I am.

As I am. Amen.

Number two, all right. Number three, growing in the likeness

of Christ. Amen. This whole act of walking by faith,

growing in intimacy of Christ is so that we can

grow into the likeness of Christ. Amen.

Right, Why do I say that the giver and your gift?

Right?

The story about the giver and your gift?

Well, the giver can only learn from someone he has

known how to give. And God is our giver, who

has first given us. And so we learn from the

Lord we wanted. At the end of the day, friend

before God. In our conversations, I had a harddle meeting.

In that conversation I could tell where everybody was. Was

anyone telling me they want to be more like Jesus?

Not I want to be these that I want to

hear about. How can I be more like Jesus? That

is the whole gold, friends of your work in Christ.

Why we do by faith? Why we grow intimate so

that God transformers to be more like Jesus. You know,

the second coming of the Lord. When Christ comes, he

ain't looking funny call or Cynthia. He's looking for his son.

Can I see Jesus in you? Can you see Jesus

in me? I'm telling you we do all our face

lift and eye lift. He ain't looking for that he's

looking for his son. Can I all I see see,

all God sees in all of us today right now,

is the blood of Jesus. That's why you can come

boldly to the throne room of grace and say, Lord

of Mercy, he sees the blood, he sees the blood.

He sees the blood.

The devil, on the other hand, will accuse us and say,

did you see Rita? No, God says, I see Jesus.

The blood of my son is on her life. But

did you know what she did last summer? I don't care.

It's over.

You seek his forgiveness. He's for you, stand forgiven because

of what Christ did.

So we are to grow in the likeness of Christ. Amen.

So Paul, So what are some things?

Are you?

The Bible so full of all that God wants for us?

Right? I only can choose a few guys a short time,

have to talk too long, cannot got lunch, got family lunch? Okay.

Second Corinthians, chapter eight, the same verse we're reading seven

to nine.

I read that with you just now, and Paul was urging.

So more like verse nine moverse seventh verse where I

read with you just now, where it says that Paul

was urging them, would you abound so I have that

in another slightly says Paul was encouraging the believers in

Koran to not only that means that, to add on,

not only are you great in your faith? Because the

Corinthian Church, the krinth Church, the Corinthians grew amazingly fast.

They caught on the faith, they loved God. But then

somehow they're gonna trip, and then they were falling. So polsays, hey,

don't just abound in your faith and your speech. They

could speak words of faith, in your knowledge of God,

and your enthusiasm.

And your love.

He says, great, great, great, great, But now add on

this virtue, this grace, the word gracier, the grace of generosity,

the grace of giving. Pulses at this on complete the picture.

Because our father, he is a giver.

He has given us so much. Amen.

So what is the likeness of Christ? Christ himself came

and gave us. You know, there's a verse where okay,

let's look at X twenty thirty five X chapter twenty

and verse thirty and verse thirty five.

You you know, I used to wonder why.

People always say this is worse? And then and then

I found it, and I was like, yay, what does

Jesus say X twenty and verse twenty five.

Thirty five?

All right, this is Luke, doctor Luke is writing, he says,

And here here it is X twenty. It's written by

the by Luke, doctor Luke. He says, I've shown you

in every way by laboring like this, that you must

support the weak and remember the words of the Lord

Jesus that he said it is more blessed to give

than to receive.

If you thought where this is where there's a verse here?

Okay, it's red color in my Bible, he says, Jesus

said it is more blessed to give than to receive.

Then I searched and said, where did the verse come from?

Give it to me in the Gospels. It's not directly

written in the Gospels.

That Jesus said.

Well, again, a lot of things Jesus said not written.

If you're written, we cannot finish reading John twenty one,

twenty five.

Okay, it cannot exaist.

It's so much, Jesus said, doane cannot write, cannot contain

in the books. But we can make an inference through

the teachings of Christ. So he says, it's more blessed

to give than to receive. When Christ walked on the earth,

many times you would have seen him giving, teaching, providing

while others provided for him.

He also provided for his disciples. He gave, He gave,

not only gave their physically, He gave physically. Not what

I mean is for money.

Along he said, pay the Texes. Here's the money from

the fish mouth. How nice you go fishing? You catch

the fish one gold coin? Come out, pay your tax. Okay,

LHDN here's the money. But here's my text. You know,

the Lord provided, he blessed, He bless people were healing.

And you know that the Lord moved. He came to serve,

not to be served. He gave himself. He came to

serve amongst the people. So this verse, this line probably

was in action what you see in the gospels.

Amen.

So if we look at Luke six, Luke six and

verse thirty, Luke six and verse thirty. If you have

your bibles, oh we miss hearing the flipping of pages

lick Luke six and verse thirty to thirty one.

So here Jesus is speaking to this to his to

all the.

People who came to listen to him, and he was

talking to the multitudes and talking about loving your enemies,

law and this and that.

So he says, give to everyone who asks of you

Verse thirty.

Give to everyone who asks of you, and from him

who takes away your goods, don't ask them back. Okay,

Give to everyone who asks of you, and from him

who takes away your goods, and don't ask them back. Oh, Parney,

he took your favorite part, okay, and don't give you back. Emily,

I ain't gonna share my legrasy pot. But if God

say give it, I am to give me all right.

And just as you want men to do to you,

you also do to them Likewise, this is called the

golden rule. Do unto others as you want others to

do to you. I was wondering where was this verse

is here? This is the golden rule. Whatever how you

treat people, treat you know you want people treat you well.

Treat people well. You don't be rude, So people don't

be rude to you. And you can't help it if

they are rude to you, Bless them. Oh it's so hard, right,

But he's Jesus saying that that is blessed, more blessed

to give than to receive. He even says in thirty four,

if you lend to those from whom you hope to

receive back, Now, what credit is credit? Is that to you?

For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.

When Jesus gave his life, I say, while we were

yet sinners, he gave his life for us. He didn't

know if Daniel chung, who's gonna follow Christ? We probably

cause Jesus right, I close, Jesus don't want Jesus.

He took a chance. He said, I'll still love you.

I'll die for you.

He gave us, He lends his life to us, even

if we never receive him. Never reciprocated to the Lord

right verse thirty five. But love your neighbor, Love your neighbor,

love your end. Me is do good and lend, hoping

for nothing in return, and your reward will be great,

and you will be sons of the most High. Hard

bit it's a very difficult pill to swallow. Right, your

reward will be great, and you will you and you'll

be like the sons of the most High.

For God is kind to the unthankful, and evil. Okay,

how are we gonna be like Jesus?

Now?

You want to be like Jesus? Very hard?

Right, but yeah, that's what God wants to transform us

in a whole person. So many areas, but just just

saying on this area, like, how can I be more

like Christ in the way we give? He wasn't even

talking about money here, talking about forgiveness, talking about you know,

letting it go, let it go, let it go.

Didn't belong to frozen Jesus. Okay, this said.

Let me go, never mind, don't get your pot bags? Okay,

Emlia buy you another one, just let it go.

Don't hate him?

You know that? All right?

So how to be like Christ?

When we take a step of faith? Amen, we want

to believe that he is, believe that He's a reward

of those who seek him. We grow closer in our

intimate relationship than I think. We're all in a journey

of knowing God more, how he works, how he how

he believes in us, how he thinks, how he's merciful,

how he's gracious.

And I think every time when God bless us, I just.

Want to give myself to the Lord. Right, ayo, you

tell me God has blessed you so much. What do

you want to do? You give yourself to the Lord.

You serve him, you love him, you give them you don't.

I'm too busy.

Now I'm so successful.

A bye. Thank you Jesus. God bless me so much,

and I'm happy that you're blessed. You ought to be.

You children, you're his kid.

But there's the intimacy where he speaks to your heart

and you say, but I don't have enough. No, but

give what you have.

Sometimes a wallet of fifty and one dollar very hard

to give offering. No, I just give the one that

you understand, Red God, I need the fifty. But yet

I know by teaching they'rein't generous with my one dollar

for the lot because I don't just give to the church,

to the building, or you think it's going to the bastard.

Giving it to the Lord, regardless who you think the

man is, a woman is, you give it to the Lord.

I give it to the Lord. So my intimacy is

with the Lord.

Once it's given, you're responsible how you're going to spend it.

Hope we spend it right for the church. But whatever

the need is, so our relationship matters. Our intimacy, and

then how we give. We want to grow in the

likeness of Christ. God always believes in us. If no

one believes in you, Jesus this, he believe you enough

for you not to reject him. And we did amen

to be like Christ. That's what Paul is asking. This

is what Christ is say. Let it go, love, give,

don't have to ask, BacT you don't have I will provide. Right.

And then this thirty three thirty five following that, look

six thirty three thirty five. Yeah, I gave you that right,

and and then and then there's this thing where where

Jesus continues.

On this this the likeness is just constantly just giving to.

The Lord and then just loving God, giving to the Lord,

not to man, not to women, because we want to

be like Christ. It's such a heart lesson sometimes. Yeah,

someone someone said yesterday, it's very hard to keep up.

Please don't keep up. To be on fire, you shouldn't

be keeping up, you should be flowing.

Don't keep up. I have to do my quiet.

I have to climb up a mountain. Oh, I have

to be kind, I have to be faithful. Don't keep up.

That's not the way we do life. In Christ. We

flow with the Lord. You are blessed. You flow with

the Lord. You just you just, and some people you don't.

You don't even to do anything. God still bless you.

Love serious, then only you have to I'm so blessed,

I'm so blessed. So I'm so blessed.

Amen, we respond to the Lord. What is he saying

to you? You're so blessed? What is he saying to you?

Those questions like what does it mean to give yourself?

First to the Lord? Amen, what does it.

Look like when you're stuck between? Are you going to

give yourself? When you're in plenty or when you're in lack?

Do you still give?

It's not about your money or your things. It's about

your heart that God is after. Because when my heart

is in the right place, everything else flows flows, not

keeping up. Not climb every mountain. Now it's the sound

of music. Okay, don't climb every mountain. No, the sound

of music. This one is faith in Jesus. You get

to one level of faith, to another level of faith,

to another level of faith, until God says, come and.

You walk into glory. Our eternity is not earth.

God has a new Earth and a new Heaven for us. Amen,

So you had to take dominion. There's another message I say,

I spoke that at camp. But yeah, grow into the

likeness of Christ. Amen, be like Jesus. He teaching us

how so villain on this area even of giving. But

as I said, he's after our hearts.

All right.

And then lastly, number four, sewing for eternity, abounding on earth.

As you sow towards eternity, you will abound on earth.

There's just how God is you bless you as you give,

He blesses you, you abound on earth. Amen. So some

of the verses we want to look at is Matthew

six again Matthew six, nineteen to twenty four, nineteen to

twenty four?

Here we go? Where am I going to? Matthew six?

Okay twenty four? Ooh, I think it's Luke. No, yes, Matthew, correct,

Matthew six. I was reading opposite versus. Sorry kiss Matthew

six nineteen Just now I was looking at Matthew instead

of look. Okay Matthew six, nineteen to twenty four. All right,

do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where

Mouth and Russ destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither

moth nor Russ destroys, and where thieves do not break

in and steal. For where your treasure is there, your

heart will be also whoa. So I've read this forever,

but it keeps coming back, these new lessons for where

your treasure is there, your heart will be whoa. You

know when you like that guy I use a treasure.

Your name is ket Jin, So we're like that guy.

I just wanted to be where you are, all right?

Where your treasure is there, Your heart will be like

always thinking about that person, right because you are in

love and you want to be with I want to

be with you, all right. And same thing here Jesus

is saying where your treasure is there, your heart will

be if you are sewing into me and Ma, you're

gonna be asking me, how's the pastor doing, how's the

church doing?

Your how's the war going on? They're alive and they

did what's going on?

You are? Asked me? Because you just saught five k

doing two thousand there you said, we want to help

the orphanage there were you will be asking where your

treasure is you will constantly ask me how, how how

is my funds helping? And you will be where your

heart is, your treasure there, your heart will be there.

So Jesus, I guess he's pointing out and I'm thinking treasure, war, treasure,

Treasure must be something very precious. Why did Jesus say,

if you this, this thief wants to steal? Why do

thief want to steal? Still? What? Right? It has to

be very precious? Right, it's a treasure. It must be

very important. And he mentions that the thief will break

into your house and steal.

So we can invest.

And again, as I said, God gives you power to

make wealth, invest and you're really good investors. Please, I'm

not talking about that. I'm just saying, when we are

building the wealth, have we had that act of faith?

Number one? Have we had the intimacy with the Lord?

Just ask him.

I'm investing lot where you know, what is it that

you are wanting me to do with this investment? Amen?

While we're building on earth, because my way words is

so for eternity. This guy was sowing onto the earth

and then you only think earth. But when you sow

and with the mind of Christ, with the act of faith.

You're going to be sowing eternity. You think about this.

There is a bad thank in heaven called Bank of Heaven,

not public bank. That bank will collect your investment. And

how you have sown your money. You invested in lives,

You invested in things that will go longer and further,

invest build, build your wealth. But so where are you

sowing it into? I've asked myself where am I sowing into?

I'm just doing earthwork? Am doing what God wants me?

What is it that we're building that will be lasting forever?

So so into eternity. So the Lord in this verse

it says, you know this is but lay up for

yourself treasures in heaven so that nobody can rob you

and steal anything from you.

Sow into heaven.

Whatever you're giving, your time, your treasure, your talent, you

give first to the Lord.

That's why it's first you law, give your heart first, law.

Right, Then you're sewing, not just forgetting all about the

eternity and just doing the earth work. Then we don't

know where it's going to end up in. And the

Lord therefore reminds us that where our treasure is there,

our heart will.

Be also amen.

Philippians, chapter four, verse seventeen. Philippians, Chapter four, verse seventeen says,

see Paul was encouraging the church to give to the

needs of the persecuted church in Jerusalem. So this is

what happens in Philippians. And Paul said to them, as

you give, you have to read the whole thing. Then

you understand. You know, when you say I can do

all things to Christ who strengthens me, you're taking only

the text without the context.

And you think everything I can do.

No, you can do all things to Christ who strengthen you,

because the whole context is that they were giving in

their lack. And then he says, in Christ, I can

do all things to Christ who strengthens me, even with

the lack. And Paul say to the church, I'm not

asking you to give because I want your gift. Not

that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit

that abounds to your account. When we started the church

with threw three people, God told pass the collect and offering.

Pass said embarrassedly to the Lord, how can I do

that three people? What kind of offering? Said, don't rob

my people for the opportunity to see an abounding gift?

To their account giving.

And if you give with thinking that it's for because

you are giving to this and just no, you give

the gift because pauses. God wants to abound to your

account that you will never lack, because as you give,

it will come back to you. Rest down, shaken together.

It doesn't. It's not I give it a lot.

No give as the Lord puts in your heart to give,

so for eternity abound on earth. Live well, God's blessing

on your life. But he says the gift will come

back to you. I'm not asking you to give me,

and if you have to read the whole things, I

will work for my living. I will build tens, I

will do whatever I will put my hands to work.

I'm not asking for your gift for me. But as

you give to the needs of others, share out. You

read that in Corinthians he says that no one will

like The one who has more will not have too much,

the one who has less won't have too little.

But we will share.

Learning a lessons that we're learning right. So remember when

you give, don't see this. I'm giving to an.

Account called ex church.

I think if you haven't changed our minds yet, you've

got to allow Holy Spirit to say it's an.

Act the faith. I want to do it by faith. Amen.

I want to have that intimacy with the Lord. I'm

also growing in the likeness of Christ. When I give

God just automatic it's his blessing. As you give, it

will come back to you. That's all He's hard for us.

Amen.

Another verse in Proverbs eleven, like this verse Proverbs eleven

says to us Proverbs Chapter eleven, verse twenty four says,

there is one who scatters, yet increase small. There's one

who withholds more than is right but leads to poverty.

The generous soul will be made rich.

He who waters others will also be watered himself.

Amen.

Scripture is not me. I'm learning as well as I

read it. We're like WHOA, If I scatter my bread

to many waters, it will feed others, but I will not.

Have a lack.

The woman with two mites through in all that she had,

not extra all that she had. We will say, silly woman,

you have no food now. But I believe Jesus said

when she gave it would come back to her. Pressed down,

shaken together, running over doesn't record what happens but the

Lord looked at not the mound but her heart of saying,

that's all I have, Jesus, I give so whatever we have.

As a young person from a family that lost everything,

my church had a building fund. I wanted to give

to the building fund, but I had no money for

my parents to give. So what we do underage can't

work sixteen, I don't think it can really work loud

maybe can la McDonald's. I tried to find work with

GFC and McDonald's. No one wanted to hire a year,

so the Lord opened a door that I do advertisements

for TV ads. Many years ago, I was the cornetto girl. Yes,

I just yeah, eat ice cream a fat face, okay

and uh And of course I've been doing it for

TV for a long time. And then as I grew

and became a Christian, I didn't want to do any

more ads because some of the ads were just not

nice to do. So I say no, so my agent

will have to choose the right ads for me. And

most of it if I want to do without not

doing art stuff was to eat food ads. Of course

I quite jubby chocolate ad, ice cream ad. You're all

food one, But that's how God provided because I said, look,

I want to give to my church building fund.

I don't have money.

My dad wasn't a believer yet and he lost everything.

Mam was babysitting. I had to go back to school

and work and study.

How do you give? The Lord provided the.

Face to do an ad to earn some money, and

it all went to my church. But there's a desire

and God provides. It was the act of faith, and

it was a food ad, not some face bathings. I

wouldn't do all that. No, no smoking, that's a very

big time. Was to do cigarettes. Peter Stuyvesant very well, pid.

I wouldn't do cigarette ads. I tell my agent, I

don't do cigarette ads. Don't be I don't do beer ads.

Why you're you are so you cannot allow only sixteen

seventeen at that time eighteen. God provides you have a

desire to give to God's house. He will provide for

you where there are so many ways, right, sometimes just

he will do it for us. You scatter your bread,

you will come back. I didn't have a scholarship to study,

I didn't have the funds. God provided and I managed

to finish whatever in two years and get out there

who work so that I could provide for my family.

We didn't have, but always gave whatever ten percent, five

dollars worth, ten percent, fifty cents, ten dollars fifty dollars.

Just give.

Now we've learned to give more than ten percent, because

God deserves more than what I owe him ten percent.

He enables us to give, and don't count what's left back,

because what's left back is still ninety percent, eighty percent

more than enough. Gone for the days I didn't have shoes,

gone for the day's when it was three dollars forty

two cents. God is faithful, He provides, He provides all

the time, He uses people, He provides from the skyact.

I just want to say, so for eternity, you were

abound on earth, while we are on earth.

Whatever our need may be amen.

I just want to end by saying we need to

develop that spirit of cheerful and joyful heart of giving

all the time. Don't calculate sense and until send or

so you count. I never I don't do that. But

as they say, the rich keeps getting richer and the

poor people like us gives remaining there. There's always done

there because we don't count the sense. But regardless, when

is it easier to give yourself to the Lord at

the march plenty or when is less than the plenty?

You have to answer that. For me, every day can

be Christmas. Every day God can bless you with a gift.

He uses people, and I'm very grateful for people who

have come into our lives to bless us. People are

strangers who just bless us. I don't know how God provides.

He does. Funds come in for a need for the

church many years ago when this is mostly adults. When

we started, Albert was only seventeen and eighteen. What money

you're gonna give us for the church?

Albert and friends Pastor had to go pray, go door

to door to knock at friends to.

Ask for money. So Pass has done his heart miles too.

Don't think he sits there and just wait. You know

he goes to people say would you invest in young people? Not?

Would you invest in young people? Would you invest in

young people? I tell you they've all invested, They've all

blessed their blessed today. They gave into a ya. They

gave because we were reaching young people who were lost.

God saw their scattering. They refreshed the young men and

women who are only teenagers then, but they have been

their businesses, blessed, blessed their children, bless I can see

because I know who's door he knocked on.

I tell you that give it will come back to you.

Press down, shaken together, running over whatever it is, because

it is really not just the amount we're talking about.

He's touching our hearts. Act of faith, Take a step

of faith. Want to do anything, please God, do it

by faith.

Number two.

Must have relationship with the one who made us. Must

have relationship with the one who gave us. Not oh God, Lord,

he's gonna hit me. No, he's holding out his hand

and say come, holding out his hand.

To you and say come.

So I was just don't know how to respond. That's

because the way we were raised. But I want to

say to you, man, how borring your face can be.

God takes you as you are. If you don't have

the words to say, also, in your heart you say, Lord,

I want to walk with you.

He takes you, He will come. Amen.

So the intimacy Number number three we at the end

of the day, who want to look like Christ. He gave,

He came, He gave he became poor so that you

and I can be rich. He took the cross for us.

He went to the cross, he was poor at that time,

so that today we can have health and be provided for.

I want to be like my master, and it's a

working I'm a working progress. But that's the step I

dropped closer Jesus. Whenever he had a need, he just

the Lord would provide. And yet God provided him women

who were well off. Many women served the needs of Jesus.

In case you didn't know, look read the book of Luke.

Many women actually served Jesus by providing financially. So God

used people all the time. It doesn't just fall from heaven.

God's people bless other God's people.

Amen. Not yet, God's people also.

Bless God's people. The wealth of the unrighteous will bless

the righteous. I was blessed by the wealth of the unrighteous,

and then the salvation came to them. All. Two ladies

who supported my education got saved. But their wealth was unrighteous,

meaning they were not yet believe. But they were willing

to support an righteous child of God. Then they give,

and it will come back to you. And they have

not lacked. They're old now they still got a law wealth.

So our God does not shut change you, but give

as he speaks, as you ask, hear his voice.

You are God sheep.

Amen. And for how are we sowing? So for eternity?

And you abound as well on earth? Amen. Hallelujah. Our

encouragement to you, to myself, can I grow a spirit

of cheerful and joyful heart of giving again? Giving can

be in words, in our treasure, in our time, in

our talent, wherever it is, we can give cheerfully. Amen,

because don't forget. Second Corinthians nine, verse seven says God

God loves a cheerful giver. Now, even if you cannot

smile because you say, my face light hatter, never mind

you push it up, give up? Amen, all right, I cannot.

Smile my face like that, my face like I want

to do.

Never mind, you push it on your I'm cheerful. It's

the heart that is cheerful, giving of your life, giving

of your treasure, giving whatever is, give cheerfully. Whenever you

have to give, and you're sad and your burden, please

don't give because you won't come back to you, press down,

checking together, running over. I'm sorry, that's not the principle.

You want to press down checking to get a ru

running over, you better give cheerfully, amen, just give laughing

and none amen, okay, just hilariously. The another version says, hilariously,

give to the Lord han okay, and is it this give?

And and it will come back to you pressed down,

checking together running over because you're sewing into eternity, whatever

the amount again, as the Lord speaks to you, and

and as we prepare even to give our anaversary gift

in the end of the man. Friends, if you feel

burdened and you just can't smile and you just hate

to give, please don't give, because it's not gonna come

back to you. Press down, checking to get a running over.

You are a give. You're happy.

You can see frouit.

I tell you, there's so much we do that really

is God's enablement to touch many lives, to get into communities.

We can't show you because we have to take you

there then you know, But then we share picture. I'm

sorry we share testimonies, but I hear so many testimonies

of lives themselves who have given of them time, talent, treasure,

that have been blessed so many times over. We may

see that. Amen.

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