It does not matter your age. Moses was commissioned to deliver Israel from the bondage of Egypt. He was eight years old and. His brother Aaron was eighty-three. Moses was successful. Yes we need a strong inventory of young people, but who will lead them. God will lead and move the seniors of a land; they need only to be faithful and willing, even if there is but a mustard seed of faith.
I was stationed in Nebraska in the 1980’s and I briefly went to a church where the pastor was very conscious of money. Each Sunday he would spend at least a half hour beating up the congregation over the lack of giving in the church to keep things going. There was a building fund and a meeting every Tuesday evening and he would send out people into the local community asking them to pledge a sum of money to the church for the building fund. It did not matter if the people came to church or not, but he did encourage the people who were asking to invite people if they gave.
When the ushers collected the tithes and offering, he would tell the congregation to give money rather than checks and as he put it, God was interested in seeing the cash. Large bills would be held up and waved over the heads of the ushers and with words like; “Brother Sonso or sister Didso just gave a twenty dollar bill and the congregation responded with Praise the Lord. If the bills were larger than a twenty, the ushers would dance in the isles. Within a short time I left the church because of the way giving was handled, but there was a large congregation.
Jesus Christ is the pattern for spiritual godliness and grace giving. Notice how the apostle Paul helps us to understand the principle of giving in 2 Corinthians 8:9 “For you know the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
We need to look to Jesus for everything that pertains to life and godliness and giving is no exception. He who knew no sin (rich in sinless life) became sin for us (poor as in 2 Corinthians 8:2) deep poverty. We will start with that verse because the Greek word for deep is bathos, meaning a depth so deep that it is mysterious. Jesus took upon Himself a deep poverty in order that we might be made rich in His Righteousness.
Jesus had readiness of mind to give of Himself and this is a key of understanding to all of us when it comes to the giving of our self or the resources of our self, surely we will labor over this but so did our LORD. Matthew 26:36-46, Romans 5:8, yet He reaped for you and me the road to Emmaus in that when we learn of Him our hearts will burn with excitement Allow Jesus through the scripture to talk with you about giving a watch what happens next as it is as exciting to the soul as being saved. Luke 24:28-35 a blessing of joy.
I was stationed in Nebraska in the 1980’s and I briefly went to a church where the pastor was very conscious of money. Each Sunday he would spend at least a half hour beating up the congregation over the lack of giving in the church to keep things going. There was a building fund and a meeting every Tuesday evening and he would send out people into the local community asking them to pledge a sum of money to the church for the building fund. It did not matter if the people came to church or not, but he did encourage the people who were asking to invite people if they gave.
When the ushers collected the tithes and offering, he would tell the congregation to give money rather than checks and as he put it, God was interested in seeing the cash. Large bills would be held up and waved over the heads of the ushers and with words like; “Brother Sonso or sister Didso just gave a twenty dollar bill and the congregation responded with Praise the Lord. If the bills were larger than a twenty, the ushers would dance in the isles. Within a short time I left the church because of the way giving was handled, but there was a large congregation.
Jesus Christ is the pattern for spiritual godliness and grace giving. Notice how the apostle Paul helps us to understand the principle of giving in 2 Corinthians 8:9 “For you know the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
We need to look to Jesus for everything that pertains to life and godliness and giving is no exception. He who knew no sin (rich in sinless life) became sin for us (poor as in 2 Corinthians 8:2) deep poverty. We will start with that verse because the Greek word for deep is bathos, meaning a depth so deep that it is mysterious. Jesus took upon Himself a deep poverty in order that we might be made rich in His Righteousness.
Jesus had readiness of mind to give of Himself and this is a key of understanding to all of us when it comes to the giving of our self or the resources of our self, surely we will labor over this but so did our LORD. Matthew 26:36-46, Romans 5:8, yet He reaped for you and me the road to Emmaus in that when we learn of Him our hearts will burn with excitement Allow Jesus through the scripture to talk with you about giving a watch what happens next as it is as exciting to the soul as being saved. Luke 24:28-35 a blessing of joy.
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