PROMPTED GIVING
"Perfect love casts out fear." 1 John 4:18 NKJV
We've looked at priority giving, percentage giving, and progressive giving. Now let's look at prompted giving. From time to time, God will prompt you to make a special gift. God uses promptings to communicate that you are in a unique position to meet the needs of His kingdom. As you walk through life, God constantly introduces you to people with needs. Sometimes it's a spiritual need; other times it's a physical need. Sometimes you are the one in need, and other times you provide what's needed. This is now the church works. As stewards, we have the privilege of interacting with our heavenly Father and ministering to the needs of His children in the world. Without the element of prompting, your giving could become very cold and calculated. Promptings are the pulse in the church body. In 1 John 3:17, we read, "If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?" (NIV). God uses the needs of others as opportunities to exhibit His love alive in us. And often those opportunities are revealed through special promptings that are above and beyond our regular giving. Perhaps you're thinking, "I can't afford to do that." Factor God into the equation! Not only can He use you to meet the needs of others, but He can also multiply the seed of generosity you sowed into the harvest you need. When that happens, your fear will have met its match, because "perfect love casts out fear."
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
We've looked at priority giving, percentage giving, and progressive giving. Now let's look at prompted giving. From time to time, God will prompt you to make a special gift. God uses promptings to communicate that you are in a unique position to meet the needs of His kingdom. As you walk through life, God constantly introduces you to people with needs. Sometimes it's a spiritual need; other times it's a physical need. Sometimes you are the one in need, and other times you provide what's needed. This is now the church works. As stewards, we have the privilege of interacting with our heavenly Father and ministering to the needs of His children in the world. Without the element of prompting, your giving could become very cold and calculated. Promptings are the pulse in the church body. In 1 John 3:17, we read, "If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?" (NIV). God uses the needs of others as opportunities to exhibit His love alive in us. And often those opportunities are revealed through special promptings that are above and beyond our regular giving. Perhaps you're thinking, "I can't afford to do that." Factor God into the equation! Not only can He use you to meet the needs of others, but He can also multiply the seed of generosity you sowed into the harvest you need. When that happens, your fear will have met its match, because "perfect love casts out fear."
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
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