generosity

“Give and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Luke 6:38

God has never been the originator of the get-rich-quick scheme! However, it could be inferred that this verse is suggesting that when you give $100 to God then He is going to give you at least $100 in return, but read carefully!

There’s more to it.

Whenever God provides a gift it’s always the gift you really need.

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on your heart

“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

Deuteronomy 6: 6-7

Did you know friends that God’s Word

will strengthen you?

Yes indeed, because faith makes you brave!

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together

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Author Suzanne Woods Fisher shares a story about the importance of the kitchen-family room in her book, Amish Peace.

Joe and Viola Byler live on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. On the first floor of their two-story Amish home is a kitchen-family room combination, warmed by wood stoves. “It’s the only room that’s heated,” Viola explains. ‘At night, the entire family gathers here. Everyone is together. The kids do their homework, Dad reads, I’ll be finishing up something in the kitchen.’ “

Suzanne asked, “Wouldn’t it be simple to heat the other rooms? Granted, I know most of the Amish don’t have central heating, but it couldn’t be that hard to lug a kerosene heater upstairs so the kids could study quietly. Would it?

The answer comes swiftly….

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