The Generosity of God

Covenant Life Church

GOD IS VERY GENEROUS

Psalm 145:16–17 NLT
When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing. 17 The Lord is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.

John 3:16–17 NKJV
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 15:13 NKJV
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

James 1:17 NLT
Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.

HE GAVE US HIS HEART

Ephesians 4:22–24 NKJV
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

CULTIVATE A GENEROUS HEART

Mark 12:42–44 NKJV
Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans. 43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to thetreasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”

HOW DO WE BECOME GENEROUS?

“The question is not how much money I gift to God, but how much of God’s money I keep for myself.”
– R.G LeTourneau

START SMALL

Before you do, the big things, learn to do the little things.

Acts 2:44–47 NKJV
Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. 46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

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