47. GIVING
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Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, & shaken together, & running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again (Lk.6:38).
1. As you pour out He'll pour in & you can never outpour Him!
2. The best gifts are tied with heartstrings.
3. We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
4. Give what you have, to someone it may be better than you dare to think.
5. You are no fool to give a life you cannot keep for a love you will never lose.
6. You never lose by giving.
7. Life is like a tennis game; you can't win without serving.
8. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
9. He that does good to another also does good to himself.
10. Blessed are those who can give without remembering, & receive without forgetting.
11. One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.
12. It is possible to give away & become richer. It is also possible to hold on too tightly & lose everything.
13. Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.
14. There was a man, though some did think him mad.
The more he cast away, the more he had.
15. A candle lights others & consumes itself.
16. As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
17. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give.
18. Love cannot be wasted. It makes no difference where it is bestowed, it always brings in big returns.
19. If your heart is full of love, you always have something to give.
20. Nothing the heart gives away is lost, it is kept in the hearts of others.
21. You can even cast in all your living and still not hurt, because God will bless you for it.
22. 110%ers...giving 100% of their lives, plus tithing 10% of their income.
23. God will judge you according to not just how much you give or tithe, but what you have left and your motive in giving, and He will reward you accordingly!
24. If you don't give an offering, God will take a collection!
25. You can't outgive God!
26. You can't give without getting, you can't reward without receiving in return.
27. The more you give, the more you get.
28. By giving your all, you're going to get everything.
29. Not what you get, but what you give,
Is that which proves your right to live.
30. "Behold, I say, Give! Give unto them, and I shall give unto thee more than thou shalt be able to give unto them!"
31. Giving is the greatest of all pleasures.
32. I feel like I'm doing people a favour to encourage them to give, because I know if they do, God will bless them for it!
33. I enjoy giving! I just give it out right and left, and God gives it back to me faster than I can give it away!
34. God goes an awful lot by our motives, whether they are selfish or unselfish.
35. If you can't be on the field, you can at least help the field!
36. The more you give, the more He will give you!
37. Let's be fair and square and share.
38. We cannot really make a sacrifice!
39. Those who give all will receive 100-fold here and now!--10,000 per cent!
40. God loves to outgive you! He'll never let you outgive Him!
41. All the best things in life are shared.
42. One of the ways of giving to God is being good to His little ones.
43. If God works on the principle of those that give get, and those that don't, don't get, then I think we ought to work on the same principle!
44. "From him that hath, according to his ability, unto him that hath not, according to his need."--That's the sharing principle of Love--and the loving principle of sharing!
45. The richest people in the World in God's Kingdom are going to be those who share the most, and He will heap on them more than they can hold.
46. God's way to plenty is to give it away.
47. When we don't give willingly or cheerfully, then we're not really giving.
48. Unselfishly give that others may live!
49. You don't receive something from the Lord without it costing you something in return.
50. Getting is the Devil's imitation, sharing is God's true blessing!
51. If it doesn't hurt, it isn't worth giving.
If it isn't for love, it isn't worth living!
52. If you give your all to Him, He gives His all to you.
53. Seldom can a heart be lonely
If it seeks a lonelier still,
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill!
54. Love just doesn't grow, if you leave it on a shelf.
Take it down and use it, don't keep it to yourself.
55. The hand that gives, gathers.
56. And for our sakes He gave away
The life that He was living.
From Christmas Day to Calvary
His greatest joy was giving!
57. You're not really a giver unless you're a cheerful giver.
58. Better to wear out from use than rust out from disuse!
59. He's more willing to give than we are to receive!
60. If you give love, you'll get love--it multiplies and grows like the bread and the fish and the cruse of oil and the barrel of meal!
61. What counts, costs!
62. Save your life by giving it to God! Find your life by losing it for others!
63. You have to give to get, pour to receive, sow to reap, invest to profit, die to live, bury to resurrect.
64. We have to give our lives to Jesus to save ourselves. We have to give our lives for Jesus to save others.
65. We have to burn and be consumed to send up that beautiful smoke and sweet fragrance.
66. I'm all empty like a bottle that's all poured out, but He keeps filling me up again.
67. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Pro.11:25.
68. The Gift of God is Eternal Life, but it cost Jesus His to give it to you, and it'll probably cost you yours to live it!
69. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord: and that which he hath given will He pay him again. Pro.19:17.
70. You can't take your money with you--but you can send it on ahead.
71. We cannot serve God and Mammon, but we can serve God with Mammon--our money!
72. God blesses everybody that gives, and if they are poor, that's all the more reason they ought to give if they want to get blessed and for the Lord to help them not to be so poor!
73. You find me the big givers and I'll find you the hard workers. But you find me the penurious little penny-pinchers and I'll show you the people that are selfish and penny-pinching and not giving to anybody but themselves.
74. Once that little widow gave her mite, "even all her living", do you think for a minute God let her continue in that poverty-stricken condition after that? I'm convinced that He just heaped the blessings on'r after He'd made her an example to all history!
75. God hates hoarding and He says "He that withholdeth it tendeth to poverty." (Pro.11:24)
76. If Christianity does not reach down into your pocket, if the love of Jesus Christ doesn't cause you to share what you have with those in need, then it is false Christianity!
77. Every religion in the World subsists on begging, and you could hardly give to a better cause than ours, a cause that is saving young people from moral, mental and physical destruction!
78. Start teaching them how to live by telling them how to give!
79. A Negro minister once prayed: "Lord, we can't hold much but we can overflow lots!"
80. Will the guardian of a well die of thirst?
81. Gold's no good unless it is put in circulation and invested in fruitful fields and paid to the laborers in the fields and distributed to the poor.
82. Bible economics contradicts all other systems of economics because it puts God first and says "deny yourself"! It says, "die for God and He'll save your life, die and you'll live"!
83. If we receive more income than we have outgo, then we know God wants us to give it.
84. God's first law of economics is still to seek His Kingdom first!--Then all these things shall be added unto you! (Mt.6:33)
85. Our economy is built on the Lord and love and sharing. And as long as you keep giving, you can't lose. God will feed you, protect you, clothe you and care for you, no matter what happens.
86. God's idea is, the faster you give it away and share it, the more He'll heap it on, and the richer you'll become so you can share more!
87. If you are unselfish and generous with your spiritual riches and share them with those that need it, He will also trust you with material riches to share!
88. When it comes to God and His work, it's good business to give to the Lord. It's good investment earning the highest possible rate of interest and dividends of anything you can possibly invest in, 100-fold or more!
89. A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
90. It's impossible to make a sacrifice for Him!
91. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth: and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. Pro.11:24.
92. Lay him or her on the altar. Lay this or that on the altar for God, and don't even expect to get it back. If you're giving with that motive and intention, it's no sacrifice. Most of the sacrifices God asks you to give, you think you give them up forever, but I'll tell you this for your encouragement: I've found that God gave me many things back that I gave up for the Lord. He gave me back things that I gave up for Him when He could trust me with them.
93. He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. Pro.28:27.
94. Even though the recipients might waste it or not appreciate it, if your motive is right and your intentions are pure, God will bless you for giving and honour and prosper you for it.
95. That's what He gave it to you for--so you could forsake it!--For His Will or for the poor or let God use it in some way.
96. God never let anybody get hurt by giving or tithing! The Lord just won't let you suffer for it! He may let you think you are going to sacrifice and suffer and that it will be hard, but He'll more than repay.
97. How can there be any giving, any serving, if there be no receiving? Someone must receive if another is to give. We give joy to the giver when we become the grateful receiver. Thus, as paradoxical as it may seem, in receiving there is giving. The noble receiver is the noble giver.
98. One candle can light a thousand others without diminishing its light.
(See also No.189, 301A, 332A, 336A, 665, 667, 673, 682, 684, 701, 702, 841, 842, 843, 903, 928, 934, 1081, 1105, 1212, 1271, 1276, 1320, 1321.)
99. DEU.15:7,8,10 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
100. 2SA.24:24b Neither will I offer ...unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
101. 1CH.29:9a Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord.
102. PRO.3:27,28 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
103. PRO.11:24-25 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
104. PRO.13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
105. PRO.14:21b He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
106. PRO.19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him again.
107. PRO.21:25,26 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
108. PRO.22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
109. PRO.28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
110. ECC.11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
111. MAT.5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
112. MAT.6:1-4 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in Heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret Himself shall reward thee openly.
113. MAT.25:40 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.
114. MAR.12:43,44 And He called unto Him His disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
115. LUK.3:11 He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
116. LUK.6:34,35 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
117. LUK.6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
118. LUK.21:4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
119. ACT.20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the Words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
120. ROM.12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
121. 1CO.10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
122. 1CO.13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
123. 2CO.9:6-7 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
124. COL.4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven.
125. 1TI.5:18 For the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his reward.
126. JAM.2:15,16 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth if profit?
(See also MAT.25:25-45)
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