Tag: giving
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It Was Worth a Year’s Wages
4But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him [Jesus], objected, 5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he…
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Ministry of Generosity
10He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12For the ministry of this service is not only supplying…
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Ministry Provisions
“The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.” 3So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance.–Joshua 21 The Levites didn’t receive huge portions of land like all their brothers. They instead received individual cities (with surrounding pasture)…
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Firstfruits to Remember
1When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place…
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Rest or Best?
1Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.–Deuteronomy 17 With the things you give God, let’s have a heart-check this morning. Does God get the leftovers? The unwanted? The clutter in your life you have no place…
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Empty-Handed
16Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.–Deuteronomy…
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The Triple Tithe [1-minute read]
21“I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting. –Numbers 18 (emphasis) You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and…
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Bring Blessing [1-minute read]
25Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,and one who waters will himself be watered.–Proverbs 11 Do you look at life more as an opportunity to be blessed or as opportunities to bless others? Do you spend more time as the cup that receives or the pitcher that pours? You may not always have a lot of…
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Why Keep Records? [1-minute read]
21These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.–Exodus 38 For many Christian families, this has been the week you have been gathering Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes…
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Where Did They Get the Supplies? [1-minute read]
1The LORD said to Moses, 2“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, 5tanned rams’…
