Generosity in the Eyes of God The Story of Cain and Abel | Pr Gloria

You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

Okay, So let's go on to the message this morning.

How many of you were at ESK last week, right,

so you would have heard of Pasta Kennett was there, Okay,

So it was privileged to hear from him. And so

Pasta Kennet started off by sharing about generosity, okay, by

drawing from the life of Abraham and how God called

him to give his son okay as a sacrifice. Right.

And in fact, that is the portion of the story

that that first, the very first story that reminds us

of what worship is. Okay. You know, he was reminding

all the worship leaders and those who in worship ministry.

That's always the teaching, you know that when we go

back to the very first mention of worship, it is

about what Abraham did. And in fact, he named that hill, right,

anyone know what's the what's the name of that place?

He called Abraham our God who provides, Yeah, our God

who provides, because Abraham saw how God came true. You know,

at the very end he didn't say no, I don't

want to give and he was waiting for a child

for a long time. We all know that story, right

if you've been a believer for some time. But yet

it didn't hold back. He went all the way and

then he saw God coming true, right, and that is

why he calls that place. God will provide, right. And

so for today's message, I just like to draw on

from the Book of Genesis as well, because there are

a lot of scriptures, a lot of stories that teaches

us about what does generosity actually mean in the eyes

of God? Right, And I hope you're encouraged by it

as we are drawing towards the ENNI usgiving that this

message will just help you understand the heart of giving.

Why do we give Titan offering every other Sunday? Right.

We don't want it to be just a religion or

a ritual, right, just because everyone is giving. I give,

But we've got to understand the heart or why we

do it and what God wants off us. Right. So

the title of today's message is that is generosity in

the eyes of God? All right, And we're gonna draw

from the story of Cain and Abel. So let's just

start off with reading the scriptures. Right. If you have

your Bible. So you can turn with me to Genesis

chapter four, right, Genesis chapter four, and so if for

those of you may not be familiar with the Bible,

you'll know that. Okay, it starts off with the story

of Adam and Eve, right, and right after that we

read chapter four. You'll see the story about Cain and

Abel and the difference on what they offered to God,

and one pleased God and while the other did not. Right,

So let's just read a couple of verses here and

then we'll take it from there. Are we all there? Okay,

So I'm going to read from Worse one her Gay

Genesis chapter four. Worse one. Now, Adam knew Eve, his wife,

and she conceived and bore Cain and said, I have

acquired a man from the Lord. Then she bore again,

this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper

of sheep, but Cain was a tallor of the ground.

And in the process of time it came to pass

that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the

ground to the Lord. Abel also brought off the first

born of his flock and of the fat, and the

Lord respected Abel, and his offering was five. But he

did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was

very angry, and his countenance fell. So the Lord said

to Cain, why are you angry? And why has your

countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted?

And if you not do well, Sin lies at the door,

and his desire is for you. But you should rule

over it. Now Cain talked to it Able his brother,

and it came to pass when they were in the field,

that Cain rose up against Able his brother, and killed him.

Then the Lord said to Kan, where is Able your brother?

He said, I do not know. Am I my brother's kipper?

And he said, what have you done? The voice of

your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

So now you are cursed from the earth, which has

opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield

its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond, you

shall be on the earth. And Kine said to the Lord,

my punishment is greater than I can bear. Men. Right,

I know it's quite of a heavy story. In the morning, Okay,

there's a plot twist, right, there's a bit of a murder.

Things didn't turn out the way we thought it would

write because two of them brought their offering to the lot. Yeah,

that's something that we just want to learn this morning,

that it's not just about what you give, but how

and why you give matters to God. Right, i'm's gonna

repeat repeat that it's not just about what you give,

but how and why you give matters to God. When

we look at Cain and Abel, both of them brought something.

It didn't come empty handed, right, they came, They brought

something to God, but only one was accepted or God

was happy about it. And so from this we can

see what God pays attention to. It's not so much

of giving a lot of money or giving all the

well that you have, but it's the motivation behind it, right,

It's it's the very heart of how I give. Am

I giving reluctantly? Right? Am I giving forcefully because I

have to give? Or Is it because I want to give?

Because I love God? Right? And I worship him. All

that I have is from Him, and therefore I want

to give my best to him. Right. In Romans eleven sixteen,

it says, for if the first fruit is holy, the

lump is holy, also holy, and if the root is holy,

so other branches. So it all goes back to the

root of our hearts. Right, It all goes back to

the very intention of how and why we do certain

things in life. Right now, when you think about the

word kite okay, you're every other sunday if you're coming

to church, right, what comes to your mind when you

hear the word tight offering? Yes? And yet a thought

ten okay, So it's so specific, and the Bible says

ten percent? Can I give more? Can I give less?

It's a promise? Okay? Yeah, all right, so think about it.

We hear it every other Sunday. But what's the meaning

of it? Most people will say that, yes, it's the

money that we're giving. Yes, it's in the form of money,

all right. But actually, if you think about it, it

has very little got to do with money, okay, Because

for God is the issue of your heart. Right. And again,

when we're going through today's message, let it be a

hard check for all of us, including myself, when I

was preparing this message, because you know, when you give,

you know, is it your first portion that we're giving, right?

Or do we usually sometimes settle everything else. Then if

I have balance, I'm giving it to God. Okay, again,

it's our own heart check, right, because at the end

of the day, am I giving my best? Because how

we give determines how important it is. Right when we

do something the way we do it, it's because it matters, right.

It explains the priorities in life. You spend so much

time with a person, or you prioritize something because it

means a lot to you, and the same thing goes

with giving as well. Yeah, now let's go back to

Cain and Able. Okay, let's try to understand this two characters,

and how is it that God actually regarded one as

better as the other? So now, Able, as we can

see the scripture say it, it was he was a shepherd,

all right, so he was as as we read this now,

he says that he gave the best portion of his

firstborn right and how flop meaning the first one, that

he got the best one without spots, that is what

he gave to God. Whereas Kane was a farmer and

his offering was some of his scrops. That's what the

scripture says, right, And as we read this now, you

can see in verse three, it says, and in the

process of time it came to pass. So what that

means is that it actually took time for him to give.

He didn't immediately give his first harvest. So it's not

the matter of just whether I get vegetables or meat, right,

that God preferred meat, you know, No, it's not about that,

But it's the matter of what was the first that

you give. Right. But for Kine, we see that he

actually gaff in the process of time. He waited, then

he gave his offering. Yeah, and we can see that

the difference here why God could actually say one was

better than the other was because of how they gave

and when they actually give. Right. And so from this

we can see that the Lord favored able better than

kin for his offering. Right. And through this we can

see that God sees the heart. Right. Let's read for

Samuel sixteen, verse seven. Right, it says heer, but the

Lord say to Samuel, do not look at his appearance

or at his physical stature, meaning it's physical because I

have refused him. For the Lord does not see as

man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but

the Lord looks at the heart. Right, Lord looks at

the heart. And this just explains why one offering looked

better in the eyes of God besides the other. Right,

it is not about what they give, but it's the

matter of what came first, right, who offered it? You

know the countenance when they give, You know their condition

of their heart when you're giving. Because when you're giving

the first thing or the best, is it always the easiest.

It's not the easiest. Right. So you have a lot

of money in the account, and I'm using the example

of money because we can relate to it. But it's

not always about money. Yeah, I mean everything is in

their account, and it feels better to pay off bills

us or to get something I like that I've been

wanting to. But what if God challenges and says, hey,

give me your first portion, right, give me your first portion,

and it takes a lot as a human right, but

surpassing it all, if you can still give your best,

that just shows what's important to us. Right, That just

shows what is the priority in our lives. Yeah, and

that is why God could regard you know, one offering

and the other. He felt that you know, where is

your heart when you're giving this? Yeah? And as we

read the scripture later on, you realize what happened. Okay,

we realize that kane murder is able. And so this

itself speaks a lot about the condition of your heart,

because if you're really upset, you know, I mean, you

can see that Kin was very upset with God, you know, like,

why didn't you accept my offering? And that is why

God asked him. Here he says, why are you angry?

Why is your countenance fallen? Countenance fallen meaning you're not

smiling anymore, You're just so unhappy about it? Right? If

you do well, will you not be accepted? So seeing

this statement just means that Kane actually knew what could

be done, right, It's not that he didn't know. And

the types of offerings that were given at that time

was just how they worship God, right, It's a practice

that people did giving your very best. And despite all that,

if Kin did not do that, meaning it was a

condition of his heart, right, it was the way or

his lifestyle that he actually let right. And then later on,

as we read, you can see that Kin actually chose

to kill his brother out of anger. This speaks a

lot about attitude, right, the condition of your heart, because

if you're not do not do anything wrong, right, if

you don't have another agenda or nothing intention, why would

you be so upset? Right, why would you be so upset?

But Cain was very upset here. Yeah, and he did

a terrible thing, which is to is one and only.

I mean, it's it's blood, right, his very own breath. Yeah.

And so that is the condition of the heart. What

is the difference. What is the difference between the two

of them. Cain, first of all, we can see the

motivation and the heart attitude was not really dead right.

And because the heart and the motivation was not there,

it was reflected in his performance the way he chose

to give to God. Right. Whereas if you compare it

with Abel, he had the right motivation. He knew that

the very first good uh you know I have, I

have got to give it to God. He had the

proper procedure why because he knew that I have to

give him first before anything at all. Right. And on

top of all that, he had a proper relationship with God. Right.

The thing about giving, you know, sometimes you know, I

also get questions from people, say, pastor, why do we

need to give ten percent it's got so particular. You know,

why is it tied we have to give our tides

every other month? Wouldn't he understand? Well, God is definitely understanding, right,

He knows your every need. But then again, it's not

just about what we give, but he wants to have

a check of our hearts. That would you be able

to do what I've commanded in my word? Would you

be able to do even if you're going through a

tough time, but yet you still choose to put me first? Right?

And that is what God is looking for. So when

you think about, okay, this concept about tides and offering,

or this concept about even giving right, it doesn't come

into understanding right away, okay, And you can't expect who

just walks into churches a new believer and say, hey,

you've got to do this, this this, Well, the person

might be running away, right, but it comes with a relationship.

You do it because you've already known God, and so

you know that God wouldn't want me to do something forcefully.

He wouldn't want me to staff and just give my

all right when he asked me to give. It's because

he has a better plan, because he wants to have

a test of my heart. He wants me to experience

a God who can actually give in abundance because I

can choose to obey him. Right. And the key here

that sometimes we forget is the relationship with God. Right,

Let's not become a generation. Remember it's what we practice

now that we're going to pass on to the next generation.

Let's not just become so caught up with rituals. Yeah,

let's not just caught up with the must do until

we forget the heart of it, which is our relationship

with God. We can show up every other Sunday. But

yet if you don't open the Bible Monday to Friday,

you don't speak to him, then what's the point of

our faith? Right? I know these are very hard conversations

to have sometimes. Of course, the church is open for everyone. Right.

God is here, is working in our hearts. But if

you really want to feel God is to have a

relationship with him, to taste and see of his goodness

every other day, right, and not just to expect what

can we receive? But what can we give? All right?

What can we give a man? All right? So it

is the relationship with God. Let me ask you this question.

We look at Abel and Cain. Right, what was that

relationship based on? I mean not able and can when

you look at able. Okay, we know that he had

a relationship with God. What was his relationship with God

based on? For him to actually give his best? What

do you think what do you think it takes for

someone to give their best or to give even in

the most difficult time or when you don't know what

to expect, but you're still doing it anyway? What do

you think is required? Love is good? Another wid see

if you get it? Sorry, reverence good, thank you? Another

one that we always used in church. Okay, let's read

the portion of scripture. Okay, let's see if you get

it there. Okay, let's look at Hebrews eleven, verse four. Yes,

so by faith Able offered to God a more excellent

sacrifice than Caine, through which he obtained witness that he

was righteous God testifying of his gifts, though he being

dated till speaks. So he gave by faith? All right?

And if you think about your Christian walk with God, right,

your journey with him, don't you think it's based on faith? Right?

When you said, yes, Lord, I want to receive you

as my savior. I want to walk with you. I'm

pretty sure not all of us may have had the

experience of seeing God in front of us as you know,

a figure, But because we feel him, right, we feel him.

You hurt, or you felt God working in your lives, right,

or when you prayed for someone, Okay, when we heard

the testimony just now, when the family came together praying, Well,

they've not seen that healing yet, but you prayed anyway. Well,

that's because you had faith. Right. When you give, you're

giving out of faith because you don't know how am

I going to be give? You know, how would I

get the blessing back? Well, you don't calculate all that

if you're giving it to God, right, and you're giving

it out of faith, because you know that my God

still provides. Right, I may give this out of a need,

but I know God will still give me beyond what

I can imagine. Right, And so that is what Abel did,

and he was able to do that. Abel was able

to do that because he had given in faith. Right,

his faith, His relationship with God was based on faith.

And if I can ask all of us, including myself,

this morning, is our relationship with God based on faith? Right?

Is our relationship with God based on faith, or sometimes

you can become Christians that are very culculative if you're

not careful enough. Right, I'm gonna do this, this this

if I get my prayer answered right, or I might

start serving when I have a work life balance. You know,

I can rest well, I can you know, prioritize things.

Then I will start signing up to serve. Trust me,

it will never happen. Okay. Part of balance thing is

when you can also serve God. Right. It shouldn't just

be a separate component. Serving God is just one thing,

but it should be part of our lifestyle. We'll serve

God because we are happy to do it. We are

doing it unto him. Right. It cannot be just by

the way kind of thing. Right. Or I want to give,

but okay, I still have a lot of needs, you know,

so God, can you just help me pay off all this?

Then I will give right now. I'm just throwing out

these questions because that's just how our human mind works.

And we live in a fallen world, right, and this

just seems to be logical.

Right.

People will tell you if you talk to a friend,

what should I do? I want to give for missions?

But I also, you know, want to do this well,

pay off love, this is more important. Missions can wait. Right.

That's just the logical way of how people's minds work.

But the thing is our faith. Our relationship with God

is not based on logic. Our relationship with God is

based on faith. Right, based on faith. When we plan

a church, do we know how many people will come? No?

Do we know how pole were actually you know, start serving? No?

We just do it anyway. Why because God called us

to plant in this one country or in this one

rural area. Right, because they deserve to know God. And

God brings the right people. And we have seen that

happening time of the time, and we hear amazing testimonies

you know in church about how God just brings. And

sometimes if running church is just for that one life

or that one family, let it be because they are

meant to also know Christ. Yeah. But when we calculate

things with our human mind or human eyes, we always

want to see them more. We always want to see

things big. But God has his own calculation, use a

whole different calculator. Right, that is God. He is a

God who expects us to move in faith. Right, what

does it say in Hebrews eleven six. But without faith,

it is impossible to please God. For he who comes

to God must believe that He is and that He

is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. So

now we know why Abele could please God because he

moved in faith. Right, Without faith, it is impossible to

please God. The word of God is very direct. It

doesn't just go with maybe or I think right, but

it says it's just impossible. It's whether you have faith

or you don't have faith, whether it's you are completely

in or you're completely out right. That's just how we

can go deeper and experience God. Amen. Right. We see

different portions in the Bible that references Cain and Abel. Yeah.

We see Jude in the Book of Jude chapter one, eleven.

We see that he says they have taken the way

of Cain. Right, And this portion of the scripture just

shows us that they're trying to describe that Cain's character

was not right in the eyes of God. He was

not worshiping God. Yeah, it was not acceptable to him.

When we look at John write the Book of First John,

chapter three, verse ten, it says, do not be like Cain.

Who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother?

And why did he murder him? Because his own actions

were evil and his brothers were righteous. Right, And so

we see this being mentioned in one John three twelve,

just trying to tell us the action that matters, right,

because whatever that's in your heart is reflected in your action. Right.

If you want to see whether a person really means

what they say, it's by seeing how they live their lives.

And that's what we see in the story that we

read just now as well. Right. And in fact, when

we look at the scriptures just now and we read,

you'll see that when God was having this conversation with Caine,

he actually asked him, right, where is your brother? And

his respond was, well, I do not know? Am I

my brother's keeper? Right? And that hisself speaks about the attitude, right,

the way he's giving reverence to God. I mean, who

would speak to God like that?

Right?

But that just shows again the attitude. Yeah, what can

we learned from this? Right? We can go on and

on you know reading this story. Yeah, but what we

can learn is that at the end of the day,

God is looking at our hearts when we give Yeah,

that is so important, you know, to help to for

us to actually have a search in our hearts that

every time you give, do we say a prayer, you know,

do we actually say God, I'm giving you out of

my need, you know, and I want to give you

because that's my priority. Yeah, giving out of reverence because

we love God. Yeah, and we see this in many

stories in the Bible as well, especially even in Abraham's story.

God is always looking at the first thing. You know.

When he asked Abraham to sacrifice, he did not wait

for the second child or the third child. He asked

him for the first one, Isaac. Right, and Abram passed

the hard check, right, He passed that tests by being

able to do that, And that is why he's called

the father of faith, right, a father of faith because

he could do it until the very end. Yeah. You know,

sometimes it's easy to say that. You know, giving is important,

tiding is important in good times. But are we able

to also prioritize him even when it gets tough, right,

even when it gets challenging. Yeah, We've got to be

able to walk the talk, right, We've got to be

able to walk the talk. So there's a couple of

questions for us to think about, right, as I just

draw towards three points. If you're thinking about, okay, how

can I apply this? How can I leave a generous

life in the eyes of God? The first thing is

to think about how and why am I giving to God?

Right the next time you're giving to him, how and

why are you giving to him? And this can come

in different forms, Okay, besides the offering that you give,

It could be even in the way you serve him right,

the way we show up to church as we serve,

or the way we serve others that God has put

in our lives. Right, how do we actually love them?

Do we give because we love them as how God

says love our neighbors? Right? Or do we just do

it because we need to? Like?

It?

Is a very different intention there, right, How and why

we give? Do we give because you want to honor God?

Or do we give because you want police men? There

are two very different things, because you know why. Men

can see it right and immediately they'll say thank you

or else. Sometimes when you give God you may not

hear immediate respond, but He knows, right, He knows do

you give even when you don't have it in abundance, Right,

do you give when you don't even have it in abundance?

And do we give out of convenience? Or do we

give because we are convicted in our hearts that I

want to give because I love Him and I worship him. Yeah.

I always like to hear stories when we, you know,

go for missions or even smaller towns, how people give.

You know, when you have church meetings or rallies. You know,

people just come. And these are people who are who

can be very poor materialistically, right, but they still come,

you know why because there's such a love, there's such

a hunger and tears for God. Right. So it's never

just about the convenience just because we have a car

to drive to church. But well, if you don't have

do we still make time to make it to church? Right?

If we can't meet in a very fancy place one day,

woul we still make time to go to the House

of God wherever we are meeting. Right, It's about whether, yeah,

why are we doing it? Is it out of convenience

or because I love God and therefore I'm doing it? Yeah?

So I just like to share with you three points

this morning, okay, to help us apply this in a

practical way about generosity. The first point is that there

has to be a change of mindset, which takes a

renewing of our minds and our hearts. Yeah, it always

goes back to that mindset, because if not, we can

go on preaching. You can listen to many things, but

at the end of the day, and that's no true renewing,

nothing really enters in, nothing really happens. Yeah. In Romans

twelve too, what does it tell us, do not conform

to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by

the renewing of your mind. Then you'll be able to

test and approve what's God's will, is his good and

pleasing and perfect will. So what have got here or

you know, tells us and wants us that that is

just the pattern of the world. Yeah. And if we

may be having cuddain thoughts about you know, giving out

of convenience or it's hard to give, well that's just

because we live in such a world. Right, But what

the Bible tells us is just do not conform to

this right, But we are supposed to be transformed. We've

got to be a different group of people. Okay, I

hope not in a very peculiar way. Yeah, but in

a way that honors God, right, in a way that

knows that, Yes, I want to prioritize God in what

I do. Yeah, renewing of our mind. That's what the

Word of God says in Prowers four twenty three. God

your heart above all else, for it determines the cause

of your life. And that exactly says the importance of

our hearts. Right. We can do everything else, right, but

if our hearts are not guarded, then there's no point

to what we do. Yeah, because it says it determines

the cause of your life. Every other action, every other

decision you take, it goes back to your heart condition. Yeah,

So the change of our mindset, So think about it,

you know, do we need that change? If you're still

sometimes stuck in that whole thought of like why is

this this way? I still can't seem to understand why

the church preaches about giving so much and generosity and

you know, putting God first. Why what do we need

to serve? Well? Ask God. It's okay to ask those questions.

He reveals to you, and sometimes He helped you to

see perspectives in the way he sees it. Right in

the way He opens our eyes. Because sometimes this could

be corpsed by you know, your background, right, certain religions

that you may came from, different voices that you have heard,

opinions of friends and family that has formed such mindsets

in our thoughts. But the moment we become a believer,

remember it says you're a new person. We've got to

be transformed. We can't be thinking like they always right,

you've got to be new and that's true the renewing

of God. Yeah, so the first is to have a

change of mindset. The number two is to go back

to what we spoke about acting in fate. And sometimes

there may be a need to change our physical choices. Right.

It always starts with the physical choices. When I say physical,

sometimes it could be our day to day routine. Right.

If you say you're gonna put God first, but if

you're still trying to sleep late, you know, then how

is it going to change, right? Or if you're not

you know, taking time to do his work, how we

not honoring him? Right? And sometimes it's that physical little

things that we can change. Our time, the way we

take care of our bodies, because remember that what God

says is the temple. Right, our body is a temple

of God. The way we eat, the way we prioritize health. Right,

all these things matters, you know if you want to

be able to walk closer with God. Right, So acting

in faith, showing up a change of habits and the

way you do things. Before you know it, we're already

in ending February, right, that's how quick time is running,

and it's going to be March and the first quarter

of the year goes by. So can we just even

ask ourselves what have we done? Right? I'm sure you're

doing a lot in terms of you know, work and ministry,

but yeah, something about yourself and your relationship with God?

How far if I come closer with him? If I

understood his word a little bit more this year? Right?

Have I been able to take time to listen to

him instead of me just doing all the talking? Right?

And so sometimes this physical changes matters? Right, Physical changes matters.

I mean I work a lot with young people and

all the challenge that they always have is time management, right,

And when I talk to them, you know why they

watch they play video game until late night. So why

wouldn't you have time management issues? Right? Or we come

to church, feeling so sleepy. Right again, these are practical

things that sometimes when you don't learn it at a

younger age, you're going to struggle when you're older because

these are habits that what you're so used to. Right,

So it doesn't have to take a lot of spiritual

you know, you don't need a pastor to pray for

you for that, right, Sometimes it's just your choices in life. Yeah,

what matters to you. If you want to feel alied

in church, if you want to come early to serve,

then sleepily simple as that. Right. It is about priorities, right,

it is about priorities. If you want to experience the

more of God, you know, if you want to be

successful in what you're doing, then just go back to

what matters the most. And if God is your priority,

trust me, everything will fall in place. Don't have to

trust me, trust the word of God. That is what

the word of God tells us. Put him first, seek

him first, right, and everything else will fall in place.

A man will be good church. Yeah. And the last one, right,

number three is to pray for God's wisdom and He's

leading to do some of these things. Takes a lot, right,

and we cannot rely on our own wisdom. We cannot

rely on our own ability, but it is by His wisdom.

And it is a danger if we try to rely

on our own wisdom, because we put our own human

knowledge and we think that we know all of it,

but we only know very limited Right. In James one five,

it says, if any of you lacks wisdom, you should

ask God, who gives generously to all without finding faul

and it will be given to you. And so if

you're you're saying, well, I'm not wise enough, I can't

seem to make decisions, just ask God. He gives you

the wisdom. He gives you the guidance that you need,

and that's the best guidance that you can find. Right.

In Pros nine ten, it says, the fear of the

Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the

Holy One is understanding. So you know where wisdom starts,

the fear of the Lord. If you have the fear

of God, then wisdom comes. You know what's important right,

and everything just picks up from there. So it's always

about that one thing that you know what is right,

which is God. I want to honor Him in everything

I do. And if He's in the center of it.

Everything just revolves around him. He is the first, right,

He's the voice that I'm listening to. He's the one

that directs my decisions, the steps I take. Right, Students,

if you're still wondering, you know about my studies and

how's my career going to fall in place? Just trust him, right,

trust him. He will open that door for you. And

God has a wonderful plan as long as we can

put him first in what we do. Amen, all right,

So let's just take these three steps as a way

of seeing generosity in the eyes of God, right and

doing what he has called us to do because He

enables us to do that. Right. It's called extreme forward

m and it is only possible to do it as

we learn just now, true faith, right, true faith. Let's

not be too calculative, and you don't have to plan

out our own life because again, things don't always work

out that way. Right, But let's just move in faith.

Right.

Let twenty twenty five be a year where you are

practicing your relationship with God based on faith. You know,

I choose to pray because I pray in faith. I

choose to serve because I have my faith in Him. Right,

I choose to give my all because of my faith

in Him. Right. Let that be our desire this year. Right,

So we're going to spend some time even just to

commit this time, let it be a time where it

surrender ourselves to God and say, God, you know, could

you just even prepare my heart? Right as a church

as we are rallying together for adversary? You know, what

is God calling you to give? Or in the different

areas of our lives? Right, we all could be in

different seasons, and sometimes this works even in our marketplace,

right in our workplace while we are trying to lead

a team where we're trying to teach whatever that we're doing.

Sois you just need to see things in the eyes

of God, and he opens doors, He shows us, right,

and when he sees that you're leading through his ways,

his favor is upon us, right, and people see that

because God is moving you know, and he's always using us.

If only we can just surrender and allow God to

move him. So it's gonna invite you to stand together

right as we even spend this time to pray. Let

this be a time of surrender, yes, surrendering ourselves, surrendering

our hearts because we learn that generosity is about the heart.

Right God sees our heart and allow him to minister

even right now.

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