Text: 2nd Corint 8:2-3:- Topic : The poor can give more
Entering your ultimate financial breakthrough may not
come as easy as you think. It may involve sowing at a time most inconvenient;
it may mean to seemingly endanger your today and tomorrow through a selfless
seed. Your gift is not necessarily measured by the size, volume or amount of
what you have given but by what you have left after giving.
In Mark 12:41-44 when the Lord Jesus
sat to observe how people gave, He saw that the rich gave fat offerings while
the poor gave far less. But then there was a poor widow who gave her only two mites. The worth of what she gave was very
insignificant but because she gave
all she had and had nothing left, the Lord declared her to be the greatest
giver. Some lessons we learn from this are that poverty is not what stops the poor from giving, but
their UNWILLINGNESS. There is no one so poor that he or she does not have
something to offer to the Lord. In addition, being poor does not stop the poor from
being the greatest givers. It
is easier for the poor to let go his or her all, than for a multi-millionaire
to give all his millions.
Are you always complaining that you
cannot give because you are poor? That is the excuse the devil is robbing you
with. If you check yourself very well, you may even be richer than this widow
or the widow of Zarephath. If they could through
giving provoke a complete turn around in their situation, you too
can.
The Macedonian church was another
example. They were in deep poverty but that did not stop them for giving and
supporting the kingdom business, even offered themselves (2 Corint 8:2-3). The
poor of today is the potentially rich individual of tomorrow. Are you poor
today? Do you know that God can cause you to overtake the wealthiest person in your community if you can
apply God’s principles of giving?
If a widow with no one, no job, or
relation to depend on, could give her all
why can’t you who have a job, parents, relations and friends give more? God is looking out for
sacrificial givers. If your giving is below the level of such sacrifice, you
are not prepared for the great financial
harvest that is coming your way.
Note:
You may be poor financially but there are areas you are richer than the
financially rich. Nobody is entirely poor!
Sow with your heart, challenge God
and see………….